Sunday, October 08, 2006

Recipes and Songs

a recipe:

REALLY GOOD MOTHERFUCKING HUMMUSY SPINACH DIP. my roommate calls it 'green crack'

3/4 cup frozen edamame soybeans, shucked (we buy the podless ones at trader joe's)
2 cups spinach, tightly packed (i assume the recipe means fresh--we used frozen, which is already plenty tightly packed, and so you can probably use less if you're doing frozen spinach. we did, iirc)
2-3 garlic cloves
1/2 cup tahini
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp flax, hemp, or grapeseed oil (our flax oil had gone bad, so we substituted sesame oil and used much less, like 1/2 tbsp, because it's such a strong oil)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp tamari or whatever soy sauce
1-2 tsp hot sauce (asian preferable, but we forgot that altogether and it was still good, just not spicy)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

steam edamame til thawed adn bright green. throw all that stuff into a food processor and blend til smooth. makes approx 2 cups.

this seems like it would be good as a dip for pita, or on crackers, or as a sandwich spread maybe. we were tasting how it turned out on tortilla chips and kept refilling the bowl. now i have really really overeaten. but it's good stuff. addictive despite being healthy.

julia

Lace Up Your Rollerskates with Rainbow

For those of you who can't face another minute without this song: Since You've Been Gone, a la Rainbow.

Say what you want about Rainbow, but this song does contain a catchy chord progression as well as (simulated?) HANDCLAPS, so in the end you gotta give it up for rollerskate rock.

Luvv,
AK

Sunday, October 01, 2006

what now, what now, what now