Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Easy Lunch and Chickpea Failure

I invited Ashley over for lunch, after her class and before I had to leave for work, which typically results in a late lunch.  I had some left over eggplant and portabello mushrooms.  Ashley encouraged me to do something with them and I did!

Nothing innovative, simple fried some onions and garlic, drenched them in pasta sauce, added the sliced eggplant and mushrooms topped with vegan cheese.  Baked it for a bit and it was great!


However, we also decided to try a chickpea dish that was a total failure.  In fact, it was so bad that neither of us finished our plate.  Yuck.  Win some, lose some.

Quality photoshop skills, do not deny it.
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13 comments:

  1. JesNovember 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM

    Aw, stink about the chickpeas (what could go so wrong?!) but mmm that lunch looks fabulous!

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  2. andrea.November 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM

    Yeah, how can you fail with chickpeas?!
    Now I'm curious, hah.

    Anyway, the other dish looks fantastic!

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  3. Catherine WeberNovember 10, 2010 at 2:10 PM

    Ha! The scribbles over your chickpeas made me laugh. Sorry it was a bomb! We've all had those.

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  4. jessyNovember 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM

    i totally laughed out loud really hard when i saw the chickpeas! i think people are kinda wondering what all the racket is coming from my office. ahahahahahahahaa! sadface on the chickpea fail, but kick ass on the rock'n eggplant mushroom bake. it looks so melty and yummy and mmmmmmmm!

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  5. ShaheenNovember 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM

    No way, a chickpea dish fails to make it - how could this be?!

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  6. miss vNovember 10, 2010 at 7:11 PM

    wow, that eggplant/mushroom pasta looks really good.
    i'm totally cracking up at the x-out on the chickpeas. i teach college level art, and some people turn in that kind of stuff! you could give up real estate for an art career!

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  7. MeloMealsNovember 10, 2010 at 8:35 PM

    Tell me more about the failed chickpeas!! They look good ( and so does your eggplant )

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  8. http://frugaliciouschick.blogspot.comNovember 10, 2010 at 9:26 PM

    if you failed once you can alwats try again...it will be fine the next time...good job buddy.

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  9. RoseNovember 10, 2010 at 9:33 PM

    I am all over the eggplant/mushroom lunch...

    The chickpeas don't look bad to me, but I love your doctored photo! LOL!

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  10. AlessandraNovember 10, 2010 at 9:41 PM

    Clever of you to have the eggplant and mushroom bake as the main then!

    Did you start with dried chickpeas? Here where I leave they are all imported and heat treated and impossible to cook. I have to buy canned chickpeas (always from Italy, to be safe) fancy that!!

    I am a chickpea snob. Geeeeeeeee

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  11. SindyNovember 11, 2010 at 4:23 AM

    At first I thought that "x" was made out of wire LOL! Nice!

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  12. TNovember 11, 2010 at 4:25 AM

    I made something like that with eggplants recently and loved it so much! I added some lasagna noodles and it was like eggplant parm-sagna..

    As for the chickpeas, it was worth a shot!

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  13. AmeyNovember 13, 2010 at 9:54 PM

    i'm sorry about your chickpea failure, but I absolutely love your graphic with the big "x". It cracked me up. Better luck next time, banzo!

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