Black and Green Humus + Vegan news you can use (11/27/11)

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by JL Fields on November 27, 2011

Happy Sunday! I spent a lot of time in the kitchen yesterday, cooking up some recipes from a few cookbooks I’ll be reviewing soon.   I used black chickpeas for the first time (because they were the only chickpeas I had on hand) and I couldn’t resist whipping up a humus with the leftover chicks.

Black and Green Humus

by JL goes Vegan

Keywords: food processor

Ingredients (Makes about 1.5 cups of humus)

  • 1 and 1/4 cup cooked black chickpeas
  • 1 avocado, cut into four pieces
  • 1 clove of garlic, chopped
  • Juice of one lime
  • 1 T tahini
  • Sea salt, to taste

Instructions

Add first five ingredients to a food processor.

Pulse to desired consistency.

Salt to taste.

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So tasty! Yes, black chickpeas taste very similar to regular chickpeas. I found they cooked up a little quicker, though.

I make a lot of chickpeas so I think I’ll make a point to keep these on hand too, for a little variety.

Moving on to a few bits of vegan news I stumbled upon this week:

  1. If you’re traveling home from the holidays, this might be helpful: Beyond burgers: tips for travelling vegans
  2. It’s holiday party season! Check out the Top 10 Vegan, Eco and Sustainable Party Shoes
  3. Sad news:  quarrygirl.com, the blog, is no more.  She’ll still be tweeting and the blog is archived on google but those of you who followed the blog know this is a real shame.  I hope we see her doing something else in the vegan/interweb world soon!
  4. I’m Thanksgiving-ed out but if you want to see a few more pictures of holiday food porn, check out the Happy Thanksgiving from Vegansaurus tagged posts on Vegansaurus.

At some point this week I suddenly had over 3,000+ followers on Twitter and I’m at nearly 1,000 on Facebook.  I cannot believe it and I want you to know how gratifying it is that the message on this blog and in my Tweets and Facebook communication resonates with you. Thank you. I mean it.

Here’s what happened on the blog:

On Stop Chasing Skinny:  Forgetting to chase perfection by Lexie

Enjoy your day, friends!

 

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  • http://twitter.com/ZombieCupcake90 Catlyn Lawson

    I cant believe quarrygirl is no longer! Such a bummer!
    That hummus looks so yummy! I’ve never heard of black chickpeas before. I guess you really do learn something new everyday! 

  • http://www.tiedyefiles.com Kaitlyn@TheTieDyeFiles

    I’ve never heard of black chickpeas! Nice change of pace. Thanks for the road trip article, definitely some good tips. And congrats on all the followers, you deserve it!

  • http://brokencookiesdontcount.wordpress.com/ Fran@BCDC

    The hummus looks delicious!

  • http://twitter.com/lciaravi Linda Ciaravino

    I have just one suggestion…you must come up with a name other than “Black and Green hummus”.  I really like hummus, but the name doesn ‘t conjure up good things in my mind..

    • http://jlgoesvegan.com JL

      Ha! I’m a believer in transparency.  Green smoothie, black and tan beer, black and green humus ;)

  • http://getskinnygovegan.blogspot.com GetSkinnyGoVegan

    haven’t used the kala chana for hummus yet but think i will next time!! i try to keep hummus stocked for hubby………it is nearly poison to me because i have zero control with it and then end up eating like a pound of beans and wonder if either the condom broke or i am just super duper bloated :)

  • http://twitter.com/RickiHeller Ricki Heller

    So sad about quarrygirl! Did she post about why?  Will go check it out. And congrats on the twitter/FB numbers–yahoo for you!  Of course we all follow you–you are the coolest. :D

    • http://jlgoesvegan.com JL

      No, she made no announcement on her blog, just learned about it via Twitter. Not only was she awesome about pointing us to great restaurants — she was hardcore, i.e. Veg News photo scandal. Her blog voice will be missed! :(

  • http://evelynparham.com/ Evelyn

    I love humus and I’ve never put avocado in it.  Looking forward to trying this.  Thanks for the links too.

    • http://jlgoesvegan.com JL

      I decided to use avocado, instead of oil, and it really worked well!

  • Dakshachopra

    superb presentation… looks delicious.. bookmarked..

  • http://www.choosingraw.com Gena

    Delicious! I didn’t even know there were such things as black chickpeas until you posted about them.

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