Sesame Chicken Salad

After weeks of snow and more snow, this light and summery salad is a welcome change from warm soup and bread. Give it a try and you'll think it's summer, at least until you look outside.

Sesame Chicken Salad

8 oz bowtie pasta, cooked
green leaf lettuce, chopped
baby spinach, torn
1 1/2 c. chicken, cooked and chopped
2 green onions
1 small can mandarin oranges
sesame seeds, toasted

Toss pasta, lettuce, spinach, chicken, green onions, mandarin oranges and sesame seeds together. (Use as much lettuce and spinach as you'd like. ) This is a really great salad since you can add whatever veggies or lettuce you have in the fridge and it should taste great.

Right before serving, drizzle dressing and toss salad. Or serve the dressing on the side, so you can save the leftover salad without it getting soggy.

Dressing:
2 T. oil (I used canola)
1/4 c. soy sauce
2 T. white sugar
1 T. brown sugar
3 T. rice vinegar
splash of sesame oil (about 1 tsp.)
tiny pinch of ginger (1/8 tsp.)
sprinkle of garlic powder (1/4 tsp)
salt and peppter

Whisk all dressing ingredients together, then serve with salad.

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

What is on your menu this week?

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