Asain Crunch Chicken Salad

Inspired by California Pizza Kitchen
This should feed 4

Ingredients:

2 pounds Grilled Chicken Breast, chilled and chopped
(I purchas already grilled Perdue chicken)
1/2 head Napa Cabbage, shredded
1/2 head Iceburg Lettuce, shredded
1/4 head Red Cabbage, shredded
Handfull fresh Cilantro, chopped
Green Onion, chopped
Juliened Carrots

Toasted Sesame Seeds
Fried Crispy Wontons
(Get them in the salad section ~ Fresh Gormet Wonton Strips, Garlic Ginger)
Salted Peanuts

Mix all together adding as much or as little of each ingredient to taste.
Wontons, sesame seeds and peanuts as garnish on top.

Dress with:
3/4 C Ken's Steak House, Lite Asain Sesame with Ginger and Soy Dressing
To this dressing add...fresh squeezed juice of one tangerine, 2 tsp sqeezable Ginger and a few dashes of Soy Sauce

Crock Pot Chorizo and Chicken

Almost straight up Rachel Ray :)
The fam loves it!

•2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)
•2 links cured chorizo, casings removed, halved and cut into chunks
•Salt and pepper
•8 bone-in, skinless chicken thighs
•1 1/2 pounds fingerling potatoes
•1 red onion, coarsely chopped
•2-3 cloves garlic, finely chopped or grated
•4-5 sprigs thyme
•1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano or 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
•1/4 cup honey
•1 lemon, thinly sliced
•A splash of chicken stock or water

Place a large skillet over medium-high heat with two turns of the pan of EVOO, about 2 tablespoons. Add the chorizo to the pan and sear until golden brown, 3-4 minutes. Remove the chorizo and reserve.

Season the chicken with salt and pepper and sear in the same pan until golden brown, 3-4 minutes per side. Remove the chicken from pan and reserve.

While the meats are browning, layer the uncooked fingerling potatoes, onion, garlic, thyme, oregano, lemon slices and chicken stock in the bowl of a crock pot. Season with salt and pepper. Then lay the chorizo and then the chicken over top. Then, drizzle honey all over the chicken.

Cover and cook, undisturbed, for 4 hours on high or 6-8 hours on low.

Garnish with choppen fresh cilantro, slivered toasted almonds and a sqeeze of fresh lemon.

Serve it up with some White Citrus Rice....YUMMMM!
Cook Minute Rice with lemon slices, salt and 1 Tbs butter in the water.
Once cooked, remove lemon slices and stir in one can of drained Mandarine Oranges, fresh chopped Green Onion, fresh chopped Cilantro to taste.

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

2 C Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tps Salt
1/2 C Butter
3/4 C Brown Sugar
2 Eggs Beaten
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Vanilla
2 1/3 Mashed over Ripe Bananas

Preheat oven 350*
In large bowl mix dry ingredients
I seperate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar, then stir in eggs and mashed bananas.
Stir mixture into dry ingredients.
Greas and flour loaf pan
Bake 60-65 minutes till toothpick comes out clean.
remove from pan and let cool on wire rack.

Pumpkin Log

Church Ladies Fave :)

Batter:
3 Eggs
1 C Sugar
2/3 C Canned Pumpkin
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 Pinch Cinnamon
3/4 C Flour
Chopped Nuts ~ Optional

Filling:
2TBS MArgerine
8 oz Cream Cheese
3/4 tsp Vanilla
1 C Confectioners Sugar

Preheat oven to 350*
Grease 10x15 cookie sheet, line with wax paper and then grease over paper.
spread Batter on greased paper / pan and sprinkle with nuts if desired.
Bake 15 minutes and turn out on a flat towel, then sprinkle with Confectioners sugar.
Roll lengthwise with towel and let cool.
When cool, unroll and remove paper.
Spread with filling and re-roll.
Keep refridgerated.