eat dinner, bury the dog, and run.

weird song title. i haven't ever heard this song before... my ipod is on shuffle. its by a band called polar bear club.

bethany has inspired me to write about the recipes i have tried. on monday night i tried two new recipes from my new collection! one was from a book called easy vegetarian. and let me tell you... it wasn't that easy. it took a really really really long time infact. it was tomato risotto. and i had to make the vegetable broth to cook it all in as well. that took about 2 hours (maybe a bit more) but it smelled FANTASTIC. so good. i was cooking with vegetables i had never eaten or cooked before. leeks and fennel.

the other thing i made for dinner (i know they don't go together at all) were kathmandu wraps out of the refresh cook book (so they were vegan). soooo delicious. and MUCH easier. the bulk of the wrap is what the book calls curried garbanzo filling. its a bunch of vegetables (garlic, onion, carrots, green pepper, yellow banana chilies) cooked with cumin, oregan, turmeric, and salt. and then once those are cooked soft you add mashed chickpeas (i mashed mine by hand and left them a little chunky... mmmm...) and a can of tomato paste. so you put that filling in a wrap, a healthy serving of it, with some tomatoes, cucumber, and sprouts. you serve it with a tahini sauce on the side (garlic, parsley, salt, lemon juice, water and tahini - which is sesame butter, all just blended in the food processor). it was FANTASTIC.

tyler's friend brady was coming over to take a peek in our attic to see if it is possible to run the wires he needs to run to give us a plug in for an oven (yes, we still don't have one). both recipes i made said serves 4, so we just invited brady and suzanne for dinner. it was the 4th night in a row they had been over at our house - many jokes we made. i really like them. and suzanne has had us over so many times for dinner, not to mention brady is doing all this electrical work for us, i think we totally owe them some good dinners.

anyhow... if anyone is curious about either recipe i used let me know, i can email them, or post them up here. they were both totally delicious. although... all together i used 10 cloves of garlic in dinner. haha. BUT IT TASTES SO GOOD!