garbanzo beans

Pasta With Chickpeas, Celery and Parsley. Serves 4 Spring is the perfect time to make this dish; it's when locally grown celery shows up at farmers markets. Regardless of the season, use the freshest celery you can find – and don't be sh...

Have you ever gone in search of an easy, healthy snack you can serve quickly when friends show up unexpectedly? I think we all have. This is a recipe that really comes in handy for that or just to have when popcorn just won’t do. The flavor is di...

On Wednesday night, we created our own recipe for mutton curry.  It was so delicious, I thought I'd try to share the recipe.  Enjoy!Mutton CurryIngredients2 lbs boneless mutton shoulder - trimmed and cut into 1" cubes4 cups lamb or chicken br...

Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes Serves: 5 Roasting brings out full, deep flavors in vegetables such as winter squashes. Surprisingly, it does the same thing for chickpeas. The chickpeas become toasty, slightly dried and d...

It must be "baby season" again. Seems like a lot of my friends are welcoming little bundles of joy into their lives this summer. One of my girl friends, Susan, just had her first baby so my friend Rose and I made arrangements to visit and bri...

Serves 3-4 Good enough for company, fast and easy enough for weekday meals, this can be made with whatever greens are available. INGREDIENTS 2 medium onions, peeled and chopped 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 1...

Spring Salad With Fresh Chickpeas, Chive Flowers and Feta.Spring salad with fresh chickpeas, chive flowers and feta Serves 6 In Asian markets, garlic chives are often referred to as Chinese chives. Mature ones develop podlike buds at the...

Although you wouldn't know it by the murky weather we've been having, the first day of spring was a week ago. It might still be a bit chilly to bust out the shorts and BBQ but you can make a batch of this delicious, fresh garbanzo bean&n...

I love it when I find forgotten treasures in my refrigerator. Well, not necessarily forgotten; just sort of… misplaced in my head.  I was pretty sure I’d purchased kale recently and almost twice as sure that I had eaten it because I couldn’t find it anywhere in my fridge.  But when I was tidying...

Yeah, I suppose you could call it red pepper hummus, but it’s not really a hummus—-there’s no tahini and really, it started out as a red pepper dip that I ended up dumping chickpeas into at the last minute.  Ah, there’s nothing like improvisation.  I suppose I could just keep my trap shut and...