vegetable chickpea salad – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg vegetable chickpea salad – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Deli Style Chickpea Salad http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/chickpea-salad/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/chickpea-salad/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:00:00 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=317 Recently I was grocery shopping on a Thursday night after a particularly long workday and just didn’t feel like cooking. I picked up my made-to-order deli sandwich and the free can of soda you get if you buy a sandwich on a weekday. I wanted something to eat alongside my turkey on seven-grain but a trip to the premade salad bar was especially disheartening. Salads that sounded good by description – couscous with wheatberries and cranberries, chickpeas with chopped peppers and olive oil, asian carrot salad – all looked drab and soggy in their little plastic containers. I abandoned the idea of a salad, bought cookies instead, and set out to recreate my own chickpea salad. I had some of the ingredients on hand but not all of them. I keep a pretty well-stocked kitchen, with your basic spice rack and a few olive oils. I keep dried pastas and cans of beans. I shop once or twice a few times each week for fresh produce. Even with a weekly trip to the grocery store, I usually find that when I want to make a dish or bake something, I’m missing one or two of the ingredients. As was the […]

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