Posts Tagged ‘chickpea’

Still doing the weekly reviews! I thought I posted the dish that’s in this post earlier this week, but I guess it didn’t go through. I’ve been trying to eat more veggies so my vegan books have been getting more use.

After loving Vegan with a Vengeance so much, I picked up Veganomicon without even looking through it. I have to admit that I don’t really use this book as often and had to make an effort to make something out of the book. I don’t think it’s as approachable as the first one and find a lot of the recipes require many ingredients or steps. I still regularly make items from the first book, but very few recipes I’ve tried in this book seem to repeat worthy. I have yet to make any of the desserts, so maybe that will change my mind.

The portion sizes in this book are rather large for me and what might serve 4-6 people would really be 8-10. This is another draw back for me as we only have 2 people in this household, but I wouldn’t hold this as a negative for the book, it was never meant to serve on a small scale.

Amazon is giving rave reviews on this book, so if there’s a must try recipe, please let me know!

I made Chickpeas Romesco from Veganomicon. The recipe makes a ginormous batch for 2 people. We ate this dish for what seemed like forever. I liked it, but R didn’t find it “flavourful” enough. I thought this could be a repeat recipe, but he nixed that idea saying I’ve made better things. This is a very hearty and saucy dish so be sure to serve this with some rice or even pasta.

Recipe here.

It seems Fall is the new Summer around here and it’s been kind of chilly at times. With cooler weather I think of tea, soup, and knitting.

This chickpea soup from French Taste was very quick and easy. I didn’t have dried chickpeas on hand so I used canned instead. Instead of regular paprika I used smoked and it really came through. Topped with a swirl of olive oil and the dish was very yummy indeed.

Recipe here.