spanish-style potatoes and chickpeas

Heat, salt, fat, booze. Tapas is my spirit animal.

burmese shan tofu, fried

Only you reading this can call me on it when I nod as if I've always known and say "Well, chickpea tofu? That's so Burmese."

hummous

Just a suggestion, more than a recipe, because the best hummous you have will be the one that suits your taste.

vegetarian kibbe

Filling, flavourful and special in appearance too, all golden and presented family-style in a casserole dish.

boston lettuce with oven-dried olives, feta and roasted chickpeas

For this, my new favourite salad, you dry out already sun-dried olives and you opt for roasted chickpeas instead of nuts--because they're way nuttier. And then you plow your way through way more of it than you could imagine.

vadais

A Sri Lankan snack, fried, scented with curry leaves and flavoured with onions and only a scattering of fennel and cumin seeds.

winter stew

I love this stew James has been making...the paprika and Dijon keeps it from being bland or expected.

warm chickpea salad with sesame dressing

i was skeptical of this recipe. black olives and sesame butter? really? did i mention the chili oil? the mint?

the comfort of gourmet

 this picture above is of a "tunisian soup with chard and egg noodles" that i made with fresh harissa paste. i found this recipe from gourmet ma...

a random bite of panelle

my mother, whose food i love, made a recipe of lidia bastianich's, whose food i love. which resulted in love on a plate. panelle, i learned from my mother,...

chickpea fry (with coconut and green chilies)

"We call it kadala back home" which translates to "chickpeas"...lucky for you I can break this down a little more.

paris day 11: angelina’s and king falafel

(this one's for elena) hot chocolate at angelina's is not at all like typical north american hot chocolate, which used to taste good until i had t...