The Punky Chef Attacks! | Tasty, colorful, and EASY recipes from pop/punk diva Sam Shaber. Believe me, if I can make these, so can you, people.
Yes, my pretty punk-a-philes, just in time for the holidays, The Punky Chef Attacks! cookbook has hit the cybershelves of the world. Get your copy today and start cookin’. I will be popping ’round your tiny kitchens to make sure you are hard at work!
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Ahhh yes, it’s the quiet ecstacy of a weekday lunch at home. Arugula salad with grilled corn, black beans, pepper jack, walnuts, avocado, grape tomatoes and popcorn with parmesan peppercorn dressing. And Lebanese lentil soup from Chef Rita – my fabulous and gorgeous neighbor here on the Lower East Side. Aaahhh.
Otherwise known as “throw-it-in-a-bowl-and-dress.” But let me say that the little extra effort to shave the corn off a cob and sauté it in butter and salt for five minutes will turn this salad into a taste sensation you think must be off the black market, it’s so good. It makes your Muzak into Mick Jagger, your fish sticks into Katsu-ya sushi, your Bud Light into a Fat Tire, your… well you get it.
And yes, I did say POPCORN. Newman’s Own microwave light butter flavor, to be exact. Push the envelope people. Pop the corn. Trust Punky on this one – it’s like crack in your salad.
Does crack taste good in a salad?
Nevermind. You know what I mean.
Yes, on the way to making a spinach, feta and tomato quiche this morning, I looked down into the bowl and what do you know?
Must’ve been those free-range eggs I used.
I’ve been gone for a loooong loooong time and really I have no excuse. Ok that’s not true. I have lots of ’em. Most of them have something to do with the TWO bands I’m in now, and how busy they’ve been keeping me. (In fact as I type this, concurrently baking a butternut squash to make a great crostini spread with goat cheese and cinnamon for New Years Eve), I am actually procrastinating from listening to the rough mixes of the new happy problem album. Look out 2011 – big things are coming from the Punky!
And wait Punky, you say you have TWO bands now?
Oh yes, my little chefs, (I wanted to type “cheffies” but that just looks like some variety of blue cheese, so…), I am in TWO bands now, both very different from each other and both looking for bass players.
Peachy Punky Sweet Cornbread: HOLLA!
Okay, I realize it’s not very punk to say the word “HOLLA”, but really that’s just the sound you make when you taste this surprisingly sweet n’ easy cornbread. Witness Peachy Punky Sweet Cornbread!
Yes, this is a good one, especially with summer coming on.
Summer isn’t for like two months, Punky.