Roasted red pepper and chickpea soup with mint
This soup’s story starts with me and Emily, last Saturday, going to a new-to-us brunch place. Our plan was to walk down to the cafe in question, then over to the nearby K-Mart to buy Christmas lights, then up to Psarakos Grocery (the big fat Greek fruit-and-veg mecca on High St), then home again: a...
Mediterranean chickpea and kale soup
This is just one of my many variations on onion-tomato-legumes-greens. The base recipe is just those four ingredients, and you can vary the beans (chickpeas, lentils, cannellini, borlotti) and the greens (spinach, chard, silverbeet, kale), not to mention the texture and what it’s served with, to make endless variations on a meal that is almost...
Chickpea, pumpkin, and Israeli couscous stew
This is my entry for Presto Pasta Nights, hosted this week by Chaya at Sweet & Savory. I make a variation of this vegetarian, North-African-inspired stew quite often, but this time it’s a little different because I decided to add Israeli couscous directly to the mix to make a one-dish meal. Unlike the better-known tiny...
Tonight’s dinner: herbed couscous with chickpeas and baked sweet potato
This is one of the many variations I have on the general theme of tabbouleh. Basically we’re talking about some kind of grain, a bunch of parsley, and whatever else seems like a good idea. In this case: 1 cup couscous, soaked in 1 cup boiling water with a slurp of olive oil 1 can...
Hummus bi tahina
What we call “hummus” is generally the tahini-enhanced kind; in the middle east, apparently, all chickpea purees are called that, and they name them more specifically based on the additional ingredients. Anyway, as part of my resolution to cook from every one of my cookbooks this year, I made the “Hummus bi tahina” recipe from...
Chickpea, pumpkin, and spinach curry
Crossposted from this old LJ post. This is one of the posts where I break down the cost of a meal I cooked. 1/2 large pumpkin, 30c (dad says the whole pumpkin cost 59c) 2 tins chickpeas, $1.98 1 huge bunch spinach, $2 1 large tin (800g) tomatoes ($1.45) 1 sachet tomato paste (4 for...
