I had the most frustrating experience today. I got home from work and all the after school rigmarole at 5:17 and needed to produce dinner.
I made chick peas yesterday in the instant pot (30 minutes with a teaspoon of salt) for our famous all the greens (recipe later) and was planning to make spicy chick peas - with the leftovers - and roasted veg and couscous tonight but COULD. NOT. FIND. THE. RECIPE.
Since I have a New York Times Cooking subscription and felt certain that the recipe was housed there, I popped into my recipe box and searched "spicy chick peas" but the right recipe was nowhere to be found... I tried "spicy garbanzo", "spicy chickpeas", "roasted tomatoes, peppers, onion" to no avail. Nothing. I spent ten minutes trying multiple configurations of spicy and chick pea. Nothing.
After abandoning the Times, I went to Google, typed in "spicy chick pea tomato pepper" and came up with EXACTLY the recipe I'd been looking for. In the Times. It's called "Crispy Spiced Chickpeas With Peppers and Tomatoes"
I knew it was there. The algorithms aren't quite perfected yet.
Combine this with the fact that I was reading my journals from last year and came across a side dish we ate (kohlrabi apple salad) that I'd completely forgotten about (but loved at the time) and have no idea where the recipe lives.
I've decided I need a better way.
Thus, What We Ate: a seasonal reminder of dinner at our house
Tonight we ate Crispy Spiced Chickpeas (which only works in the search if chickpeas is one word) couscous and a chicken breast for my picky eater.
Modifications: I only used one large tomato. The jalapeños were rather shriveled and slightly moldy on the tips. The veg takes twice as long as the chickpeas in my oven. I can never remember the couscous liquid ratio. It's 1.5 cups of water (with a pinch of salt and glug of oil) to 1 cup couscous.
I used all the herbs (cilantro, mint, parsley, dill) and it was delicious. It almost tasted like a tiny bit of summer.
Tomorrow: Chicken Soup for One (times 4)
I made chick peas yesterday in the instant pot (30 minutes with a teaspoon of salt) for our famous all the greens (recipe later) and was planning to make spicy chick peas - with the leftovers - and roasted veg and couscous tonight but COULD. NOT. FIND. THE. RECIPE.
Since I have a New York Times Cooking subscription and felt certain that the recipe was housed there, I popped into my recipe box and searched "spicy chick peas" but the right recipe was nowhere to be found... I tried "spicy garbanzo", "spicy chickpeas", "roasted tomatoes, peppers, onion" to no avail. Nothing. I spent ten minutes trying multiple configurations of spicy and chick pea. Nothing.
After abandoning the Times, I went to Google, typed in "spicy chick pea tomato pepper" and came up with EXACTLY the recipe I'd been looking for. In the Times. It's called "Crispy Spiced Chickpeas With Peppers and Tomatoes"
I knew it was there. The algorithms aren't quite perfected yet.
Combine this with the fact that I was reading my journals from last year and came across a side dish we ate (kohlrabi apple salad) that I'd completely forgotten about (but loved at the time) and have no idea where the recipe lives.
I've decided I need a better way.
Thus, What We Ate: a seasonal reminder of dinner at our house
Tonight we ate Crispy Spiced Chickpeas (which only works in the search if chickpeas is one word) couscous and a chicken breast for my picky eater.
Modifications: I only used one large tomato. The jalapeños were rather shriveled and slightly moldy on the tips. The veg takes twice as long as the chickpeas in my oven. I can never remember the couscous liquid ratio. It's 1.5 cups of water (with a pinch of salt and glug of oil) to 1 cup couscous.
I used all the herbs (cilantro, mint, parsley, dill) and it was delicious. It almost tasted like a tiny bit of summer.
Tomorrow: Chicken Soup for One (times 4)
Meal menus/notes in your journals? Those are definitely not my genes - but I'm grateful YOU have them! (Sometimes - wish I did too :-)
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