Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'chickpeas'
Roasted Chickpeas
Let me say right off the bat: this is not a great recipe. It has the potential to be a great recipe--I really wanted it to be a great recipe--but as it stands right now, it's in need of some serious tweaking. And that tweaking may just be the simple addition of a Tablespoon of olive oil, but I'm getting ahead of myself....
Barcelona's Best Bites
How do you sum up a city's food in one post? It's an impossible task, and one I can't even pretend to set out to do. I considered splitting this up into multiple posts--one on tapas, one on Bistronomics (a new restaurant trend in Barcelona, where high-end restaurants serve multiple courses for reasonable prices)--but ultimately I thought it would be more useful to you, and more manageable for me, just to pick the best bites from our trip. What you're about to see represents the best food we ate in one of the world's great food cities: Barcelona, Spain. If you're planning a trip there soon, you may want to follow our lead....
Chickpea Salad
Cheap and easy: that's my new motto (and reputation), especially at lunch. Yes--times are hard, even for your friendly Amateur Gourmet. "But you just went to Momofuku Ko," you might say and I'd say back, "Yes, and wiped myself clean!" Especially now that I've done my taxes: to quote my rabbi, "Oy!" No more lunches out, then: from now on it's sandwiches and leftovers. And the occasional chickpea salad like the one you see above....
Orangette's Butternut Squash and Chickpea Salad with Tahini
Going through old pictures, just now, I found the picture you see above and smacked my lips at the memory: "Hey!" my brain sang out. "That's that delicious butternut squash and chickpea salad with tahini you made from Orangette's website." According to the picture, I made this on December 19th. So please follow this link to Orangette's recipe (it's an adapted recipe, so lets not give her ALL the credit) and take a picture, date it, and bury it away so you can have the same experience I just had. Then make it again as I plan to make it again quite soon....
