So apparently there are a lot of cauliflower lovers out there. Who knew? Since my last blog I have had quite a few people try to sell me on the "virtues" of cauliflower and cauliflower recipes. To those people I have this to say: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, yours just happens to be wrong! (Neener, neener)
However, since last week was dedicated to a healthy recipe fail, I thought it only fair to dedicate this week to a healthy recipe victory. The recipe: Chocolate Chip Blondie
As I started out, I realized that once again I was faced with using an ingredient that has no business being in a recipe for something delicious. The imposter this week: the chickpea. In case you didn't know, chickpea is just a fancy name for a garbanzo bean. And garbanzo is just code for "stinky little bean that isn't good in anything except Indian food". Also once again, the poser ingredient was standing in for the flour. Flour is code for "tasteless ingredient that somehow turns recipes into awesome, not to be substituted with cauliflower which tastes like bum".
After last week's cauliflower catastrophe, plus knowing, as I do, about the code word for stinky little bean that isn't good in anything except Indian food, I was a little bit nervous about making this recipe. But the recipe was simple and most of the ingredients seemed pretty fool proof, so I persevered. The result: yummy peanut buttery, chocolatey goodness that was moist and delicious and didn't taste anything like stinky beans. Label me IMPRESSED. The imposter bean knows his business!
Of course after the garbanzo bean thing worked out, the next logical step would be to google "garbanzo bean pizza crust", right? I hope so, because that's what I did. I found about a garbanzillion (see what I did there?) recipes for pizza crust that used garbanzo bean flour of all things. I had no idea such a thing existed. I'll have to try it out and see if it tastes like stinky beans.
Here is a picture of my beautiful treat. Be jealous!
However, since last week was dedicated to a healthy recipe fail, I thought it only fair to dedicate this week to a healthy recipe victory. The recipe: Chocolate Chip Blondie
As I started out, I realized that once again I was faced with using an ingredient that has no business being in a recipe for something delicious. The imposter this week: the chickpea. In case you didn't know, chickpea is just a fancy name for a garbanzo bean. And garbanzo is just code for "stinky little bean that isn't good in anything except Indian food". Also once again, the poser ingredient was standing in for the flour. Flour is code for "tasteless ingredient that somehow turns recipes into awesome, not to be substituted with cauliflower which tastes like bum".
After last week's cauliflower catastrophe, plus knowing, as I do, about the code word for stinky little bean that isn't good in anything except Indian food, I was a little bit nervous about making this recipe. But the recipe was simple and most of the ingredients seemed pretty fool proof, so I persevered. The result: yummy peanut buttery, chocolatey goodness that was moist and delicious and didn't taste anything like stinky beans. Label me IMPRESSED. The imposter bean knows his business!
Of course after the garbanzo bean thing worked out, the next logical step would be to google "garbanzo bean pizza crust", right? I hope so, because that's what I did. I found about a garbanzillion (see what I did there?) recipes for pizza crust that used garbanzo bean flour of all things. I had no idea such a thing existed. I'll have to try it out and see if it tastes like stinky beans.
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