The public library isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think of Mediterranean food, but that’s what happened. Now that I’m back home, I checked in with a group I discovered last December – a cookbook club. The idea is that a cookbook is chosen for the next meeting, members check it out from the library, choose something to make, and meet to try out the results.
Interesting food that someone else cooked – what’s not to like? Offerings including a beef and pasta dish with hints of cinnamon, an asparagus-lemon-rice-goat cheese cold salad, polenta with parmesan, a risotto with shrimp, and mine – an artichoke, pepper, and chickpea tagine.
I mostly chose mine because it had ingredients I’d actually heard of and bought. Too many of the recipes required things that were not only exotic, but seemed as though they’d be difficult to track down.
It was easy to make, in spite of having 19 separate ingredients, and was kind of a surprise in every bite. Probably because along with the title ingredients, it called for cinnamon, coriander, cumin, ginger, 8! cloves of garlic, golden raisins, honey, yogurt, kalamata olives, and cilantro.
It must have been a success because when I went to gather up my big pot to take home, it was almost empty.
I tried a tagine once. It was a success.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of chick peas but this does sound delicious. Perhaps I could substitute with black eyes peas or a variety of bean.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to share the tagine recipe? Please. They so often meld surprising flavours very well.
ReplyDeleteIt looks fantastic. Reminds me of my years in Morocco!
ReplyDeleteWow, that looks great. I'll bet it was appreciated very much.
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