a recipe: basic bitch gets a veggie box and uses radish leaves in her pesto (aka, trailer trash pesto — it’s vegan)

Ingredients: - stuff for the pesto (see below -- it's everything that goes in the blender) - regular sized bag of pasta (I use penne, but choose your fave) - sausage (however many you want, I cooked four) - medium onion, chopped - parmesan *Note, you could just plop the pesto into the drained pasta …

basic bitch gets a veggie box: #7 & 8

#7 green beans: I've been wanting to make a Cracker Barrel-style (have you been? It's the BEST RESTAURANT in the United States and I am desperately waiting for the border to open back up so I can go again) meal forever so when I saw the green beans, I knew exactly what to do. I steamed …

basic bitch get a veggie box: #5+6

Because I was at a cottage for almost a week, I ended up with box 5 and 6 sitting in my basement (it's cool down there so I feel like that's the best place for it?). Luckily, another bonus of a veggie box is that the produce is so fresh and lasts so much longer …

basic bitch gets a veggies box: #4

Number four. I had to Google two of the items in this veggie box. I was able to determine that the radish-looking thing with stems coming out of the bulb was a kohlrabi (and part of the cabbage family, #themoreyouknow), but the weird green-bean-but-smooth looking things -- I had to ask Farmer Dave about: garlic scapes. …

basic bitch gets a veggie box: #3

More good and green things. It's like, anything I'm eating, I can add a vegetable to it. So nice. carrots - organic/local carrots are the best tasting carrots ever so I kept it simple, roasting with olive oil, salt, and rosemary. - carrot top pesto for the leafy part: In the endeavour to use every …

basic bitch gets a veggie box: #2

My vegetable intake is on the rise and the fresh greens are a welcome reprise from the frozen veggies I'd been eating all winter. I loved everything this week but the two I enjoyed eating most after prepared were the rhubarb and Bok Choy. rhubarb It was an obvious choice to make a dessert out …

basic bitch gets a veggie box: #1

It's finally that time of year: veggie box season. I was counting down the days until our first one would arrive from Bower Farms, and it finally did last Thursday. I love getting a veggie box for three main reasons: veggies are good for you; way less environmental impact (as far as packaging used and …

recipe: trailer trash guac

Happy Cinco de Mayo!! Here's a guac recipe -- RECIPE AT THE TOP ALWAYS. Ingredients: 2 or more avocados salsa (of any kind/brand) peel and pit your avos and put them in a bowl as you mash them, add in salsa until you have desired consistency and taste (for 2 avos, I would say at …

micro-dosing with sugar for an effective workout

I was sitting in my car this one time, eating chocolate chip cookies before teaching a spin class to get hyped up. That's when I realized I was micro-dosing with sugar in the same way someone might take a small amount of a drug (weed, 'shrooms, giggle pig) to feel the effects of it, but …

recipe: trailer trash truffles

RECIPE AT THE TOP ALWAYS. Ingredients: leftover desserts chocolate for melting (leftover or otherwise) sprinkles for decorating and to make the truffles look less trailer-trash Take all leftover desserts out of your freezer -- for me, I had: a third of a Christmas Yule log cake about a quarter of a crepe layer-cake several handfuls …