Today, I wanted something really tasty and healthy yet satisfying for lunch. I wasn't planning on making anything because there isn't really anything I can make in my dorm room, but then I came across a really simple recipe for a Chickpea Salad. After reading the recipe and seeing that it doesn't require actual cooking, just assembling, and that all of the ingredients were pretty easy to get and prepare, I decided to make it. It has chickpeas, feta, mango, cucumber, mint or cilantro, olive oil, lime juice, and salt and pepper. That's all! It was really good, and really easy. The original is here.
Cooking is a commonsense practice, not alchemy. Listening and watching closely while you cook will reveal a richly shaded language understood by all the senses - the degrees of a simmer, the aroma of a roast telling you it is done, the stages of elasticity of kneaded dough, the earthy scent of a vegetable just pulled from the ground - it is everything to mind these details. This is cooking. ~ Chez Panisse Cookbook
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