This is the best salad we've seen in weeks. Plus, cute lunchbags for fall (peace, love, and pirates) and an interesting way of making chocolate chip cookies.

• Curly Kale and Mung Bean Slaw - At The British Larder. Oh yum.

• Peace, Love, and Pirates Lunch Bags - From Hero Bags.

• Smooshed Cookie Stack - NOTCOT Reviews the Vosges Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix - This mix has interesting instructions: Pile up the cookie dough then smoosh it down. What do you think this does — makes flaky or interesting texture in the cookies, perhaps?

• Le Gâteau Nantais - At Life's a Feast. A meditation on the author's chosen city, and a delicious cake brushed with rum-spiked sugar syrup.