This is one of the recipes going on my super fancy vegetarian tapas plate at work. You can use canned roasted red peppers if you want to cut a corner or two, but if you want to roast your own there are two methods.
Gas Stovetop Method!
1. Lightly coat a red bell pepper in olive oil, or another vegetable cooking oil.
2. Turn your burner (this only works with a gas burner!) on medium-high heat.
3. Using heat-resistant tongs, hold the pepper directly over the flame (in fact, it should kind of be in the flame) until one side chars. Rotate to the next side, char it, repeat til done.
4. While the pepper is still hot, wrap it in plastic wrap or in a ziploc baggie and let sit for about five minutes.
5. Peel the plastic off. You should now be able to peel the skin off the pepper with relative ease.
Oven Method!
1. Preheat your oven to about 400 degrees F.
2. Lightly coat a red bell pepper in olive oil, or another vegetable cooking oil.
3. Place the pepper on a baking sheet, put in the oven, and bake until the pepper's skin looks shriveled, and the pepper is soft. Remove from the oven.
4. While the pepper is still hot, wrap it in plastic wrap or in a ziplog baggie and let sit for about five minutes.
5. Peel the plastic off. You should now be able to peel the skin off the pepper with relative ease.
Hummus is one of those easy-to-make recipes that people really love to screw up. This recipe is simple, delicious, creamy, and fool-proof. Not that I feel any of my readers are fools.
*2 medium cloves of garlic
*2 tbsp olive oil
*2 cups chickpeas
*1/2 cup to 3/4 cup roasted red pepper, depending on your preferences
*3 tbsp lemon juice
*1/3 cup tahini
*1 tsp salt
*1 cup water
1. Put it all in a blender or food processor, and puree until very smooth. The consistency should be thick and creamy, not dry and blobby.
2. Refrigerate an hour or two, to let the chickpeas soak up all the goodness.
This is yummy with warm pita bread, rice crackers, veggies, dolmades, sandwiches, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
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Yum!
Sounds like your new job is perfect. I had a customer complaint about my service the other day, and I thought of you.
We don't live next door to where you don't live anymore, anymore.
Ooo, you're in your new house! Now I'll have to send you a drawn out email, since I finally feel like I have more to tell than "Yep, we're here."
Customer complaints? Welcome to the big time. Now you just have to practice your stand-off technique with your fingers posed to dial the Merchant's Association. Good times, good times.
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