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hummus
"pickled" eggplant with feta
dipping veggies- carrot, zucchini, and radishes
whole wheat pita
This hummus recipe is based on one from Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food, although I have a feeling she would not approve of my using canned chick peas. Sorry Alice! She recommends adding some of the bean cooking liquid if you want to thin out the texture, but since in my case that would have meant the juice from the can (and you know how I feel about that) I just added some extra olive oil and lemon juice to compensate.
ingredients:
1 16oz can chick peas
1/4 cup tahini
2 cloves garlic finely chopped
1/4 cup lemon juice (one lemon)
1/4 cup olive oil
cumin and cayenne pepper to taste
Mix in food processor until smooth.
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Phil made this eggplant last time I was over for dinner and I've been meaning to try it since. It's an easy way to make a pickled tasting side in a few minutes. That being said, the flavor does get better the longer it sits. My mid week lunch definitely tasted better then the first day I made it. Now that I know how simple this is, I have plans to try this with some other veggies soon. Next up, mushrooms!
2 cups water
1 cup red wine vinegar
3 cloves garlic
1 medium eggplant
red pepper flakes and olive oil to taste
Cut eggplant into medium sized slices (about 1 1/2 inch thick)
Bring water, vinegar and garlic to boil in large pot
Add as much eggplant as can all be submerged in the liquid. Cook for around 10 or until eggplant is soft, stirring from time to time making sure the eggplant cooks evenly.
Remove eggplant with slotted spoon and put in mixing bowl to cool
Repeat until all eggplant is cooked. It took two batches for me
Once eggplant has cooled add olive oil and red pepper to taste
Marry me. No, seriously. I'll do all the dishes.
ReplyDeleteLet's just get a dishwasher. You can be in charge of building a color coded spreadsheet of our groceries, weekly menu, nutritional information.. don't pretend like you don't already have one of these already.
ReplyDeleteI do have this actually. At the bottom is a spot for various workouts and calories burned, and then under that = formula subtracting calories burned from calories ingested... Sigh. It's hard to be me. Dishwasher it is!!
ReplyDeleteUm...well I was thinking something a little more fun. If you tried to pull that with me I would probably end up writing something like, "CARROT CAKE 4 EVA" in giant letters across the whole thing. Come to think of it, can I have access to your files please?
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