This summer has been all about minimalism for me. While I take considerable pleasure in imagining culinary combinations, I have been delighting in the pure, untouched,and unmixed just as much.
Avocado – enjoyed several days a week with nothing but a spoon and a sprinkle of sea salt.
Fennel – complexity in one simple food: the lovely smell of licorice, the crunch of the bulb, the intensity of the greens.
Cucumber and tomato – a perfect complimentary pair.
Water – carried with me wherever I go.
Salt and pepper – the classic pair, only enhancing flavor that already exists.
Stone fruit – nothing matches their pure sweetness, right down to the pit.
White clothing – true summer, even on my pale skin.
What are your favorite simple things?
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avocado + salt = perfection.
nothing else needed :)
Fresh fruit, particularly berries. Blue or black. You need nothing else.
I could eat avocado plain for days…
White clothing sums up Summer outfits.
And for a true Brit cucumber sandwiches :)
Leslie, this made me fall in love with you + your blog even more so than I already am!
I honestly think our simple things are identical. Avocado + salt is the BEST! As is stone fruit. And the white bobby pins….so chic.
I love this post :D
those stone fruits look so cute all lined up…
i agree – light white clothes just SCREAMS summer….
Water – Can’t live without it. Can’t leave the pad without my water bottle. I bring it with me everywhere – visiting friends, work, biking, shopping.
Frozen bananas – Everyday dessert.
OMG, I LOVE this post! I totally agree that sometimes it’s the simplest things in life that are the most wonderful.
A good book that I just can’t put down, a cloudless sunny sky right when I go out to get some color, the strong feeling in my legs after a bike ride, giving my two older brothers a hug when they come back home to visit, a perfectly juicy plum… ahhh… love it all! :)
xxoo
Heather
Banana & PB, fresh fruit and cheese slices :)
Actually, I think all of those things are my simple favorites, save for the white clothing. I am way too clumsy to wear white!
Avocados, bananas, almonds, stone fruit, water with lime, long walks with no destination are all excellent simple things I love. Not surprising that most of them are food :)