curried chickpeas with cheddar

Some days I go through the cupboards and pick out a can my roommate's aunt left to make something out of. Last week I pulled out chickpeas!


1 can of chickpeas
1 small onion
2 cloves garlic, smashed
butter
salt
pepper
sweet curry powder
tabasco sauce
ancho chili powder
paprika
honey
the juice of one lemon
diced scallions (optional)
shredded cheddar

Dice a small onion and put it in a saucepan with some olive oil. When they became translucent add a pat of butter, sweet curry powder, pepper, garlic and other spices. When the garlic is soft add the whole can of chickpeas including the liquid. Chop your scallions and add them in as well. Add tobasco to taste.

Cook until soft, mashing the chickpeas to a porridge consistency. Add 1/2-1 teaspoon of honey towards the end of cooking.

You can sprinkle the lemon juice on top while serving or add at the last 5 minutes of cooking.

Put the chickpea mixture into a bowl and sprinkle the top with shredded cheddar cheese. Alternately, you can add the cheese into the pot and let it cook a little while to melt it fully.

Eggs Benedict @ Harry's Taproom

Harry's Taproom is located in Alexandria, VA. When I was visiting some friends we went there for brunch.

I had the eggs Benedict with smoked salmon and added a side of bacon. /drool

It was very flavorful and entirely too rich. I saved the potatoes and bacon for breakfast the next day!

mallow, my love

This is my cat and I figured since I needed something to talk about I'd start with him.

What can I say?
He's more dog than cat sometimes. He stays by the door and I can hear him mew as I hit the top of the 3rd floor on my trek to the 5th in my building.

His voice never dropped he flops around like a rag doll when I pick him up and he uses my roommate's cat as an extra alarm clock for me. (Nothing wakes you up like the low growls of a cat being pounced upon at 5 in the morning by an overzealous fluffball. Except, maybe, when the overzealous fluffball decides to jump squarely on your chest before running across your face to the window.)

He's the fluffiest attention whore ever. How you doin?

So I finally stopped procrastinating....

....and started a blog!

I couldn't think of a name that wasn't already taken, silly, or completely unrelated to me.

I figured since I don't plan on sticking to one topic I can totally go on tangents with this one!

Now to get to the design part. =)

-M