With summer here its hard to find healthy recipes that not only taste good, but refresh you from the heat. This recipe is so easy and delicous as you already own almost all of these ingredients. Not only does it require no prep or cooking, but it will take you 5 minutes to complete!

You can use this recipe to serve as a side dish to burgers, sandwiches and more. For a healthy kick, keep reading!

Serves 2-4

Cooking time - 5-10 minutes

Ingredients

1 tomato (or can use cherry tomatoes cut in half)

1-2 cucumbers

1/2 to 1 full onion depending on your liking

3 tbs olive oil (can opt for flavoured oil as well)

Handful of feta crumbled

1/2 teaspoon of salt (use truffle salt or flavoured salt to enhance)

Pepper

1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder

Paprika (optional)

Dill

Assembly

Like i said, this only takes 5 minutes so this is a quick recipe!

Cut your cucumber into small peices. For example slices in 4 horizontally then chop up the pieces vertically. You will end up with little triangle shaped pieces.

For you tomato chop into small cubes, try not to stress about shape but take out the guts and core of the tomato so your salad isn't watered down.

Now for the onion do the same, chop into small peices. You want all your vegtables to be relatively similar in size.

For the feta you only need about a handful. You can buy it crumbled or do it yourself if you have a block. It's relatively easy by just pulling it apart.

Now add dill to your liking, for this recipe you can use as much or little as you please.

Incorporate all your vegtables into the bowl

Dressing

The dressing is just an olive oil mixture which is very simple.

Coat your veggies in the bowl with 3 tbs of olive oil. If that is not enough, add more oil.

Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt, if not enough add more. You want your vegtables to be relatively salty.

Add as much pepper as you please, some people like more or less so its upto your preference.

Add 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder and add paprika to your liking.

Mix well and let sit for 5 minutes so flavours can incorporate.

There is your easy, yet flavourful summer salad!

Tips and Tricks

Tomatos can be difficult to cut, use a serrated knife to cut through easier.

Add balsamic if you are a fan!

The longer you let it sit, the more flavourful it will become.

★★★★★

See you soon lovely readers!

it’s a warm spring day

I watch out the window as my neighbours wiener dog wanders out into the garden in its little blue bandana

I stop, mesmerised.

It’s sniffing flowers — carnations, I think — for quite some time until it becomes excited by a bird overhead and bounces around to chase it’s shadow

the dog returns to the sunlit spot by the flowers and flops over, belly up, to bask in the warm light

“I want to be that dog” I say to myself. “I want to share with the world the peaceful joy that dog must be feeling right now.”

I try to take a picture; my zoom is not enough. I get weird and grab my pigeon-watching binoculars to get a better zoom, line my phone camera up with the lens. And I take one single, illicit, sleepy dog picture.

I hope the ends justified the means.

Because that makes sense. Anyway, this poison would submit me to its well-known and much-feared symptom: "17 Day Paralysis" in which you're paralyzed for exactly 17 days and you only chance of survival is to be on full machine support for 17 days.

Just before the medical team intubated me I remembered I have a Zoom meeting with my academic advisor today (I actually do in real life) and I needed to email him to let him know I was the victim of a mass-poisoning and would need to reschedule.

I kept trying to type the "□" symbol in my dream but could not figure out how and gave up.

Motorcycle Psychosis - Simon Angel

With Rachel Sweeney