entropy disguised as cooking

I have learned two things in the past few nights:

1) dried chickpeas are much, much more impressive after they've soaked overnight. Don't be silly and measure them out dried instead of wet, or else you'll have more than twice the amount you originally needed. oops.

2) on the other hand, an overage of chickpeas means that you get to use the stick blender.

( And stick blenders are weapons of minor destruction! )

Also, I impulsively bought a large beautiful bunch of fresh mint. What do I do with fresh mint? So far I've made minty hot chocolate with it, but one can only have so much hot chocolate...