Boxes of Peanut Butter, Noodle Salad and Resisting the Cub Scouts One Israeli Indie Band at a Time
I arrived home the other day with a huge box waiting on my doorstep. It was way too big to include a record so I knew it wasn’t anything I had purchased. I laid it on the table and went about an evening training for my upcoming half marathon. When I arrived back home after the run, the box was empty (except for a cat) and our table was littered with jars of Peanut Butter. Seems J-Fur had gone a little crazy after I finished her jar of organic Arrowhead Mills Peanut Butter. Making sure that it wouldn’t happen again was as easy as ordering 12 jars. While I’ve tried really hard, I have yet to even make a dent (although I am halfway through the first jar).
Have a lot of peanut butter on your hands? Try this:
Peanut Butter Noodle Salad
(printable version)
-8 ounces Udon Noodles
-1/2 cup Peanut Butter
-2 Tbs. Soy Sauce
-1/2 Tbs. Chili Oil
-1 inch slice of fresh ginger, grated
-2 tsp. brown rice vinegar
-3 garlic cloves, minced
-10 baby carrots, small dice
-1 cup napa cabbage, small dice
-1 zucchini, cut into matchsticks
-1 cup snow peas
-1 bunch green onions, small dice
-1 block of tofu
-sesame seeds
1. Cook the noodles according to directions. Drain and rinse in cold water. Set aside.
2. Mix the peanut butter, soy sauce, chili oil, ginger, vinegar and garlic. Set aside.
3. Steam the carrots, zucchini and snow peas, until tender. Stir Fry the cabbage slightly, also until tender. Add the zucchini, snow peas, carrots, cabbage, green onions and sesame seeds to the noodles. Toss.
4. Stir Fry the tofu in sesame oil until it reaches your desired texture. Dump into the noodles. Toss. Pour the sauce over top, stirring until everything is well combined. Allow the flavors to mesh for a bit in the refrigerator (mine tasted best after siting overnight). Eviscerate it!
The Cub Scouts have spent their year touring Australia with the likes of Loon Lake, Ball Park Music, Pluto Jonze and themselves. When they finally wrapped it up, they took their celebration to…the studio. Here they put together their debut EP including this new single, “Told You So.” With a physical release date set for um, let me check my calendar, today (you can get a digital version on iTunes), they have created a video for their new track to try and worm its way into that place in our brain that says “we’ve got to have it.” The video features appearances from 90s “got to have its” like Bubble-O Bill, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hubba Bubba.
La Resistance, according to the webpage, is the past and future, the old and new, the classic and experimental all rolled into a neat little medallion shared between friends. Their latest track, “Loathing,” puts this description easily on display. There are moments of New Order and the Cure, surrounded by electronic bits of video game sounds arranged in a way that would impress Arcade Fire or Interpol. La Resistance is indeed, futile.
The new “Loathing” video:
Vaadat Charigim’s latest single “Where It Ends” is a monochrome dream painted by dark colors, industrial noise, smattering guitars and an omnipotent voice. It is part birthday party, part police shut down club in the middle of the set. Even without the luxury of understanding the lyrics, I’ve had this song on repeat since it came to my inbox.
doog says:
yum… one of the first things i made upon returning to the states was a veggie peanut-sauce dish. it’s amazing how much i was craving real peanut butter after a year and half of only have what must have been peanut-flavored corn syrup.
Tender Branson says:
no peanut butter? that would be rough.