pear and greens salad

pear and greens salad

moving to a healthier part of thanksgiving 2010 🙂 pear and green salad was inspired partly by salad at my favorite chicken tender place: maniac’s, partly by strawberry spinach salad and partly because pears are now in season. the spiced pecans in this salad are 

roasted pepper pasta salad

roasted pepper pasta salad

summer is a great time for pasta salad of any kind.  since i live in the south now, i get a whole lot of summer weather, which means that i get to try lots of pasta salad recipes.  this is one was featured on the 

ranch bacon pasta salad

ranch bacon pasta salad

pasta salad from the box is really good for hot summer months when you need something to go with dinner in a pinch.  i decided to kick it up a notch and make it from scratch.  it’s my first pasta salad (other than making mom’s 

strawberry spinach salad

strawberry spinach salad

when you first see the ingredients to this salad, you’ll think eww.  that sounds awful.  but it’s not.  it’s quite delicious.  in fact, it was the first ranch dressing free salad i ever liked! 2 pkg. fresh baby spinach, rinsed and dried 1 1/2 qt. 

chicken salad

chicken salad

i’m going through this stage where i’m missing all of my flint food.  some things just can’t be recreated, like vanilla coke zero, red ox breadsticks and koegel’s hot dogs and bologna.  i’m working on re-creating a few things.  one of which is aida’s chicken