Strange Food

This is a very strange-looking dish I made on July 1, 2006. I intended for the sauce to be hummus, but it turned out to be waay to strong, and it tasted kind of funny (next time, I'm going to cook the ingredients before blending). Anyhow, since it was so strong, I decided to use it with some very bland stuff--potatoes and cabbage/Brussels sprouts. It turned out pretty good!

Recipe:

• Sauce:

  • Ingredients:

    • A bunch of chickpeas (canned or dried and soaked for a few days)
    • Quite a bit of garlic (I used powdered; fresh should be great; keep in mind that it has to go with bland food!)
    • Some salt--to taste.
    • Enough olive oil to keep things moist in the blender
    • Apple vinegar--to taste
    • A touch of sweet basil
    • Three midsize beets
    • A small onion
    • Chives
    • Pepper--to taste

  • Directions:

    1. Boil the chickpeas in their water, along with the (cut) beets. Boil until they're tender (I didn't follow this, but is an idea I have for an improvement on the recipe)
    2. Drain the chickpeas and beets, place in blender with the rest of the ingredients, chopped if applicable.
    3. Blend until it reaches a smooth consistency, like hummus. If you want to be entertained, leave the beets out until the end and watch the colour propogate through. :)
• Boiled potatoes
• Boiled cabbage and/or Brussels sprouts

Finishing up

Place the potato next to the cabbage/Brussels sprouts. Spoon some of the sauce on top of the cabbage. Enjoy the strange food's look!

Eating directions

Break off a bit of the boiled potato. Grab a bit of the sauce (it's thick like hummus, depending on how you made it in the blender) along with a forkful of the cabbage and skewer on the chunk of potato. Alternately, put either potato or cabbage/sauce in your mouth and then put the other one in. Enjoy the garlicky goodness (without the negative overpoweringness that I actually got when I tried the sauce as hummus!)!

Notes

Reheats in the microwave well. The sauce is also very good warm, so don't worry about keeping it separate from the cabbage.

Keep sauce off the carpet!

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