Food that is good

[sansets]

My darling sdwolfpup is going on a switchy diet. I like cooking and rather enjoy talking with people about food, so it seemed only natural to poke around and see if I could find any recipes that might work for this new diet of hers! I've attempted to arrange them by order of difficulty cooking. I have made the first four - the risotto and the curried shrimp

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[isiscolo]

Dried chickpeas soaked overnight and then cooked works fine - I wouldn't just soak and use them. (I use a pressure cooker, so it's easy for me, but it takes probably an hour and a half with a regular pot.) I love to eat hummus as a dip with raw veggies, especially carrots, which seem to really mesh flavors beautifully.

And I first read the name of the second recipe as "Garlic Rubber Chicken." :-) In the third, I see no roasted red pepper - red bells do take on a lovely flavor when roasted first (and they are yummy to add to hummus!) but I don't think you actually need to do so for this recipe, it looks fine as is, but, you know, truth in advertising. :-)

[sansets]

*laughs* This is why writing things down is key! My friend who gave me the recipe mentioned something about soaking the chickpeas back when I got it from him a month ago, but neglected to mention the cooking part of it. Thank god I am lazy and always use canned! Garlic Rubber Chicken either sounds like a practical joke that one might play on a teacher in grade school! Or possibly a bad sitcom gag - I can't quite decide which ... :o)

In the third, I see no roasted red pepper

... you know, it sounds fancier? *g* In all seriousness, we clipped that recipe from the newspaper back when I was in grade school and the incarnation that I just typed up from the recipe card has been modified so much that the original might have had roasted bell peppers, and I would never know! (And yet somehow the name stuck.) I think I am going to go back and modify that - thanks for the catch!

[sdwolfpup]

Oh my gosh. You are like Sansets Claus! This is amazing, thank you so much, sweetie!

[sansets]

You are more than welcome! What can I say, this was actually really fun - I don't usually get an excuse to just spend time looking through my recipes. :-D

[nos4a2no9]

Mmmm, those recipes look delicious! It's never occurred to me to make my own hummus, but I guess it's just that easy! (That would be the slogan of your cooking show, if you had a cooking show. Start thinking of a possible title, 'kay?)

And the garlic chicken rub sounds delicious too, as does the beans and rice. I'm going to try some of these!

Side note: what kind of diet doesn't let you eat mushrooms?

[sansets]

Sansets Says! Cooking Fun Hour with Sansets! ... why is it that all of my names for possible cooking shows sound like the side results on a google search? I think I am just destined to have a cooking show with a sucky name. (But it really is Just That Easy! Maybe that is the real name for this cooking show)

Oh noes! If you make the beans and rice, know that I kind of screwed up when typing, and it is actually two TEASPOONS of Cajun seasoning, not TABLESPOONS. /0\ That would be oh so overwhelming on the spices! And the garlic rub chicken is kind of one of my favorite things ever. I was always in charge of dinner during high school and that was just so easy and yummy.

And I think that she is on some kind of a hypoallergenic diet, and since mushrooms are a common allergy, they are a no-no for the next six weeks. I think I would go stark raving looney with out them! I kind of love my fungus. *g*

[nos4a2no9]

I think that's a very respectable title for a cooking show. Although I do like, "Sansets Says!" too.

I will note the adjustment re: teaspoons :-) I was wondering about that one. And why were you responsible for the cooking during high school?

"I kind of love my fungus" is a LJ name waiting to happen!

[sansets]

And why were you responsible for the cooking during high school?

*giggles* Well, it was mostly self appointed. My dad is the adult in my family who can cook, but he travels a lot for his job. So after all of grade school and my mom alternating between tuna fish casserole and cereal for dinner, I decided that I would cook dinner, because I like to cook, and because one can only eat so many bowls of Cheerios before you want to throw the bowl at the wall! :-D

"I kind of love my fungus" is a LJ name waiting to happen!

I concur! But I really feel that it must have wacky punctuation to be a truly proper lj name. "I love! My fungus!" "I love my fungus!" "I ... love my fungus?" The possibilities are endless!