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Harvest Apple Salad with Parmesan Pepper Chicken and Caramel Apple Cider Float recipe

October 11, 2016 by Tiffany King 2 Comments

I’m excited to share these recipes with you as part of a sponsored post by Mirum Shopper. All opinions are my own and my opinion is these recipes are delicious!

We are nearing the end of soccer season and we are worn out. I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a great soccer mom, as far as having a ton of energy and lots of enthusiasm to see every minute of every game. I like watching the kids play, but six games in one week, four of which were on the same day in a city two hours away has taken its toll.

The schedule has also done a number on family dinner and cooking. On Monday Jim took Isaac to his game and the rest of us stayed home. Mia and I didn’t have another hour and a half drive, plus game, plus driving home left in us. She’s been battling bronchitis and a shoulder injury for a couple of weeks and just needed to rest.

We decided to celebrate our night at home with an easy dinner, a fantastic dessert and a dive into Netflix and a good book. We’re both salad fans so we loved the idea of this salad chock full of apples, pecans, cranberries and topped with chicken.

The best part of this salad is the way the chicken is prepped and cooked. The chicken gets slathered in Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, then dredged in seasoned bread crumbs before baking. The process gives the outside a flavorful crunch, while keeping the inside very moist. It’s quick and easy. You can serve the chicken with a few side dishes or slice it thin and serve it on salad as we did.

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Honey Crisp Kale Chopped Salad with Apple Cider Dressing

September 28, 2016 by Tiffany King 2 Comments

Do you ever do something that just makes you so pleased with yourself? That’s how I feel about creating this salad!

To me, this Honey Crisp Kale Chopped Salad couldn’t get any better. I hope you feel the same way. I do hope you’ll go to your kitchen and give it a try!

This idea came to me in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep. It’s a simple salad, with just a few healthy ingredients – kale, honey crisp apples, and a few dressing ingredients. The dressing doesn’t even have to be mixed separately. I just drizzled each ingredient over the salad and tossed. So easy!

This is the type of salad I could eat forever!

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5 Minute Nightly Salad Method

March 8, 2016 by Tiffany King 18 Comments

I really like having a salad with dinner. Not every night, but for many meals it’s a great side dish.

But I hate making salads.

If you can relate to that, you’ll want to give this easy method a try. I’m sure some of you already use this method for making salad. It’s not rocket science, but for some reason I used to always tear the leaves into pieces, then wash them, dry them… The process didn’t take forever, but I just hated doing it. That meant I had lettuce languishing in the bottom of the crisper drawer.

Now I buy a large pack of romaine lettuce. Costco sells six heads in a pack. They stay fresh for quite a long time. One head is about the right amount of salad for our family.

I pull the head apart and rinse each leaf under cool water. They get patted dry with a clean towel or a paper towel.

Next, I chop them up by cutting across all the leaves and then running the knife lengthwise down the head as well. This takes all of 20 seconds.

All the leaves go into a salad bowl and I pat them dry again. Sometimes I add tomatoes or red pepper or another vegetable. Sometimes we keep it simple with just the lettuce.

Since I started making them this way, we’ve eaten a lot more salad. And I don’t hate making it.

The other easy salad that gets served a lot around here is the Simple Wedge Salad.

Do you like making salad? What method do you prefer to use?

Easy Apple Salad

February 9, 2016 by Tiffany King 27 Comments

I could have sworn that I had a recipe for Apple Salad on my blog. In fact, at Thanksgiving time, I started to make it to take to a gathering and the first thing I did was look search the recipe on the site. Nothing.

So I snapped a few photos and I’m just now getting around to posting the recipe. This one is great for holiday dinners like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, but it’s so easy that you can also serve it up on a plain old Tuesday night.

If you’re dishing it up for weeknight dinner, use the ingredients you have on hand. Feel free to skip the pineapple, pecans or grapes.

The recipe is really more method than exact measurements, but the two ingredients that make the dressing are key. Those are also the two ingredients I can never remember, hence the reason I was searching my blog for the recipe.

Since my search yielded nothing, I called my mom, of course. Now that I’ve got the recipe posted we can all find it here and talk to our moms about something else.

Easy Apple Salad

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Cranberry, Pecan, Mandarin Spinach Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

January 21, 2016 by Tiffany King 4 Comments

Adding pecans, dried cranberries, red onions and mandarin oranges to your spinach makes for a great salad. This is more method than recipe.

Feel free to vary the ingredients for what you have on hand. Use apple, celery, raisins, walnuts, sesame seeds… You can also add goat cheese, feta or Parmesan.

I love a slightly sweet vinaigrette with this salad. It’s easy to whip up homemade Raspberry Vinaigrette. You probably have all the ingredients in your pantry now.

This is the type of salad I could eat and eat. And that’s a great way to pump up your daily fresh fruits and vegetables!

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Raspberry Vinaigrette

Ingredients

3 Tbs. seedless raspberry jam
2/3 cup oil
1/3 cup red wine vinegar
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Warm the jam in the microwave for a few seconds until it become slightly melted.
Place all ingredients in a container with a tight fitting lid. A mason jar works well for this. Shake to combine the ingredients.