{"id":5564,"date":"2017-02-03T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2020-12-06T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T01:18:15","slug":"canopy-cassoulet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2017\/02\/canopy-cassoulet\/","title":{"rendered":"Canopy Cassoulet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canopynwa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5563\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2017\/02\/canopy-cassoulet\/canopynwa-logo-300x300\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanopyNWA-logo-300x300.png\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CanopyNWA logo 225&amp;#215;225\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: http:\/\/www.canopynwa.org CanopyNWA is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization started by Northwest Arkansas residents who are working to create a place of refuge for people fleeing persecution due to race, membership in a particular social group, political opinion, religion, or national origin.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanopyNWA-logo-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanopyNWA-logo-300x300.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5563 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanopyNWA-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"Logo of Canopy Northwest Arkansas, a refugee resettlement service\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanopyNWA-logo-300x300.png 225w, https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanopyNWA-logo-300x300-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>As a volunteer with the refugee resettlement group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canopynwa.org\">Canopy Northwest Arkansas<\/a>, I made a family&#8217;s first meal in their new home.<\/p>\n<p>The mom and dad, ages 30 and 28, have been living\u00a0in camps since fleeing Democratic Republic of \u00a0Congo in 2003. Their son just turned 6. Who knows what they&#8217;ve been eating all this time.\u00a0A recipe, a north African-style tajine stew that my wife and I\u00a0enjoyed a couple of times in recent months, made the most sense.<\/p>\n<p>Did they like it? The adults were nearly beyond exhaustion, and there was a language barrier. They ate silently but heartily. The volunteers who brought them to the apartment from the airport wanted the recipe, it smelled and looked so good.<\/p>\n<p>The boy? For a long time,\u00a0his folks couldn&#8217;t tear him away from the toy trucks the group\u00a0had waiting for him.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 teaspoon coriander, ground<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon cumin, ground<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon black pepper, ground<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon, or less (or none), crushed red pepper flakes<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon ground cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1 large\u00a0onion, diced to bean size<\/li>\n<li>3 cloves garlic, minced<\/li>\n<li>2 cups\u00a0vegetable broth<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons tomato paste (about 1\/3 of a 6 oz. can)<\/li>\n<li>2 pounds sweet potatoes (3-5 tubers), 1\/2-inch dice<\/li>\n<li>2 (15- or 15.5-ounce) cans beans, such as garbanzo and black or\u00a0garbanzo and kidney, <a href=\"http:\/\/aquafaba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including<\/a> liquid<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup pitted green olives,\u00a0sliced<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup raisins<\/li>\n<li>2\u00a0Tablespoons dried parsley or dried cilantro or a mixture<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoon lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>4 cups cooked grains (brown rice,\u00a0kamut, bulgur, couscous etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Optional step &#8212; Bloom the spices: Preheat a small skillet on medium 4 minutes. Place spices in saucer. Dump spices all at once into skillet, stirring constantly with spatula 15-20 seconds until they begin to smoke. Pour back onto saucer.)<\/p>\n<p>Except for the lemon juice and grains, put all ingredients including the spice mixture into a Dutch oven or 4-quart saucepan. Heat to boiling over medium-high heat then reduce to simmer. Cook gently 20-30 minutes, covered, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are tender but not mushy. Add a little hot\u00a0water if needed to keep a soupy stew consistency. Take off burner, stir in lemon juice. Serve over hot grains.<\/p>\n<p>Serves 4. This is a fully nutritious meal, vegan and low\u00a0fat. The coriander could be replaced with fennel, ginger or turmeric (each way different but complementary). Tossing in a couple of cups of a mild green vegetable, like a cut-up zucchini, would be nice. Bread on the side could replace the grains. Drizzling a spoon of good olive oil over the stew\u00a0would enhance.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/recipe\/sweet-potato-and-chickpea-tagine\">Sweet Potato and Chickpea Tagine<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0the Whole Foods Market website. Renamed to honor Canopy NWA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a volunteer with the refugee resettlement group\u00a0Canopy Northwest Arkansas, I made a family&#8217;s first meal in their new home. The mom and dad, ages 30 and 28, have been living\u00a0in camps since fleeing Democratic Republic of \u00a0Congo in 2003. Their son just turned 6. Who knows what they&#8217;ve been eating all this time.\u00a0A recipe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-entrees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6336,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2019\/04\/your-vote\/","url_meta":{"origin":5564,"position":0},"title":"I Would Appreciate Your Vote","author":"Ben S. 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