Chickpea and Parsley Kitchen Sink Salad... with Feta


The good news:
Summer Break has just started... like just now.  This means that I can begin to rebuild that thing called a 'life at home'.  I have vague memories of it - the cooking and baking, the sweeping, the cleaning, the kids.  This is good.  This also means that I should be able to post more than one thing per week here because I know that this blog basically keeps your world turning.
More good news:  It looks like my shin problem was very short lived and since my foot is doing much better I'm going to slowly start ramping up my running and see if I might be able to hobble through a half marathon in the fall.

The bad news:
All of this stuff will happen but hasn't yet happened.
This Salad.


This Salad and I failed together.  We're on the outs... maybe permanently.  I had high hopes for it and it disappointed me thoroughly but it was my fault - I think.  It was supposed to be simple - a chick pea, feta, parsley thing.  That was where it started.  Then I saw that there were radishes and peppers in the fridge.  Into the bowl they went.  Oh yeah... then cucumber.  Chopped and into the bowl.  And What?  I've got a can of tuna in the cupboard... can't leave that out.  You guessed it - into the bowl.  What I ended up with was a crazy mish mash of a salad.  I mean, how much protein does one salad need.  My advice, should you be brave enough to go for it, is to omit the tuna entirely... and maybe the cucumber too... and maybe less feta if there is less salad.
Damn - I ate this for four days straight.  D doesn't believe in salad with dressing ever.  Only stuff with nothing dressingy in or on it.  Kid #1 and Kid #2 - they probably didn't even know that the salad existed in our fridge but the knowledge wouldn't have made a difference one way or another.  I could barely stomach it, I sure wasn't going to force it down anyone else's throat.  Serving salad is an optimistic endeavour in our house at the best of times and this one was barely edible even to me.  Maybe I should have thrown some pasta in there too... that it.  Throwing something else in there would probably have fixed everything.  Thank god for D coming to the rescue and cooking some food for the week.
This must be a new personal low for me and I'm thinking that after this there is only one direction that food in this house can go.  Here's looking at a good food summer.


Chickpea and Parsley Kitchen Sink Salad... with Feta 
makes about 6 cups of salad - serves 6-8

1/2 cup red onion, finely diced
2 cloves garlic, finely diced
1 1/2 cups parsley, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup chives, finely chopped
1/2 cup mint, coarsely chopped
1 1/2 cups chickpeas (drained but reserve a little liquid for the salad)
1/2 cup tuna (reserve the liquid for the salad)
juice of 1 1/2 lemons (about 4 - 5 tbsp)
1/4 cup olive oil
1 cup cucumber, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1 cup red pepper, diced
1 cup radish, thinly sliced
1 1/2 cups feta, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
2 tsp salt
dash of pepper and cayenne (optional)

Combine everything together in a big bowl.  Stir it. Taste it and adjust it as necessary to your taste. Let it marinate for a couple of hours in the fridge.
Stand back and look at how pretty it is.  
Wonder how this even qualifies as a recipe really but figure that if everyone else can do it then so can you.  Take pictures... write it all up and post it to your blog.


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