Salad with spicy peanut dressing :)

So I just got back from vacation, and honestly, it's been a rough couple of days! This morning was better, but I still had some stuff lingering. At first I fought the faint lingering discomfort, trying to force myself into just feeling better. After all, logically I know I should be fine! Wasn't working. I went to yoga this morning and focused on letting that last bit of crap go. I focused on this to the point that I was still forcing it, and getting frustrated. Finally at some point, some triangle pose or chatarunga, I just let myself feel like crap. I felt that last bit of awful, sad, angry and resentful. Then on an updog, it was gone. I mean, I was working on these emotions for a couple of days at this point and I was ready to let them go. But to truly let them go, I had to let myself finish feeling them, without resisting. As soon as I allowed myself to feel that last bit of negativity, I REALLY felt it, and then it was gone. I finished the class in elation, and I think it was the best shavasana I've ever experienced!

My entire day changed for the better in that moment, and I came home after class and without any plans, went home and made this salad. I'm not good with creative names, so this is simply am unplanned salad with spicy peanut dressing :) I threw in whatever I had and after a large bowl, I am full but not weighed down. Moral of this story? I don't really know, everyone has different ways of feeling better, today mine was yoga, I just hope you all find yours <3

I chopped up a whole head of romaine lettuce

Some Spinach

Tomatos

 Cucumbers

Sweet white corn (like I said I just used whatever I had in the fridge)

Feel free to just throw together whatever veggies you have as well, if I had tofu or green onion those would have gone in too.

Now for the best part, the dressing! I just sauteed a bit of garlic in some extra virgin olive oil (just a little) and then threw in some natural creamy peanut butter to melt it a bit.

Then added about a tablespoon of soy sauce, and a couple tablespoons of water to thin it out. Keep the heat low here, you just want to melt it down. Since I wanted this to be spicy, I added Sriracha! Yummmm

It was a little thick, so I added a bit of olive oil (just a tiny bit) and some more water. That's it! the texture isn't super thin, so this is more of a dressing you glob on and then mix in. It's worth the effort, trust me!

Sooooooo good. This post was on a whim, so I didn't get specific with measurements, sorry folks! The dressing is so simple though, make it to your own taste of salty and spicy, you'll be fine :)

Wishing everyone a beautiful week!
Love,
Sharon