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(e:enknot)... I made these for the camping trip. Yum!
Black bean dip/refried beans
2 14 oz cans black or pinto beans
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes
2-3 large garlic cloves
1 large onion
1/2 jalapeno pepper
1/4 c. fresh cilantro
1+ t. oregano
1+ t. cumin
1+ t. black pepper
1+ t. sea salt
olive oil
Chop the garlic, onions, jalapeno and cilantro (use the stems, too!). Heat the oil, saute the garlic, onions and jalapeno until the onions are translucent to lightly tanned. Add the cilantro & stir. Add the cumin, oregano, salt & pepper. Add the beans (use the juice - very important or it'll dry out).
For refried beans, mash them up as you cook them. Add the tomatoes and let it all simmer down and dry out. Make sure to keep stirring so you don't scorch them. They should be pretty dry.
For the wetter bean dip, you don't have to mash as much. Add the tomatoes and simmer down until it's a consistency that works with tortilla chips.
Lentil-Chickpea Salad
(from
Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East & North Africa by Habeeb Salloum, p. 117. I highly recommend this cookbook.)
Serves 8-10
1 c. lentils, washed
water (3 c. min) (broth or bullion is nice - i used a mushroom base)
1/4 c. olive oil
1/2 c. lemon juice - that's about 2 fresh lemons worth
1 bunch green onions
3 large tomatoes
1 14 oz. can chickpeas
1/2 c. fresh parsley or cilantro
1 large sweet red pepper
salt & pepper
Cook lentils in water until tender but still intact and slightly firm; allow to cool. (
Instructions for cooking lentils.) Drain.
While lentils are cooking, chop the onions, tomatoes, parsley/cilantro, pepper, and juice the lemons. Since it's a salad, you want the veggies pretty small. Put them all in a big bowl, add the chickpeas, salt & pepper and mix. Mix in the lentils before serving.
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I think I'm going to make this for a picnic tomorrow. I'll probably add garlic. It has a very clean, mild taste to it.
(e:Joshua) - Infringement is a great way to check out random art, and get to know emerging artists and musicians in the city who you may want to follow later. Almost all the venues/parties/performances/installations/interactions are free/donations welcome. That also means the quality varies from great, interesting, or discussion-worthy to cringingly bad or embarrassing. But there's no commitment - you hate it, walk out until the next performer starts.
Here are some shots I took of last years' festival. :::link::: I saw three different belly dancing groups - one was pretty blah, one was a pro from Lebanon, one was a very neat combo of belly dancing and ballet.
I loved loved loved the firedancers.
I went to a performance art piece (I think by (e:angelal)?) in a 3'-wide alley here on Allen with a full video backdrop, music, costume & make up, and some toplessness, about the fate of asian elephants. It was very well thought through and professionally produced and performed. I don't know if I actually know more about the elephants' problems, but I'm definitely more aware of them. This year I think she's doing something about the fate of the ocean inhabitants.
The schedule is definitely confusing, but the online version is more manageable - you can sort by day and venue and type of thing. The geographic center of the festival is Allen West/Days Park, so just wandering there can drop you into the middle of something interesting. Last year there was a storytelling car ride and a building-it-now interactive photo exhibit.
I'm really impressed with the organizers - I haven't been to any meetings yet but the emails have been pretty organized and professional, and the website database is clean and simple to manage my info in (had to help the db developer debug a couple times :-) They're nonhierarchical, noncommercial, have no corporate sponsorships, they sell some ads and take donations.
DIVE IN! :-) (Hopefully I'll see your dive at 464 on 7/23!)
Hmm, as long as I've been here I've never checked this out. I have to admit that I've not been exposed to a lot of this stuff and know very little about it, although I've always liked art and have only been exposed to limited forms of artistic expression. The lineup seems interesting but it is totally confusing to me. Maybe I should just dive in and check stuff out that seems appealing.
July 23rd I will have to remember that. That is like 2 weeks away I would like to go. I wish you luck. In terms of if you sell anything you might. I can't really say cause I the type of art I buy isn't photogrophy really, so I don't know what gets someone to buy that. But maybe people who buy that type of art will like your stuff, who knows maybe I even will. I'm more of a drawings or photos of someplace that is somewhere else type of person. I wish you luck.......
well that's very exciting! hopefully we can stop by and see it!
Photography. I think you've seen everything that will be in the show because I've posted most of my best stuff here over the past two years (since I bought my camera summer '08). It'll be nicely printed and framed, and on display/for sale at an actual art gallery. (Not that I'm expecting to sell anything, but it's part of the deal with the gallery - 20 percent commission.)
what kind of art heidi???!!!