Early Summer Salad with Dill Dressing

Back to variety, again

Variety is the spice of life. Spices are a variety of tastes and nutrient bursts in our foods. Herbs get lumped into the spice category often. Therefore, herbal variety is the spice of life? Yes. Yes. Herbs are life-giving!

Salad salutations

Really though, what I’d like to say today is this. When you feel in a rut with foods, when you find yourself leaning away from fresh foods towards more processed, more hyperpalatable foods, this can be nothing more than a gentle cue from the body that says “hey, I’m looking for something else right now”. When this occurs, see what happens when you pick something novel from the herb, fruit or vegetable department. How can a new flavor, or a flavor in a new way, add variety back into the kitchen?

For me these days it’s been assessing the salad dressings in my life. As soon as I make one I’m excited about boom–all the veggies, cooked or raw, I want ’em all! So this Dill Dressing is exactly what made my week when I came up with it on Saturday. It goes well on any salad you prefer!

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Dill Dressing

The next time you're in the store or at the farmer's market, keep your eyes peeled for big, bountiful bunches of dill and bring one home to whip up this easy dressing! It keeps all week and is great to have on hand for salads.

Course Salad

Prep Time 5 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 6 people

Author Lucia Hawley

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup mayonnaise see notes
• zest of 1/2 lemon
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt or less depending on mayonnaise
• 1/2 teasooon black pepper
• 1 cup packed dill roughly chopped

Instructions

1. Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth!

Recipe Notes

Homemade or store-bought mayonnaise made with avocado, olive, macadamia or other non-rancid oils (I'd stay away from soybean and canola oil!)