Strawberry Spinach Salad with Two-Seed Dressing

Strawberry Spinach Salad

There are endless variations to this salad listed in Simply in Season , and I chose the one that most appealed to me. The base is 4 C spinach (remove stems and tear into pieces) and 1 C strawberries. But you can use any kind of greens or sliced fruit.

Fit Jerk Friday: Quinoa with Spinach

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Velvety Vegetable Soup

Today I decided to try out my new kitchen appliance: an immersion blender. The weather was perfect for it: cool, rainy, and overcast. The recipe? Velvety Vegetable Soup from Simply in Season. It’s from the spring section, which is interesting because I noticed that the vegetables are similar in the spring and autumn, at least the green ones. Because I only had one leek, this was definitely an exercise in adaptation/substitution. Instead of using 4 cups of diced leeks, I {Read More}