Is it fall yet? This summer has been the hottest summer I’ve experienced in Michigan (although the single hottest day I remember was, naturally, the one on which I moved into my first apartment here), and I am ready for some cooler weather. As a kid, I could tell when it was going to be a scorcher of a day whenever I saw my mom making pasta salad in the morning—that was her strategy to avoid ...
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Caprese Quinoa Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Vinaigrette
This past week, the boyfriend and I have been visiting his family in Arizona, where the temperatures have been akin to what Michigan experiences during the summer, but without the attendant humidity. Even though we had a mercifully moderate winter (after one winter with record-setting amounts of snow and another winter with record-setting cold), I’m already looking forward to warmer weather, and ...