Lunch Woes with a Treat

awesome giveaway. i need this.
also need an awesome person who can sew for me.


i've been blessed with the opportunity to stay home with my kiddos for the past 9.5 years. one thing that hasn't panned out well for me is the lunch hour. it's great for my kiddos but lame for myself.
i am able to create a well balanced, delicious lunch for them. whether they eat it or not is another story. however, i myself, STILL piece together bits and pieces of this and that. i've said for years that whatever i'm making my babies, i should be making for myself.

today i had peas, pita chips with avocado & cilantro hummus and rounded it out with a small piece of chocolate cake. awesome cake, mind you.
one of my favorite lunch time "bites" is chickpea salad. here is my recipe, roughly. i don't measure.

1 can chickpeas, drained
diced tomato
diced cucumber
diced red onion
goat cheese or feta cheese
salt and pepper, to taste

but let's get back to the chocolate cake...

cake was good. frosting was phenomenal.
it's simple.
and it's on the back of the Hershey's baking cocoa. who knew?

1/2 c. butter, melted

add 2/3 c cocoa

alternate adding: 3 c. powdered sugar and 1/3 c. milk

1 t. vanilla

the directions say to mix it but i whisked mine to perfection.

~happy lunch preparing (if you never make the chickpea salad, give the frosting a try)