 Hi everyone, today we aren't cooking. We are making salad. So today's recipe is a nice delicious refreshing salad. It's too hot to cook so let's put together a nice meal that we can have for lunch or dinner. This is going to have some strawberries in it, some apples. We're going to do some goat cheese. You know, basically you can throw in whatever you want. I like to throw in tons of things because it makes it very interesting salad. Lots of textures and flavors going on and I love that. And we're going to dress this salad with a nice lime dressing that I think you're going to love. So I'm rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after this. Time for our chef joke. What did the salad dressing say to the tomato? Don't look, I'm dressing. Alright so let's start by going over our ingredients for our lime dressing. So we've got our olive oil here. I'm using a nice extra virgin olive oil. We have some garlic powder, some ground coriander, fresh lime juice, always use fresh, and date paste. Now I want to talk about the date paste for a second. Now with the date paste I like to use that. It's a, if you've seen my videos you know that I love to use date paste in a lot of different recipes. It's a great sweetener, better than using sugar in my opinion because it has a lot of vitamins and minerals and fiber in it. So and it has a very nice, caramel-like flavor that I think goes really well in a lot of recipes. We'll need some Dijon mustard and some salt. Alright so we'll start mixing up our dressing. I'm going to start with my olive oil. I'm going to place about a quarter of a cup into my bowl here. Next is a little Dijon mustard. Yes I'm using my fingers but my fingers are clean. And you can get the written recipe for this down below this video in the description. So click down there where it says show more if you're on a computer and if you're on an iPhone I think it's a little triangle on the right side below the video. So click that and you'll see that along with all kinds of other information down there. Next goes our date paste. I'm going to put them, these are going to be heaping tablespoons and you can adjust the sweetness to your liking of course. That's a half a teaspoon of garlic powder and a half a teaspoon of ground coriander. And then we need to add our limes to this so we want to give them a nice little roll on the counter to kind of loosen up those juices in the cells and then it'll come out a lot quicker and easier. Alright so we'll just cut this in half and we need about a quarter of a cup of this as well. So I'll just place in my juicer here and I like to measure it out into my cup. We'll just place that right in here in our bowl. I'm going to add a pinch of salt, take a whisk and whisk it up. Alright so now it's just a matter of putting our salad together. I can't wait I'm starving to eat this. We're going to use some herb, I've got some herb salad mix here that I'm going to toss in a bowl and we're just going to chop all these things up and I'll show you as we go. I'll just be adding them to the bowl and then it'll be time to dress it and then eat it. Now I like to add mushrooms to my salad but I like them with the super super fine dice because of the texture thing. I'm one of those kind of people that doesn't like the texture of them but I like the flavor and they're healthy for you. So I'm just going to chop them up super fine and I won't even hardly know they're there. I've got some artichoke hearts over here that I'm going to chop a little bit smaller and I get cabbage over here. So place some of those greens into a bowl. Alright so here goes the mushrooms. We've got the artichoke hearts. Toss those in. And here goes our shredded cabbage. Alright I've got a few chopped beets. I just happen to have these leftovers in my fridge. So these are already cooked. I got these at Trader Joe's. They come back in packed. Perfect. You just take them out and chop them up and they're good to go. I like to add pumpkin seeds. I picked these up. This is sprouted pumpkin seeds from Costco. These are delicious and they are jam-packed with protein and magnesium and zinc and potassium. So I like to throw in a bunch of these. They're lightly salted. I'm going to toss those in. I'll add in some hemp hearts. Again another good protein source. So I'll put a sprinkle of that in. Alright I'm still adding some fruit to this on apple and some strawberries. I've got some nice organic strawberries here that I'm just going to slice up and put those in. I'm leaving the apple till last because it oxidizes. You could sprinkle a little bit of the dressing on it because it's got some acidity from the lime in it and that would keep it from turning brown. That's an option but I just decided not to do that right now. My apple is organic. I'm going to leave the peeling on it. You can take it off if you want. So you want to cut this up into just bite-sized pieces. And I'll place that in there. Last thing I have is some goat cheese crumbles that I just like a little bit of that in there. Everything here of course is optional. Add what you like. Take out what you don't and have a great salad. Alright time to dress this salad and then I like to give it a little toss. Mix everything together. There's so much good stuff in here guys. This is one healthy salad. It will fill you up. It will satisfy you and you won't walk away hungry with this. And of course if you really want to you could add some grilled chicken to this or shrimp or whatever. Alright it's taste test time. Oh my goodness. Big bite. So many good flavors going on. Man I love that. Just everything in there. The dressing's got a little tang to it and a little bit of sweetness which I like. Super delicious right. That's what I always say. You got to try this so good. Might you be interested in another salad dressing recipe or even another salad recipe? Well I've got you covered. I've got a very popular balsamic vinaigrette that I'm going to leave a link for right here in this right over there. Go ahead and click that. It'll take you to it. It is a delicious recipe. I think you'll love it. And yeah thanks for watching today. I really appreciate it. Don't forget to subscribe. Leave me a comment and help me share my channel by smashing the like button. That really does help. So thanks again. We'll see you next week.