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Fresh Bok Choy Salad with Apple Sesame Dressing

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Fresh Bok Choy Salad with Apple Sesame Dressing

Hi! You may (or may not) have noticed we disappeared for a few weeks. My excuse is boring and kind of gross but it feels great to be back, I’ve missed you all.

Fresh Bok Choy Salad with Apple Sesame Dressing

Remember the Game of Thrones Season Finale? It seems like it was a long time ago now. We recorded it because we had people for dinner and then stayed up to watch it after they left. It was past our bedtime (any time after 9pm, these days) so between the two of us falling asleep and rewinding it to re-watch parts, it took us about three hours to watch.

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Tomato & Kale Salad with Garlicky Caper Dressing

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Tomato & Kale Salad with Garlicky Caper Dressing

I have talked about seasonal food panic on this blog before. It’s that feeling you get when your favourite fruits and veggies are in season and you are worried that you might not get your fill before they disappear for another year. It’s a very real thing.

Tomato & Kale Salad with Garlicky Caper Dressing

None of us need more to worry about, so I am here to give you a simple recipe to help you take advantage of luxuriously sweet, plump and juicy tomato season. You should be able to throw this together no matter how much time you have to get dinner ready, and it is a fun and different take on a tomato-centered salad.

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Dandelion Greens Salad with Fresh Figs and Fennel

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Dandelion Greens Salad with Fresh Figs and Fennel

We just got back from a very relaxing vacation. It was to a place we used to go with my Dad as kids. Not a thing has changed, our old Archie comics were still boxed up in the attic, the spinning clothes line where we used hang our stuffed animals and pretend they were on a carnival ride is still there, and the kitchen stool that my three sisters and I would stack onto for our annual picture had had a fresh coat of paint but was still there too.

Dandelion Greens Salad with Fresh Figs and Fennel

It was amazing, I felt like I was eight again (until I had to clean my daughter’s first poo explosion with the actual antique washing equipment and hang it on the carnival ride to dry –my stuffed animals def never did that).

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Leafy Greek Salad with Marinated Almonds

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Leafy Greek Salad with Marinated Almonds

This salad is one of those recipes that really fills the hunger void, tastes like you spent time on it but actually requires very little time or effort. And it represents the new (or at least current) me. My almost 7-month-old is everything you could ask for in a baby, except for the fact that she is taking an extended sleeping hiatus.

Leafy Greek Salad with Marinated Almonds

She is fine with it, not grumpy or eye-rubby (unlike myself who looks like a (suntanned) 175-year-dead zombie these days). But no matter how sleepy she is going down, every time I put her into her crib to sleep, day or night, she opens her eyes, smiles so big her face looks like it’s going to turn inside out and then she does the horizontal running man. It’s so cute, it makes me laugh every time, even though I’m crying (and very possibly sleeping) inside.

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