oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Too tired to post the recipe, but damn, they're good. Want one?

smashed garlic potatoes, garlic asparagus, & strawberry spinach salad

Vegan mashed potatoes with garlic & a dash of flax oil (make the way you like best) + fresh asparagus braised in olive oil, chopped garlic, and lemon + spinach, tomato, red pepper, & strawberry salad topped with Organic Ville Sesame Goddess dressing = delicious spring dinner!

Mango Sticky Rice

This is the home-made version of my favorite Asian dessert that I've had at many Thai restaurants. I bought a package of Orchids Sweet Rice at a local Asian market. Sweet rice is a speciality variety of California rice that is glutinous. I loosely followed this recipe.

Start boiling 1 cup rice with 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup coconut milk. While sticky rice is boiling, mix together 1/4 cup coconut milk, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and bring to a boil. Set aside to cool. Immediately after sticky rice is cooked, put it into the coconut sauce and stir together well. While keeping an eye on it, simmer until thick, sticky and kind of mushy. You may need to keep adding water if it gets too starchy or dry. For the topping, mix 1/4 cup coconut milk with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1 tablespoon sugar. Bring to a boil.

Put the sticky rice and mangoes on a serving dish. Pour the topping sauce over the sticky rice.

2008 Garden Stage 1

This is the beginning of our 2008 summer garden. We're going bigger and better that any we've done before. We just tilled it by hand this weekend. More photo are to come as the garden progresses. There's nothing like growing your own food.

Popeye Pesto Risotto

Adapted from a Rachael Ray recipe. We added basil and used Nutritional Yeast instead of parm. We substituted sun-dried tomatoes for the mushrooms. But we used mushroom stock. Our breath still smells like garlic. But it was worth it.