writing issues...

hmm i just realized i haven't written for a while... i should get back to this activity!

Amazing Salad

lettuce (5-7 green leaves)
1 can rinsed and drained black beans
1 can rinsed and drained corn
1 red bell pepper, diced
1 diced mango, diced
1/3 cup chopped red onion 
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
2 squeezed limes
3 cloves garlic, mashed
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
2 tablespoon olive oil

mashed the garlic then fried with 1 tbsp oil then added the beans and cooked for a few minutes and let the mix cool down then added the cumin and chili powder. in the mean time chopped the lettuce and prepared the other vegetables and mango.
placed the lettuce in a plate added the second tablespoon oil and lime juice then mixed till everything was covered with the sauce. next mixed the beans, onions, and corn and layered over the lettuce. topped with the bell pepper and mango and sprinkled the cilantro.


Bon appétit!

jerking around

it's a turmoil.
where to project its rays.
and it's burning and boiling
even the tips of the ears are in pain.
of the heat
inside and out.
the clocks are ticking
at many planes.
inside and out.
quantized, overlapping
since you're a la vogue.
trans port and pire
into the pyre
inside and out
and form and trans
in the rough a
cut to become
a dancing dunce
lost in its fires.

they pray out loud and call you sinner
they preach of innocence and call you cheater
they sit in silence and call you liar
they profess standards and call you hypocrite

i do not call you sinner and my prayer is silent
i do not cheat by preaching you of innocence
i do not lie when in silence
i do not stagnate on standards to be hypocritical

Vegan Rosemary Cookies

Here is what I created today!

1 cup canola oil
1/2 cup soy milk
2/3 cup raw cane sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
3 cups unbleached flour

1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon gum arabic

1- mix the oil and soy milk at high speed til well blended and creamy. add the sugar and vanilla and mix again.

2- powder, in a plate, the salt and gum arabic together with a spoon.

3-  mix the flour salt gum arabic and baking powder then add the rosemary.

4- mix the flour mix and the liquids using a spoon.

the mix will make twelve 3-inch cookies. bake six at a time in a cookie pan in an oven preheated at 350 oF for about 8 minutes or untill the sides start turning golden/brown. cool them on a rack.
Enjoy with a cuppa peppermint tea.
  Cheers!

OH! P.S. I think I will try this again with 3/4 cup oil instead of 1... i think 1 is too much!

The Jeweler's Son

Something I am working on.... let's see what it will turn into.
:-)

glorious

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. -John Muir

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