Gorgeous Peach Salad

It’s not flashy. But this peach salad has been speaking to me SO MUCH these last few weeks.

It’s a textural wonder: a gentle layering of juicy and slippery, flexible and foldy. We’ve got fresh cucumber, bitey shallots, cooling mint, and sweet fleshy peaches coming together in serious flavor harmony. The lime juice in there wakes it up and makes it feel extra summery, and the flecks of lime zest, salt, and pepper make it feel like something you’d eat at a nice restaurant.

• 2 peaches, pitted and sliced (about 2 cups)
• half an English cucumber, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
• half a shallot, thinly sliced (about 1/4 cup)
• 2–3 teaspoons olive oil
• 1 lime, juiced and zested (about 1 tablespoon juice, 1 teaspoon zest)
• salt and pepper to taste
• mint leaves (about 2 packed tablespoons)
• 2–3 teaspoons honey to finish