Posted by: AM on: July 30, 2009
Oddly for a vegetarian, W is not keen on pasta. It’s nutritionally indistinguishable from white bread, she complains. She is bemused by the way it’s embraced by people who would look down their noses at a supermarket shopping basket full of processed white bread. But this is just a little pasta (vermicelli to be precise), [...]
Posted by: AM on: August 26, 2008
We lost our internet connection last week. Chorus took ten days to send an operative, who solved the problem in exactly two minutes by removing an illegal cable splitter that someone had apparently installed outside our house, which was weakening our signal and cutting off our broadband connection. The ten day delay led to much [...]
Posted by: AM on: May 10, 2008
I saw a few days ago on Smittenkitchen a recipe for a roast cauliflower and bean salad, which she had adapted from somewhere else. She seemed distinctly underwhelmed by the salad. I don’t particularly like kidney beans, and even the beautiful photography on her site couldn’t make this look mouthwatering. I did not want to [...]
Posted by: AM on: April 20, 2008
This is one of our staples. We’ve been eating it about once a week for the whole of winter, and I haven’t got tired of it yet. Wendy cobbled the recipe together from lots of different sources, often involving radical substitutions like chickpeas instead of chicken, so the original recipes would not really be recognisable. [...]
Posted by: AM on: April 20, 2008
This was the first time I made falafel, which is surprising, because it pushes all my buttons. It’s cheap, even considering the sudden 25 cent increase in the price of a can of chickpeas at Cork’s health food shop at the English market. The principal ingredients are onion, chickpeas and flour. There’s nothing to it. [...]
Posted by: AM on: March 23, 2008
I cooked these bean pancakes today. They were good, wholesome and cheap. I won’t mention the cookbook I got this from because the recipe did not work at all until I added flour and eggs, and I think that makes it different enough to not give creative credit to someone else. Anyway, very tasty.
Black-eye Bean [...]
Posted by: AM on: March 1, 2008
This is delicious. The recipe is from Madhur Jaffrey’s world vegetarian cookbook. The magic ingredient is hot smoked paprika. It cooks down to a beautiful hot, nutty, smokey, spinachey dry stew, I suppose you could say. I’m having it for lunch today with some toasted pittas. It makes a great tapas.
Chick peas with spinach
2 400g [...]
