Tag Archives: chickpeas

Book Review: My New Roots by Sarah Britton

I have a fairly large, and getting bigger, collection of books dedicated to natural and vegetarian cooking. Before selecting this book, I did a bit of research into what it would add to my library: Sarah Britton is the lady behind My New Roots, a blog, recipe site, and now book dedicated to what she calls “all-inclusive” […]

Cooking with Chef Watson

A few months ago my friend and I had a our first play with the beta version of IBM’s Chef Watson. However, at that stage….. it was mostly a case of “Go home Watson… You’re drunk”, after the recipes told us to “de-bone” the tofu, or take something and cook it in 2/3 “Theutes”….. Yep. We […]

Lemony Smoked Paprika Hummous

Work really gets in the way of my life. Well…. that, and that we went to Switzerland last weekend…………………….. ……………..and did some skiing, and for the first time in 3 visits…. I did not come back with an injury! Wooo! (previously I have hurt my shoulder, and then the next time we went I caught […]

Rose Elliot’s Spiced Chickpea and Potato Pasties

I have been a little lax in updating recently, but to be honest, I haven’t had anything to post. A combination of working on something fairly large (that I can’t update until complete because it’s a secret! Shhhh!), and being poorly sick last week (was almost sick in the street while walking home from work, […]

Today I had to go to work…. but made Falafel!

I got some new books this week, and fancied trying something new from one of them. Recipe of choice? Isa Chandra Moskowitz’ Baked Falafel. Very simple, it involved a tin of chickpeas, onion, garlic, olive oil and chopped parsley pureed together, added to gram flour and some spices, formed into patties and baked. ————————————————————————————- Baked […]