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Apr 9

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Bhutan Red Rice with Chickpeas & Currants

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The other night I decided what to make for dinner around 5 o’clock. For someone who likes having a plan, that was late. A bag of chickpeas was thawing the in the fridge, so I made half a batch of hummus and then had to do something with the rest.  Flipping to the index in the Jerusalem cookbook there it was, Basmati and Wild Rice with Chickpeas, Currants and Herbs. I went to the cupboard.  No wild rice. Just as well, I wasn’t gonna wait around for 45 minutes for it to cook anyway. Currants?  Check.  Herbs? Well, cilantro.  Close enough. Time to riff.

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Jun 21

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Antipasti Party: Insalata di Farro e Ceci (Chickpeas & Farro, Yo!)


I keep the weather in other cities on my phone just to torture myself. Right now the line up is: home, Victoria, BC; San Francisco; Sydney; San Diego; Denver; and Arezzo. We went to Italy two years ago and Arezzo still hasn’t been deleted from the list. It’s in the low 90s, high 80s this week in Arezzo, just a tad too hot, but still the idea of sitting out under a pergola, looking out into a valley in Tuscany as the sun dips beneath the horizon, sipping a little pinot grigio, with a little antipasti…well, that sounds like dinner.
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Mar 20

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Rustic Tuscan Chickpea Soup

Oh, humble chickpea, when we met at the Sizzler salad bar when I was seven, you were called garbanzo beans, and you were just an alternative to kidney beans in my salad. Little did I know that around the world, other cultures were doing you so much more justice in dal or falafel or hummus. But over the years, we’ve become good friends you and I, and it might just be because of soup.
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Sep 5

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Falafel on the Fly


After a huge brekky Sunday morning at Skillet (more on that later this week), lunch was pretty much out of the question and even the burgers I’d planned on for dinner seemed a stretch. Then I thought, what about a veggie burger…what about falafel?
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