Chicken Wonton Salad

Jolie and I are both salad geeks. We absolutely LOVE a good salad and this is one of them. Our mom use to make this and now we make it for almost every "shower" or girls get together!

You'll have to forgive me for not taking a picture of my own. I am in the process of moving and don't have the time and probably wouldn't be able to find anything I need to download pictures. I will be having a cleaning party tomorrow and this is the salad I will be serving. A cleaning party and we're having salad? That's right!!! The women folk from my family will be coming over to help and where there are many women, there should always be a good salad!

This salad is extremely simple when you use canned chicken, precooked wonton strips, already cut up salad, and premix the dressing. I will heat the chicken a little because canned chicken is always a little pink and I don't suggest precooked wonton strips. Home cooking the wontons are sooo much better but I won't be taking the time to do that this time. Give it a try. It is very addicting! Enjoy!!

Chicken Wonton Salad

1 package wontons (cut into 1/4" strips)

Cook in 1/2" of oil over medium heat. Half package will be enough but I always cook the whole package. They are great with or without salad. (And you can sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on some for the kids). Cook until golden brown and drain on a paper towel.

1 head or bag of lettuce

1 can water chestnuts

6 chicken breast, cooked, cut into strips

4 green onions, chopped (optional....I never use them)

Toasted Sesame seeds

Mix the above all together.

1/4 c. sugar

2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. Accent

1/4 c. salad oil

1/4 c. seasoned rice vinegar

Mix together. Add wontons and dressing to salad and serve at once.

Oreo Cookies!

I had a chocolate craving and so I made some chocolate Oreo cookies! They were so yummy, chewy, soft and delicious! I colored the cream cheese frosting yellow to match the wonderful thoughts of spring! And then I had more than one cookie and one more after that... then realized I had to give them away before I finished them off all by myself. So my neighbors ended up with a "Happy Spring! Happy Everything!" treat from our family. I'm the "maker" and the husband and kids are the "takers"! Hope you are as excited to see spring coming as we are! Enjoy the cookies!

Cookie!

• 2 packages Duncan Hines devil's food cake mixes
• 4 eggs
• 1 c. shortening

Mix thoroughly. Roll into balls and bake at 350 degrees for 7-9 minutes!

Filling!

• 1 lb. or 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 cube butter
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1 t. vanilla (or almond or mint!)

Enjoy! Share!

The Portion Pro

This is an awesome tool! It is called the Portion Pro by Progressive and I learned about it when I went to a crepe cooking class at Ace Hardware. You pour your choice of liquid in the bottle (which also happens to have a spout) and can use the dropper to measure whatever you have in it. The dropper measures up to one tablespoon and makes one less thing to have to wash. That's reason enough right there to get one! The dropper also serves as the lid to the bottle. Genius! I bought two of them! One for the big bottles of pure vanilla that I have and another for olive oil. I absolutely love it!

Personal Pizzas!

Here is great and simple dinner idea! Tonight the kids made their own personal pizzas on pita bread! I sat out bowls with all needed ingredients to make a yummy personal pizza including spaghetti sauce, cheese, olives, pineapple, canadian bacon and pepperoni! I put a paper towel in front of each child, gave them a pita and let them create their own pizzas! They loved it! Husband actually loved being creative with it too! Now that is my kind of dinner! Definitely worth repeating! Simple and delicious!

Food & Family Magazine

I get this great food & family magazine from Kraft foods and it comes 4 times a year and is full of simple and delicious recipes. It came while we were on our trip and of course I read it cover to cover. Any recipe collection floats my boat! :) Wanting to do better at planning dinner menus for our family, I decided that this week all our meals would come from this magazine. They have been so good! Click HERE to get your own copy of "food & family" sent to you! You'll LOVE it too! You can also view it online, but it is always more fun to have a copy to hold in your hands! You can never have too many receipe books/magazines! :)

NOTE! I previously posted that you could get this magazine FREE. So very sorry for the wrong info. I have been getting it for years now and it must have been some lucky promotion when it first came out to get it free. There is now a charge to order it, however it is still wonderful!

Settebello

So my husbands, brothers, best friends, sister is married to the guy who opened this amazing restaurant. His kids go to the same school my kids go to. That almost makes us related!!
We waited an hour to be seated. When we were seated we got our water, placed our order, and literally within about 3 minutes, our unsliced pizza was in front of us. There are no frills. Just authentic, Italian, delicious, pizza. We each had our own 12 inch pizza baked in an authentic, straight from Italy, brick oven which gets to temperatures of nearly 1000 degrees, taking only 45-60 seconds to fully cook the pizza.
This picture is of the Pizza Lasagna because it's the only picture I can find of their pizza online but I had the "Marinara" and John had the "Margherita". We were out of the restaurant happily fed about 15 minutes later. I wasn't feeling well that evening but had I felt good, we would have stepped into the gelato half of the restaurant. It looked delicious. When my good friend, Heidi, and I went to Italy, we were obsessed with the stuff. Especially the cantaloupe gelato. I'll have to give it a try and see if it is as great as I remember.
So take a look at their menu and find your way to Settebello! It was a great dining experience and I'm excited to go back! More than anything, I was impressed by the simplicity of the place.
http://www.settebello.net/SLC/main.html

Welcome to Butterball & Beans!

Tawnie and I have always talked about putting together a cookbook or catering weddings and parties! We are obsessed with food and anything food related including visiting restaurants and kitchen supply stores! We love kitchen gadgets, tools, cookware and beautiful dishes! We love tablecloths, kitchen towels and dish rags! We love to see how weddings and parties have been catered! We both have more recipes and cookbooks than we could ever use! We simply love to talk about food! Why the obsession? I don't know... but it is a part of every day life and we think about it daily both having families to feed and take care of! So why not make it extra exciting by blogging about our experiences and sharing our creations with each other and you! If nothing else, we'll all get some new ideas about what to make for dinner or dessert!

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