Googoots & More

In addition to the list of vegetables, you will be getting googoots. (You got one last week but may not have used it yet!) Literally, in Italian, it is a big squash. Used as slantg it means "a useless person." In other words, all that person is good for is to sit there like a big squash and get bigger. It can just as easily be derogatory as well as joking.

I was going to get Frank to fix my Mustang, but then I remembered that as far as mechanics go, he's a total googoots (cucuzza).
-- Urban Dictionary

I was going to get Ben Bernanke to fix the economy, but then I remembered that as far as economists go, he's a total googoots.

But he was after all, Mr. Fancy Pants. Literally. I just watched the HBP movie Too Big To Fail which was a little too generous and sympathetic to the billion-dollar man Hank Paulson or "Pee" as his wife calls him. And Ben (and the entire private banking cartel, the Federal Reserve) was was too generous with the insolvent banks. But who has time to pay attention to that when the vegetables are coming in like crazy?

Today I cut up and around all the bad spots in the peaches and blended them in the Vita-Mis with a recipe in mind. (But I think I'll substiture agave for the corn syrup, I just can't use the stuff anymore). And if you like Indian food (I love, love, love Indian food!) this is such a great website. My favorite is the Indian version of nachos "Chaat Papri." I even made the tamarind sauce using Manjula's (my Indian grandma) recipe. Great stuff! And so simple. She doesn't have a fancy pants kitchen or a fancy pants stove or a fancy pants hoos or fancy pants cookware. Just an electric stove with coiled burners, a knife, a cutting board, a few pots, some glass bowls so we can see her ingredients and a whole lotta love as she spins her magic in the kitchen.

And I think that's what the CSA members do. Spin magic in their kitchens with these black dirty vegetables. I love to hear what people make with the veggies. It blows my mind to hear people asking for more callaloo or how they now prefer a purslane salad to a lettuce salad or yes, I love bitter melon and cook with it often. Or have someone grab a googoots and say, "My mother used to make the most awesome stew with this."

It's just so important. Food. Good food. And maybe I am as crazy as my Chinese farmer-friend. He wants to make nutritious Asian vegetables a mainstay in the American diet. I want to make "good food" free (or at least accessible) to all.

The future of our civilization depends upon it.