Metrolink really can work for you!

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One of the reasons that we moved into this house was because of its access to public transportation. But we never really explored it because it’s so much quicker and more convenient to hop in the car and zip off to where ever we need to go. However, both of our cars have over 200,000 miles, so they are prone to problems. One car’s power steering went out, the other’s brakes started having problems. So we decided to explore options for my husband to get to and from work. His workplace is about 40 miles away; even further with recent highway construction. So we explored http://metrostlouis.org and saw that a train and a bus would take him directly to work! It’s not perfect, it’s a longer commute time with that distance, but how else could he get an extra nap in on the way to work? :) No really, if you’re in the metro St. Louis area, go to the Tripfinder and see if there’s a viable way for you to use Metro. Especially the trains. Not only are they fun, but they are fast! They don’t have to worry with traffic or stop lights. Stops at stations are generally about 30 seconds. And $68 a month? He was spending more than that in two weeks! And the trains and buses run in the snow, so no worries about having to navigate crappy streets.

So now that you’ve checked out the site, you may want some tips on your ride, because it may be long.
Before you go:

  • Print your itinerary. The website’s schedule is pretty excessive with displaying each stop; I generally copy and paste it into a text file, remove all the stops except for a couple before mine, break it up properly for switching buses and trains, then print.
  • Bring amusements. Portable DVD players and Kindle readers are fairly popular… and make sure it’s charged! I like to bring along knitting. Just please be mindful of fellow passengers and bring along headphones for noisy things. And if your amusement is going to be texting your friends, please set your phone to vibrate. No one wants to hear your racket.
  • Have weather-appropriate clothing. You may be standing at a bus stop for a while. A compact umbrella can be your best friend.
  • Have exact change, and have it out when you hop on the bus. Check the fares to find out how much you need. Metrolink stations give change, but a bus does not. Not all Metrolink stations will accept $20’s. If you intend on using them often, get bigger passes. Because I don’t ride daily, I get a pack of ten two-hour passes so I’m not fumbling when I hop on the bus. Dollar coins are great for hopping on the bus if you don’t have a pass!
  • Once you have your pass, keep it handy, especially on trains. Metro security hop on and off all day, checking passes. They are just doing their job. Some days you’ll get checked every stop. Some days you won’t ever get checked. It’s hit-and-miss, but don’t risk not having a proper pass; they will write you a ticket. And those tickets are a lot more than a two dollar pass.
    Pro tip: Get a travel passport holder that goes around your neck. You can find them in the luggage section of department stores.

While riding:

  • The engine is in the back of the bus. Not a very good place for carrying on a conversation with a friend, but it’s warm!
  • Pay attention to which direction the train is going before you sit down. Riding backward can be sick-making if you are prone to motion sickness!
  • Keep the disabled seating available. The front center-facing seats of buses and the first seats facing the train doors should be yielded to the handicapped and the elderly. And to pregnant women. :)
  • If you are unsure about where or when a bus is stopping, ask the driver! Obviously the driver knows their schedule. Just don’t distract them too much.
  • Don’t yap on your phone excessively. We don’t want to hear your conversation.
  • Set your phone to vibrate.  You may think your ring tone is cool, but no one else does.
  • Share a seat. While it’s nice to have a whole bench seat to yourself, others need a place to sit too. Put your belongings in your lap or on the floor.
  • Have fun. There’s plenty of people from all walks of life, and many are characters. It’s one of my favorite places to people watch!

Metro really is a viable means of transportation. Obviously it’s not going to work for everyone everywhere, but it does work for a very large majority of people in the St. Louis area. By the way, did you know that public transit is going to be on the April ballot? Yep, and it needs your vote! Please go here to learn more about it. Also, Metro is getting into social media, which rocks! Check out @STLMetro and @STLTransit on Twitter. Fan Metro on Facebook. And for more info on Metro, check out http://nextstopstl.org.

A bit of springtime in my window

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What a wonderful way to wake up. This is what I see in the morning when I get out of bed and wander out of the hallway and into the kitchen: Beautiful flowers. It almost feels like springtime here, and it makes me happy. Those are paperwhite narcissus that I bought on clearance from Kmart, they were in Christmas clearance items. So I popped the bulbs in the dirt, watered them, and behold, beautiful spring flowers in the winter! :) You also see some basil growing there. Yum. And some other viney kind of plant that I have yet to identify.

The flowers only bloom once per season, but that’s alright. Right now is the perfect time for those flowers to bloom.

Encouraged recycling

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My husband is from San Francisco Bay area, where they have enforced recycling. The trash collectors will sift through the garbage on occasion, and if there are any recyclables in it the home owner will get fined. Pretty extreme, but it works. On the opposite end of the spectrum, my friend who runs a day care, thus produces a lot of little glass jars and such, lives in an area that charges extra to pick up recyclables. Yes, the city (Kirkwood, MO) makes the homeowners pay MORE to take away recycling. Now I’m not 100% sure on how all that works, but I know that schools have recycling dumpsters for people to dump into to help the school earn money, I know that you can take recyclables to get money… Having to pay is a total rip-off.

So while these two places are on opposite ends of the trash spectrum, I think that my city has figured it out a balance beautifully. The plan is simple: Recyclable pickup is 100% free, as much as you have to put out. Trash pickup is paid for by trash tags that you buy and place on the garbage can instead of paying a monthly trash bill. We don’t use a lot of non-recyclable packaging, so our recycling bin going out once a week generally suffices for our garbage pickup. We generate a bag of garbage about every week to week and a half, our trash can holds three bags. Thus a can of trash is going to the curb about once every three to four weeks. So a sheet of five stickers, which costs $13.55, can last us three months or longer. That makes our garbage collection bill about four dollars a month. It makes our solid waste environmental impact pretty low for a family of three. And this happens without very much thought at all on our part. It’s not like I stress out over whether something should go into the trash can versus the recycle bin, and I don’t consciously seek out any particular packaging type.

I’m not bothering to tell you about this just because I want to brag about our lowered environmental impact or what a cool town I live in. This trash pickup scheme didn’t just magically happen. It was decided and voted upon by city council. City council members are elected, as is the mayor. These people work for you, so why not contact your local city council and take action? Wouldn’t you like to reduce your monthly bills and your environmental impact?

The info from our town’s website (I’d offer a link directly to it, but it’s in nasty frames):

Swansea’s Solid Waste Management Program includes the collection and processing of trash, yard waste and recyclable materials. (Click on the below items for complete information on the program and scheduled pickup days). For trash and yard waste collections, you must use a container no larger than 33 gallons and weighing no more than 50 pounds, or a bag weighing no more than 50 pounds [the tags say specifically: No more than one person can lift on their own], or rent a 90 gallon rolling cart (toter) from Allied Waste.

No matter which disposal method you use, you must place one (1) Swansea trash or yard waste sticker on the 33 gallon container or bag. The 90 gallon rolling cart requires 2 stickers. Trash or Yard Waste Stickers are available for purchase at a cost of $13.55 per sheet (each sheet contains 5 stickers) or a yearly sticker is available (with the cost decreasing weekly). Contact the Government Center for current price or to purchase. The yearly sticker is good for one 33 gallon container, weighing not more than 50 pounds.

Pretty simple, eh? There are rules for larger items too, and it’s all explained on the back of the sheet of tags. Yard waste tags are separate. They even give us groovy recycle bins to use.

To the person glaring at me (an open letter)

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To the person glaring at me:

Yes, I notice you over there, glaring at me disapprovingly as I am parenting my child. While I appreciate your concern for my child’s well-being, let me assure you that he is very well cared for. Yes, my parenting techniques may seem rude or overly strict, but that is because I am trying to teach my son how to behave in public, unlike too many parents these days that feel their children should be allowed to roam and explore freely in public, or are too lazy, or too busy, to pay attention.

You see, my son is overly hyperactive. His hyperactivity is at the very top of every chart that has been made for his behavior. He is in a special class and rides a special bus with restraints because of his inability to control his impulses. If I did not keep a very tight control of his behavior, he would be running amok, talking to (and probably hugging) every stranger that pays any attention to him. He would mess with your belongings if they were anywhere besides in your hands. He would be talking very loudly, saying nonsensical things, making obnoxious sounds, and probably getting any other child within a ten foot radius also excited (and likely to get in trouble with their parents). If we are in a store he will nose in your cart, go wandering off, hide in clothing racks, find something he wants and beg and plead for it. He’s been doing these things since he has been able to walk unassisted.

Perhaps you have seen me grab his arm roughly to restrain or to get him to move. This isn’t to be mean to him. On the contrary, I truly detest having to occasionally be rough with my son. However, he will slip into his own little world and lose focus on the task at hand, and the sudden, firm movements bring him back to reality. Sometimes he doesn’t want to cooperate and go where we need to, so I may have to practically drag him.

Most likely you will see me chiding him while he appears to be fidgeting as any normal child would. And yes, I do allow him to fidget. But bear in mind, I have been with him the entire day and I know what state his mind is in. Depending on how his track record has been the rest of the day, it’s most likely that his impatient behavior is the outward sign of his being able to barely contain himself. Thus, I am trying to help him keep control of his impulsiveness.

I have known this child for seven years. I know his cues, I can read his mood. I know how likely he is to, depending on his mood, go running off. What you see is seven years of a child learning to keep control of himself in a way that is inherent in most people. When he was younger we could not take him in public at all.

So while it may be easy for you to sit there and judge me for what you believe is poor parenting, because I have seen that look before, I’d like to let you know that being a parent to this child is more than a full time job, and I know what I’m doing. Whatever mental picture you have in your head about “what that child’s home life must be like” is entirely false. Perhaps you should consider that maybe your pre-conceived notions of how a child should be a little lamb, gracefully following along holding his mother’s hand is merely a daydream that every parent wishes for. What you see is the reality of severe hyperactivity and my attempt at keeping him from annoying you… In which case you’d probably be giving me an even angrier glare.

Signed,
Tired parent

My Crock Pot replaced my coffee pot!

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My dear Mr. Coffee has passed away. I left his eulogy on Craigslist:

Poor Mr. Coffee has brewed his last pot. He wheezed a last electrical sigh and coughed out a puff of smoke last night. He died in his sleep; he was not currently in use. While I am in mourning over the demise of my beloved Mr. Coffee, I know that he can donate his parts to your own beloved Mr. Coffee that may also have problems. I have fastidiously cleaned the interior to provide a tasty brew, but the outside doesn’t look all that grand, for he has sustained many a coffee drip and is a bit stained. Parts that you may find useful from poor Mr. Coffee:

The pot: The lid’s missing one of the little pegs that helps hold the lid on when pouring, but the other is still there. I feel it makes it easier to take the lid off when washing, anyway.
The drip basket: It drips very well, and the automatic shut-off when the pot is removed works very well.
The drip basket holder: Perhaps you need a snazzy new chrome one for your old coffee pot!
The innards: I don’t know much about it, but as I said, I kept it very clean, running vinegar through it once every couple of months. It was cleaned just over the weekend. I’ve also only used filtered water in it (and never poured from the pot), so the little tubes and things should be clean as a whistle!

Basically everything on this coffee maker works except for the electronics. Even after coughing out his last puff of smoke, his clock still kept time with pride. So I don’t know what’s wrong with it.
Please, give Mr. Coffee the new life he deserves. He’s kept me well caffeinated for the last 6 years.

If you don’t intend on picking it up, please do not reply. My heart is already broken over the loss of my dear friend, don’t make it worse by standing me up.

Model: ESX40 – white

Sad, isn’t it? :(

So now I have this gaping hole, not only in my heart, but on my counter as well. So, what should I fill it with? My Crock Pot! It is currently filled with veggies and cooking up a delicious stew on this cold, snowy day. However, I’ve found that Crock Pot can’t entirely fill the void. Mr. Coffee must be replaced. Oh yes, this weekend, Mr. Coffee will have a predecessor. Hopefully, it can live up to my expectations. And no, I’m not ditching the caffeine. I need one vice in my life, okay? ;)

Cure for the winter time blues

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Okay, so I’ll admit it. I’m exceedingly inactive. Couch potato to the max. I don’t get any exercise whatsoever, and that’s very unhealthy. Not only is it bad for the heart and muscles and all that stuff, it can also lead to brittle bones. It’s also not so great on the motivation to get stuff done. The winter time doesn’t help at all. I’ve become a lump, and I’m sick of it. So, time to get off my buttocks and motivate.  I’ve been interested in yoga for a while, but I have never had classes or anyone show me what to do. Or the motivation to really learn. And why yoga? Because I don’t do cardio. Nope, sorry, not happening. If I’m going to be breaking much of a sweat, I’m not going to do it.

So today, after giving a friend a coaching session on “stop being a wuss” about quitting smoking and getting healthier, and I went and motivated myself. Huzzah! So I looked up some yoga videos on Netflix and added some to my queue. Now, because I’m an impatient sort of person, I decided I wanted to watch a video NOW. Netflix to save the day again, they had an “instant watch” video of Crunch: Super SlimDown. It’s a workout video using yoga positions with pilates. Nice! Being entirely cream-puffy n stuff, even I was able to keep up with most of it. And I feel fabulous! My back hasn’t felt this wonderful in a long time. Probably tomorrow I will be singing a different tune (probably mostly made of grunts and groans as I try to move around in the morning), but seriously, that felt great!

Next stop: Learning all of the positions so that I can properly use my Yoga2Go system that I won from Robyn’s blog. It’s a pretty sweet little system. It has these cards with positions that have colored dots with numbers. You match the color to the particular workout you want to do, then put in order by number, into this plastic sheet with pockets. Then you hang it up and get to it. I’ve been wanting to use the system for a while now, but I don’t know the different positions, and I really don’t want to stop and look at the back of each card… So yeah. Video then cards. :)

The joy of manias

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ma·ni·a (mā’nē-ə, mān’yə)  
n.

  1. An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze: a mania for neatness.
  2. Psychiatry A manifestation of bipolar disorder, characterized by profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality, gaiety, or irritability, and decreased sleep.
  3. Violent abnormal behavior. See Synonyms at insanity.

[Middle English, madness, from Late Latin, from Greek maniā; seemen-1 in Indo-European roots.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

All my life I have grown up with manias. Not only do I have my own, but my mother has them too. Some manias I remember my mother having while growing up:
  • Crochet (she made almost an entire afghan, ran out of yarn, never bothered to go get the rest)
  • Camping (we went every weekend)
  • Angels and cherubs (That one made for easy gift-giving)
  • Car and plane sales (oi, don’t ask)
  • Cross stitch

The list can go on and on and on. I’ve had several manias of my own:

  • Secondlife
  • Machinima
  • Knitting
  • Web design
  • Scrap booking
  • Camping

My list can go on, too.

While people view manias as bad things (the word “mania” tends to bring up negative ideas), they can have good results. Often people who experience manias want to do something that they don’t know very much about, so they learn it… voraciously. We read everything we can, we ask people in the know. Generally our manias produce something, so there is a tangible end result. This gives us a feeling of accomplishment. Unfortunately, we also end up abandoning projects before they are finished, much to the frustration of not only people around us, but also to ourselves. We just get burned out and lose interest. Sometimes we will return to the mania, but usually not.

Manias also tend to cost money. We have to buy the supplies that go with the mania. Knitting needs yarn and needles, scrapbooking needs paper and stickers, camping needs tents and bedding. Some of these hobbies can get pretty expensive. Anyone that has gotten involved in these projects will understand what I mean.

The reason I bring up this insanity at all is because my mother is currently in a mania. She’s buying vintage costume jewelry by the buckets. No, really. Daily she receives boxes and boxes of the stuff in the mail. And she wants me to make a website to sell them. Of course I will get a % of the profit, but I’ve been having a terrible time trying to put together enough time to make the site with a lot of household shenanigans continually going on. And she pesters me repeatedly about it. “Is the website done? When will we have a website? Have you been taking pictures?” And it drives me nuts. I love my mother, I really do. I understand her mania. However, I can’t join her mania, it’s not like it’s a light switch that I can just switch on. It could be because she has the fun of picking out the stuff, researching it, buying it (what girl doesn’t like shopping for jewelry?), getting packages in, going through all of the pretties… I get the work of taking pictures, editing pictures, building the website, processing the orders, shipping them. While these things are not unenjoyable, it is something that I have to have quiet time for. And solid amounts of it. An hour here, a couple of hours there… That’s not enough to get things done. Once the infrastructure is built then it should be a piece of cake to add new things. I hope.

On a good note, with my delay in building the site, she has run out of “mania money” to buy more stuff. However, she can afford a lot more “mania money” than me. She’s spent thousands on this. Yes, multiple thousands. So she does have a lot of investment into this, which I do respect, and I know she wants to earn the money back… and heck, I want money! So someday hopefully soon, you will see the unveiling of our new business. All built around her mania. :)

Sharing your knowledge

In my previous post I talked about people growing up without certain life skills. Nearly 1000 words of ranting. :) However, I realized I am not entirely finished with the subject. Growing up, we learned stuff. Either from parents, family, friends, where ever. And some of that stuff we learned is probably pretty doggone cool.  Did your grandmother teach you to make a super flaky pie crust? Did your uncle teach you how to whittle some cool designs?

These things we learned in our lives were taught by someone that cared enough to show us. They invested their time, love, and knowledge to pass on something that they enjoyed enough to share. Now what do you do with that skill? Is it covered in cobwebs in the mental attic? Why not pull out that knowledge and pass it on to someone? Not only are you passing on a useful skill, but you are passing along legacy. You can tell your child that your grandparents taught you this. They can tell their children that it was a skill passed down in their family. And another bonus: You are bringing back a hobby or skill that you have enjoyed in the past.

Even if you don’t have children, there are plenty of people in the world that are eager to learn. Younger family members, neighbors, you name it. If you are a master in something, perhaps you could teach a class. Don’t keep your knowledge locked up in your head, share it with others.

Lacking life skills

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I had a conversation with a friend of mine this morning. He lives in Europe. I told him that I was knitting, and he said that knitting was a very large part of their country’s lifestyle. So important, in fact, that it is taught in school. So we talked back and forth about homemaking classes and such in school, and he said that they have whole schools dedicated to teaching homemaking. That got me to thinking… Why don’t we have schools like this? Required classes in school or some kind of prep school to teach teens and young adults basic life skills? While you may scoff at this, there are many, many people that enter the adult world without these living skills. My poor husband, bless him, is one of these people. So, using him as a model, I will relate how people are unleashed into the world without knowledge.

My husband moved directly from his parents’ house to mine, so he has never truly lived on his own. The man that I married was severely lacking in life skills. He couldn’t cook because his mother always cooked. He didn’t know how to sort laundry, another thing she always did. He did know how to mend, because his mother was a seamstress. So my husband, at 21 years old, was really not ready to enter the world of independent living. It’s not because he didn’t want to know, but because he was never taught by enforcing it. Read: chores.

I see this repeatedly today, where families will rely on one person to do a particular chore (or they just don’t do it at all by going out to eat, having a housekeeper, drop-off laundry, etc). This leaves children sorely ill-equipped to live on their own. Granted, the way that many of our baby boomer (and older) generations were raised, the man has certain household things he does, the woman has certain household things she does. The man passes on his knowledge to his sons, the woman passes on her knowledge to her daughters. The man changes the tires and mows the lawn. The woman sews on buttons and dusts. Yes, it’s 2010, and many people are making sure that their children are more well-rounded than these traditional roles (and many have not grown up in traditional households), but there are still a lot of people that are lacking this basic knowledge of living.

Here’s a small list of things every adult should know how to do:

  • Personal finances; such as budgeting, balancing a checkbook (especially debits!), savings, bill paying, etc
  • Basic car maintenance, especially changing a tire
  • How to follow a recipe
  • How to do laundry, including stain removal
  • How to mend/repair clothing
  • How to use a plunger
  • How to sharpen a knife
  • How to replace a fuse (hey, I have a fuse box downstairs!), use a circuit breaker, etc
  • How to turn off gas and water to the house (you never know when a line will burst)
  • How to change a furnace/air conditioner filter, and how often
  • Properly washing dishes by hand (first glasses, then silverware, then plates, then greasy stuff)
  • How (and why) to dust
  • How to wash windows
  • How (and why) to find wall studs
  • How to properly build a fire (yeah, really)
  • How to mow the lawn, along with basic mower maintenance
  • Basic home repair, such as nailing down a loose stair, using caulk, etc.
  • How to insert tab A into slot B (basic building instructions)

I know that not everyone has the facilities to teach these things, such as apartment living, but these are very important things to know. Of course some things are age/life appropriate. You’re not going to teach your four year old how to clean out gutters (I hope!), and you can’t really show your kid how to turn off gas to the house if you don’t have a gas main. Oh wait… do YOU know how to turn off the gas? What if there was an earthquake or some other major catastrophe?

Some of these things also require us to get past our own personal laziness. Why mend clothes when you can go just buy new ones? Because we just don’t know if our children will have the money to buy new clothes. Why teach them to chop veggies when there’s meals in a box? Because they may be interested in exploring culinary things. You might have a chef living under your roof!

Please, please pass your life skills on to your children. They will need to know these things later. Dads, teach your daughters how to replace drain pipes. Moms, teach your sons how to sew a button on. When you come upon one of these basic life things, make sure that your kids are watching. It is preparing them for living on their own. Oh yeah, it’s also a good excuse for assigning chores! ;)

And if you’re an adult that doesn’t know how to do these basic things, please do ask. If someone looks at you like you are stupid, explain to them that it’s a skill that you were never taught. And if you truly are embarrassed, or you don’t have a friend that knows how to do a particular thing (not everyone knows how to patch a leaky basement wall), look it up. Not only on the Internet, but also get books. Yeah, you know, those big stacks of paper bound together with colorful covers that impart information? Because you never know, there may be a day that we no longer have the Internet, but we will still know how to read.

Knock-your-socks-off vegetable korma

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I have a secret: I have a love affair with Indian food. It’s delicious with all of the complex spice blends and (yuuuum) curry. Many people cringe at curry, and I’m not quite sure why. It is a very nice spice if used properly. This recipe is very mild on the spicy level, and also kind of sweet. My husband says that this is the best korma he has ever had… even better than our favorite Indian restaurant! :) I would also recommend this to people experimenting with cooking Indian food and introducing it to someone not familiar with it. And it’s vegan.

So first things first… You are going to have to have a certain ingredient. You can’t just get it anywhere. I fortunately have a store nearby that carries it, but you may not have any stores in your area. So before you dive into this recipe, get some Madras curry powder. I also like to use coconut oil in my Indian cooking, so get some of that too if you like. It’s expensive, but healthier for you.

This recipe looks difficult, but I just have it broken down to make preparation simple. It is really very, very easy.

Rice:

  • 1 cup basmati rice
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 tbsp Madras curry powder
  • 3-4 bay leaves

Cook rice according to package (or put it in a rice cooker) with all of the ingredients listed. Start this first, as it takes 20 minutes to cook.

Paste Ingredients:

  • 1 cup flaked coconut (I used regular baking coconut)
  • 1 cup lightly salted/unsalted cashews (bits n pieces are fine)
  • 3 cloves or 1 1/2 tsp minced garlic
  • 2 tbsp Madras curry powder (or more if you like it to be spicy)
  • 1/2 tsp ground ginger (or a bit of fresh ginger)
  • 1/4 cup + water

Put all of the above ingredients into a food processor and grind down, adding water until it is a smooth paste. The water is not an issue, it’s more to check the consistency of the food processing. Get it as fine as possible, as we don’t want any crunchy bits in the finished product!

Veggies (fresh or frozen):

  • 1/2 head (2 cups?) cauliflower, broken down into bite-sized pieces
  • 1 cup sliced carrot
  • 1 cup peas

Steam the veggies by adding a bit of water to the bottom of a pot and putting the veggies in then putting a lid on it. 5 minutes over medium heat (after the water has heated to steaming).

  • 1 tbsp coconut oil, veggie oil, or (fake!) butter

Once your paste is made and your veggies are steamed, add the paste to the veggies and add a cup of water and your tbsp of oil. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring, and continue to add water until it is a sauce of medium thickness. Simmer for about 5 minutes.

Serve over the rice (dig the bay leaves out of the rice, you don’t want to eat them), and you have a delicious, healthy meal for 3-4 people.

Okay, so I didn’t have any peas. But this was TOTALLY delicious.
Really, really, really delish.