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This weekend was frustrating for a lot of reasons that don't really make sense to anybody but me, and all the reasons seemed to tie into each other and make it impossible for me to come up with any decent solutions. So I spent a lot more of the weekend than necessary going GRRR.
( Cut for whining about the universe not arranging itself to please me )
I did, however, make some very pleasant orzo and chickpea salad, and started it by cooking my own chickpeas. I've been sort of wary of cooking my own beans since the last time I made 14-bean soup, because half of the beans disintegrated and I ended up with random-beans-in-mush-that-tastes-like-lentils soup (and I hate lentils). But I bought a fairly enormous bag of dried chickpeas last time I went to Watertown, since they were cheap. Soaked overnight, boiled for two minutes and simmered for about 45 minutes, they're just about perfect.
I also put roasted grape tomatoes in the salad, so between cooking chickpeas for 45 minutes and roasting grape tomatoes for two hours, it was a bit of a process. (But worth it. Roasted grape tomatoes are one of my current favorite things.) Besides chickpeas and tomatoes and orzo, the salad has feta and parsley and dill and lemon juice and olive oil and a lot of black pepper in it. I meant to put scallions in too, but I forgot I had bought them. I guess I'll have to make something else with scallions in it.
Speaking of which, theoretically the Coolidge Corner farmers' market has started again. I ought to remember that. (And now I want cucumber and tomato salad with scallions and mint and parsley. Maybe I'll do that later this week when it's supposed to be HOT.) I hope the smoked-fish guy with the scallop pate is back there this year; last year I found him at the SoWa market, but that's a REALLY long hike from Brighton.
( Cut for whining about the universe not arranging itself to please me )
I did, however, make some very pleasant orzo and chickpea salad, and started it by cooking my own chickpeas. I've been sort of wary of cooking my own beans since the last time I made 14-bean soup, because half of the beans disintegrated and I ended up with random-beans-in-mush-that-tastes-like-lentils soup (and I hate lentils). But I bought a fairly enormous bag of dried chickpeas last time I went to Watertown, since they were cheap. Soaked overnight, boiled for two minutes and simmered for about 45 minutes, they're just about perfect.
I also put roasted grape tomatoes in the salad, so between cooking chickpeas for 45 minutes and roasting grape tomatoes for two hours, it was a bit of a process. (But worth it. Roasted grape tomatoes are one of my current favorite things.) Besides chickpeas and tomatoes and orzo, the salad has feta and parsley and dill and lemon juice and olive oil and a lot of black pepper in it. I meant to put scallions in too, but I forgot I had bought them. I guess I'll have to make something else with scallions in it.
Speaking of which, theoretically the Coolidge Corner farmers' market has started again. I ought to remember that. (And now I want cucumber and tomato salad with scallions and mint and parsley. Maybe I'll do that later this week when it's supposed to be HOT.) I hope the smoked-fish guy with the scallop pate is back there this year; last year I found him at the SoWa market, but that's a REALLY long hike from Brighton.
