WRAP YOUR PROSCIUTTO AROUND MY FIG

August 13, 2009
The big fig gets the smokiest meat

The big fig gets the smokiest meat

For the record, I am totally gay for figs.  They are one of history’s oldest fruits. Ever hear of the hanging gardens of Babylon?  Figs hung proudly there and flavored many ancient meals.  No doubt these edible APHRODISIACS were all over the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve just had to sample the far blander apple and ruin everything.  Not that there’s anything wrong with apples, knowledge or original sin.  Figs are just tastier, sexier and more likely to get you laid.  Sexy time is nearly certain once you wrap the figs up with Italian prosciutto and throw in some creamy Brie cheese.  Run, don’t walk to your nearest quality grocer and slice off a piece of the Garden of Eden.

proscuitto wrapped figs prepTotal time: approximately 5 minutes

Projected cost: $7

Drinking Buddy: Red Wine or a SAN-GRAB-YA SANGRIA

Ingredients (serves 2):

1. Brie cheese

2. 4 fresh FIGS

3. 4 prosciutto slices

Step 1

Quarter the figs and add small slices of Brie to each section.  Pull off long strips of proscuitto and wrap each fig/brie unit.  Serve up on a plate or laid across your naked body.proscuitto wrapped figs assemble

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SQUISHY SQUASHY CASSEROLE

August 4, 2009
Squish squash, let's get sauced!

Squish squash, let's get sauced!

This side dish is soft to the touch, yet crunchy in all the right places.  As described, this does not sound like the hard-body of summer vegetable concoctions.  But this dish could help you get that hard beach body all the cool kids seem to be having these days.  This casserole is light, full of flavor and pack a wallop of flavor-filled fungasms.  This particular dish was an experiment in how to cook summer squash besides on the grill.  A tough act to follow.  It provided great company for the grilled chicken I served to this annoying date.  The date was a bust, but luckily I got my jollies from this casserole.  The silver lining never tasted so good.

squash casserole prepTotal time: approximately 55 minutes
Projected cost: $8
Drinking Buddy: Nice cold beer or white wine

Ingredients:
1. 1 tbsp breadcrumbs
2. 2 tbsp olive oil
3. 1 dash paprika
4. 1 dash salt
5. 1 onion chopped coarsely
6. 2 green onions chopped coarsely
7. 4 globe squash
8. 2-ounces goat cheese

Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a baking pan or deep wide pie-pan with olive oil.  Chop the squash into ½ inch rounds.  Line the pan with a layer of squash rounds, throw the onions over and crown with half of the goat cheese.  Set down another layer, use the rest of the goat cheese and crown with green onions.  Pour the remaining olive oil, season with paprika and salt, and evenly distribute the breadcrumbs over the top.
squash casserole assemble
Step 2
Throw the squash in the oven and bake until the veggies soften and the top browns (approx 45 min).  Serve up on plates as a lunch or to compliment an ENTRÉE.
squash casserole bake

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THEY HOST YOU ROAST HEIRLOOM SALAD

July 30, 2009
They host, you boast...to your friends after the act.

They host, you boast...to your friends after the act.

The COOK TO BANG has been proven by the superstring theory via that supercollider in the Swiss Alps.  Effective as CTB may be, every once in a while you want to take your sexy cooking show on the road.  Why not take your wares to your dates pad?  It’ll seem spontaneous and romantic, even if you just don’t feel like cleaning up the mess after your done banging.  The plot is to show up to their place with a bag of groceries and commandeer their kitchen like some hungry pirate.  Soon you will be swashbuckling about with their pots and pans and will eventually end up without shirts or pants, just an eye patch and a dirty-talking parrot.  Sure your date may be technically hosting, but you will both know who’s in control.  This salad will be a great first mate as you pillage and plunder your date’s booty.

Total time: approximately 40 minutes
Projected cost: $9
Drinking Buddy: Red wine or a PANTY DROPPING SHANDY

roasted heirloom salad prepIngredients (serves 2):
1. ½ cup balsamic vinegar
2. 2 tbsp HONEY
3. 1 dash black pepper
4. 1 dash salt
5. ½ tbsp olive oil
6. 2 large handfuls fresh spinach
7. 1 handful shredded mozzarella
8. 2 heirloom tomatoes
9. 4 fresh BASIL leaves
10. ¼ lemon

Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Slice each heirloom tomato in half and set them in a baking pan.  Drizzle the tomatoes with olive oil, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, place a basil leaf on each and crown them with mozzarella.  Toss them in the oven and roast until the tomato softens and cheese melts (approx 35 min).

roasted heirloom salad tomatoStep 2
Make the balsamic reduction dressing by turning stove onto medium heat and adding the honey and balsamic vinegar, stirring vigorously.  Cook the liquid down to 1/3 of its original volume.  Pour the dressing into a container and allow it to cool.

baked goat cheese balsamic reduction

Step 3
Split the spinach between plates.  Place two roasted heirloom tomatoes on each bed of spinach and pour over the balsamic reduction.  Squeeze some lemon juice over if your craving some sour.

roasted heirloom salad assemble

Serve up as a perfect lunch after a quickie (hint, bang while the heirloom tomatoes roast) or as a starter for an ENTRÉE.

roasted heirloom salad served 2

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POP THEIR CHERRY JUBILEE

July 29, 2009
Pop goes the cherry!

Pop goes the cherry!

Everyone’s cherry gets popped at some point, save for a few devout priests and nuns.  But I wager even these noble and holy rollers have indulged in some sort of debauch.  Chances are, these indulgences are of the oral nature.  Get your mind out of the gutter; I’m talking about food, fool! Belgium monks once made the greatest beers and chocolate in the world.  You can still honor God with an edible orgasm so long as you don’t touch yourself inappropriately while you imbibe.  The rest of us sinners have carte blanche to sin carnally while eating pigishly.  I reckon it’s about that time to pop pop POP your cherry jubilantly. You will feel like you were touched for the very first time after your first bite.  By the second and third and last bite, you will be a filthy culinary nympho eager for more.  Next!

cherries jubilee prepTotal time: approximately 10 minutes
Projected cost: $5
Drinking Buddy: Champagne

Ingredients (serves 2):
1. 1 dash cinnamon
2. Vanilla ice cream
3. 1 tsp vanilla extract
4. 2 tbsp brown sugar
5. 8-OZ juice (chef’s choice)
6. 1 tsp cornstarch
7. 1/8 butter stick
8. 2 fat handfuls of cherries

Step 1
Bring the juice in a saucepan to a slow simmer on medium heat.  Add the butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and cinnamon.  Scoop out a little of the sauce, mix with the cornstarch, and add back to the sauce and reduce (approx 5 min).
cherries jubilee sauce
Step 2
Remove the stem and pits from the cherries and throw them into the sauce, cooking until they soften and congeal to the sauce (approx 3 min).  Scoop ice cream into bowls and crown with the jubilee, you jubilant bastard!
cherries jubilee cherries scoop

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PIMP THAT SHRIMPY ASS-PARAGUS SALAD

July 28, 2009
Pimp that shrimp like a chimp with a limp

Pimp that shrimp like a chimp with a limp

First off, my apologies for yesterdays post.  I think I ate the brown acid again.  As penance, please accept this kick ass salad that is scrumptious, packed with protein and an aphrodisiac quadruple threat.  This dish will not disappoint in the pimping department.  All those flavors will be out working the corner for you, luring johns and janes in for a little cat scratch fever.  Once they get a taste, they will be customers for life…or until you kick their ass to the curb in favor of a better paying/looking clientele.  Always remember that a good pimp is a kind pimp.  No need to rough up the goods by tossing that salad too hard.  A couple good shakes will put the flavor hos in line to do your bidding.  Now get out there and get that money, honey!

Total time: approximately 30 minutes
Projected cost: $17
Drinking Buddy: RAGING HARD ON LEMONADE

shrimp asparagus salad prepIngredients (serves 2):
1. 1 dash CAYENNE PEPPER
2. 1 dash salt
3. 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
4. 1 tbsp olive oil
5. 1 small handful jack cheese
6. 1 red bell pepper chopped coarsely
7. ½ lb ASPARAGUS spears
8. 1 small handful BASIL chopped finely
9. 1 small handful parsley chopped finely
10. ½ lemon
11.½ lb cook SHRIMP, tails removed
12. 2 large handfuls fresh spinach

Step 1
Cut the stems off the asparagus spears and blanch them in a thin layer of water (approx 5 min).  Chop the asparagus in half.
shrimp asparagus salad steam chop
Step 2
While the asparagus blanches, create the dressing by combining the basil, parsley, cayenne pepper, salt, red wine vinegar and olive oil.
shrimp asparagus salad dressing
Step 3
Toss the red bell pepper, shrimp, asparagus, dressing and lemon.  Allow it to marinate in the fridge (approx 20 min).
shrimp asparagus salad toss
Step 4
Place half the spinach on each plate and crown with jack cheese.  Drain the dressing from the shrimp and veggies and split up the goods.
shrimp asparagus salad assemble
Serve as perfect lunch salad or follow it up with something meaty like ROASTED CHICKEN RUB DOWN.
shrimp asparagus salad served

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WRAP THAT HIPPIE BURGER UP TIGHT

July 16, 2009
This wrap is both Sexy and environmentally friendly!

This wrap is both Sexy and environmentally friendly!

Calling all hippie hotties! They are few and far between.  Most of these moonbeaming beauties’ looks have faded away like Jerry.  Yoga and clean living have saved a few, not to mention the new recruits who haven’t become jaded by the man keeping them down.  To those I merely say, “You hungry for some like totally dank organic yumminess?”  Bring that free lovin’ attitude of yours and a bottle of something “heady”.  I’ll crank some Dead bootlegs that I’ve been hording for just such trip down the hairy rabbit hole.  Keep on keeping on down the road now.  Take a wrap for the road you’ll be “Truckin’.”

veggie burger wrap prepTotal time: approximately 15 minutes
Projected cost: $5
Drinking Buddy: SLUTTY TEMPLE

Ingredients (serves 2):
1. 2 handfuls lettuce chopped coarsely
2. 4 steamed BEETS chopped in rounds
3. 2 tbsp salad dressing (chef’s choice)
4. 2 burrito-sized tortillas
5. 2 veggie burgers
6. 1 small handful slivered almonds
7. 3 1 tomato chopped coarsely
8. 1 small handful or feta cheese.

Step 1
First grill or pan-fry the veggie burgers and cut them up with the spatula.
veggie burger wrap grill
Step 2
Assemble the wrap in a long thin line across the tortilla laying out the lettuce, beets, tomato, almonds, feta cheese and veggie burger. Add any dressing or sauce.
veggie burger wrap assemble
Step 3
Wrap them up folding the tortilla a third of the way over, fold over the left and right ends, and roll it over the top.  Cut the wraps in half.
veggie burger wrap tortilla
Serve up the wraps solo or with some SOUP.
veggie burger wrap served

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COOK TO BANG ME NOW PLAYLIST

July 10, 2009
You can't argue with sound arithmetic!

You can't argue with sound arithmetic!

I’m often asked, “What is the Cook To Bang soundtrack?” Chances are good that you will be listening to music while you cook, eat and bang.  So how do you create a sound scape that will move you towards your goal of banging?  This is subjective. What some consider a great tune, others would prefer to hear the death rattle of their own child.  It speaks volumes for our over-privileged and self-indulgent culture that we have the luxury to debate it ad nausea.  Entire social cliques are built around musical tastes.  Beatniks, hippies, punks, hip hoppers, grunge rockers, ravers, hipsters and whatever comes next all have a soundtrack to their lives.

My own conundrum is that the hottest women listen to the worst music.  Ever been to a trendy club with the beautiful people?  I’m picky about my music and Top 40 makes me nauseous. Sometimes I just swallow my pride and pretend to enjoy it for the sake of my libido. But that cheesy soundtrack can follow onto your date.  Shelve your obscure and cacophonous grooves unless your date shares your love for Tuvian throat singers. Try to find a happy medium that doesn’t inspire you to administer a self-lobotomy.

The clever Cook To Bang chef has music prepped before their date arrives. Technology leaves you with no excuse for prepping the perfect seduction mix.  You don’t want to fumble around in the midst of macking to find that one song by that one band on that one album.  Don’t find yourself sucking face while listening to a sexy Massive Attack track when suddenly a Spanish-language lesson kills the moment.  Right as you were about to boldly go where some have gone before, you hear, “Hola! Soy Juan.  Donde esta el banque?”  Funny? Yes.  Sexy? No. Sexy music is in the ear of the beholder.

Below is a list of songs that have led to my most succulent success stories.  These are the sexiest songs I know that create a vibe you can exploit. Some of you will dismiss my suggestions and pure poppycock.  What do I know besides how to COOK TO BANG?

•    Air – “Highschool Lover”
•    The Beastie Boys – “Hey Ladies”
•    Beck – “Debra”
•    Belle & Sebastian – “Stars of Track & Field”
•    Boards of Canada – “Olson”
•    Blur – “Jets”
•    The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Anenome”
•    Manu Chao – “King of the Bongo”
•    The Chemical Brothers – “Get Yourself High”
•    Cornelius – “Tone Twilight Zone”
•    Depeche Mode – “Enjoy the Silence”
•    Diggable Planets – “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
•    Electric 6 (w/ Jack White) – “Danger! High Voltage”
•    Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – “La Vie En Rose”
•    Fatboy Slim – “The Weekend Starts Here”
•    Fischerspooner – “Emerge”
•    The Good, The Bad & The Queen – “History Song”
•    Groove Armada – “At the River”
•    Chris Isaak – “Wicked Game”
•    Jane’s Addiction – “Summertime Rolls”
•    Kid Koala – “Drunk Trumpet”
•    Kraftwerk – “Autobahn”
•    Kruder & Dorfmeister – “Original Bedroom Rockers”
•    LCD Soundsytem – “Disco Infiltrator”
•    Peggy Lee – “Fever”
•    Morcheeba “Moog Island”
•    Mos Def – “Ms. Fat Booty”
•    Portishead – “Only You”
•    Prince – “Darling Nikki”
•    Radiohead – “Nude”
•    RJD2 – “Smoke & Mirrors”
•    Nina Simone – “My Baby Just Cares For Me”
•    Tosca – “Worksong”
•    Tricky – “Hell Is Round the Corner”
•    Ulrich Schnauss – “Knuddelmaus”
•    The Velvet Underground – “Pale Blue Eyes”
•    The White Stripes – “You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket”
•    Zero 7 – “In the Waiting Line”

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SMELLS LIKE TUNA BURGERS

June 23, 2009
Smelly fish in my belly.

Smelly fish in my belly.

I recognize that smell anywhere.  Every time she walks by me my nose piques up.  Yep, there she goes again.  Tuna fish patrol on the prowl.  Most guys are repulsed by pungent poonany.  But they don’t have the culinary kink you develop being surrounded by food.  People’s filthy minds wander to sex when they eat food with certain aromas.  My mind wanders to food when I’m banging someone emanating various aromas.  The fact the girl in question smells a bit fishy only made me hungrier for meat from the sea.  While my friends dissed the funky-scented hottie, I invited her over for tuna burgers.  My whole house smelled like tuna anyway so I couldn’t smell the difference when we went from Cook To Bang.

huge tuna burger prepTotal time: approximately 10 minutes
Projected cost: $3
Drinking Buddy: MELLOW JELL-O MAKES’EM BELLOW

Ingredients (serves 2):
1. 1 can of TUNA
2. ½ tbsp olive oil
3. Mayonnaise to taste
4. 2 hamburger buns
5. 2 green onions chopped coarsely
6. 1 small handful of cilantro chopped coarsely
7. ½ AVOCADO sliced thinly
8. ½ lime
9. 1 egg
10. ½ a Serrano CHILI diced finely

Step 1
Drain the tuna and mix it thoroughly with the green onions, cilantro, chilies and egg.
huge tuna burger mixStep 2
Form two burgers, pressing them together tightly.  Pan-fry the burgers in olive oil on medium heat, flipping once so both sides brown (approx 3 min per side).
huge tuna burger pat grill
Step 3
Assemble the burgers by toasting the buns, slathering them with mayonnaise and avocado.  Slide the tuna patties in, slap them together and slice in half.
huge tuna burger toast assemble
Serve them up solo, with salad or some TOTALLY SWEET POTATO FRIES.
huge tuna burger served 2

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SINFUL SALVATION SALAD

June 17, 2009
Eternal culinary salvation is at your fingertips.

Eternal culinary salvation is at your fingertips.

Praise the Lor…no wait…praise the whores!  May all the sinners of the world indulge without fear of reprisal from the cock-blocking conservatives.  Who are they to say what body parts you can or can’t slather in salad dressing?  Do my nipples smothered in Japanese miso dressing condemn me to eternal damnation?  Alas, my conscience says NO!  Fear not the reprisals from an angry God bent on you burning in hell fire with sharp pitchforks piercing your soft bum.  Instead we must continue our hedonist ways for the sake of our fellow sinners.    This salad is all about indulging without risking tainting your soul or your healthy diet regimen.  So dig in and feel no shame.  You are loved.  Amen.

salivate for this salad prepTotal time: approximately 10 minutes
Projected cost: $7
Drinking Buddy: White wine or a PANTY DROPPING SHANDY

Ingredients (serves 2):
1. 1 chicken breast baked
2. 1 hard-boiled egg
3. Japanese miso dressing
4. 1 handful of dried cranberries
5. Lettuce
6. 1 tomato cut in wedges
7. ½ an AVOCADO sliced thinly

Step 1
Chop the lettuce into bite-sized pieces.  Slice the hardboiled egg thinly.  Cut the chicken into long strips.salivate for this salad chop chop

Step 2
Lay out each plate in this order: lettuce, tomato, avocado, chicken, egg, cranberries and lastly Japanese miso dressing at your discretion.salivate for this salad mix

Serve up without shame or fear of religious reprisal.

salivate for this salad served

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TICKLE MY WALNUTS CHICKEN

June 16, 2009
tickle my walnuts chicken served

Tickle tickle, don't be fickle fickle.

Ooh, baby!  You know how I like it!  A gentle tickle while I my groove gets on and on and on.  It’s the little things in life that give us the most pleasure.  I don’t need no plasma screen, limousine, nor sports team.  All I need is your soft touch on my most special of areas.  Not too gentle, not too rough.  That’s it. That’s exactly how we approach this simple chicken ENTRÉE.  A few extra steps result make the classic baked chicken into a magnum opus of flavorful pleasure.  Sure we could get our panties in a bunch making something uber-gourmet multi-step dish.  But sometimes simple and succulent is sexy.  So what are you waiting for?  These walnuts aren’t going to tickle themselves!

tickle my walnuts chicken prepTotal time: approximately 35 minutes
Projected cost: $7
Drinking Buddy: White wine

Ingredients (serves 2):
1. 1 small handful of fresh BASIL
2. 1 handful of crushed walnuts
3. 1 tsp of paprika
4. 2 chicken breasts
5. ½ a lemon
6. 1 egg

Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Marinate the chicken breasts in lemon juice and paprika (approx 15 min).  Whisk an egg in one bowl and combine chopped up basil and walnuts in another bowl.
tickle my walnuts chicken prepared
Step 2
Dip each marinated chicken breast in the whisked egg and then dip both sides into the walnut mixture.  Place the chicken in a greased baking pan. Cover the chicken tops with the remaining walnuts.  Pour the remaining egg over it and bake until the chicken cooks through and the walnuts form a crust (approx 30 min).
tickle my walnuts chicken dip bake
Serve up on a bed of spinach or your favorite CARBOLUSCIOUS side dish.
tickle my walnuts chicken served 2

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