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Low Carb Chinese Cabbage Beef Soup
I do not care about low carb things, let me be incredibly clear. 
Legit I’d prefer to eat this with a scoop of nutritionally void white rice in the center.
BUT. There are more people than me in this family and life and world, and other people enjoy eating nutritionally dense foods that taste great and aren’t super full of carbs. Like this! Flavorful, simple, light soup.
Soup in the summer might seem strange, but there are always a few times where it’s rainy or the AC gets to you (omg the sunburn chills) or a mid-summer sinus infection sets in that soup just seems right even in the hot weather, right? This is the soup for that occasion. Light enough and simple enough for summer but with all the coziness that soup offers.
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Weekend Fun
Do you ever have a weekend that is just fun? Not stressful fun like weddings, not “fun” like going to a million birthday parties. Those things are fantastic and a part of life and have a great place in life, but sometimes things labeled as fun end up being like a lot of work. 
See: preparing for a beach trip. …
Ginger Lime Cucumber Salad
How’s your cucumber plant doing? Mine is fully bonkers. Fully. The number of things we’ve done with cucumbers in our lunches and dinners (and tbh breakfasts some days) is growing bigger every day, and so far I’m proud to say that we aren’t sick of cukes yet because we’ve made an effort to serve them in lots of different ways. DIY ranch with cucumber sticks is our new “come over for happy hour, I have tons of snacks to get rid of” offering, Greek salads abound, and I’m never above eating an entire cucumber with salt and pepper as a salad. 
And this! Marinated cucumbers in a soy-lime vinaigrette with hot peppers mixed in. The sauce is simple and the cucumbers are great after 20 minutes or a night in the fridge, so you can make this ahead of time and serve whenever it’s convenient.
Salad is important, and this one is importantly delicious.
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