Dancing With Myself - Day 2 - Russo's

No dancing today, there isn't much going on in this town tonight. Oh, except TORRENTIAL RAIN.

So I finally broke down and went grocery shopping. I'd been hearing about this big ol' produce store in Watertown called Russo & Son's on various food-related websites and then saw a post about it on this blog right here, which had pictures, and I was intrigued. Crazy selection of produce that's fresher and cheaper than Whole Foods AND Shaw's? Sounds too good to be true. So I decided to check it out and do some produce shopping there before I hit Stop n' Shop.

It's kinda outta of the way, but HOT DAMN do they have a lot of stuff. Pretty much every kind of thing that grows out of the ground that you can think of. And like three different varieties of each thing. For reals yo. I went produce-ca-razy. Some of the more interesting finds were stuff like white asaparagus, swiss chard (which I had once in a restaurant and LOVED but could never find in stores), and baby cucumbers. I had to remind myself that I only have two weeks to eat all these veggies, but I still filled up my little basket. Then I hit Stop n' Shop and got the rest of my groceries.

So I got home with all this crazy food, and I still didn't know what to eat. I browsed cookinglight.com for some ideas, and cobbled a few recipes together to come up with what just might be the tastiest thing I have ever made. Well, it might be second to that Indian chickpea dish, chana masala, I made when C's mom was here. I took a tilapia fillet and brushed it with a mixture of lemon juice and mustard, and then took some of the fresh basil and parsely I had just bought (for super cheap!) and stuck a bunch in the food processor. Then I pressed the herbs on the fish and baked it. Simple, but holy crap was that good. I also tried sauteeing some swiss chard with garlic, cayenne pepper, lemon juice and salt based on a recipe from cookinglight.com and it was pretty damn tasty. I think I would leave out the cayanne pepper next time though, it was a bit too spicy and kinda overpowered the chard.

Oh jesus. I've been reading too many food blogs. I can't believe I just wrote that paragraph. I'm sorry.

Anyway, tomorrow I'm gonna hit Central Square after work and see if I can't pick me up a ticket to Thursday's Pretty Girls show at the Middle East, come home and cook something delicious with all the vegetables I need to use up, and then head over to the Paradise for the Concretes show, where I will resume dancing by myself.