On occasion, I will test to see if she gets a reaction from her school mates. Recently, I sent her with a steamed artichoke and a lemon-mayo dip. She said only one of her friends in the class knew it was an artichoke. (Clearly, I will have to pay for therapy when she gets older!)<\/p>\n
The recipe below for Chickpea Parsley Salad is one of her favorites. The key for me on school lunches is to have all the ingredients, all the time, at home.<\/p>\n
Fresh parsley grown at home<\/p><\/div>\n
Parsley is one of the herbs I use the most in cooking and up until now I have never gotten the yield for what I consume.<\/p>\n
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This year however I decided to try it in a TruDrop planter and my planter looks like parsley on steroids. I trim it back every time I cook and within a week it is back up again. Try this recipe on your kids or for yourself and you also will want parsley in your garden.<\/p>\n
Chickpea Parsley Salad<\/p>\n
1 garlic clove mashed<\/p>\n
\u00bd Persian lime squeezed<\/p>\n
Equal quantity of olive oil as lime juice<\/p>\n
Salt and Pepper to taste<\/p>\n
1 bunch of chopped flat leaf parsley<\/p>\n
1 can of 16 ounce Garbanzo Beans washed or the equivalent cooked dried beans<\/p>\n
Parsley and chickpea<\/p><\/div>\n
Wisk all the ingredients together in a bowl and then add the garbanzo beans. Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Planter to Table: The stories of a passionate brown thumb gardener and cook. By Paula Douer I have to confess that I am one of those mother\u2019s that sends the oddest packed lunches to school. It\u2019s a good thing my kids are growing up in this decade, and not in the 80\u2019s as I did. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,31],"tags":[],"acf":{"youtube_id":"","hero_background_image":false,"hero_title":"","hero_subtitle":"","hero_link":"","author_name":"","author_description":"","author_image":false,"text_copy":"","blog_related_products":false,"vimeo_id":"","structure":false,"autoplay":true,"global_slides":false,"activate_video_schema":false,"activate_article_schema":true,"article_schema":"