Chicken Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

Dressing:

3 TBSP white vinegar

2 TBSP mayo

1 TBSP Honey

salt

pepper

1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1/4 cup chopped dill

Pasta:

8 ounces of pasta---bow ties, wagon wheels, garden rotini etc..

2 cups white chicken meat cut into bit size peices

1 red bell pepper diced

2 celery ribs diced

1/2 cup crumbled Feta cheese

Boil and drain the pasta. Rinse with cool water. Let it sit until room temperature.

Wisk together vinegar, mayo, honey, salt, and pepper. Wisk in the EVOO and dill.

Mix the chicken, pasta, bell pepper, and celery in a large bowl. Drizzle dressing over the top. Add the Feta cheese on top. Mix it up real good. Refrigerate. Toss again before serving.

Chicken and Dumplins

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, cut up and de-boned
1 bag of Seasoning Blend (in the freezer section)
2 cups of celery--cut up
2 cans Chicken brooth
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 pkg, biscuits--You know, the ones in the fridge section..unless you wanna make homemade ones, but that would take too long!

Place all the ingredients in the crock pot, except the biscuits. If you need more liquid, add more brooth or soup.

Cook on low for about 6 hours.
Cut each biscuit into 4's. Drop them in the crock pot and cook on HIGH for about 1 hour.


*You can add carrots to this also
**instead of biscuits, you can use tortillas...cut into small strips and cook for additional 30 minutes instead of an hour

Greek Chicken

PREPARE ahead of time:

3 TBS lemon juice
2 TBS red wine vinegar
1 TBS olive oil
2 tsp chopped parsley
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp dired oregano
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper

whisk all this together.

4 bonless chicken breast

pour the mixture over the chicken in a large ziploc bag. let marinate for about 10-12 hours.



Remove chicken and heat over med-high heat in a grill pan. (this just makes it pretty!)
Cook for about 10 minutes --turning once or twice..until its no longer pink. (I like to cook mine till its crunchy looking!)

remove and sprinkle Feta cheese and diced tomatoes over the chicken!

Chinese Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

1 head Cabbage
4 things of green onions
1 small pkg. sliced almonds
1 pkg. raman noodles--it doesn't matter what flavor
chicken--cooked and cut up ---I just get the pkg. of sliced chicken breast
Rice Vinegar
sugar
vegetable oil



Directions:

Cut cabbage up into bite size pieces. (Don't use the colesalw mix!) Cut up green onions. In a large bowl, put cabbage, green onions, almonds, and chicken. Take the flavor pouch out of the raman noodles. Break the noodles up with your hands until they aren't one big blob anymore! Add to the bowl.

Dressing:

4 TBSP. sugar
1/2 cup oil
4 TBSP. Rice vinegar.

Drizzle all over salad. Put a lid on the salad and mix it by shaking the bowl around. Place in the fridge for about 30 minutes so the dressing can mix in. You may need to add a tad more vinegar. The sugar should dissolve completly.

Homemade Jambalaya

Ingredients:

1 large chicken, cut up
1/2 pound sausage
1 stick butter
3 cups uncooked rice
4 large onions
4 cloves garlic
2 sticks celery
1 bell pepper
Tony's

(in lieu of onions, celery, and bell pepper, I use a bag of Seasoning Blend--in the freezer section)


Directions:

Cut skin off chicken, and slice sausage. Season chicken with lots of Tony's.

Heat a stick of butter in a large Dutch oven.

Add chicken and cook until brown. Remove from pot and cut into bite size pieces.


Add seasonings and cook for 10 minutes.
(You may need to add more butter)

Return Chicken to the pot.

Add sausage, rice, and water.

Stir it up real good.

Cover, and cook for about 30 minutes until the rice is cooked. Stir often to keep from sticking.

Voila! Serve!

Source: Tricia Kennedy (Mom)

Russian Chicken

Ingredients:

1 chicken cut up-or just buy it cut up!
1 bottle Russian Salad Dressing
1 jar Apricot Preserves
2 pkgs. Onion Soup Mix


Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Remove skin from chicken and wash. Arrange chicken in a deep pan in a single layer. In a bowl, mix salad dressing, preserves, and onion soup mix. Pour over chicken. Bake for about 45 minutes--until chicken is done.

Goes great with potatoe salad and baked beans!