What are you cooking now?

[french frank]

But not if cooking Tortilla Espanola........

No, I think they get cooked anyway. I eat eggs even less frequently than potato.

Does anyone know whether chickpea flour, say in socca/farinata, counts as one of your 5 a day veggies? Chickpeas do, even dried ones, but wheatflour is starch, like potatoes, rice, pasta.

[teamsaint]

No, I think they get cooked anyway. I eat eggs even less frequently than potato.

Does anyone know whether chickpea flour, say in socca/farinata, counts as one of your 5 a day veggies? Chickpeas do, even dried ones, but wheatflour is starch, like potatoes, rice, pasta.

Yep, that's pretty much how I do Tortilla. Took me loads of goes to get it how I like it.

I count chocolate raisins as half of one of my five a day, so chickpea flour should be in , though it probably isn't.

[french frank]

Yep, that's pretty much how I do Tortilla. Took me loads of goes to get it how I like it.

I count chocolate raisins as half of one of my five a day, so chickpea flour should be in , though it probably isn't.

Thinking about it, I think you/I could use gram flour batter instead of eggs with that recipe. It would make a richer socca to cut a wedge of. But you might have to finish it off by baking it in the oven for 30 minutes.

[cloughie]

No, I think they get cooked anyway. I eat eggs even less frequently than potato.

Does anyone know whether chickpea flour, say in socca/farinata, counts as one of your 5 a day veggies? Chickpeas do, even dried ones, but wheatflour is starch, like potatoes, rice, pasta.

I think that if chickpea flour is finely ground pure chickpeas then it should count as hummus does providing your portion includes at least three heaped tablespoons of chickpeas. I have just put a cassoulet into the slow cooker - I could not get any dried haricots in either Sainsburys or Tesco yesterday so hopefully the 100g or so I had left, of indeterminate age will not have been too dry, and I will boost them later into the cook with a tin.

[richardfinegold]

Yes it has, we arrived in Minneapolis on Sunday and leave tomorrow. I have the impression that Minneapolis (which I visited briefly once before) is quite a cultural centre for an American city of its size. I didn't take in any concerts apart from the ones I was directly involved in (one in each of the twin cities!), but there's plenty going on to be sure.

The Twin Cities have always been a cultural center.
I livened up our Thanksgiving meal by making Aloo Gobi and adding it to our vegetable potpourri. I followed the recipe exactly but the ginger seemed to leave quite an after kick. I still have a house full of guests and they have, locust like, eaten every scrap of food from what seemed at the beginning of the week to be an impossible over abundance. They don’t leave until tomorrow. I think I will herd them to an Italian restaurant tonight as my wife and I are tired of both cooking and turkey left overs.
Wednesday night I made cod cakes, similar to crab cakes but substituting a cheaper and healthier fish. Delicious, but very labor intensive,and another food difficult to get the right consistency; I went through an extra pound of pinko bread crumbs

[teamsaint]

Using the last leftover veg before the Xmas shop, swede and carrot soup with smoked paprika.

Not overly confident, but we'll see.....

Schnittke and some white plonk to go with.

[french frank]

Using the last leftover veg before the Xmas shop, swede and carrot soup with smoked paprika.

Quelle coincidence

'Tis the season to be soup-making. Yesterday I made an HF-W cannellini bean and leek soup, drizzled with chili olive oil; today I've added carrot, onion and the top of a sprout stalk to the pot to serve this evening on garlic rubbed sourdough slices as ribollita. With Coop pinto Gigli-oh. Should last another couple of days.

[teamsaint]

Quelle coincidence

'Tis the season to be soup-making. Yesterday I made an HF-W cannellini bean and leek soup, drizzled with chili olive oil; today I've added carrot, onion and the top of a sprout stalk to the pot to serve this evening on garlic rubbed sourdough slices as ribollita. With Coop pinto Gigli-oh. Should last another couple of days.

Yours sounds better than mine !!

We were given two H F-W books in the summer, one veg and one fruit. The couple of things we have cooked from the veg book have been very good. Just checked, and it must be the same book as yours, as it has the cannellini bean soup. Will give that a try.

[french frank]

We were given two H F-W books in the summer, one veg and one fruit. The couple of things we have cooked from the veg book have been very good. Just checked, and it must be the same book as yours, as it has the cannellini bean soup. Will give that a try.

Yes, it was the veg book. I love some of his soup finishes, like the (home made) chili oil, or dry-roasted flaked almonds, or crisped-up sage leaves.

I love hearty soups, but my particular preference (eccentricity?) is that I like the liquid to be thin, consommé texture, not thickened or pureed, and the vegetables to be al dente, even the beans. No mushiness. I made a vegetable stock too which normally I think of as a bit wasteful - and like HF-W throw in a veggie stock cube.

[Keraulophone]

With lots of game at the butcher, I thought a terrine would go down well. Pigeon, partridge, pheasant, duck, chicken livers, layered with forcemeat and asparagus, pancetta, brandy, juniper, sage, thyme, parsley. Nice to have maturing in the fridge for brunches; on toast with a glass of white burgundy of sufficient age.

[Stanfordian]

With lots of game at the butcher, I thought a terrine would go down well. Pigeon, partridge, pheasant, duck, chicken livers, layered with forcemeat and asparagus, pancetta, brandy, juniper, sage, thyme, parsley. Nice to have maturing in the fridge for brunches; on toast with a glass of white burgundy of sufficient age.

Hiya Keraulophone,

Not much there for the vegetarians, apart from asparagus soup with herbs: winkeye:

[Keraulophone]

Not much there for the vegetarians!

None in my household!

[Stanfordian]

None in my household!

Hiya Keraulophone,

In truth, I don't think that I've never met a vegetarian! I must have led a sheltered life.

[french frank]

Not much there for the vegetarians, apart from asparagus soup with herbs: winkeye:

Glass of white burgundy of sufficient age would go down well, even with vegetarians, I should think. I'm not a veggie - I just don't often eat meat.

[Keraulophone]

All wrapped up.