the weekend that feels like it wasn't

[derien]

I didn't have near as interesting a weekend as daegaer, but it went by amazingly quickly and we ended up feeling less rested (especially eor) than when we began. And it's not like it was interesting things we were doing, just the normal stuff one has to do on the weekend when one hasn't got a person at home all the time anymore. Grocery and clothes shopping, laundry, cleaning, household repairs, cooking.

eor did an amazing job rebuilding the framework under the bed. It had to be done because the damn thing had finally fallen apart to the point where we would have had to move into our guest room, and we have a guest arriving tomorrow so we couldn't do that. We've had the bed for a number of years and the framework sucked when we got it and has gotten steadily worse. After a couple of trips to hardware stores, yesterday, he was ready to start, and he pulled a marathon building session - 3PM to around 8PM, I think it was - cutting the metal bars with a dremel tool and fitting the whole thing together.

Meanwhile I cooked chickpeas with tamarind, a project which took around 3 hours (had to do it, though, because the chickpeas had already been soaked overnight, so the needed to be cooked). Then when we realized that wasn't going to stand as a dish on it's own (although we have enough to feed an army) I also cooked a chicken curry. So now I have 5 little bowls of chickpea stuff in the freezer, and I just ate one for breakfast. It's actually damn good.:)

Comments

[derien.livejournal.com]

So maybe you can tell me - I want to refer to the 'chickpea stuff' as dhal. Would that be incorrect? It's like a paste, almost, though the chickpeas are visible in it. (Was I supposed to smush them up?) Eor said I could try to feed it to the people at work and call it "pate de chickpea." But then again my friend Caw is coming to visit tonight (for an unspecified period of time) and she's a vegetarian, so she'll probably eat it.:)

Not to mention I actually ate a whole bowl for breakfast yesterday. But then I didn't feel right for the rest of the day, so that was probably overload on my system. I'm back to my usual eggs for breakfast today.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

I'd call chickpea stuff 'hummus', especially if it's served cold and made with lemon juice and garlic. Hot chickpea paste - hmmm. I don't know if I know a term for it. I've only come across dhal made with lentils of various types, but that might be because Indian food in Dublin tends to be north Indian food - it could well be made with chickpeas in other parts of the country.