For Ariel: Roast Pork Tenderloin with Spicy Chickpea Stew Recipe

On January 19th, we said goodbye to Ariel, our scrappy little tabby Ariel first came into my life in 2003. She was already two years old by then, but so small and scruffy that I first mistook her for a kitten – a scant 8lbs of pure stubbornness, with a scrappy personality that far outweighed her tiny Despite my best efforts, she was never much of a snuggler, though she’d begrudgingly accept a little scritch under the chin or behind the ears if she was feeling particularly generous. And every once in a blue moon, she’d jump up into my lap, though she’d always stay tightly wound and ready to spring away at the first sign of unacceptable You could say we grew up together, Ariel and I. She followed me from a tiny…