Thursday, April 08, 2010

Chicken Salad Yummy

This worked for us today, though the kids were a bit skittish at first.

You need:

2 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless, seasoned, and cut into strips or chunks. I cheated and used Schwan's fajita chicken.
1/2 cup grapes, sliced in half longways.
1 gala apple, chopped.
2 cups wheat pasta, cooked.
1 package (12 oz?) cut green beans, cooked.
1/2 cup roasted red pepper salad dressing
Salt and pepper to taste.

Toss it together in a bowl. Seriously. I tossed it, put it in the fridge, and two hours later, we had dinner. I would think any salad dressing would be good for this- if you use something like Italian, or the red pepper stuff we used, make this an hour or two beforehand, and the pasta and chicken marinates a bit. Yummy.

Yummy Black Forest Dessert Torte

Need something cool and yummy for spring and summer? This one is a favorite here.

You need:

2 packages of instant chocolate pudding
3 cups of cold milk
1 package of Oreo cookies, regular
2 cans of cherry pie filling
1 large (at least 16 oz) container of whipped topping or 2 small (8oz), or equivalent sweetened and whipped whipping cream

Combine pudding and milk, and whisk for 2 minutes. Put in fridge. You can make this with cooked pudding if you prefer, but make sure it is COLD before you start putting it together.

Once the pudding is ready, fold in 8 oz of the whipping cream or topping.

Spread half of this into the bottom of a large glass bowl.

Spread can of cherry filling over top.

Crunch up 12-16 Oreo cookies. Spread over cherries.

Spread 4 oz of topping/cream over this.

Spread rest of chocolate moussey stuff over cream.

Set aside a couple spoonfuls of cherry stuff, then spread the rest on.

Set aside a couple spoonfuls of cream, then spread the rest.

Crunch up 12-16 more cookies. Eat rest of cookies. Spread crunch cookies over top.

Add your couple of spoonful of cream on top, at center.

Now put the rest of the cherries in the middle.

Lick cans and dairy container, and bowl from pudding.

Put the torte into the fridge and let it firm up a bit, at least 30 minutes.

Dig in.




This dessert works with unleaded replacements (ie, sugar-free/fat-free/etc.).