Chickpea & Spinach Salad

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This week, I’m sharing half a dozen recipes from the Crafting Ritual and Cultivating Mindfulness retreat, including this chickpea and spinach salad.  Our personal chef, Jami, prepared all our delicious meals from basic, whole ingredients. Jami demonstrated how little preparation some of these yummy veggie dishes take. The garlic, cumin, and paprika are super tasty in this nourishing chickpea and spinach dish.

We served the chickpea and spinach salad alongside lemony salmon, yum. Eat this dish as a straight up side or add it to a lunch bowl, maybe overtop brown rice and alongside roasted beets or under a few blackened shrimp. Do you boo.

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Melting Potatoes

Potatoes are our ingredient of the season. You can find our full archive of potato posts here.

Given that potatoes are our ingredient of the season, we use that distinction to try new-to-us recipes. So when I saw this post for melting potatoes on Smitten Kitchen two weeks ago, I have to admit that I was a bit more giddy than I normally am over a simple potato post. This was a recipe I had never heard of before, and the results looked amazing!
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After giving it a try last week, I have nothing but praise for this simple side dish and can understand why everyone is obsessed.

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