The BEST chicken salad ever

6 cups cubed cooked chicken breasts
1 cup sliced water chestnuts(towel dry)
2 cups chopped celery
1 can crushed pineapple(towel dry)
2 cups red seedless grapes
2 cups slivered almonds
1/2 cup chopped green onion
1/4 c chutney
3 cups mayo
2 T lemon juice
1 T soy sauce
1/4 t curry powder (don't leave out! )

Mix together in a big bowl and serve on bed of lettuce with show mein nooldes on top or in croissants as sandwiches.

Favorite Salad

I am having a christmas brunch this week for my visiting teachers and I went looking for my favorite salad recipe and I could not believe I didn't have a single salad on my blog! this one I got from Louise Hill years ago- I call it Louise's Salad:
Romaine Lettuce- I use half spinach
Crasina
feta cheese
Cut up apple, pear or strawberries
pecans or pine nuts
sliced red onion

Amy Moffat's Dressing:
1/2c sugar
1 t dry mustard
3/4t salt
1/4c red wine vinegar
Blend these ingredients in a blender, sloly add 3 T chopped bermuda onion(1/4)
Slowly add 1/2 c oil- I use olive oil. Blend unitl frothy and refrigerate
I double the dressing then I have extra.

Brownies

I just got back from Utah and had the best visit with my best friend Kathleen. This is her recipe and she is the best cook! Brownies are one of those this I do not like from a mix.

Mix together:

4 eggs

1 3/4 cups sugar

Mix together and add to egg mixture:

1 cup melted butter

1/2 cup cocoa

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp salt

Add:

3/4 cup flour

1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (opt)

1 cup chocolate chips (opt)

Mix together and pour into greased pan.

Bake @ 350 degrees for approximately 30 minutes

or until knife comes out clean in center.

Do not overcook.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar or

ice with chocolate frosting.

CARROT COOKIES

This recipe is from Holly Tribett and I made them all the time for my kids when they were little...
Cream:
3/4 c sugar
3/4 c shortening or butter
1 egg
1 c cooked carrots, mashed coarsely, cooled
1 teas vanilla
Add:
2 c flour
1/2 t salt
1 teas baking powder

Drop by large tablespoons- I cook them till just brown-they should be soft
Bake 375 for 15 minutes

Frosting:
1/2 c orange juice
1 T butter
1 c powdered sugar

modified:

1 cup butter I use 1/2 c with 1/2c applesauce
3/4 c sugar I use 1/2c and a little less flour
2 eggs
1 c carrots, cooked and smashed ( can use canned)
2 1/2 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4t salt
1 tsp vanilla

Cream butter, sauce and sugar. Add one egg at a time then carrots. Add dry ingredients then vanilla. Drop by tablespoons on cookie sheet, sprayed with PAM
Bake 375 for 10-12 minutes till pale.

Icing
1/2# powder sugar
1/4 c orange juice
orange rind, opt
Mix till smooth and frost cooled cookies

Ginger Cookies

I was visiting someone who asked me if I had a good gingersnap recipe and I couldn't believe that I had not put this one on the blog yet. I got the recipe from the Horton's and it is our favorite. I hate using shortening but it is a must...So I usually make them a Christmas time and stack a 10-12 in a sac, tie with a ribbon and give away.

Mix: ¾ c shortening

1c sugar

1/4c molasses

1egg

Add: 2 c flour

1/4t salt

2 t soda

1t cinammon, cloves & ginger

Roll in sugar—Place on ungreased cookie sheet

Bake 375 6-8 minutes

Peanut Butter Cookies

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 cup creamy peanut butter

2 eggs

2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1. Preheat the oven to 325.
2. Use a mixer to combine the butter with the sugars until creamy.
3. Add peanut butter, eggs, and vanilla and mix until smooth.
4. Add flour, baking soda, and salt to moist ingredients. Mix the dought until it is smooth and well blended.
5. Drop rounded tablespoons of the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Press the dough flat with a fork.
6. Bake 15 minutes or until edges of the cookes begin to turn light brown.

Best Banana Bread

Makes ONE loaf

1/2 cup of oil

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

4 bananas, pureed with a hand blender

Mix together with

2 cups flour, I use 1/2 WW

1 T. Baking soda

1 pinch salt

opt: 1 teas vanilla or 1/c mini choc chips

Grease and flour pan. Bake 350 for 25-30 mins.