Some cooks put their blood, sweat, and tears into what they cook. That's definitely not me, usually. But for something that only has four ingredients: these crispy, spiced chickpeas definitely cost me a river of blood, a few tears, and Marc a lot of sweat. But I'm getting ahead of myself here.
When it comes to cheesemaking, I am 2 for 3. Dreamy ricotta came together with the insurance policy of heavy cream to help hold it together, but an attempt at mozzarella from a kit I ordered from Amazon died a hundred deaths. That attempt ended in me loudly banging pots and quietly muttering to myself while I was left with cloudy hot water, burnt fingertips and no mozzarella for pizza night. Hello emergency trip to Harris Teeter. My latest non-meltdown and major cheese success is a squeaky paneer that got dropped in a sauce of greens for saag paneer.