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Tuna Chickpea Pantry Salad

I am continuing my quest for more summer salads.  One salad that I eat a lot for lunch is this  Green Goddess Salad with Tuna .  I've changed it up recently now with the addition of beans and this recipe has an easier salad dressing of just olive oil and lemon juice so it's super easy.  I love a tuna salad for lunch or any salad with chicken breast which can be easily substituted in both these recipes.  This tuna chickpea salad is another recipe from  Hannah Freese, RD   and Bruce loves it as much as I do.   I like adding it to a bed of lettuce because the salad dressing tastes good with lettuce, too.  I generally don't drain the can of tuna so I get lots of juice in the mixture.  That allows extra liquid for the salad dressing so there is plenty for the lettuce, too.  Hannah's recipes are all part of my "anti-inflammatory diet".  I really got to test it out these past few weeks because I had my second total knee replacement on...

The Best Recipes of 2020

I am happy to announce that the top recipe for 2020 on my blog was one of  Hannah Freese, RD's  recipe that I make over and over again,  Pumpkin Bean Chili .  Apparently, other people liked it, as well, because it was the #1 most popular recipe on my blog for 2020.   I make this recipe a couple times per month.  I would say that this recipe has taken the place of spaghetti in our house.  We use to eat spaghetti pretty often and it would always be a staple dinner.  Now, it's the pumpkin chili.  Of course, it's been chili-type weather since I started Hannah's method of eating in September.  But interestingly, this is the most recent of the top three popular recipes, yet it got the most hits.  I don't eat pasta anymore and I cook my own pinto beans when I make this recipe.  Pinto beans cook fast so I can start them in the morning and they are ready to add to the chili by dinnertime.  But of course, you can use canned pin...