Hey You.

I made a chickpea soup with that broccoli.  I couldn't wrap my head around the recipe -- I mean, come on... raisins and shitake mushrooms?  WTF?  So I thought I'd try it.  Too many bean-based, veg-based soups that are mushy and predictable (read: yummy and warming), and too few weirdo experimental things.  So.

Here's one of those big old Louisiana onions, a big head of broccoli (everything here: fried or x-large), and a beautiful (warm) fall day.  I'm actually wearing a hat to make the soup, but whatever.  That's because I'm cheap, not because it's not a nice day.

And then: the beans were slightly undercooked.  I didn't add the arrowroot equivalent (the more expensive bead-shaped stuff) and so I didn't get the texture that was supposed to be there.  No creamy.  Sludgy/beany.  Damn.  

But I'll try it again, probably with a pressure cooker.  

And sorry about the order of the post -- I'm not sure how to space the pictures and the text...  I'll figure it out.