Photo: Patent and the Pantry, Flickr.
All it takes to transform a humble can of chickpeas into this elegant dish is garlic, shallot, bay leaf and olive oil (oh, and some time in a 400-degree oven). The cook responsible for the above masterpiece also has a thing for Swiss chard, and thus stirs some in on occasion for a completely satisfying side dish.
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1-26-2010 @12:24PM John Howell said... I'm a Republican and I love vegetables. I also like a juicy burger, barbecued chicken, fried fish, ham, and a list of other foods too lengthy to do justice to in this forum. What I don't like is MORONS who go around stereotyping people because of their food choices. Eat what you like, folks. It's part and parcel of being free. That bothers some people, and I know who they are.
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1-26-2010 @2:42PM SE said... Seriously? That's disgusting.
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1-26-2010 @12:30PM Jatman said... Sorry, not convinced to go vegetarian. Looks like something I just just raked up from my yard.
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1-26-2010 @12:29PM ptyooper said... Hey John,,, if you're Republican then you might as well BE a vegetable!!!
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1-26-2010 @12:30PM Scott said... Looks like someone already ate it and didn't like it
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1-26-2010 @12:42PM silas said... looks like peanuts with leaf and some snot, thats not gonna make me go veg anytime soon you weirdo. i want to see a nice grilled steak!
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1-26-2010 @2:09PM trixie said... YUKKKKKKK! I too love veggies, but this is gross!
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1-26-2010 @1:31PM mcprettypants said... Will someone pass the chicken?
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1-26-2010 @2:14PM vera said... I am a vegetarian, but this looks like throw up.
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1-26-2010 @1:23PM Kristina said... Being veg is a wonderful lifestyle. It's peaceful, noble and clean. It's healthy and kind and we are so lucky to have so many options to be veg as in almost every part of the country you can find veg food nowadays.
For those who say we are meant to eat meat...tell that to the millions (including myself) who have not had meat in years. Sometimes decades. I come from a meat eating background. My ethnicity (Northern European) were meat eaters...but I am veg and thriving.
Those who say something cannot be done should not get in the way of those who are doing it.
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1-26-2010 @2:19PM Wm. Phillips said... Man, that is pure propoganda! Anyone who would eat that would eat pig slop and enjoy it!
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1-26-2010 @1:37PM Tena said... This looks great; I can't wait to try. I eat chick peas frequently, and can never get enough garlic. They are both so good for you!
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1-26-2010 @1:46PM charleshns said... Looks like goat droppings to me. An Ethiopian my get exicited but I will take a steak (rare) any day.
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1-26-2010 @1:47PM Laughing Lady said... Years ago I took an anatomy class. The professor said we'd all turn into vegetarians after we did our cadaver dissections. Well, one day, I was working on the dead guy and tweezing the fat away from the muscle. Then I remembered: I HAD TO BUY STEAK ON THE WAY HOME. True story. It will take more than a cadaver reeking of formaldehyde to put me off my meat.
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1-26-2010 @4:05PM KP said... Looks like drippy crap after you ate alot of corn! and maybe some nachos!
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1-26-2010 @1:52PM Jill Hallock said... I'm sorry but that chickpea dish looks like what is under the big Oak Tree outside our house, where the squirrels have dropped the eatten acorns on the ground this winter. I like chickpeas but not looking like that.
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1-26-2010 @2:16PM Jim said... I love vegatables, but I also love meat. I personally feel that omnivores are generally more evolved genetically in that they have a diverse diet and can survive in more types of nutritionally restricted environments. Omnivores rule, vegetarians and carnivores don't. Why restrict one's diet? Vegetarians tend to site the philosophy that killing animals for nutrition is cruel. So, that means all carnivores are cruel and should be converted to vegetariianism, right? Yeah, good luck on that one. Oh, and I'll bet they'll still whine about there being something bad about eating meat even when scientists develop meat that was never even part of a living animal, which will happen in the future. I don't mind debating with vegetarians though, in that they have a right to hear my opinions, just as I have a right to hear theirs. The difference in many cases is that some people think their opinion is "right" when actually it is just merely an opinion. I would never force anyone to be an omnivore, but unfortunately there are those that would force me to be a vegetarian due to their quasi-religious moralistic views on animals rights.
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1-26-2010 @2:20PM bo said... i never liked chick peas before till my wife made them with the extra virgin olive oil and garlic. trust me it is delicious. the caption is correct on that it is tasty. try it first before placing a negative blog
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1-26-2010 @2:43PM gish7x said... This dish is really much better than it looks but I agree, there are
much better pictures to make you want to go veg such as MEAT.ORG -
the website the meat industry does NOT want you to see, EVER!! And
besides, meat eating animals have very long teeth with very short
colons so that meat doesn't rot and ferment causing colon cancer that
has become rampant in humans. Meat starts rotting after four hours
but takes 3-5 days to eliminate it, ewwww!
1-26-2010 @4:19PM JAY said... I JUST THREW UP!
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