challenge CSA

every other saturday our fridge is assaulted with the CSA farm pick up. greens and berries and greens overflow each shelf and pull-out bin. for the first 24 hour hours i'm giddy with excitement as i plot and plan delicious and nutritious meal options made from the local fare.

by the time hour 36 rolls around i begin to realize that the fresh, fresh food is becoming less so and i need to shake a leg if i want to utilize a good 60% of the share. and here, the challenge was made: how can i cook the most amount of the farm pick up before it rots. bonus points for creativity, tastiness, mixing up new recipes, and utilizing all parts of the fruits and veggies [oh radish greens, i will use you!!].

tonight's dinner, zucchini parm with kale sauce

CSA farm share ingredients:

2 zucchini

kale

you are already home where you feel loved

i am currently thoroughly enjoying this tune by The Head and The Heart, Lost in My Mind.

til the night closes in...

i am a very sophisticated and classy individual. this is underscored by my highbrow choice in comedic cinema, such as the 1996 hit Happy Gilmore. in one scene, Happy calls after his lover via the apartment intercom, serenading her to return.
since i lived in a pop-cultural black hole until 1993, i was not familiar with the song Happy sang. but i certainly have sung it again and again in jest, referencing the scene. since i had no idea how the song was initially performed, i always envisioned it as a hard rock song, along the lines of Kiss. well leave it to a moment of procrastination to discover otherwise:


i'm not sure why i'm surprised that there are these disco undertone, it was '78.
AND i'm fairly sure that frontman Jimmy Stockley and I have shared a hair stylist. at least i was being ironic.

8 am sharp!

fives minutes ahead of schedule...right on schedule.

korean parisian

oh koreatown. thank you for bringing me Paris Baguette. what an odd combo of french-style pastries filled with asian flavors. the X-shaped pastry on the left [not my photo, thanks google] is filled with green bean paste. i agree that sounds like it could be no good and horrible, but i assure you it's quite the opposite.

another reason to love Paris Baguette is that all their employees wear berets and stripes [again, thank you google image search for the photographic proof]. the francophile that i am adores this.

go, eat, & get fat off parisian korean sweets:

Paris Baguette

6 w 32nd st ny ny 10001

turn the dang lights off!

i don't give a damn 'bout my bad repuation

gosh, i love me some joan jett.


i'd rather watch joan's snarling mug than gary glitter the pedo-bear, but his back up crew has a star guitar. [she covers 'do you want to touch']