Do I always feel like having a salad? Yes indeed! Do I always feel like making a salad? No, not at all. That’s why most of my salad are 2-5 ingredient salads; steam kale salad, cucumber dill salad, best carrot salad ever. I don’t eat salads because they nutritious, because I crave them.
More than I love my salads simple, I love my dressing basic: olive oil, lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or both, a little bit of honey, and a pinch of cinnamon. Why cinnamon? It adds a nice warm and woody flavor. To time and one less dish to wash, I mix the dressing ingredients in the salad bowl. When you keep your salads simple, you’re never too tired or too lazy to make one.
By the way, for the past two months, I’ve been working on a salad cookbook. I’ve finished writing it, but I have to turn it into ebook, which is more complicated than I thought; I’ve tried to export it with Adobe InDesign, Pages, and Google Docs, but there are too many technical issues with the layout. So now my husband and son are helping me to built it as an HTML document (which is like building a website, so the text and images flow on any device). I will keep you updated.
Simple Carrot Nectarine Salad
Ingredients
- 6 medium carrots - about 2 cups shredded
- 2 medium nectarines - diced
- Small bunch cilantro - chopped
- ¼ cup lime or lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Pinch of cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ cup toasted cashews - chopped
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients, except for the toasted cashews, in a medium salad bowl and toss well. Garnish with the cashews and serve. You can keep leftovers for up to 2 days.
Notes
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