Disaster!

Garbanzada a lo Canario

Bad dream last night.

Involving the cooking of a sort of stew of chick peas, also involving chopped tomatoes and a little ham or bacon, the sort of stew served as a snack in the bars of Tenerife, in a slow cooker. Near the end of what should have been the cooking time, I was rather alarmed to find that the chick peas were shrinking rather than swelling and looked hard rather than soft.

Pressed onto the meal, involving as a result what seemed to be lots of boiled vegetables and very little savoury stew. For some reason, BH seemed to have got a rather better portion of stew than I.

Why this came up, I can't imagine. I have not actually cooked or consumed a stew of this sort for years.