BLT Salad

 This was a great  new recipe.  My son loved it, also!  He said he wants me to make it for his Birthday party. Coming up!

BLT Salad

1 lemon for zest and 2 Tbsp of juice
1/2 cup mayo
salt & pepper to taste
8 cups sliced romaine lettuce
1 chopped tomato
1 pkg cooked chopped bacon

Zest 1 tsp of the lemon and put in a bowl.  Then cut the lemon in half and squeeze about 2 Tbsp of juice into the same bowl.  Add the mayo and mix together.
Chop or rip apart the lettuce after washing.  Cook and chop the bacon.  Dice the tomato.  Mix it all together in a large bowl and serve immediately!

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Recipe Source: Good Housekeeping


 

Chicken Salad, Salad

Well, here's a little twist.  While bread was in my past I may have enjoyed this recipe on a croissant.  Tonight I turned it into a lettuce salad topped with chicken salad.  And it was SUPERB!  Love it!

2 chicken breasts cubed
3/4 cup mayo
1 Tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp mustard
black pepper
1/4 tsp celery salt
1 Tbsp vinegar
1 tsp sugar, dissolved in vinegar
1 Tbsp minced onion
red grapes cut in halves
lettuce


Cook the cubed chicken with minced garlic and minced onion.  When it's cooked through finely chop the chicken.  In a bowl, mix the mayo, mustard, pepper, celery salt, vinegar/sugar mixture.  Cut the grapes in half and set aside.  When the chicken is ready add to the mayo mixture.  Put in the frig or freezer to cool the chicken.  When it's ready to serve stir in the grapes last.  Chop up your lettuce and top with as little or as much chicken salad mixture as you desire!


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Fruit Salad

Maybe it's a no-brainer.  But no-brainer or not, mix it up.  Don't just have one source of fruit, mix it up. Put some different kinds together and make it a fruit salad instead!

Is it necessary to say this is gluten free and dairy free.  Maybe not, but it's another one of those things to add to the "CAN HAVE" list instead of only thinking about that really long can't have list. :)

Strawberries
banana
grapes
blueberries
apples
kiwi

You name it, then cut it up and mix it together!

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Fudge Stripe Salad

 Fudge Stripe Salad


This is a recipe my mom has made my whole life.  I made it this year for a side dish for the Easter Sunday meal.

2 cups buttermilk
2 (3 oz) pkg. instant vanilla pudding
8 oz coolwhip
1 can mandarin oranges
Fudge Stripe cookies

Directions:
Mix buttermilk and pudding.  Beat until thick.  Drain oranges and add to pudding.  Fold in the cool whip and chill.  Add cookies crushed just before serving.


 

Oreo Salad

This is one of those extremely simple things.  But hey, maybe there's one of you out there who's never done this before. 

Everyone loves this salad/dessert/whatever you want to call it. :)

Oreo Salad

1 pkg oreos, chopped
1 8oz container coolwhip

Mix together!  Simple as that, and delicious to boot. :)


 

Orange Salad

Orange Salad

1 pkg tapioca
1 pkg cook and serve vanilla pudding
1 pkg orange jello
3 cups boiling water
1 can mandarin oranges, drained
1 8oz can pineapple tidbits
1 8oz tub cool whip

Cook tapioca, pudding, jello and boiling water until thick.  Cool slightly.  Add mandarin oranges, pineapple tidbits and cool whip.  Chill for 2 hours.

Chicken Gourmandise

Today's lunch was Chicken Gourmandise, with Red Lobster Biscuits and Apple-snicker salad.

Chicken Gourmandise


3-4 chicken breasts
1 4oz jar of dried beef
1 cup sour cream
1 can cream of mushroom
1 pkg. bacon

Cut the chicken in half the long way. Wrap chicken with beef and slightly cooked bacon. Not cooked enough to make it crispy, it needs to be able to bend and wrap around the chicken without breaking. Mix together the cream of mushroom and sour cream. Spread mixture over the top of the chicken. Let stand in your fridge overnight. I cook it with tin foil over the top, but only covering the pan a little. I put the tinfoil on and fold up the sides so that the air can get out about 1 inch on each side. This helps regulate from too runny to too dry. Bake at 325 for 2 hours. I usually make this so that it's cooking while we are at church in the morning. You can also cook it at 350 for 1 hour if you want it for supper and don't want to wait 2 hours.

We also had Apple-snicker Salad.

This is a super simple salad and everyone loves it!
Apples
Coolwhip
Snickers
Cut up your apples into bitesize pieces. Cut the snickers. Mix it together with 1 container of coolwhip. And Wha-la!

Strawberry Pretzel Salad

3 cups crushed pretzels
1 1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter
1 8oz pkg cream cheese
1 envelope dreamwhip
2 3oz pkg strawberry jello
3 cups hot water
2 10oz frozen strawberries

Mix the crushed pretzels, 1/4 cup sugar and butter. Place in a 9x13 pan and bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Let cool.
Soften the cream cheese and mix with 1 cup sugar, and 1 envelope of dreamwhip. Make sure it is soft enough to spread, and spread over the cooled pretzel layer.
Warm 3 cups of water, and mix the 2 jello mixes in until blended. Add the frozen strawberries with juices. Let harden a little bit in the bowl in the fridge before pouring overtop of the cream cheese mixture.

This is a wonderfully delicious salad, unless of course you don't like Pretzels :)

Just a word of advice though if you are going to make this. Make sure you let it harden in the pan overnight to give it enough time. And make sure you are going to eat most of it the next day. If not just make a smaller pan because it doesn't store well. Once you start eating it the pretzels will soften if it sits in the fridge another day after that. And then, quite frankly it's no good anymore. I mean, who likes mushy pretzels?! :)