Chickpea Tahini Salad

By the title alone...I guessed we would enjoy this dish.

Reading through the recipe details, especially the wet ingredients and spices 

used as composed to dressing, it all sounded delicious. But this didn't 

prepare for the reactions we all had when taste testing.

Boy, was this good.

  Really, really delicious. 

The balance between the crunchy chickpeas (garbanzo beans), 

onions, bell pepper and the dressing was fabulous.

I had read a Food52 article about this cookbook 

where someone described this dish as
"...an unassuming recipe....and I found myself eating it

 directly out of the container with the fridge door wide open". 

Yup.

 They nailed it.

My Mom made the recipe first and when my husband and I stopped by, 

she offered us a taste. We each went in slow with our spoons but soon, 

with eyes wide, it became a "oh man is this good" moment.  

Needless to say, we had more than one spoonful in our taste testing. 

And I could not wait to make it at home.

This post follows my progress cooking each recipe from
Dorie Greenspan's "Everyday Dorie" along with those participating 

in the online group www.CookTheBookFridays.Wordpress.com 

We do not publish recipes as policy but instead encourage folks 

to buy the book and join in the fun.