I wanted to make chickpeas for dinner.
Jun. 22nd, 2014 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyAnd I decided, for a chance, I was going to get my act together and remember to soak them overnight.
Except we didn't make dinner that night and I forgot to refrigerate them and they fermented. So I ditched them, but I still wanted to make chickpeas, and I still wanted to be an adult and remember to soak them, so I set out a new batch. And I remembered everything, even changing the water, and boiled them on time.
I remembered, of course, that soaked beans take less time to cook. I didn't realize how much less, and ended up with mush. Well, of course, I thought as I turned off the flame, I could always make hummus. Then I wandered off to do other things.
I had not turned off the flame, I had turned it down, and they burned beyond saving. D'oh!
I am now out of chickpeas.
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Except we didn't make dinner that night and I forgot to refrigerate them and they fermented. So I ditched them, but I still wanted to make chickpeas, and I still wanted to be an adult and remember to soak them, so I set out a new batch. And I remembered everything, even changing the water, and boiled them on time.
I remembered, of course, that soaked beans take less time to cook. I didn't realize how much less, and ended up with mush. Well, of course, I thought as I turned off the flame, I could always make hummus. Then I wandered off to do other things.
I had not turned off the flame, I had turned it down, and they burned beyond saving. D'oh!
I am now out of chickpeas.
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Eleven children go missing every hour and seven are never found in India, according to a New Delhi-based child rights organisation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement).
An attack from inside Syria on Sunday killed a 13-year-old Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights, the first fatality on Israel's side of the frontier since the Syrian civil war began, relatives and the military said.
Some 350,000 people have been displaced since the start of an army offensive against militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan a week ago, officials say.
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