chickpeas

Recipe: Smoky Tomato Chickpea Soup

October 8, 2010

One of the perks for working with Cuisine Canada on the upcoming Canadian Culinary Book Awards is that you actually look forward to the planning sessions since they tend to be potluck. One of the drawbacks? Go to enough meetings and you’ll get fat. A potluck with serious foodies often means serious calories. Fortunately, there [...]

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Felafels

March 12, 2010

First off, I apologize for the photo. There is just no way I can make this dish look sexy. Like refried beans, a felafel is one of those ugly foods to be eaten only with good friends who know less-than-flattering things about you and like you anyway. The recipe comes from The Desert Rose Cafe [...]

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Vegetable Tagine

January 28, 2010

In the comment section recently, Leslie asked about eggplant. She’s tired of it drowned in tomato sauce or swimming in oil. Joe Girard of Rouxbe Online Cooking School provided some great answers, but even his professional advice didn’t get me off the hook. I’d promised Leslie I’d look into other ways of cooking it, and [...]

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Roasted Chickpeas

January 29, 2009

When you get a flash of genius for something like, say… caramel coated chickpeas — and can’t find a single hit on Google under the term, don’t take this as a challenge. Take this as a hint. There is a reason no one makes them. I’ve seen the evidence. Right in my kitchen. The moisture [...]

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