Here on the blog, any time a recipe calls for beans, I like to talk about the timesaving value of pressure cookers. IMHO stove-top pressure cookers or electric pressure cookers like the Instant Pot are the only way to go when cooking beans. This recipe teaches you how to cook garbanzo beans in the pressure cooker!

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These spicy roasted chickpea snacks fall into the bet-you-can’t-eat-just-one category. The chickpeas, aka garbanzo beans, are baked with a little olive oil and kosher salt until they’re crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. Easy. 

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Green crisp lettuce, sharp tangy blue cheese crumbles, perfectly ripe pears and crunchy sweet pecans, this romaine salad with pears, blue chesse and pecans makes a welcome leafy green complement to any dinner.

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With sides of mashed potatoes, bread stuffing, and syrupy sweet potatoes, our Thanksgiving menu begged for something else. I wanted to add a salad and lucky for me, my mother-in-law showed me this recipe.

This salad delivers with enough self-confidence and poise to hold its own on any table. It’s a fresh balance to starchy meals. Including Thanksgiving. For this I am thankful.

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