Chickpea

Peanut Butter and Jelly Oatmeal Number of Servings: 8 You’ll Need:  2 cups oats, steel cut  6 1/2 cups filtered water  1 tsp salt  1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon  3/4 cup jam of choice (strawberry, blueberry, guava, etc)  3/4 cup creamy peanut butter, room temperature  Unsweetened almond milk  Nonstick cooking spray How to Prepare: 1. Grease the Crock Pot with nonstick cooking spray. 2. Mix together the water, oats, cinnamon, and salt in it. Cover and cook for 8 hours on low. 3. Stir the…

Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Pigeon pea, besides its main use as dhal, fresh green seeds is used as a vegetable (Nene and Sheila, 1990). India ranks first in the production of pigeon pea globally and it is second most widely grown legume after chickpea. Constituting an important source of protein, vitamins, and mineral elements of the vegetarian diet pigeon pea also serves as a good source of carbohydrate and dietary fibres. According to FAO statistics (2014), pigeon pea was grown in about…

Before my Grandma makes Pani Puri for my family, she makes sure we have all the ingredients. She recalls the recipe from memory, adding the ingredients without measuring tools, in what looks like a haphazard fashion. Her cooking can be best described in three words: delicious organized chaos. Just like my Grandma’s Pani Puri recipe, the Indian Community has a variety of ingredients, each with its unique properties and effects. While Hindu camp and the cultural events are rigidly structured and…

The rich, fertile soil of the Middle East led early civilizations to settle, domesticate plants and animals, and thrive. The Fertile Crescent between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers known as Mesopotamia (now modern Iraq, and extending north into Syria and Turkey) was the home of the world’s first urban culture, the Sumerians, 6,000 years ago. The Sumerians’ Egyptian rivals took advantage of the annual flooding of the Nile for their regular harvest, later exporting a large portion of their…

KEBIRE KABASOGLU JOURNAL 4 Today was an exciting day because of my culture. Our traditional Asure day. Asure is a special dessert cooked ones a year within Asure month in Turkey. This traditional dessert originated from a very popular story or a legend about Noah and his ark. I woke up at 9 o’clock in the morning. My family and I had a breakfast. Later on, I started to make an Asure. This beautiful dessert takes 5 to 6 hours to make it. Asure made in large quantities and shared with friends and…

part of it. They also thought of the Greek goddess Persephone as being a part of their bread. As you can tell, there was a certain prominence to the food of the Greeks. Most people in Greece dined on bread and wine with olive oil. Cheese, lentils, chickpeas, cabbage, apples, figs, and almonds were also popular. The Greeks possibly ate more fish than most other Mediterranean people at the time. Meat was only eaten on holidays. For dessert they would eat cakes with honey or yogurt with honey and…

Have you ever tried to stick to a diet for at least a few days, weeks or months? I have read many articles on “how to lose weight the right way”. I’ve tried many diets but none of them really seem to work. I try to start a new diet at least once or every other month. I was wondering on the Internet the other night and I came across some different diets that I don’t think I could ever see myself trying. Have you ever heard of Vegan and Vegetarian Diets? Just by the name, it seems like a hard diet…

The Greeks love to eat. Many Americans have a fear of coming to Greece because they are afraid of the food. There's nothing to be afraid of. It's not like Mexican food from the far east. Nothing is so spicy you can't eat it and the seasonings they use are the very same ones you have on the spice shelf in your Kitchen. What usually happens when you walk into a restaurant is after finding a table, you will be permitted or encouraged to go to the kitchen to see what they have to offer. There will…

grow and raise many crops. In conclusion, Canadians use their climate to their advantage to raise crops for exports. You Eat It, Canadians Grow It Canadians grow and raise many exports such as peas,lentils,beans and chickpea. According to AGA.GC.CA, they are the largest exporter of flaxseed,durum wheat and of course maple syrup.In fact…

A comprehensive low cholesterol food list could be the secret to one's success on dieting. Rather than listing only foods low in cholesterol and leaving out the undesirable ones, why don't you come up with a list of all the foods you enjoy eating, in a hierarchy? This way you are not truly leaving the "sinful" food choices, and feel deprived too. This approach on how to control cholesterol can be adapted by patients who are having a hard time sticking to strictly outlined diet plans. Below is an…