Salad Celebration

Salads make the heart grow fonder. 

So if you've been checking out my recent twitpics, you'd know that I am currently OBSESSED with salads. As long as you keep a well-stocked refrigerator, easy salads become as low-maintenance as that perfect bed-head hair you just happened to wake up to one morning (guys, you wouldn't understand, girls, you get where I'm coming from...) Anyway, if you've got any of the following ingredients, throw them in a bowl NOW (no seriously, now...) and prepare yourself for a lunch that is the epitome of fresh and wholesome. Summer bikini season? We've got you.

A Salad to Celebrate

Ingredients:

-Lettuce, and any of these varieties will do:

• Butter lettuce
• Mixed spring greens (you can find these in a convenient pre-washed bag but wash them once again anyway just because...)
• Arugula (nothing like that classic peppery bite)
• Mixed herb salad (again you can find this bagged and ready go to)

-Dried cranberries

-Avocado (make sure it's ripe - the skin should be brown and frumply... yes frumply is an adjective)

-Chopped pecans (as many as desired)

-Chopped walnuts (again as many as desired... also, if you're feeling extra ambitious toast these babies up before you put them in your salad bowl!)

-Baby tomatoes sliced in half (about a handful)

-a few sprigs chopped cilantro

-some fresh chopped basil (rough chopped or even hand ripped and placed into the bowl)

-1/3 cup feta cheese (or crumbled goat cheese will also do but I like the saltiness of the feta)

-1 lime (juice + zest)

-2 teaspoons capers

-drizzle of extra virgin olive oil

Combine all ingredients in your favorite salad bowl. Finish with sea salt and enjoy! Seriously, thank me later :)

Xo