Stuffed Litchi

I come from at least three foreign service officers; both my grandpa's and my dad. My maternal grandfather was posted to my Asian countries including Korea and Japan and My dad developed a taste for South East Asia.
He was studying India at Berkley and thought a year-long course on South East Asia looked interesting. Also when he was offered a choice of position between Delhi and KL, he took Malaysia because he would get to learn a new language and have more influence.
Needless to say, we have a wide selection of artifacts from all over Asia and a pull to the food. So when Matt and I were going to make a Indonesian dish and my mom needed some other supplies,  we went to a Asian supermarket out in Virginia.
It was about lunch time, so we had lunch at the restaurant baring the same name as the market.  We were browsing the menu when a litchi appetizer caught our collective eye. They were stuffed with pork in sweet chili sauce and the combination of flavors was so refreshing,  we thought we'd make our own for Thanksgiving.

Sweet chili pork stuffed litchi:

1. Cook the pork on stove until mostly done and add cilantro,  salt, black pepper and sweet chili sauce.

2. Stuff in drained litchi.

Ok fine

I guess ill take most of it back about Bobby's...although,  I think I said the burgers were good. I don't understand people who don't like goat cheese.  I like the FRESH GOAT CHEESE. My question now is wheres the bbq sauce? I thought I saw a Bobby Flay book about sauce.

An online farmer's market

 I was a few steps away from the local farmers market in Silver Spring on Saturday morning,  when I decided to stop for a promo girl waiving at me. She was from relayfoods.com, a site that sells local products that can be picked-up or delivered.

As a foodie, I was very excited about this, thinking I would find both local produce and awesome local spreads.  I was right! The local produce is, as always, doubley special because it's local, but kinda triple-ly special because you can get local delivered to your door.  You can get sufficient ingredients elsewhere, but I suggest buying one or two special ingredients from here. They also have bountyboxes and recipe kits.
I ordered Red Raspberry Jam, Regenald's Homemade Apple Cinnamon Peanut Butter,Bourbon Pecan Peanut Butter, local pears, Asian pears, asparagus and sweet potatoes. I have so excited when I went to pick them up in Tackoma Park because the whole downtown area, in addition to what I was doing felt very Obie. Even more nostalgic was the kind of people i encountered handing out the food, the glass milk cartons we always got at the co-op and the free veggies that they had.I got free ginger. I gotta do something with that. Maybe I can do a ginger cookbook so my slogan will be, and I can make-up T-shirts saying, FREE GINGER! Kinda already works. Promoting sharing recipes, spice use, medicinal uses, and the  abundance thing.