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If there are any things that you eat that are really easy to prepare (not more difficult than cooking pasta), Vaporeon wants to hear about it
1) put oil to large skillet or pot
2) add a sprig of thyme and two drained cans of chickpeas. stir for a couple minutes
3) add some tomato paste and stir.
4) add 6 cups of water and bring to a boil
5) add a pound of some small pasta, or spaghetti noodles broken into small pieces
6) stir periodically so noodles don't stick to bottom
7) serve with cheese and red pepper flakes
@wallhackio I assume that you need to cook the small pasta first?
@vaporeon_ no they cook in the water you added to the chickpeas
They will soak up a lot of the water and the result won't be soupy, especially if you mash some of the chickpeas with a wooden spoon or potato mashed before adding the noodles 
@wallhackio Sorry, I misinterpreted your instructions and assumed that I'd need a frying pan (I thought that's what a skillet is)
If I can do it in a normal pot like I already cook pasta in, that makes this easier!
@vaporeon_ it's super filling
@wallhackio If they don't have chickpeas at the store, are regular peas fine? How much tomato paste? 1 pound of pasta is how many kilograms? What kind of cheese, is grated mozzarella fine?
I kind of want to try making this...
@vaporeon_ a pound of pasta is the size of a typical box of spaghetti
1 heaping tbsp of tomato paste is good. Although I have a squeeze tube of tomato paste and just measure with my heart
Mozzarella is good. Parmesan and Pecorino are also good. Anything you would serve with ordinary pasta
Chickpeas are not replaceable here, the texture they get when you mash them gives the pasta a cheesy texture that would be hard to replicate with other proteins (when cat saw the resulted she thought I made a mac and cheese recipe!). They are sometimes called Garbanzo beans which is a synonym for chickpea (oh wait you live in Germany so that shouldn't be an issue)
I would be extremely surprised if you couldn't find chickpeas because they are very common out here but maybe Germany is different. I can always find them in the aisle when I find cans of other beans. @Breakfast can you comment on the availability of chickpeas?
@vaporeon_ oh my bad. a box of this size, which seems to be about 450ish kilograms
@wallhackio Grams, not kilograms :P
450 kilograms would be an entire Snorlax's weight of spaghetti
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ i need to experience a bath of dry spaghetti now
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ Ja, Wir haben Kichererbsen, gibt es in den meisten Supermärkten.
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@Breakfast @wallhackio @vaporeon_ die Chimnk’dpea
@wallhackio I must admit that I never specifically looked for them, they might be on the same shelf as regular peas... I assume that the chickpeas in the can are already cooked, but that's fine, right?
And spaghetti comes in all sorts of different packaging here, how many grams is your typical box?