You new favorite foods?

Falafel is basically chick peas, fava beans, onion, and spices ground into a paste. You then fry/bake the paste. Traditionally you serve it on middle eastern flatbread with lettuce, tomato, and tahini sauce (tahini is ground up sesame seeds... kind of like peanut butter).

I tried making it on my own but without a food processor its difficult, so I opted to get mixes from the Lebanese store down the street from me (basically they do all the processing and mixing spices and then dry it out so you just add water). The mixes are all organic so there's nothing you wouldn't get if you made it yourself.

All I can say is... so so so so good. I usually fry them up with olive oil, and then have one on a whole wheat burger bun with some ketchup and tahini. I suppose I should bake them, but they always come out less crispy that way. It's a treat

I've been wanting to make this but I don't have a food processor. I got a recipe from Rachel Ray's site that sounds really good. I might just spurge and buy one.
I don't have a store that would sell anything close to the mix. But that's life in a small town.

I have made falafel from a mix I can find at Walmart on the ethnic foods lane, and trust me, I live in a small town! Its just the spices so you need to add the chickpeas that you grind, it a yellow box I think. I love falafel stuffed in a pita with lettuce, tomato a bit of red onion and some plain yogurt on top. Yummy.

Couldn't get the tortilla wrap link to show up... am I on drugs? :laugh:

My new fav snack as of yesterday is:

A Trader Joe's brown rice cake
1 tbsp peanut butter
drizzle of honey.

YUM!

Might be a pregnancy thing though!!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: