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Tomato & Kale Salad with Garlicky Caper Dressing

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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Hasselback-ed Sweet Potatoes with Garlicky Kale Pesto (+ Lung Health)

Hasselback-ed Sweet Potatoes with Kale Pesto

As Promised, a post dedicated to lung health! Whether you live in the city or an area prone to forest fires, you or someone you know smokes, or whether you are experiencing grief or sadness (more on that later), there are many reasons to want to consider the health of your lungs.

This site is dedicated to heath-promoting foods, so that is where we are going to start. There are many other factors when considering the health of our lungs though, so we are going to get a bit wild and branch out today.

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Roasted Vegetables with Italian Salsa Verde

Roasted Veggies with Italian Salsa Verde

Every time I go to the farmers market, I get super inspired (sometimes even making recipe notes in my phone) buy a bunch of fresh, gorgeous produce, walk home with grandiose plans and then get busy/hot/other and wind up making this.

Simple roasted veggies (any veggies you guys, fennel, zucchini, garlic heads, mushrooms, kohlrabi, you name it) and a simple fresh sauce to elevate it to a level deserving of this beautiful, local produce.

Roasted Veggies with Italian Salsa Verde

Since it is literally what I make most of the summer (often in the toaster oven so that I don’t have to heat my place up with the big oven), I thought it was probably worth sharing with you.

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Sauce Gribiche with Roasted Cauliflower Steaks

Gribiche Sauce

This sauce stole my heart many moons ago when my French chef had me squish hardboiled eggs through a fine mesh sieve. I was a little bit panicky inside, because I really should have been setting up for service, and brunoise-ing veg for a mystery sauce probably would have been something I would have taken care of earlier, given the option. We served it as a special amuse bouche that night for some phantom VIPs, underneath a piece of briefly seared tuna. It was f-ing great.

Gribiche Sauce

It wasn’t until later that week that I realized the reason I liked it so much was because it had all of the components of a fish & chips-style tartar sauce. The stuff you ask for extra of when your Dad takes you to the beach for a greasy lunch. I love it when classic flavours can span fine-dining, to the very most casual classics, and now to the healthy, nutrient-dense world of food.

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