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Jam

Fruit:sugar 2:1

Add fruit and 1/2 the amount of sugar

Put on LOW with no lid

bring to simmer/boil

simmer/boil 5-7 minutes

take off heat

cool completely

repeat the above and add the other 1/2 sugar when heating for second time

I did plum. Its bitter but good.

Fruit Dumplings:

look at BeyondSalmon video. She did a nice job.

300g flour

185 wet

5.7 g salt

1 egg

1 egg yolk

bluebrries should be dry (she did not wash the farm picked ones)

Put eggs and then add water to = 185 grams

dough hook 

med low

My dough hook is not good

dought shold not be sticky

if sticky, add more flour

let rest for 30 mins to 6 hours

.4mm

can do pasta machine thickest setting

8.5 cm cookie cutter

cover new circles with wrap to prevent drying

To seal:

Pile up blueberries instead of spreading out

Go over the edge twice

Before sealing you can pull on dough to stretch

To freeze:

Put in freezer on baking sheet for 2 hours

Then immediately seal in plastic bag

5+ minutes

can cover with lid

energetic simmer

Sour cream sauce:

1/2 sour cream

1/4 cup cooking water

2 teaspoon sugar

Jelly Filling

1 cup blueberries

1/4 sugar

2 tbs flour

2 tbs water

1/4 lemon

Mix sugar and flour with fork

Cook water and blueberries until boil

add sugar and flour mix

Cook stirring until the mixture thickens

It will change color and become purple

take off heat

add juice from 1/4 lemon

Pizza Tips

480-500 degrees

fork dough so it does not puff up like pita

par bake dough for 1 minute

cheese goes over toppings

lower rack in oven

10-12 min

basil, mixed greens go on after pizza is out of oven

French Fries

Preheat oven to 375°F. 

Wash potatoes leaving skin on (you can peel them if you prefer). 

Cut potatoes into desired size fries.

Let potatoes soak in cold water in the sink or in a bowl for at least 30 minutes. 

Remove from water and dry very well.

Toss with oil and seasonings. 

Spread evenly in a single layer on a ***parchment-lined pan.

Bake for 20 minutes. 

Turn the oven up to 425° and cook fries until golden, about 20-25 minutes more.

Oven baked potatoes

I did 450 for 1/2 hour

after half hour they were very dry

I added a little water to deglaze them 

left 10 more minutes

I think water softened the potatos and they seem to have become much better?

Matzo Brei

4 eggs

4 matzo

Matzo needs to be soaked and you can squeeze the excess water out, otherwise its hard in the babka

Brown on both sides, then close lid, low heat 15-20 mins to set

Sushi notes

1. For a half sheet of nori do a little less then 1/2 cup rice. Roll rice into ball. Spread on sheet. If doing smoked salmon can use a sheet of it and put avocado in middle of slice

2. Can cut roll in half then put the cut sides side by side and cut two at once. Put edge ones in middle when serving 6 so you do not see the edge.

3. Use 2 cups rice/1 tsp salt/4 tbs vinegar/nasha?

4. If making inside out roll sprinkle the rice with seeds before flipping over to add filling

5. Japanese mayo/shichimi powder/siracha (1/4 of the mayo)/ponzy sauce (little)

Homemade Mayonnaise

1 egg

1 teaspoon mustard

250 grams oil (i used canola from trader)

salt and sugar to taste

keep blender on bottom

I saw someplace put it over the egg yolk to cover it but not sure this is necessary

When mayonnaise starts turning white add 1 tbs lemon juice

I used a hand blender and put all ingredients together except lemon but I think you may have to drizzle in the oil

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• MAKE MAYONNAISE

Add egg to the small bowl of a food processor and process for 20 seconds. Add the mustard, vinegar, and salt. Process for another 20 seconds.

Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl, turn the food processor on then begin to slowly add the oil in tiny drops until about a quarter of the oil has been added (this is critical for proper emulsification).

When you notice that the mixture is beginning to thicken and emulsify, you can be a little less strict. With the processor on, continue to add it slowly, but increase to a very thin stream instead of drops of oil.

When all of the oil has been added, scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl and process for an extra 10 seconds. Taste mayonnaise for seasoning then add salt, lemon juice or extra vinegar to taste.

Note, if the mayo seems too thin, slowly stream in more oil with the processor running until thick.

Eggplant:

Has to be salted and completely dried

400

at 375 mid rack it steams and sticks to pan. Does not cook through.

hot chocolate

ingredients

1 cup of white sugar

1 cup of cocoa powder

2 cups of water

10 cups of milk

whipped cream and mini marshmallows

You’ll need to do the “hard” part at home the night or morning before. You’ll mix the sugar, cocoa powder and water in a saucepan and bring to a slight boil. Let it cool and put it in a container to bring to school with you.

Then add this to milk and heat up

farmer cheese blinchiki

250 grams lifeway or any 5% + farmer cheese

1.5 tbs flour

1.5 tbs manka

1/2 egg

sugar

vanilla sugar

salt ?

Let sit overnight for moisture to absorb

dump in flour

roll into a log

shape the blinchiki and roll each one in flour

I did zapekanka with 2 eggs and the above manka/flour amounts 50 mins

To fry

start with oil

when you flip can add butter for taste to pan in addition to oil

Mashed Potatoes

cook potatoes

add milk

Mash

do not mash and add milk later

poached eggs

use le cruset

boil water

turn heat down so water barely moving

add 4 eggs by cracking them in bowl one at a time

turn heat up to medium low

by the time the pot gets to med low temp they will be done

Tie-dye

Rinse off teh dye

On HOT cycle add 1 TBS salt and a drop of washing soap

Wash shirt

Rinse off excess paint in cold water

cute apple cake:
2-3 egg yolks
100 gm sugar + 3 tbs to put on top
milk 125 ml
butter 25 gm + 25 to put over cake (1/2 stick)
salt 1/3 tsp
vanilla 1 package
flour 180 gm
levener 1.5 tsp ( I did 1)
apples 2-3

1. mix sugar and yolks until white
2. Add butter, milk, flour, vanilla, salt, levener (add levener to flour  and mix before adding to the bowl)
2. use parchment paper circle and lodge skillet
3. Stick cut apples in batter
4. Pour 25 gm butter on top
5. sprinkle with 3 tbs sugar
6. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes

Bagels:

1. Can use King Arthur recipe or Russian lady recipe with starter (maybe skip oil in dough)
2. Use high-gluten or bread flour
3. Make the dough
4. Can let sit overnight in refrigerator if using commercial yeast
5. If using starter can sit overnight unrefrigerated to rise
6. Make big holes, the shrink up
7. Make sure the water is boiling before you put bagel in
8. Use parchment paper, otherwise they stick to cookie sheet
9. Use one cookie sheet inside the other so they do not warp from 450 F heat

French Fries:

1. Cut potatoes (2) into 3/4 or 1 inch thickness
2. Soak in water at least 30 minutes
3. Dry completely
4. Add oil and salt
5. Put on a lined with foil or parchment cookie sheet in one row
6. Take them out by hand from mixing bowl. If you dump contents out, the oil is mixed with water and splatter and burn when you increase heat to 425F
7. 20 minutes on 375
8. 20 minutes on 475
9. Switch the sheet around in oven
10. Do another 5-10 on other side
11. Take out immediately otherwise they continue cooking

Frying potatoes in a non-stick pan
Add 3 tbs oil. I thin 2 is too little for 4 potatoes. If you use lid, the potatoes still crust.

Kotleti:
1 lb meat
1 egg
2 bread slices soaked in water
1/2 onion
1 tsp salt

Grind
Mix

Spread breadcrumbs on a baking dish in a thin layer
using wet hands drop shaped kotleti on the sheet with crumbs
using a teaspoon drop crumbs on top
Then bread them all around, otherwise this particula mix combination will fall apart

cannot fry on clad without breading, they will stick


Cabbage
2 kg cabbage
50 gm salt (apx 2.5 tbs)
1 tsp sugar (optional)

Cut cabbage
Add Salt
'Knead' with hands until cabbage releases juice
Put in container that just fits cabbage, cabbage should be at top
Press on cabbage with something to release more juice and compress cabbage
Use weight to weight it down, she used plate and then put jar with water on it
Put the whole thing on a place since it will most likely overflow
Wait 3 days
Daily make holes with something in the mass all the way to bottom to release gas
Can use chopsticks for this job
If after 12 hours there is no juice covering the top, add a little water. Cabbage should be completely covered.

ICE CREAM

This is good. On Strawberry if adding 2 cups reduce the amount of milk/cream. I think machine can only hold 4 cups. I did milk cream strawberry 5 cups total and 1 cup sugar and it overflowed

3/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
pinch of salt
1 cup whole milk
2 cups heavy cream
1/2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Directions:

In a medium bowl, whisk together the cocoa, sugars, and salt.
Add the milk and combine using a whisk or hand mixer on low speed until the cocoa, sugars, and salt are dissolved.
Continue with step 3 in directions for vanilla ice cream recipe.



CHICKEN THIGHS
I have no idea how to do this but this rub was good. I dissolved it in 2 tbs oil and rubbed chicken with it. I mean it was OK.

Ingredients
3 Pounds Chicken thighs, About 6-8
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 Teaspoons Salt
2 Teaspoons Garlic Powder (no)
2 Teaspoon Onion Powder
2 Teaspoons Italian Seasoning (no)
1 Teaspoon Black Pepper
1 Teaspoon Paprika (very old paprika)

KASHA

It used to be 1/4 to 1 1/4 milk
Can do 1/4 water and 1 cup milk
Increase milk to 1.5 or 1.75 for a thinner kasha


COOKIES
Top rack, bake better


PLOV
2 cups of rice should be cooked for 25 minutes
Water is 1 to 1.5 because there is liquid in pot already
Not sure how to do this
Saw a guy fry onions, carrots, put the chicken in and add water, cook then add rice

SOUP BASE
Cook onion in one TBS oil
add garlic, tomatoes and spices
Let cook for 10-20 minutes
Then add the rest of ingredients


Bismati Rice
I think I did 3/4 rice and double the water and 15 minutes instead of 20
Came out perfect


Roasted vegetables
Only can do broccoli and cauliflower
Steam them first and then 1/2 hour on 350
Turn after 20 minutes

Cous Cous
1:2
Bring to boil and let sit for 5 minutes on very low
turn off heat

Red lentil soup
Kripalu recipe was fine
Did 1 cup Pomi and 7 water
Could only taste Pomi

Poaching Eggs:
Bring water to boil
Turn heat to almost 0
Wait until all the bubbles subside
Put bowl in water and slide out egg slowly
Turn heat to low
Cook 3 minutes


Pastry Cream
Mix sugar, egg yolks and flour together until smooth, then add milk, then cook the entire mixture until it thickens
4 eggs was not enough for 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 cup sugar, I had to add another yolk

Pastry Cream II
Took Smitten Recipe and used 4 tbs flour, I think it was too thick
Mixed eggs with 1/4 milk, sugar then added flour
Heated milk until warm and not hot
update:
3 tbs flour is enough

Latkes
can use 1/4 flour and 1 egg for 6 medium potatoes



Gingerbread House notes:
1. All sides have to be the same and the bottoms have to be flat otherwise house has gaping holes when you glue it together.
2. Icing dries after 2 hours +
3. Use a chip clip on top of piping bag so icing does not come out
4. Can use plastic bottle for icing
5. Dough is easier to work with when it's cold
6. Make sure walls are the same thickness
7. Can add skis, christmas tree, iciclses to house


Bread

Roasting
Try 15 minutes on low rack at 400 and then flip


1. Knead dough until you stretch it and it does not rip. Then it is ready. It also looks smooth when it's done.
2. Sourdough proofs in 3 hours

Split Pea Soup
If you cook it for like 40 + 40 minutes, the peas completely cook down and there are no shells

Chickpeas

1 cup soaked overnight
salt
Bring to boil
Put on medium
Leave lid help up by spatula
The boil is minimal
1 hour
This worked

Манка

1/4 grain to 1 and 1/4 milk

Гречка

Do not rem
1:2
Grain takes longer depending on amount
SOAK IT before cooking in cold water and it will come out giant

Rice

1:2

Quinoa

1:2

LEMONADE

1 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup simple syrup
3 cups water

I would go down on simple syrup. It was just perfect but I like things a little MORE sour.

2 cup lemon juice

3.5 cups water

1/2 cup simple syrup

This was also good

SLUSH

use LEMONADE recipe
use 1/2 to 1 cup less water
ingredients should be from refrigerator
mix all igredients prior to putting in ice cream machine
20 mins
This needs zest too



POPSICLES

*unmold using RUNNING warm water
4 cups fruit
2/3 sugar

Put sugar in fruit
Can add 1/2 cup water when cooking or wait until the fruit juices enough so it's almost covered in juice (second one yield more flavorful popsicles)
Bring to boil
Cook for 5
Cool
Can strain out seeds or pulp

TOMATO SOUP

blanched fall tomatoes cut up in pieces
1 tbs oil
garlic
onion
sautee on med-low heat garlic and onion
add tomatoes and 1 tsp water or can skip water
add a bunch of salt
cook for 40 minutes
puree
serve with cheese and croutons

Popcorn
1/2 curnels
3 tbs oil

open new TJ bag
heat up oil and curnels on medium high heat, a bit above medium
once they start popping, turn heat to medium,  whirl the machine
after they stop
shut off heat and keep whirling if you can
all popped



CHICKEN

*use oil, lift skin, get spices under skin
Cut off excees skin and remove feathers or burn them. Clean of the excess fat and the stringy things.

You can wash chicken with lemon, lime or soak in salt water. Rub lemon over chicken and squeeze juice

Use cold water
I did 4 thighs
Use white ceramic pan with sides
Added 2 tbs water
400 for an hour covered
400 for 1/2 hour uncovered
If you use balsamic based marinade onions on the bottom come out very good

SWEET POTATO FRIES
use rimmed baking sheet, metal
425
40 minutes
Could not turn. They were stuck to bottom. They baked but were not crispy.

CARAMEL SAUCE
butter + sugar should be the same temperature ie. do not melt butter and then add sugar. you will get separation

melt butter and sugar and  stir the whole time, bring to boiling, boil for 3 minutes, add fruit

HAIR
Wash hair
Let dry for 1/2 hour
shake head
Dry roots with cold air
Looks better then doing nothing

NAOMI HAIR

Jan 2021

Put Alafia on top of the head and smooth it out. It will go through the hair since its thin and you do no have to spread it though.

Use a comb to brush hair
Rinse out conditioner


REBECCA HAIR

Does very well with Alaffia shampoo. Becomes thick. No conditioner needed at this time.

Meatballs
sautee onion, add carrots and garlic, sautee by mixing that all the time otherwise will burn then add Tumi
Do not add water, meantballs will release its own water
Put something in between layers of meatballs so they do not stick to each other, I used shredded carrots
20-30 minutes done

Haggineh Pizza

1 1/2 Cups of warm water

3 Tbs olive oil

1 Tbs sugar

1/2 Tbs salt , I use kosher or sea salt

1 Tsp instant yeast,if using active dry yeast activate before adding

3 1/2- 4 Cups of flour

1/3 Cup semolina

Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix until smooth dough forms

Use hand or mixer

Transfer the dough onto lightly floured working surface and knead about 2-3 minutes

Add as much extra flour as you need to work with the dough without it sticking too much

Place the dough into lightly greased large bowl and cover with plastic wrap

Let it rest in a warm place until doubled in size (1-2 hours) minutes,depending on temperature

Divide the dough into 2 equal portions and place in the fridge 45-50 minutes

Bake the pizza on a non stick baking pan or greased and sprinkled with cornmeal/semolina

Oven temperature 480°F/220° C degree oven 10-15 minutes

Enjoy !

work by pushing out the dough with fingers on a round pizza dough bakign sheet, keep the edge puffy, push into the edge toward the edge. When pizza dough reaches almost the size of circle can lift and stretch

used baking stone with a metal mesh so underside cooks, last 3 minutes removed the mesh

said doug has to rest 24 hours in refrigerator for digestion

Picked mushrooms

Не-секреты "правильной" жарехи: некоторые грибы (как эти) при обработке, жарке почернеют/посинеют. Их нужно обварить в течение 10-15 минут в лимонно-соленой воде. Вся чернь уйдет. После варки обжарить лучше всего на чугунной сковородке и топленом масле (ghee). Многие добавляют сметану, что тоже очень вкусно 😋 Картоху жарить отдельно. 

Dance studio closing

Сметанник-Медовик

Smitten Kitchen's Honey Cake

Pancakes Two Great Recipes

MARTHA STEWART LIVING, OCTOBER 2006

For a spiced breakfast treat, whisk 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon each cinnamon, ground ginger, and salt; 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg; and a pinch of ground cloves. In a separate bowl, stir together 1 cup milk, 6 tablespoons canned pumpkin puree, 2 tablespoons melted butter, and 1 egg; fold mixture into dry ingredients. Melt some butter in a skillet over medium heat; pour in 1/4 cup batter for each pancake. Cook pancakes about 3 minutes per side; serve with butter and syrup.

Makes 8 to 10.

Recipe: The Best Buttermilk Pancakes

From: A Cup Of Joe

You’ll need:
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1 ¼ cup buttermilk, shaken
1 large egg
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

In a small bowl, measure out the buttermilk. Add the egg, melted butter and vanilla extract; beat until thoroughly combined.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined, being sure to not overmix. The batter should have small to medium lumps.

Heat up your griddle (or cast iron skillet) over medium heat and brush with 1/2 tablespoon of butter. Scoop the batter, using a 1/4 cup measure (or tablespoon measure), onto the warm skillet. Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, until small bubbles form on the surface of the pancake, and then flip. Turn heat down to medium-low and cook on opposite side for about 1 minute, or until golden brown.

Transfer cooked pancakes to a baking sheet and place in oven to keep warm. Proceed with the rest of the batter until you’re done. Serve with warm maple syrup.

Pancakes are easily modified, too. For heartier pancakes, consider adding ¼ cup whole-wheat, buckwheat, rye or barley flour, and decreasing the all-purpose amount to ¾ cup. If you’d like them a bit sweeter, simply add one to two more tablespoons of sugar. If you’d like to brighten them up, fold in fresh lemon or orange zest. If you’re in the mood for fruit, add blueberries, raspberries or strawberries; instead of adding them to the batter—which will result in them sinking to the bottom—add them to the pancakes on the griddle.

Ode to Temple Israel

This was my first school when I came to the US. I spent every morning in the chapel pictured. I learned all the prayers phonetically because I could not read in Hebrew and for many years afterwards dutifully mispronounced all the words in every prayer. I remember all the wonderful teachers we had when Cohen Hillel Academy was in this building. Mrs. Karen Madorsky, Mrs. Mimi Aronson, Zvi, Dan whose last names I do not recall, Mrs. Naplan, Ellen Morgan, Dr. Solomon and Mrs. Janet Fagan who was my very first teacher in the US. This place will always be remembered for being knocked over on the playground by Chad Meldensohn and getting a skull fracture, getting a horrible sunburn because my parents did not know sunscreen existed, getting chicken pox and crying about it to Mrs.Aronson after I knocked a pox out with a basketball, learning Enlglish and getting my first taste of my Jewish heritage which I was not aware of in Russia. Like the author of this article I thought someone would come forward and save the beautiful building. I still am not sure how you can knock down a synagogue and build condominiums.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2014/01/02/saying-goodbye-era-that-could-not-saved/5oujxrMuprX4cAcGOLx7XN/story.html

I think I will post the content here because one day this link above will be no more and I think this article was written rather well and embodies what I would like to have said.

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Temple Israel in Swampscott was built in 1953 by Italian architect Pietro Belluschi, with a Star of David on top and a vast sanctuary filled with natural light.
Selling a house can sometimes be a simple process. A bunch of papers are signed, you hand over the keys, and you move somewhere else.

But what happens when someone else sells a place you never owned but still feel a part of?


The sledgehammer came to my old temple in Swampscott last month. It was not unexpected: It had sat idle for almost a decade after its former congregation, Temple Israel, merged with another synagogue. Soon, 14 homes will be built on the site.

The temple building, once one of the grandest, most elegant open-domed Conservative sanctuaries in America, was built by the estimable Italian architect Pietro Belluschi in 1953. It represented the hopes and dreams of a new Jewish working class.

Most were American-born Jews who had fled the congestion in places like Chelsea, Malden, Revere, and Lynn. Some had gone to college and were lawyers, doctors, and accountants. Others ran scrap metal yards, owned real estate, drove trucks and cabs, or had family businesses, such as my father, who owned a Chelsea deli. Some were wealthy, but most just made a living and wanted something better for their children.

Inside the building, there were traditional Jewish services every day, and a few pious men could be seen in the sanctuary. But Temple Israel functioned as much more than a house of prayer. It was part of a new era of the American Jewish experience: Ushering in a new society, brimming with great ambition, where people who had grown up in cold-water flats could find a home outside of the urban ring hard by the Mystic River.

Save for Hebrew School, it was largely empty most of the week. No matter. People drove by it, noticed its Star of David and took note that the Jews had a home and planned to stay. It also helped diffuse the not-so-subtle hints that we didn’t belong everywhere: As late as the 1960s, there was a nearby golf course and a beach club where Jews did not feel welcome.

There was no grand religious or spiritual plan at the temple. Outside of learning the Hebrew alphabet and practicing reading, there was little focus at the Hebrew School besides preparing for our bar and bat mitzvahs. At the time, those in charge probably thought it would be unfair to burden American children with Jewish history. After all, what would be gained in describing our largely tumultuous existence, punctuated with exile, pogroms, and torture. Instead we were assigned two goals: Complete your bar/bat mitzvah and graduate from college.

If anything, it was a building that belonged to our parents. Most were hardly religious, and only a few kept kosher. But there were weddings and bar mitzvahs and brotherhood breakfasts to organize, attend, and to later reminisce about. It became a community, built on some common social values, such as giving to charity, supporting Israel, and performing good deeds. These days, modern Jewish professionals have created a whole subset of Judaism around that concept and call it Tikkun Olam, or repairing the world.

But no one ever said Tikkun Olam was a path to sustain dues-paying members, and these days there is no repairing of the temple. Its honey brick courtyards have been toppled; its burnished redwood halls where plaques once honored the dead and the founding temple members gleamed in the open-aired wreckage. Its maples have been uprooted, sawed into blocks and carted away.

During another time, perhaps 20 or 30 years ago, a handful of wealthy Jews would have rushed to save the 52,000-square-foot building. But those philanthropists have long departed, like the insular group that once ran the temple.

In its heyday in the 1970s, when more than 2,000 people crowded into services on holidays such as Yom Kippur, or raised tens of thousands of dollars for Israel during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the temple seemed like it would go on forever. But things were changing. America was opening its doors to Jews, and with intermarriage, Jews began the process of entering the majority religion.

A 2013 Pew Research Center study on American Judaism reported 1 in 5 American Jews by birth reported having no religion. And about 40 percent of Jewish adults said they lived in a household where just one person was a member of a temple.

When I drive by the temple, my car slows to a crawl and I realize a little piece of me is somewhere in that wreckage. Was it the 13-year-old, surrounded by Old World relatives after my bar mitzvah? Or the college student who wiped away a tear alongside my sister’s wedding canopy? Or, perhaps, it was the teen who found solace sitting alone in the vast sanctuary, filled with abundant natural light that streamed through the stained glass windows and made everything seem golden and perfect.

Chickpeas

I finally figured out how to cook them. Soak for 24 hours. It takes about an hour and 15 to cook. Bring to a boil, no salt and simmer partially covered. Leave a tiny space between the lid and the pot. It is the difference between simmering water and water that stands still. When they are cooked they kind of stop simmering and  the water stands still although you did not change the gas setting. Not sure about this one. I made chickpea and roasted pepper salad with them. Recipe is here as expected http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/11/chickpea-salad-with-roasted-red-peppers/ I added a little more capers. I used overfilled 3 table spoons and added the garlic to the dressing and let it sit. I do not have a photo.

Hummus Recipe 

I can actually say adapted from http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2013/01/ethereally-smooth-hummus/
I cooked the chickpeas for 1:45 and did not soak them, I had them under a lid on low heat. No soda or salt.

1 cup cooked chickpeas (cooked for 1:45 hours)

1 tbs lemon juice

3 tbs tehina

1/2 tsp salt

2 garlic cloves

parsley (optional) 

5 tbs hummus water

the smitten kitchen cookbook

wild mushroom tart

salted brown butter crispy treats

broccoli slaw

What can I say. I am addicted to the crispy treats and the filling of the mushroom tart is spectacular.