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-Rex

Chickpea-Carrot-Olive salad

This comes from Once Upon A Tart..., the cookbook, and the restaurant. Erin and I happened upon it when we were looking for breakfast in New York. We ordered some quiche and tart and this salad. I took a cameraphone pic of the book and could only decipher the ingredient list, so here is what I did with that:


Grate 3 or 4 medium carrots into a large bowl. Take a handful of mixed olives (about a cup, with pits) and pit and rough chop them and add them to the bowl. Finely chop almost a full bunch of cilantro and two scallions, into the bowl. Rinse and drain two cans of chickpeas, mix into the bowl. Stir this up really well, making sure all the ingredients are well distributed.

For the dressing, in a smaller bowl: One or two cloves of garlic, finely minced. the zest and juice of one lemon. 2Tbls ground cumin, 2tsp paprika, a strong dash of red cayenne, 2tsp salt, generous grind of pepper. Whisk this until combined. Whisk vigorously and add in 3Tbs of olive oil.

mix the dressing into the salad, cover with plastic wrap and put in the fridge for an hour before serving.

Bacon and Egg on Waffle

Breakfast, originally uploaded by Rex Roof.

I toasted some leftover waffles and made a sandwich with bacon and egg. Next time I should make some maple-flavored waffles so that I can emulate this: Dunkin Donuts Waffle Sandwich

Super Crispy Waffles

This recipe inspired me to make myself waffles for breakfast. I wasn't totally paying attention when I was adding the milk and possibly made the batter a bit too thin. I made up for it by adding some more flour in the end. I also didn't want to dirty measuring cups so I weighed out the flour. I decided 1-3/4 cups of flour was 8.25oz.

Crispy Waffles (adapted from serious eats)

Whisk together in a batter bowl: 8.25oz All Purpose Flour, 1tsp baking powder, 1/4tsp salt.

Whisk together in separate bowl: 2 egg yolks, 1 3/4cups milk, 1/2cup canola oil.

Make a hole in the dry ingredients and pour in the egg/milk mixture. stir until all wet but still lumpy. Let batter sit while you whisk 2 egg whites to rather stiff peaks.



If after whisking your batter is still quite thin, stir in two tablespoons of flour. Fold egg whites into batter.

Be sure to use enough batter in your waffle maker to fill it. Waffles without enough batter suck.



Eat with syrup, bacon, jelly, eggs and coffee.