Yeung Man again and mystery cans

Today I postponed my plans for making curried chickpeas after I found I had no ginger, coconut milk and various other vital ingredients. Instead I went to another Will Yeung recipe, for chickpea fritters. 

Those extra cans of chickpeas Misfits sent in mistake need to be used. So I assembled the cast for the recipe

Will loves spices, and with a base of onions, garlic, chickpeas and mashed potatoes, you can go wild. 

So then I opened the chickpea can and 

Out came black beans. Oh. I've notified Misfits, complete with picture. It's not a problem, I can use them, but they need to know they've got a labeling issue. 

So I opened another, and this turned out to be chickpeas. Which made terrific fritters, baked in the toaster oven, and I created some sort of sauce to go with it.

Grey poupon, kalamata olives, mayo and horseradish. I could also have used plain yogurt instead of mayo. Anyway it was pretty good.

The black beans I put with various spices into a quart of chicken broth I'd found in the freezer, and made a quick soup for supper with toasted seedy bread croutons.

Enough for more of all the same tomorrow.

It pays to be nimble around here.

And I thought since it's milder today, people might be interested in a bit of Freecycling.

Within minutes of posting I had competing requests.  I'm surprised really, these being a niche material, but I'm glad someone will be happy with them.  I have a lot of other threads, so I won't miss these. 

I may sort beads soon, too. 

Happy day everyone, you just never know what comedy might happen at any time.

Candlemas, Groundhog Day, fire alarm fritters

It's Candlemas Day aka Feast of the Purification aka Groundhog Day, and the greatest of these is

Six more weeks of winter, no matter what Punxsutawney Phil says. 

Yesterday was a great food day

Misfits arrived on time, and the driver was taking a picture of the delivery just as I was, so we waved.

The blackberries I ordered turned out to be what were known to us as loganberries in North Yorkshire growing up, much better, less seedy, though they're labeled blackberries. These are larger, reddish more than black, match online pictures of loganberries, so I think I'm on safe ground.

And as promised, I made the chickpea fritters.

Here's the YouTube channel where I found them. And I used chickpea flour instead of the AP he uses. 

Mashed potatoes and chickpeas, handful of cilantro, quite a bit of spice, and he deepfried, I baked at 400°f  for 20 minutes, turned them over to brown more for five minutes. Here ready for the oven

Made a dipping sauce of lemon juice and plain yogurt, fancy curry leaf sprig on the plate.

I really recommend you try this! They're spicy and  really good with each forkful dipped, very crunchy outside because of the panko, which I used because I wasn't deep fat frying to get them crunchy. Gosh they're good. This made nine fritters from two potatoes and one can of chickpeas,  aka three suppers.

Pro tip: I'm still learning chickpea flour and find it mixes much faster and absorbs more liquid than AP, so I'll use less flour next time. It was pretty sticky. But the flavor is much better than plain AP.

And loganberries with yogurt are a great cooling dessert after the fritters.

Successful supper.

Happy day everyone, whatever your season.