[femi94ce]

I do. Hate cooking them don't care much for eating them. I am lucky that my husband does practically all the vegetable (cold) prep in our house. So most of the recipes I post will not include many veggies, because I have the great good fortune of having someone here to do the dirty work of selecting, rinsing, drying, sorting, chopping and all that. We have "Tibetan Lama Salad" every night of the week (so named for the arrangement of the vegetables on the plate, not the ingredients).

Occasionally something will come over me and I'll have the impulse to cook up some vegetables. I like cooked vegetables if their flavors are disguised as something else - like in chinese food. It's the "savory" flavor of vegetable glutamates that fool my palate into thinking it's eating meat.

These are really good. Serves 2 or 3 as a side, 1 for a vegetarian meal.

Prep time: 15-20 minutes

y'all will need:

frying pan or wok
peanut oil or olive oil
2 cups of frozen or fresh stir fry mix
1 big onion chopped coarse
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced
Yo' Mama's Flava Salt
dried basil
Maggi



On medium low heat:

Cover the bottom of the pan with oil. put in onions and garlic. This is the trick - just heat the onions and garlic slowly until the onions are transparent. It doesn't look like anything is happening, but the flavors are being coaxed out of them and saturating the oil, which will soon cover and enhance the flavors of the veggies.

Turn the heat up to medium high, dump in the vegetables and keep stirring. Dust with Flava Salt and sprinkle with dried basil. When the vegetables are cooked to a kind of tender crunch, spritz with a few dashes of Maggi to taste.

FF