Day 11 - birthday party/Day 12 - Chickpea stew

We went out for a friend's birthday party last night. I had a burger and a hot toddy. I was, still am, pretty sick, so I went for comfort food. I had to leave early due to sinus congestion, took some Nyquil-esque stuff, and crashed out.

This evening I will be making chickpea stew. Hopefully, the recipe is posted online somewhere. This will be my first time ever cooking chickpeas and I made what is probably a common, I hope anyway, mistake. The recipe I am using called for 425 grams of chickpeas. I weighed them before I soaked them overnight. So imagine my "delight" when I strained them this morning and weighed them again, to find that they now weighed 946 grams. Yay me. I blame the cold for such silliness. So now I have 3, 170 gram average size, bags of soaked chickpeas sitting in my freezer. Guess hummus is in my future.

Pictures of the chickpea stew...