Tomato Watermelon Salad with Ginger Vinaigrette

It's that lazy Sunday where I don't really feel like doing anything but eat frozen chocolate covered bananas in bed. I've had a week filled with cooking and baking disasters. I just kept burning everything I made. Like my batch of green tea macarons :( So labor intensive and then gone to waste by 5 minutes of extra time in the oven. Ughhh macarons!! So when it came to the day of my bf's birthday two days ago, I was super super hesitant to cook dinner. But, I did it anyway...because "best gf". you know? Ha

Anyway, I wanted to make sausage and biscuits, because he loves that gloopy stuff. Baking the biscuits was a disaster. My first batch well... I might as well have made hockey pucks. I know when I have a bad week, I just need to stay out of the kitchen! Luckily, this salad turned out pretty decently. And I say lucky, because I spent a few hours cleaning the mess I made in the kitchen after dinner :(

Tomato Watermelon Salad with Ginger Vinaigrette

serves 3-4



Ginger Vinaigrette
3/4 cup rice vinegar
1/2 tbsp sugar
1 inch knob ginger, minced
1 thai chilli, chopped
1-2 tbsp lemon or lime juice
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tbsp cilantro, roughly torn

Salad
3 tomatoes (any color variety)
1/4 large watermelon
handful of cilantro

1. In a small bowl, mix the rice vinegar and sugar together until dissolved. Add the rest of the ingredients, stir, cover and chill in the fridge (make a few hours before or left overnight)
2. Dice the tomatoes and watermelon and roughly chop the cilantro and toss together carefully
3. Serve with dressing on the side or drizzled over