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Over at My Little Kitchen, Cathy keeps coming up with wonderful ideas and projects to do. Recently, she started doing "Dining with the Bloggers", a weekly event in which she tries out a recipe from a fellow blogger - it can be any recipes that's tickled her fancy, and you know what? There are so many fantastic recipes out there, being posted every day by all you guys, and just not enough time to try them all out!
So I had been thinking to myself: Zarah, you know what? You're REALLY bad at actually trying new stuff. I mean, you might read about them, you might even comment and say, hey, that looks awesome - you might even read the recipe... But you seldom bookmark it. And you almost never, ever actually cook what's in the post. Maybe, if you have the recipe in a book you own yourself, but still... That's just not good enough. Zarah - GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!
What was I to do? There was only one thing I could do - I resolutely went to my g-mail account, and wrote Cathy a big, puppy-eyed e-mail, asking her if I could please, please join her in her Dining with the Bloggers project. And you know what? She said I could! YAY!!!
I therefore present to you, as invented by Cathy of My Little Kitchen: Dining with the Bloggers at Cathy's and Zarah's. Cathy's been kind enough to give you an eloquently written introduction to what's going to happen, so I'll just point you there, and get on with what's important: this weeks tried and tested recipe.
It's winter here, and Baby it's cold outside. Not as cold as it could have been, but cold enough to justify soup. Having just recently crawled my way through the tons and tons of IMBB # 11 entries, my mind kept wandering back to the, as seen through my eyes, Happy Soup The Domestic Goddess presented us with. And what could be more appropriate than to try that - who doesn't like a little sunshine?
And the soup, ah, the soup. Liquid Falafel, as it was named by Jennifer's newly acquired husband S - and boy oh boy, it sure is! It takes literally seconds to make - I took the liberty of being lazy enough to let my food processor do the chopping and grating, then it's just sautéeing, blending, adding - VOILA! Couldn't be easier, and with this outcome, I'd say we have a definite winner! I'd usually have thought something having this much chickpeas in it might be bland, but no. A nice blend of spices (I'm a big fan of cumin!), creaminess from the chickpeas and adding tartness with a dollop of yoghurt. The soup is a bit chunky, and I think I might try blending half the next time, as I like my soup smooth as velvet, just because that's what I'm used to - but I'm pretty sure this'll become a cupboard-standby... Just looking at it makes you - well, smile!:-)
Take a look at what Cathy's been up to this week too...
- Dining With The Bloggers - October 19th
Somehow in making the switch from haphazard, checking-when-I-think-of-it blog reading to using Bloglines, Julie's A Finger in Every Pie escaped my notice for a while. But no more, it is on my short list of blogs to check everyday. This is a blog...
- Dining With The Bloggers - March 23rd
I hate to rush through this post - the recipe I found this week is really wonderful. And just look at that lovely Dining with the Bloggers logo that Zarah made. It's just that it's late and I really must get to bed... Our chosen theme this week...
- Dining With The Bloggers - January 19th
Too Many Chefs used to run a weekly feature called Posts of the Week which I really looked forward to. Of course part of the enjoyment was checking to see if my favorites were among their choices (or maybe, just perhaps, one of my own...), but the best...
- Dining With The Bloggers - September 28th.
As I told you just yesterday, I'm moving. Which means, and I guess that's just the way these things go, that all - or at least, a lot - of my kitchen gadgets and crockery is all put away in big, brown moving boxes. They don't like being down...
- Dining With The Bloggers - June 1st
A little confusion this week, my apologies for posting too late - I thought the theme was Indian this week, and it turned out - it wasn't! Nah, healthy/low fat/light it was, so be sure to check out what Cathy's tried. I stuck to what I'd...
Cooking
Dining with the Bloggers, February 2nd
Over at My Little Kitchen, Cathy keeps coming up with wonderful ideas and projects to do. Recently, she started doing "Dining with the Bloggers", a weekly event in which she tries out a recipe from a fellow blogger - it can be any recipes that's tickled her fancy, and you know what? There are so many fantastic recipes out there, being posted every day by all you guys, and just not enough time to try them all out!
So I had been thinking to myself: Zarah, you know what? You're REALLY bad at actually trying new stuff. I mean, you might read about them, you might even comment and say, hey, that looks awesome - you might even read the recipe... But you seldom bookmark it. And you almost never, ever actually cook what's in the post. Maybe, if you have the recipe in a book you own yourself, but still... That's just not good enough. Zarah - GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!
What was I to do? There was only one thing I could do - I resolutely went to my g-mail account, and wrote Cathy a big, puppy-eyed e-mail, asking her if I could please, please join her in her Dining with the Bloggers project. And you know what? She said I could! YAY!!!
I therefore present to you, as invented by Cathy of My Little Kitchen: Dining with the Bloggers at Cathy's and Zarah's. Cathy's been kind enough to give you an eloquently written introduction to what's going to happen, so I'll just point you there, and get on with what's important: this weeks tried and tested recipe.
It's winter here, and Baby it's cold outside. Not as cold as it could have been, but cold enough to justify soup. Having just recently crawled my way through the tons and tons of IMBB # 11 entries, my mind kept wandering back to the, as seen through my eyes, Happy Soup The Domestic Goddess presented us with. And what could be more appropriate than to try that - who doesn't like a little sunshine?
And the soup, ah, the soup. Liquid Falafel, as it was named by Jennifer's newly acquired husband S - and boy oh boy, it sure is! It takes literally seconds to make - I took the liberty of being lazy enough to let my food processor do the chopping and grating, then it's just sautéeing, blending, adding - VOILA! Couldn't be easier, and with this outcome, I'd say we have a definite winner! I'd usually have thought something having this much chickpeas in it might be bland, but no. A nice blend of spices (I'm a big fan of cumin!), creaminess from the chickpeas and adding tartness with a dollop of yoghurt. The soup is a bit chunky, and I think I might try blending half the next time, as I like my soup smooth as velvet, just because that's what I'm used to - but I'm pretty sure this'll become a cupboard-standby... Just looking at it makes you - well, smile!:-)
Take a look at what Cathy's been up to this week too...
- Dining With The Bloggers - October 19th
Somehow in making the switch from haphazard, checking-when-I-think-of-it blog reading to using Bloglines, Julie's A Finger in Every Pie escaped my notice for a while. But no more, it is on my short list of blogs to check everyday. This is a blog...
- Dining With The Bloggers - March 23rd
I hate to rush through this post - the recipe I found this week is really wonderful. And just look at that lovely Dining with the Bloggers logo that Zarah made. It's just that it's late and I really must get to bed... Our chosen theme this week...
- Dining With The Bloggers - January 19th
Too Many Chefs used to run a weekly feature called Posts of the Week which I really looked forward to. Of course part of the enjoyment was checking to see if my favorites were among their choices (or maybe, just perhaps, one of my own...), but the best...
- Dining With The Bloggers - September 28th.
As I told you just yesterday, I'm moving. Which means, and I guess that's just the way these things go, that all - or at least, a lot - of my kitchen gadgets and crockery is all put away in big, brown moving boxes. They don't like being down...
- Dining With The Bloggers - June 1st
A little confusion this week, my apologies for posting too late - I thought the theme was Indian this week, and it turned out - it wasn't! Nah, healthy/low fat/light it was, so be sure to check out what Cathy's tried. I stuck to what I'd...