Recipe Chickpeas (garbanzo beans) canned Olive oil Salt Cayenne Pepper Drain the chickpeas. Toss them with a little olive oil, salt & cayenne pepper. Roast in a single layer on a cookie sheet for about 1 hour at 400°. Occasionally shake cookie sheet to turn. You can eat 3 times the amount of these for [...]
For me, it really doesn’t matter what kind of bean it is. Every bean has it’s theme! When I make things with garbanzo beans (chickpeas) I think SPAIN. When I cook with black beans I think
We scrimped and saved for this meal to share with our friends and it was worth it! Here are some photos below. It was an American Thanksgiving with a few splashes of Spain added. 15 of our best-est Spanish & Brazilian buddies came to the house.
Suppose harder times hit us. Would we be prepared? Could we eat nutritionally if we only had $10 a week (or 10€)? Just to make this easy, lets pretend that the USD and the EURO are at parity. I’ll be using $ in this exercise. I’d love to hear how YOU would do it & [...]
What an interesting little book this is: Originally published in 1832, this extraordinary manual for the homemaker of modest means is far more than a mere “cookbook.” Here is a quote: “The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up all the fragments, so that nothing be lost. I mean fragments of [...]