one more night.

oh wow. i've been busy. but good busy.

first off... here is that recipe for you sarah!
kathmandu wraps.
ingreds:
4 12 inch tortillas (when i made it, it actually made about 6)
1 batch curried garbanzo filling
1 pack alfalfa sprouts
2 tomatoes, sliced
1/2 cucumber, sliced
1 batch tahini sauce

curried garbanzo filling:
1. heat 2tbsp of olive oil in a medium to large sized pot. add 5 cloves garlic, 2tbsp cumin, 1 tbsp oregano, 1 tbsp sea salt, 1 tbsp turmeric, 1 onion (diced), 1 carrot (diced), and 1 grn pepper (you guessed it... diced). cook the mixture on medium to low heat until soft.
2. mash the chick peas (4 cups... which is about 2 cans i think?) (aka garbanzo beans) in a food processor or by hand, and add to the pot along with a can of tomato paste (just the regular little kind).
3. stir until heated through.

tahini sauce:
in a food processor or blender, mix 2 cloves of garlic, 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley (the flat kind works best... italian parsley), 1/2 tsp sea salt, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 2/3 cup of water, 1/2 cup sesame butter (tahini).

so then once you've made the filling and the sauce... the rest is pretty easy. assemble the wrap with a healthy sized scoop of filling, line on top with the cucumber, sprouts, and tomatoes. serve the tahini sauce in a small bowl on the side for dipping.

ENJOY!

alright. so. what have i been up to for the last week...

i would say my biggest achievement is that i have gone to the pool to start learning to swim laps. its fun! and hard. really hard, actually. courtenay says i'm doing better than she expected me to. i learned the arms last night. but i can't actually do the front crawl without flippers on or i just sink and make a big splashing mess. but i CAN do it... i just need the extra speed from the flippers. i'll get it in time. just need more practice! its cool too because it uses totally different muscles in my legs than biking did. muscles that need more work. so i can feel it. i like that. i feel like i am actually doing something good for my body. although... my diet hasn't been the best for the last week. i've been really busy... and maybe a bit lazy?

last thursday i made all kinds of apple goodies with my mom. two apple cakes (one of which i gave to tyler's mom because it was her birthday). i didn't actually get to try any of the cakes (ha!) but they looked and smelled fantastic. the batter to apple ratio was almost even. and then there was a caramel sauce that you drizzle on top (delicious! haha. i did get to try that!). i had some left overs of the sauce and kept it in my fridge. my mom had made tyler and i a little apple crisp and i put caramel sauce on that when i took it in my lunch to work. it was fantastic. we also made apple juice, which i later brought home some jars of. i really enjoy that my open pantry shelves have got a little stock of tomatoes, salsa, and now apple juice too. all things i helped make.

also, my schedule at work changed and now tyler and i have sundays off together. its nice to actually be able to spend an entire day hanging out together without either one of us having to work. we went and saw where the wild things are. i loved it, he hated it. although... tyler never read the book when he was little. i think that has a lot to do with it. i LOVED that book when i was little. and it is one of those books that always stayed with me, perhaps the artwork more than the actual story. but it definitely fed my little imagination (or rather, big imagination?). we came home and i think we just watched several episodes of prison break. we're almost done season two. tyler tried to make me watch drag me to hell, which i argued that i really really really didn't want to. he insisted. we tried it. he realized just how bad i didn't want to watch it when i left right in the middle of this disgustingly tense part to rinse the dinner dishes.

also this week, tyler downloaded harry potter and the half blood prince and we watched that. it was pretty good. i love the harry potter movies... probably because i haven't read any of the books. we also have eagle vs. shark and a couple other movies to watch. i'm pretty excited about it. he is also working on getting all 3 seasons of arrested development, which i have seen before but i think he needs to. if any of you haven't seen it... you need to! its hilarious. sooooo funny. it was cancelled part way through the third season, but if it was on tv now it would be really popular. it was before its time. for sure.

and now i think i REALLY need to go get ready for work.