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Chick Pea Salad: A Delicious, Nutritious, Vegetarian Meal

Chick peas are delicious, nutritious and a good vegetarian option. Chick pea salad is one of my favourite meals. It’s tasty, quick to put together, no cooking required, highly nutritious, and the ingredients are simple. It’s a perfect one-bowl summer meal. I eat it all year long!

The great thing about this kind of recipe is that you can make it what you want it to be. You can switch out the veggies I’ve listed for ones you prefer. You can add cilantro instead of parsley or don’t add garlic if you would prefer not to. You can add nuts instead of ground chia seeds.

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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

I love the shadow play in this picture. It makes me think of time passing, minutes, hours, days and seasons.

The wood was used by my father when he worked on scaffolding. One of my brothers planed it, finished it and installed it in my home. I love having it as a reminder of the hard and creative work that my father was so good at. He was an excellent bricklayer and when he worked on a project he could “see” the finished product in 3D in his head. He understood exactly what steps needed to be done to get to the finish. I think he would have been a very good architect or engineer if he had had the opportunity. He was very good at math and he could see how something needed to be built and how the different aspects of a project came together.

What do you do to expand or develop your creativity? – Cris

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