Watermelon and feta salad

This is the kind of dish that shows up right when the season shifts and your body starts asking for something lighter, brighter, and less apologetic. Watermelon and feta feels like summer remembering itself. Sweet and salty, soft and crisp, hydrating and grounding. It’s the food equivalent of loosening your shoulders after holding tension all winter. No heavy sauces. No complicated rules. Just contrast, balance, and a little pleasure on a plate.

I love this salad because it mirrors the work so many of us are doing right now. Learning how to let opposites coexist without fixing them. Letting sweetness be sweet. Letting salt be salt. Letting refreshment be enough. This is a pause dish. A barefoot-in-the-kitchen dish. A reminder that nourishment doesn’t have to be earned and beauty doesn’t need to be overworked. Make it cold. Make it slowly. Eat it like you trust your body again.