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Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Roasted Sweet Potato. This is one of the best ways I have found to eat sweet potatoes. You simply cook them like a baking potato and serve with any number of toppings. I listed my favorites including an onion that is...

Breakfast Salad

Breakfast Salad. This salad is not limited to Breakfast, but I like it then. You can make it many ways. Baby Arugula is now available at the Sanger WallMart, so I like that for the greens, but you could go with iceberg...

Smokey Cajun Cauliflower Soup

Smokey Cajun Cauliflower Soup. A very simple soup that can be made with different spices, but the original recipe used Cajun spices. I have fallen for za’atar, the savory Middle-Eastern spice that is a blend of...

Gersang's Stirfry.

Gesang’s Stir-fry (Non-Vegetarian option)

Gesang’s Stirfry. This is absolutely the best way to do stir-fry. Gesang Suolang Rinpoche often prepared it when she cooked at the temple. She doesn’t really use a recipe, but this is roughly how she does it...

Sonya’s Baked and Stuffed Apples

We have a lot of apples at the temple and this is one of Sonya’s favorite ways of serving them. They are very nice for breakfast on a cold winter morning. The last time she fixed them, I think she added coco or...

Why This Title for My Book?

Sculpture of Ānanda from Wat Khao Rup Chang, Songkhla, Thailand. Why use the expression “Thus Have I Seen (or Heard)”? It is said that Ananda, Shakyamuni Buddha’s cousin and attendant for His last twenty-five years on...