Simple Arugula Salad with Spicy Lime Vinaigrette

Do you ever find yourself craving simple things? Chicken on the grill.  Jeans and a t-shirt. An evening of sitting on the front porch watching your toddler play.  These are a few of my favorite things... How about you?  Sure, there is a time and a place for a roasted rack of lamb, a black tie dress that requires special undergarments, and a day spent taking the kids on an extravagant adventure, but the good in life is certainly wrapped up and sustained in the simple.  This simple arugula salad is a happy accident that I've been making on repeat for lunch all summer.  I found myself staring blankly into the refrigerator around one o'clock one day in June, famished.   I grabbed the arugula, a few leftover ingredients from the week, mixed up a simple vinaigrette and voilá: the simple lunch salad that I now crave on the regular or make sometimes as a side for dinner.

Simple Arugula Salad with Spicy Lime Vinaigrette

(makes enough for four salads-- with some dressing likely leftover)

Ingredients for salad:

• 5 oz container of arugula
• ½ c. cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1 avocado, roughly chopped
• ¼ c. pineapple, roughly chopped
• black pepper to taste

Ingredients for dressing:

• 3 tablespoons avocado oil (or olive oil)
• 1 teaspoon apple cider or red wine vinegar
• ½ lime, juiced
• pinch of red pepper flakes
• kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions:

Whisk together all ingredients for the dressing until well combined. Set aside.

Toss together salad ingredients then top with dressing.

Tada! Super easy and super delicious!

Photography by Katie Jameson

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