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Eight Layer Salad

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Following the dodo bird, presentation salads have wandered down the road to extinction. For the gelatin based creations I will mostly agree that this is a good thing, although a recent tryst with panna cotta made me re-consider my general reticence towards gelatin based goods. This has been a stupid prejudice, because gelatin is …click to continue Eight Layer Salad

Wild Rice and Chicken Salad

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I have been making this salad for years. One of its main selling points is that it has a vinaigrette dressing instead of mayonnaise. So, if you are going to a picnic or a potluck and you cannot be assured of good refrigeration, you don’t have to sweat it. Also, this has a unique …click to continue Wild Rice and Chicken Salad

Baked Chicken Spaghetti Recipe

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I laugh at the roses in the photo behind this plate of spaghetti. Pitts has this saying about putting a pig in a dress. After all, this is just chicken spaghetti. But baked Chicken Spaghetti gets a complete pass in my book. To me, with a salad and some crusty bread, Chicken Spaghetti is …click to continue Baked Chicken Spaghetti Recipe

Salad Bar Soup

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The name of this soup strikes me as particularly hokey. However, salad bar soup is precisely what this is. I was in Whole Foods on a strategic apple research sortie, which I had to squeeze in before the all out fun and chaos of helping lead a 36 girl Brownie troop through a “meeting.” …click to continue Salad Bar Soup

Chicken Tomatillo Casserole

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This started as a dish called chilaquiles, a recipe which I clipped out of Cooking Light 4 years ago. I used to think a dish couldn’t qualify as chilaquiles unless it had eggs in it. But, I believe I was wrong. Now I believe that just about any casserole dish made with corn tortillas …click to continue Chicken Tomatillo Casserole