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The "C" word, chickpeas, and a yummy recipe that did not fail

The longer I have chickens (the half dozen that reside in my back yard) the harder it is to write that ingredient in shopping lists or recipes. It  feels very, very wrong, and I know it's only a matter of time before that white meat will disappear from the diet altogether. But it hasn't, not just yet, and the other night I did a rare culinary creation of some magnificence. Essentially it was this: Stir Fry (with vegetables and the "c word) and Chick Peas (or Gabanzo Beans) Roasted Chickpeas - pretty tasty and good! I stir fried the "c" word with vegetables - we had broccoli, carrot, red onion and I added in some frozen vegetables as well - some green beans, and the diced corn, carrot and pea mixture you get. Next, I mixed it all up with fairly decent amounts of lemon juice, salt and pepper.  The second bit was the chickpeas. I'd seen for a while how you can roast chickpeas in the oven to make a snack, kind of in lieu of nuts I guess. You just take th...

A CAKE STORY

Or as this should be subtitled: My most recent culinary disaster. Today I post about cake. I  had to make a cake for a thing, and being as occasionally cakes I have baked have turned out okay - I've been making a mess in kitchens for a while now - I planned on making this one the night before.  I  had been thinking for days about what to make, had consulted books and much on-line surfing, and had decreed it would be none of the usual ones like boring banana, carrot, or chocolate cakes. Nothing wrong with those at all, except banana which is rather meh, but it was time to do something different. I decided to go with a vanilla themed wonder.  So there I am the night before, making this thing, creaming the butter and the castor sugar (note, no substituting basic margarine or normal sugar for this wonder) and it creamed up all nice and fluffy as per the instructions.  Then I added in the eggs and all of a sudden, it started to go a bit weird. As in, the previo...