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To make a big bowl, buy 2 cans chick peas. Dump cans, without draining, in a saucepan along with some sliced garlic. Cook until beans start getting mushy. Remove from stove, drain.
Put bean- garlic mixture in a large bowl and mash with potato masher. Add approx. 1/2 cup tahini sesame paste (bought jarred in Greek or Middle Eastern store OR any super market that has an "international" section), Approx. 1/4 cup olive oil, and juice of a couple lemons. Mash all until consistency you like. Serve with pita bread.
4 pounds live mussels
2 T extra-virgin olive oil
2 C dry white wine
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 bay leaf
2 T fresh lemon juice
Freshly ground pepper
Sea salt (from Bretagne if possible)
1 T minced cilantro
Heat the oil on high in a cazuela or casserole. Sautee the garlic for 1-2 minutes. Add the wine, bay leaf, lemon juice, pepper and sea salt. Simmer, covered, for 5 minutes. Add the mussels to the sauce, cover, and cook until the mussels open up. Sprinkle with the cilantro, shake briskly the casserole dish and gently simmer the mussels for just a short time before serving with 20 slices of toasted country bread. The bread slices are for slopping up the delicious wine-garlicy juices from this dish.
Anyone else have recipes to share? Either Apostles' Fast or Strict Fast recipes will do.
My favorite fast recipe:
Ingrediants:
Bread
Peanutbutter
Jelly
Take two slices of bread and lay them side by side on a plate. Apply a layer of peanutbutter to one slice of bread then wipe off knife on the other slice of bread. Then add the desired amount of Jelly to the slice of bread wiht peanutbutter. Lastly take the slice of bread with nothing on it and place it on top the bread containing the peanutbutter and jelly.
Here's my addition to the recipe list (this is what we're eating at the present moment), and try to pay attention because it's very complicated!
1) Cook Pasta
2) Use something that imitates butter but is allowed during the fast, and melt it.
3) Combine 1 and 2
4) Salt
5) Eat
:mrgreen:
Justin
PS. And yes, Nicholas, I do know how to cook more than that... it's just that most of the stuff I cook requires the food to have had parents at some point in the past.
I would never say that this is all you know how to make Justin! I know you know how to make french fries and onion rings too! rim shot!
But that is why we have this thread, so people can share recipes and learn to cook other things that they may have never heard of or known how to cook before.
Now I just need to get Father Dionysi to post his Matushka's wonderful tofu lasagne. You'd never know it was cheeseless!
Good post, Nektarios 
