We had old out-of-town friends whom we have not seen for a while over for dinner last night. I made my chickpea stew and a fabulous blood orange and roasted golden beet over hearty greens salad. I served this with a crusty French loaf. What’s not to like?

Chickpea stew and winter salad

Here are copies of the recipes I followed (sort of)

In this new decade we need to make some changes to our diet. Here at our house we will try harder to work in more plant-based meals and hopefully to use only sustainable seafood. There will still be some chicken meals but especially beef will only be for special occasions. It is hard for us old dogs to learn new eating patterns but I think incrementally we can get there.