{"id":105,"date":"2007-05-07T17:26:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T22:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/?p=105"},"modified":"2007-11-01T20:10:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T01:10:43","slug":"37-swiss-chard-and-chickpeas-p542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"37. Swiss Chard and Chickpeas p.542"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/37-swiss-chard-and-chickpeas-p-542-small.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/recipe_views\/views\/102269\">the recipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quick stew was fine, nothing special, but fine. It&#8217;s centred around swiss chard and chickpeas, with a bit of tomato, onion, garlic, and lemon juice. It was a bit bland, and the flavours never really came together. The fibrous swiss chard and grainy chickpeas didn&#8217;t make for the most appealing texture either. On the other hand it was a heathly and simple side dish.<\/p>\n<p>I think this was a case of great things being inappropriately combined. Sauteed swiss chard with a bit of onion garlic and lemon is an excellent summery vegetable dish. Simiarly a simple chick pea salad with those ingredients is a satisfying dish any time. Put them together and add tomato, and you get something less than the sum of it&#8217;s parts.  I don&#8217;t think tomato would be particularly good with the chard or the chickpeas alone, and it didn&#8217;t really add much to the stew.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side the ingredients were easily available, there was almost no effort involved in making it, it&#8217;s cheap, and it feels healthy. Unfortunately &#8220;tastes really healthy&#8221; is the food equivalent of &#8220;has a great personality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 25px; width: 125px\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top:0; left:0; height: 25px; width: 50px; background: url(http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rating-bar\/rating-front.png) left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 50px; height: 25px; width: 75px; background: url(http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rating-bar\/rating-back.png) right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the recipe This quick stew was fine, nothing special, but fine. It&#8217;s centred around swiss chard and chickpeas, with a bit of tomato, onion, garlic, and lemon juice. It was a bit bland, and the flavours never really came together. The fibrous swiss chard and grainy chickpeas didn&#8217;t make for the most appealing texture either. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,22],"tags":[147,277,279,46,278,95,159,44,72,276,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}