chickpeas Archive

  • And here’s the foodblog-a-round for the posts that most caught my eye in the last 7 days! Easter week yielded a lot of great posts about my favorite Easter goodies: Peeps! And the coolest “new” peeps development this year is the arrival of Peepshi. Full instructions at Serious Eats show how to combine Peeps with Rice Krispie Treats and Froot-by-the-Foot into colorfully sweet treats. Awesome. Simple Good and Tasty tells us where to get “homemade” Prariepeeps in gourmet flavors of Chocolate Heirloom and Coconut Vanilla. And Blondie and Brownie did ‘em up right with a great “Let My Peeple Go”...

    Foodblog-a-round: Week of 2010.03.29

    And here’s the foodblog-a-round for the posts that most caught my eye in the last 7 days! Easter week yielded a lot of great posts about my favorite Easter goodies: Peeps! And the coolest “new” peeps development this year is the arrival of Peepshi. Full instructions at Serious Eats show how to combine Peeps with Rice Krispie Treats and Froot-by-the-Foot into colorfully sweet treats. Awesome. Simple Good and Tasty tells us where to get “homemade” Prariepeeps in gourmet flavors of Chocolate Heirloom and Coconut Vanilla. And Blondie and Brownie did ‘em up right with a great “Let My Peeple Go”...

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  • This week I observed that the stock at Ciao Bella Gelateria on Shattuck in Berkeley was getting thinner and thinner and got down to the reason for it yesterday: they were closing. I stopped by yesterday and I’m sad I didn’t pick up one last treat (I would have if I had known it was their last day). Well, now there is just more excuse to make my own gelato. Since the hubby has been out of town I have cooked almost nothing (multiple pots of popcorn probably don’t count). But my mouth is still watering over the blog posts...

    Foodblog-a-round: Week of 2010.03.22

    This week I observed that the stock at Ciao Bella Gelateria on Shattuck in Berkeley was getting thinner and thinner and got down to the reason for it yesterday: they were closing. I stopped by yesterday and I’m sad I didn’t pick up one last treat (I would have if I had known it was their last day). Well, now there is just more excuse to make my own gelato. Since the hubby has been out of town I have cooked almost nothing (multiple pots of popcorn probably don’t count). But my mouth is still watering over the blog posts...

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  • Here we go, continuing our quest to cook our way through Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express with Winter recipe #89. The colors are really beautiful, and the combination of the beans, the meat and the toothsome pasta give it some heft as well. Not to mention the addition of the greens, which pretty much means nearly all the food groups are included. Multiple sources of protein and the potential to include whole grains? Healthy, tasty, and fast? (Don’t lecture me on whether the Italian sausage is healthy… substitute your sausage of choice, chicken or even fake sausage, as long as it’s...

    Pasta with Garbanzo Beans, Sausage and Greens

    Here we go, continuing our quest to cook our way through Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express with Winter recipe #89. The colors are really beautiful, and the combination of the beans, the meat and the toothsome pasta give it some heft as well. Not to mention the addition of the greens, which pretty much means nearly all the food groups are included. Multiple sources of protein and the potential to include whole grains? Healthy, tasty, and fast? (Don’t lecture me on whether the Italian sausage is healthy… substitute your sausage of choice, chicken or even fake sausage, as long as it’s...

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