LOL - Judie - I don't know what to tell you. Sounds like one of my experiments! It was funny the way you wrote it. I hope they turned out okay. Thanks for sharing. Do you really dislike the taste of the product when you use garbanzos, or do you just not buy them because you don't like them, therefore you didn't have them to use? To me, white beans have a "beanier" flavor than garbanzos. I honestly can't detect their flavor at all in the biscuits or muffins. But then, I have a tendency to use so many aromatic herbs and spices that it would cover up any subtle flavors. I like a BIG punch of flavor, even in my bread.
My one comfort food craving I had at the very beginning of Let's Do Lunch was for warm, gooey drippy salty garlic bread. I wasn't consciously craving it -- but it actually woke me up from a sound sleep very early one morning. As I was coming awake I involuntarily dreamed or imagined there was a piece of it right in front of my mouth. I could see it, smell it, feel the warmth, hear the crispy crust lightly crunching between my fingers. I'm certain if I had opened my mouth I would have been able to taste it, too. But I was GOOD -- I ran into the kitchen as fast as I could & simmered some garlic in some diet margarine, mixed it into a can of hot butter beans - and FEASTED! Having those in the pantry certainly saved me. I ate those every day until I no longer craved garlic bread. What does this story have to do with keeping canned garbanzos on hand?
Nothing! But it amused me to remember it.
Vickie - It was sweet of you to think of us. Stop in any time! The day wasn't too bad. I carried my lunch and spent the day at the hospital. Getting pretty used to it by now. They did a procedure that cleared a blockage cause by the tunnel catheter in his neck that was affecting circulation in his arm. His poor arm had been swollen up like a Popeye arm since near the end of September. Once they restored circulation it was almost back to normal size within an hour. THANK GOD. I sat at a table in the waiting room & ate my lunch, enjoying a good book. First "ME" time I've had in a while!
Breakfast - 8 am
- Handful of grapes while packing cooler
Lunch - Noonish
- Black Grapes, Carrot Sticks, Cold Roasted Chicken Tenders
- Popcorn, Iced Tea and about a thousand cups of black coffee. It was much colder in the waiting room than the recovery area. And the coffee was very good.
Dinner -- 7 pm with Neil, Michelle and Joe. They ordered pizza and I felt a little sorry for myself when they forgot to order a salad for me, so I whipped up an Italian feast for myself in between tending the dialysis machine.
- Big Antipasto style salad without the pepperoni: Salad greens & raw veg, garbanzos, pepperoncini, low fat mozzarella, flat leaf Italian parsley, cherry tomatoes, & chopped up hot pickled gardeniera (sp?)
- 2 Portobello Mushroom Caps marinated in Paul Newman Light Italian Dressing, broiled, then sprinkled with the topping scraped off one slice of pizza. THERE ARE NO WORDS TO EXPERSS HOW DELICIOUS THIS WAS. They were so good I ate both of them & couldn't finish my salad. I'm going to cook the other two tomorrow. I may send the kids to the store for some more mushrooms. I'll eat the rest without the pizza toppings, unless I make it myself, LDL style.
The kids are home, Neil's healthy, and I'm tired and FULL! Night Night. My prayers are with you all. Thank you for being there.
You are such a riot. I don't blame you for not sharing - they have plenty of other stuff to eat, right?