We're back! Now with 100% more salad.

Oh my gosh ya'll - we're no longer living in an internet black hole and once again have high speed internet! So after a 2+ year hiatus Moore Food Please is back.  We're easing back into food blogging (as to not sprain anything), so tonight's recipe is a simple one that mostly consists of chopping and mixing. No hardcore cooking required.  

Chickpea Salad with Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette

Chickpea Salad:
15 oz can of chickpeas, rinsed & drained
1 cup corn
1 pint grape tomatoes, halved
1 organic cucumber, peeled & diced
1 organic green bell pepper, diced
1/2 small red onion, finely diced 

Dressing:
3 T organic lime juice
zest of 2 organic limes
2 T extra-virgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 tsp honey
1/8 tsp ground coriander
2 T fresh cilantro
Dressing recipe adapted from:  http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Cilantro-Lime-Vinaigrette-103849


Instructions:

Wash and chop your veggies.  Put them in a big mixing bowl, like so.

Gather your dressing ingredients and put them in the blender.  Blend for about a minute or until the cilantro is minced.

Pour the dressing over the salad and mix.

Serve and enjoy!

Lime and Honey Glazed Salmon with Warm Black Bean and Corn Salad

Once again, we went to the cookbook, Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats, and once again it payed off. Say what you will about how annoying she can be, Rachael can cook and her recipes rock the house. The name of this dish explains it rather well, but it doesn't tell you just how tasty the salad is. I thought the fish was great, but Laura thought it was a bit too "fishy." Next time I will cook her piece a bit longer and hopefully it will be more to her liking. We did mess up in that we accidentally doubled the lime juice in the fish glaze which took away from the honey flavor, I will try and not do that again.

Overall we give this one 4 out of 5 stars (with 5 stars easy on the salad).

 Spice mixture for the salad: garlic, red pepper flakes, cumin, salt and pepper.

We fear the non-stick pan, so this got a little messy

Salad is made of onion (we used yellow rather than red), red bell pepper, corn, black beans, baby spinach and fresh cilantro