Recently, I came into a lot of cooked chickpeas.

It happened like this: I was defrosting a turkey in a cheap styrofoam cooler and decided to use a two pound bag of dried chickpeas to weigh the bird down. After having been doing this for several hours, I noticed that the bag of chickpeas had a hole in it and was full of water. Given that the chickpeas were starting to rehydrate and not sure how I could re-dry them, I decided to go ahead and soak them with baking soda and cook them.

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