{"id":424,"date":"2009-06-24T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T01:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconwrappedlife.com\/archives\/424"},"modified":"2009-06-24T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T01:15:58","slug":"hybrid-falafel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Falafel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> How have I had no time to blog?? Things have not been particularly busy, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing a lot of running around and planning and even some relaxing! Plus, Santana has been a fussy fussy pup\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6not always wanting to eat her breakfast\/dinner, sometimes giving us the pleasure of waking up to some hidden spots of vomit in the dining room and all around being a bit fussier than normal.&#160; We have a vet appointment in a couple weeks and hopefully things get all fixed up (if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anything wrong to fix).&#160; A quick recipe until I can catch up with some of my other back-logged meals! <\/p>\n<p><u><font color=\"#a66400\" size=\"4\"><strong>Hybrid Falafel: the falafel of the future (said in a deep booming voice, of course)<\/strong><\/font><\/u><\/p>\n<p>I have made falafel at home a few different ways.&#160; The first few times, we used a mix (on the left in the first picture below).&#160; All you do is add a bit of water to the dry mix, let it sit for ten minutes, form into balls and fry.&#160; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty tasty. The texture is not nearly as wonderful as freshly made falafel at some great Greek restaurant, but it was easy, fairly cheap, and the perfect amount for the two of us.&#160; A success. <\/p>\n<p>The second attempt was a <a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/archives\/357\" target=\"_blank\">baked falafel<\/a> from scratch, using bulgur and chickpeas and lots of yummy spices that made a really tasty (and much healthier\/fresher) version of falafel.&#160; We used these for leftovers and even froze some for later.&#160; I thought they were a tiny dry and wanted to work on the texture.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>This brought us to the hybrid falafel I concocted last week.&#160; They turned out really well, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably stick with this method from here on out, with a few adjustments in spices and mix-ins.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 package dry falafel mix<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 can chickpeas, drained<\/li>\n<li>4 small carrots (ours were super small, 1 large would do the trick), shredded<\/li>\n<li>spices and seasoning to taste (I used a little cumin, garlic powder and onion powder in my mix, but could have used some fresh chopped or grated onion instead to bump up the moisture)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Prepare falafel mix according to directions and let sit. <\/li>\n<li>While it is soaking, mash chickpeas and add other ingredients.<a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/31e1b384937c_13998\/IMG_0449Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0449 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0449 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/31e1b384937c_13998\/IMG_0449Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"559\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Combine the two mixes into a really pretty, mushy mixture. <a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/31e1b384937c_13998\/IMG_0453Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0453 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0453 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/31e1b384937c_13998\/IMG_0453Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bake!!! I think we went with 425 degrees, 10 minutes per side. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We turned these falafel into a salad with some really wonderful tomatoes, some fresh croutons made from a french baguette that was getting stale, some chopped spring onion and some toasty crisped chickpeas (tossed with some spice and baked in the toaster oven for a while).&#160; <\/p>\n<p>&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/31e1b384937c_13998\/IMG_0454Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0454 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0454 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/31e1b384937c_13998\/IMG_0454Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"651\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How have I had no time to blog?? Things have not been particularly busy, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing a lot of running around and planning and even some relaxing! Plus, Santana has been a fussy fussy pup\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6not always wanting to eat her breakfast\/dinner, sometimes giving us the pleasure of waking up to some hidden spots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-leftovers","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}