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Karinas Spicy Sweet Vegetarian Stir Fry Bliss

Retro veg yum.

This is a post about old school bliss- an easy  budget-friendly stir-fry for a weeknight. The recipe stems from my art school past. Why do I bring this up? Because last night we waxed nostalgic.

Over olives, a wedge of Parmesan, and a bottle of Chianti, Steve and I talked about our unencumbered days at art school. The late nights painting. The crazed friends. Midnight movies at the Rialto. Jean Luc Godard. Truffaut. Fellini. 

And the loft parties- the drama of almost meeting Warhol (he never showed up; he was famous for it).

We talked about all that longing and envy and art student poverty mingling in a passionate virtual eddy of sensing we were a part of something big, a tidal push toward consciousness, toward peace and equality.

Sounds almost quaint, doesn't it?

Though my husband was in Chicago and I was in Washington, D.C. at the time our art student days were archetypally similar. And when painting brought us together more than fifteen years later we had an instant shorthand, a shared lexicon of idealism and curiosity seasoned with an ego-checking love of irony and humor.

Two hearts unwilling to live in quiet desperation for a paycheck. An appreciation of small pleasures. Stacks of books by the bed. Years later, we still connect over ideas. We still become animated discussing film. Or music. Or books. So I made a brown rice stir-fry.

Art school style.


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