Seeds!

When I was a little girl, I hated foods that had edible seeds. Absent from my diet were cucumbers, pickles, tomatoes, and watermelon. I had a really weird relationship with watermelon in that I didn't like the sweet, pinker pieces, but preferred the translucent "pink" (if you can call it that) pieces that were near the rind. I'm pretty sure they were 148% water and held absolutely zero nutritional value. I've since come around and want to share a salad I've discovered I love, and it contains watermelon!

This lunch is inspired by a salad I had a few weeks ago at Le Pain Quotidien while visiting a friend in New York. Their version was highlighted by grilled peaches, but ain't nobody got time for that! (In the words of Sweet Brown).

In my salad I included: baby spinach, green bell peppers, cucumbers (seed food número uno), watermelon (seed food número dos), feta cheese, almonds and balsamic dressing. Super easy to assemble, and the combination of the salty feta cheese with the sweet, refreshing watermelon is a winner!

oh hi

I'm not new to this whole blogging thing. In high school, I wrote an extremely intelligent, popular blog for about 3 years. And by "intelligent", I mean that I wrote fervently and about my love for John Mayer (expect some of that here too), and democratic politics (not so much here). And by "popular" I mean that I wrote dramatically about boys I had crushes on at age 15 who are probably really weird and/or successful now. This blog won't aim to capture all of my interests, so much as it will attempt to organize my stream of consciousness and funnel it all into one of my greatest loves, baking! And food in general. But baking is my jam, as is peanut butter. See what I did there? I think I just lost 19 readers already. Here goes!

PS- Here is a snippit from my high school blog. 

"soo, i took drivers ed last week, and it was the most boring experience of my life, and i can say that without taking in other boring experiences, because i know for sure that this is numero uno.

we totally bonded, all the drivers ed kids. actually not really. but inside we did because we had an intense loathing for what we were being put through that there was no way we could not get along. it was a common bond. we were so breakfast club it wasn't even funny."

Told you I was dramatic. I will try to tone it down when writing about cookies.