Hey there , Food Fans ! August here , quick to force out Citrus limon juice at your eyehole in the form of tyrannical humidness , recent - summer restlessness , election - cps Facebook blah , and the realization that you ’ve squandered away two - thirds of the year .

But there ’s good news , Food Fans : it ’s still summer , and the field of study and streams continue to break with living plants and animal you ’ll unceremoniously kill and devour to sustain yourself .   What , you ’ve never been scream a " Food Fan " by an anthropomorphized calendar month before ? Chill out , dude , and start eating these seasonal foods as all your headache languish into the 98 - degree heat ( band AND weather ) .

Hungarian hot wax peppers

If you require a sultry , aphrodisiacal addition to your black pepper game , look no further than the Hungarian red-hot wax edition , right for fetishists and normies alike . Like Hungary itself , you never experience what you ’re going to get in terms of spiciness level with Magyar waxers , which is what theyshouldbe called – their Scovillerange is 5,000 to 10,000 , hot than your intermediate jalapeño . If you pickle them , you ’ll have spicy , waxy activeness deeply into fall , not to refer thehealth benefit of capsaicin . What ’s not to wish ?

Calamari

" Calamari " is so much nicer than " squid , " but calamari is what you ’ll be corrode . Bonus points if you may get the ink , too , that manner you’llnever get neoplasm , which is how you should pop every conversation from August onward : " Hi , how are you ? I would care to inform you that the body you ’re interacting with has zero tumors . "

Are theremore sustainable optionsin the sea ? Sure ! But are there   more sustainable modus vivendi than your current one , which consist mostly of Funyuns , beer , and too much sitting ? Probably . Does n’t mean you have to , or evenshould , change anything . Eat your deep-fried calamari , dammit .

Eight-ball zucchini

I just LOVE courgette , man , you know what I intend ? This zucchini is the most beautiful zucchini , just so flaming … I do n’t cognize , it ’s just great . I ’m so AMPED on summer produce , bro , I just wanna outflank this thing out , then englut it with some herbs , cheese , and broil an testicle in it . It sounds fucking delicious , right ! ? Wow , I just got super sad .

Oh , waitress , these are named after the eight ball used in billiards . Of naturally . Beyond that , they ’re a fun new look for the courgette , so you ’ll stillget your vitamin C.

Pineapple sage

True fact : Art Garfunkel want the lyric poem to be " Pineapple sage , delicious each metre , " but Paul Simon smell him across the grimace in an eight - ball courgette rage and scream , " You stick to singing and let ME do the phraseology ! " The world would ’ve been in effect off if Art got his path , because it just mighthelp ease anxiety ! you may go out front and use both the leaf and flower muddled in your favorite summer drinkable , provided you like a pineapple - y and salvia - y meat in that drink .

Yellow wax beans

Cranberry beanscouldn’t satiate your lust for oddly color in , wiry vegetables ? It ’s still bean season , dawg ! After you make an appointment with your psychiatrist , seek out some yellow wax beans – these jaundiced buggers taste like … a waxier green edible bean . Hmm . Nothing wrong with that , we ca n’t all be special , and even though yellow wax dome ’s older brother , the unripened bean , has renown , portion , and smarting , the jaundiced wax bean iskindand has agood personality . render these light steamer with some pile , lemon , and olive oil for a summer side that will stuff you to burst withall kinds of beneficial phytochemicals .

What ’s with all the hot wax action mechanism this August ? !

Raw honey

That viscous junk that comes in the human body of a bear does n’t take hold a candle to the sensitive adaptation , which contains fun nub like " pollen " and " wax " ( even more wax ) and " royal gelatin " and " Apollo ’s body fluid . " Raw honey is typically opaque and solid at elbow room temperature , make it an ideal spread for toast or your tongue . If you could resist eat all of it , tender honey is really apretty legit wound intervention , which may come in handy after all that red-hot wax action .

emptor beware : the fierce honey plot is full offraudandtheft , so stay on your toe when shop at for premium merchandise .

Chioggia beets

attend at those things ! It ’s like God plant an ocular illusion into the ground for you to dig up , jest at , and mix into a chickenhearted wax bean salad . This would be a undecomposed time to point out that these foods should under no portion be conflate into one giant sweet talker ; there ’s such a affair as too much health .

Anyway , beetroot juice was100 % responsiblefor the remarkable start the 2013 Auburn Tigers made on their way to the national statute title secret plan , so you should eat up and toast beet , too . Roll Tide , as the Tigers would say !

Graffiti eggplant

It ’s about clip we started record eggplant the respect it deserves by changing the name of this guy wire to " street - artwork eggplant , " now that Banksy isdriving up property pricesand Shepard Fairey is unpolitical propagandist . Until the quietus of the world take in up , you ’ll have to try out these smallish aubergine for roasting and turn into a baba ghanoush , which will show your home that you ’re an grownup who can make baba ganoush all on your own now ! ADIABETES - FREE adult , to boot !

Trout

There ’s nothing better than escaping the urban center , find a little stream out in the land , and drop a line the Truth about the humankind , the path a homo should save , unproblematic , direct , square . Then , like a tangible man , you go out fly - fishing for your own trout , which arehigh in omega-3sand quite like to salmon , after which you salute yourself into a semiconsciousness before killing yourself in Ketchum , Idaho . Actually , possibly you should just do some fishing , wangle up some trout over the grillroom , and leave about all that other stuff .

Broccoli

Uh oh . This is one – if not two – of the equestrian that signal the brassica apocalypse ( Brassicapocalypse ) that happens every wintertime when you and your finest sow are left to ride out the frosty Nox on mushroom and roots you forage during the day . That ’s in the future tense ; for now , you may use the floweret of this class ’s early broccoli crop for whatever you normally use them for , presumably something covered in butter and cheese , and turn the stalking into alight summertime slaw . Remember all those things you were going to do this summer ? All you have to show for your well - laid plans is this vitamin C- and antioxidant - pack slaw !

Mail-order steak

Oh , recollect what silly times you used to be in , with your earphone tether to wall , your relationship comport in individual , your boob tube bug straight to your VCR , your steaks present mighty to your room access ? Make this a rightful atavist summertime by take part in the timeless tradition of mocking quondam trends that seem cockeyed in retrospect . Like mail - gild steak . Who wants frozen steak delivered to them ? You do n’t know where that steak ’s been !

Thankfully , we’vetotallymovedbeyondthe model of havingstrange food dropped offat our doorsteps . Now we can connect more deeply with our meals , which is what being a dead on target Food Fan is all about .

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fried calamari squid

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hungarian hot wax peppers

Flickr/Suzie’s Farm

eight ball zucchini squash

Flickr/UncleBucko

pineapple sage

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yellow wax beans

Flickr/Suzie’s Farm

raw honey

Flickr/Melanie Levi

chioggia beets

Flickr/K.B.R.

graffiti eggplant

Flickr/Michael Bentley

trout with lemon and dill

Flickr/Jessica Spengler

broccoli

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steak

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