Happy Accidents - A Kaeng Raeng Inspired Recipe

So last night's dinner on my first day of my Kaeng Raeng "easing-in" cleanse, inspired a new recipe. I chopped up a bunch of garlic, put it in the pan on top of some hot olive oil to crisp it up. I was about to throw in some edamame - a delicious, nutritious recipe I copied from Sea Fresh Restaurant in Oxnard, when I realized not only does Kaeng Raeng recommend "raw vegetables" (as opposed to cooked) while on the cleanse, but my edamame had also gone bad. Well, hey, I was easing in anyway - so had they been good, I might have gone with it. But seeing as they were rotten, I tossed them in the trash can and stared at all that beautifully fresh garlic I had painstakingly chopped and thrown in olive oil to no avail. I looked for other veggies in the fridge that I could saute, but all my staples (spinach, broccoli) that would work were absent. So I referred back to the cleanse I was suppose to be on and made a raw salad of broccoli sprouts, alfalfa and clover sprouts, cilantro, tomato, mushroom, red onion and avocado. I then took my crispy garlic olive oil mix and poured it on top. (Okay, I realize that raw garlic would have been more on point sans the olive oil to be truly strict to Kaeng Raeng's cleanse, but how can you go wrong with even cooked garlic-a rich anti-inflamatory that increases antioxidant levels, and olive oil, which is full of omega 3s?) Anyway, it turned out to be a delicious idea, even without the cracked pepper and sea salt I would have sprinkled on top on a "normal" day. I will definitely do this again. I love when a new diet truly inspires my kitchen, makes me create and try things I wouldn't have otherwise, and especially when it adds a healthy, delicious, nutritious recipe to my repertoire.