Indian Style Chickpeas Recipe

When Is My Blog Burning #19 was announced I started looking for vegan recipes and what I found was a lot of fake food. Fake meat, fake milk, fake cheese, even fake bacon. That just made me sad. If people want to eat fake stuff, so be it, but not me! So I turned to a cuisine that has a lot of vegetarian and vegan food and there's nothing fake about it. Indian food. Besides all the fakery, the other problem with vegan food can be finding a way to get protein. Without protein a meal can feel less than satisfying. Fortunately beans make a terrific vegan friendly protein option so I went with that. In Indian cuisine you sometimes see the name chole and other times kabuli chana or channa. Same thing. Garbanzo beans. Also known as chickpeas or ceci beans. In addition to being a good protein source, chickpeas are also high in manganese, folate, copper, phosphorus, iron and dietary fiber making them very healthy indeed. While relatively mild-flavored, chickpeas are slightly nutty ......

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Zucchini Mint Soup Recipe & meme

I've been tagged to participate in the latest meme by Gastronomie . This one instructs bloggers to do the following: 1. Delve into your blog archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. 5. Tag five people to do the same. "Or laziness." That was the 5th line of the 23rd post of this blog. The post had to do with not cooking. Not cooking is something I can relate to right now because I am nursing a cold. My energy and appetite are below normal. Soup seems like a lazy food to me, especially when cooking is a bother. Of course soup takes some effort to make but after that it is easily reheated. Lucky for me I like soup for breakfast, lunch or dinner. So here is a recipe that uses something I have too much of at the moment, zucchini. This is my absolute favorite recipe using zucchini and is closely adapted from a recipe by Peter Gordon fro......

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Go ahead, says David Lebovitz, have a croissant . This week we got the good news that a croissant may be healthier than baguette, butter and jam. Who knew? If you're looking for a way to turn a croissant into a luscious dessert, She Who Eats offers up a terrific idea for a croissant topped with roasted fruit. Check it out here . Is it possible to ever have enough posts about Pierre Herme? I think not! Check out the Autumn/Winter Collection of Pierre Herme Desires at Movable-Feast . Finally a little plug for a new blog that is sponsoring yet another online event, I like 'em spicy . What do you expect from a blog called Hooked on Heat ?...

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Masa's: Restaurant Review

Recently I got a chance to eat dinner at Masa's. So I was a bit surprised when the San Francisco Chronicle reviewed what they consider to be "four star dining". Masa's was left off the list. Unlike the Chronicle reviewer, I was "wowed" by more than a few dishes. So much so that I thought I'd write up my own review. It's online over at SF Station today. In my review I concentrated on the positives, there really wasn't much to find wrong. Even what I might have criticized was no big deal. For example the delicious cranberry bean soup with prosciutto foam. It was the kind of hearty soup you want in a mug, not a demitasse cup and the texture of the foam was lost as a cap to the thick puree. Here are photos of my favorite dishes from the six course tasting menu Lee and I enjoyed a little over a month ago. White corn agnolotti with mascarpone: fresh white corn and parmesan accented with summer truffles and truffle oil Lamb belly served ......

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