Sweet Yet Sour

Summer Garbanzo Salad

Saturday, June 6th, 2009 | Cooking | 1 Comment

The parsley in my recycled garden is nicely always ready for harvest.  To celebrate this and the fact that summer is here – the perfect time for cold salads- I made my favorite garbanzo bean salad.  This is a cool salad that uses my fresh parsley well and is quick and easy.

Garbanzo Salad

I must thank my sister’s friend Lata for this recipe.

Combine in a bowl and allow to marinate for at least 30 minutes:

2 14oz. cans drained and washed chickpeas/garbanzo beans

1/3 cup lemon juice

1 chopped garlic clove

1/2 cup chopped parsley

2 Tbsp olive oil

1/3 cup shredded parmesan cheese

cracked black pepper and sea salt to taste

After the salad has marinated serve it on a bed of baby spinach.

Small girl walking!

Saturday, June 6th, 2009 | Anna | 2 Comments

Although I have no pictures of this phenomenon to post, the small girl is indeed walking.  Anna has been walking with us and taking little steps on her own, but she started walking by herself in earnest last week.  She was playing and then turned and just started walking on her own towards a ball that she had thrown.  Now she does this all the time, sometimes she crawls, because it’s faster and more stable, but most of the time when she needs to get somewhere, especially if she wants to carry something with her, she walks.  It’s still a little tippy when she does this, but she does love to just go for it and gets right back up if she falls.   So that’s my big news from here – I officially have a “toddler”.

I do have lots of pictures of other things Anna has been doing lately.

We went to the park last week and I caught this shot of Mike and Anna while they walked to the slide.

Mike and Anna

I guess it’s good that I didn’t catch him with his pants farther down…

Anna has been going through the drawer where her bibs are kept and every once in a while tries to put one on.  Too bad it’s backwards, but she’s got the right idea.

Backwards bib

Now that Anna knows that she needs shoes to go outside (which is her favorite thing to do), she likes to try to put shoes on to get that going.  This includes any shoes that are lying around:

Anna in Mike's shoes

Last week we had a day where Anna didn’t really nap – she was too excited about going to lunch with daddy.  So in the afternoon I took she and Cash for a walk hoping that she would sleep if I was quiet.  Bingo!

Conked out in the stroller

Anna has been wanting her own plate and since ours are breakable, I got her a new plastic plate at Target and gave it to her for lunch this week.  She thought it was cool until she was done eating and then she decided maybe it could be used as a hat:

Plate or hat?

Too bad it had mac and cheese on it when she decided to put it on her head:

Mac and cheesehead

This week it rained a fair amount which meant I needed to find someway to entertain Anna indoors.  She’s pretty bored of her toys, so I tried putting her on the floor in the kitchen with a bowl of warm soapy water and some water proof toys:

Bubble bowl

If you can’t tell, she’s totally soaked, because she did lots of this in the bowl:

Splashing

Looks like a good time, no?