CSA PDA

November 4, 2009

csa box closed open

Your box of tasty wet dreams awaits!

Community Supported Agriculture boxes make all my cooking and banging possible.  More importantly, it makes it affordable.  This is in no ways sponsored.  Payola is not going on, although to tell you the truth, selling out so I can fill a hot tub full of vodka-infused Jell-O sounds pretty good right about now.  I just want to get the word out to all you food lovers looking to avoid auctioning off your organs to afford shopping at Whole Foods.  That place is a food strip club with a “don’t touch the girls” vibe.  I’ve dropped more ducats in that store than I have on strippers, booze and other illicit contraband combined.  As a food whore, it was totally worth it.  But I’ve found an alternative:

http://www.localharvest.org/csa/

I pay online ahead of time for a magical box that gets delivered to my local market.  When I pick it up and take it home, I act like a giddy 80’s schoolgirl who finally got her autographed New Kids on the Block poster.  What’s in the box varies week to week and never disappoints.  It’s all local organic, seasonal, top-shelf produce that challenges me to create new recipes I throw on the site.  Creating up with 5 new recipes every week can be= challenging.  Luckily the CSA box makes decisions for me.  I dropped $15 on this box and here’s what I found in it:

csa box contents1. 1 pumpkin
2. 1 spaghetti squash
3. 2 eggplants
4. 1 cilantro bunch
5. 1 BASIL bunch
6. 1 kale bunch
7. 1 chard bunch
8. 3 petit pan squash
9. 2 summer squash
10. 2 yellow squash
11. 4 globe squash
12. 2 zucchini
13. 1 BEET bunch
14. 1 sugar snap pea pile

Your kidney and half your liver would be allocated to a wealthy Swiss industrialist if you bought the same goods at Whole Foods.  But now you have a heap of amazing produce to turn into magnificent meals to seduce any number of sexy prospects.  You’re already saving cash not taking your dates to restaurants. Imagine how much more you could save and then spend on booze and lube!

Below are some COOK TO BANG recipes directly inspired by what I found in this Foodie’s Pandora Box:

BEET YOUR MEAT SALAD

INHALE MY KALE

NEVER A BORSCHT IN THE SACK

NEVER FAIL KALE BREAKFAST

MO-ROCKIN’ MOROCCAN POTATO SALAD

PIMPIN’ PUMPKIN SOUP

SPAGHETTI SQUASH NUDEY NOODLES

SQUASH KE-BANGS

SQUISHY SQUASHY CASSEROLE

THEIR LOSS GRILLED SQUASH

TWICE BANGED POTATOES

UNDRESS YO PESTO

VIAGRA-MELON PORNSICLES

VIAGRA-MELON SOUP

WILD & WETTY SQUASH SPAGHETTI

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MOUTH DOWN SOUTHIE SURPRISE

May 28, 2009
How far down?  All the way down!

How far down? All the way down!

That mouth don’t belong nowhere but way down south.  You best get to work with this much flavor on the line.  You’ll need all your oral skills to suck out every last morsel of sweet sweet satisfaction.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you about the flavor explosion in your mouth.  It may shock you a little as it slides down your throat or dribbles onto your chin.  But that’s nothing to be alarmed about.  Just an unexpected ingredient popping by at the last second to make you think, “How about that?”  Now be sure to spread the love out evenly.  It could get messy otherwise.  This is banging bait at its bangingest!

Recipe courtesy of Terrence, my favorite South Boston son.

mouth down southie surprise prepTotal time: approximately 30 minutes
Projected cost: $7
Drinking Buddy: Milk or the beer of your choice

Ingredients:
1. ½ a can of Shoestring Potatoes (Potato Sticks)
2. 3 tablespoons of peanut butter
3. 1 small bag of soft caramel or butterscotch

Step 1
Unwrap the caramel or butterscotch.  Slowly melt them in a large pan on low heat (approx 4 min).  Scoop in the peanut butter and dump in the potato sticks.  Mix it all up thoroughly and use the spatula to spread it out into a small baking pan.  Allow it to cool off in the fridge (approx 20 min) and chop it up into smaller chunks to serve. mouth down southie surprise makemouth down southie surprise served 2

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