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Cooked a late breakfast for Shreya and our hosts, Ben and Chris.

3-4 medium-sized onions (net; had to cut out some bad parts), short slices
3 cloves garlic, small slices
2 small, 1 medium, and 2 large potatoes, sliced in thirds for boiling and then roughly sliced for frying
olive pomice oil, extra virgin olive oil, sunflower oil
turmeric, generous
table salt, very generous
a few chili pepper flakes
a few drops Tabasco sauce
covering of fresh ground pepper

A vastly modified version of this recipe: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1850,155174-249199,00.html

STIR - FRY VEGETABLES WITH TOFU
1 bag baby carrots, sliced in halves, quarters, or thirds the long way
1 zucchini (6" long)
1 yellow squash
4 stalks celery
3 Tbsp. flour (won't do this again)
Sesame oil
Ground ginger
1 pkg. firm tofu (cut into 1/4" cubes)
2 c. cooked brown rice

In a large wok or skillet heat 2 teaspoons oil until very hot but not smoking.

Add carrots; and celery; stir fry with wooden spatula for 3 minutes. Add zucchini and squash.

Add cubed tofu.

Veronica was over, she has appointed herself my office manager. We walked Zelda and CJ and Veronica pulled up wildflowers to plant at home.

I also mailed a check for Cathy to work on securing the PWGD name, and a big flat rate box of garden dirt to Mary ($10.35 for some 25 pounds... maybe this gets back at them for being so slow with the hummos i mailed last year...)

Cooked for myself and instead of saving some or all to maybe eat with Anjali, or Veronica, or anyone tomorrow, I stuffed myself tonight.

Dan made cauliflower soup. With almond milk, yellow bell pepper, garlic, and lots of tahini hummos. We could eat pureed vegetable all day.

Creamy Cauliflower Soup

2 cups (500 mL) almond milk (I used almond milk kefir instead, way tastier)

1 medium cauliflower, chopped... Read More

1 red pepper, seeded and chopped

1/2 avocado, peeled and seeded (I used a whole one)

Juice of 1 lemon

2 tablespoons (25 mL) raw tahini (I used about a quarter cup of hummus instead)

2 tablespoons (25 mL) unpasteurized miso (I used Braggs here instead, way better)

1/2 jalapeño pepper, seeded and diced

2 cloves garlic

OK, not all the vegetables. I put in two point one hot peppers and realized I had better stop, and start adding things to soak up the capsaicin.

Everything chopped on the big wooden cutting board with the big excellent knife that Dan and Shannon bought me for my birthday.

Carrots, baby small ones left and larger baby ones sliced. Not many carrots, really.

Potato Masala
http://www.ivu.org/recipes/indian-root/potato-masala.html

Vegetarian Curried Chickpeas and Dahl
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianindianrecipes/r/chickpeadahl.ht...

Rich is bringing lamb, spinach, and broccoli. Just needs olive oil and spices. We'll see what more we can also do.

To start, roasting broccoli and sweet potatoes and doing the sundried tomato walnut fantastic garnish or whatever.

Some sort of coconut milk curry:

bamboo shoots?

and a stir fry with:
zucchini
olives

My plan on the curry, modify Indian Coconut Curried Vegetables:

Ingredients:

This is a historical curry powder recipe from "The Great A & P Tea Co., New York, N. Y. Distribution" branded as "Ann Page". The tin looks like it is from the 1930s to the 1950s, though is probably more recent. I hope. It was still usable when I finished it a week or so ago. I have no idea how it stayed around so long:

Turmeric
Coriander
Cumin
Black Pepper
Fenugreek
Ginger
Celery
Cloves
Red Pepper
Chillies
Mace
Garlic

This came out disastrously. I think it was an extremely bitter onion.

http://www.recipezaar.com/Thai-Pineapple-Fried-Rice-Pad-Kao-Saparod-3808...

An allegedly vidalia onion, giant and terribly bitter, made worse I think by putting all the ingredients in a food processor that made a mush rather than even finely chopped, made this unrecoverable, even after adding sugar and wine (Manda says wine is acid and increases bitterness).

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This didn't come out badly at all, though I forgot to even do the sesame seeds

Korean Soybeans
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/soy/996.shtml