A Little Autumn Light

A weekend-worthy kale salad and a Yiddish half-loaf

A salad should be a celebration.

This has been a heavy week, friends - on this blog (grief and job loss and rhymes-with-yahtzee…oh my), in the news, maybe in your personal life or that of someone close to you. And so, for my Friday “Fare Well” post, I’d like to keep things a little lighter:

A salad.

At any given dinner party (or brunch), I can usually be relied upon to volunteer a kale salad. As a yoga teacher and health coach, this is pretty on-brand; the truth is, I really do LOVE kale. And I’d like to persuade you to love it, too.

If you want to love kale, it’s my opinion that you need to show it a little affection first. This week’s food post is less a recipe than a process. Maybe think of this salad prep as a little bonus mindfulness content; a kitchen meditation.

You’ll need:

• A bunch of kale

• Dressing ingredients (oil, lemon, salt, pepper, herbs)

• Something sweet/fruity (apple, blueberries, dried fruit…)

• Something crunchy (pepitas, hazelnuts, croutons)

• A roasted fall vegetable (sweet pota…