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Hellooooo autumn! With Halloween just around the corner, I’ve been loving all sorts of autumnal ingredients lately. I like to cook with seasonal ingredients when I can, and autumn is the perfect time of year if you like hearty, feel good ingredients.
Liiiike, sweet potatoes! Roast ’em up and toss them with some garlicky kale, wild rice and pine nuts, and you’ve got yourself a salad!
(as usual, ‘salad’ is just my way of saying ‘loads of random stuff piled up together’, because after all this time I still don’t know what the definition of a salad is)
As well as being full of nutrients, this kale salad might just be the prettiest thing I’ve made all month. The bright orange sweet potatoes are only made oranger…
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