Lettuce Wraps

4 Tablespoons soy sauce

4 Tablespoons brown sugar

1 teaspoon rice vinegar

3 Tablespoon vegetable oil

4 boneless, skinless Chicken breasts

1 small can water chestnuts, chopped

1 small can mushrooms, chopped

3 green onions, chopped

1 clove garlic, minced

You can either cook the chicken in a pan until done (about 10 minutes) or cook it in a George Forman grill until done. Remove from pan, cool, and chop into pieces no bigger than small peas. Keep the oil in the pan, heat and saute the onion and garlic for a minute, until tender. Mix the soy sauce, brown sugar and rice vinengar in a small bowl and add this and the chopped chicken, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan. Heat. Serve with lettuce cups. (I made the chicken mixture earlier in the day, when I had time and put it in the crock pot on "keep warm" setting until we were ready to eat it later in the day.)

Queso Dip

This is my sister-in-law Kendra's recipe that I stole from her blog. I even stole the picture from it. I'm making it for our superbowl party tomorrow, so I'll let you know how it is.
Best Queso Dip:
1 8oz pkg. cream cheese (I used fat free - can you make this healthy?!)
1 8 oz carton sour cream
1 8oz pkg Velveeta
1 C shredded Monteray Jack Cheese
1 small can Rotelle Diced tomatoes with Chiles - use Mild unless you like HOT HOT
Cut cream cheese and velveeta in chunks and place in oven proof bowl or crock pot. Mix in the rest of the ing. Turn crock pot on low for three hours/high for one hour or bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Serve warm with tortilla chips.

Feta apple salad

Mixed greens

1 large apple, diced

1/4 c. Feta cheese

1/4 c. Craisens, cherry flavored

1/4 c. candied almonds (heat almonds and a bit of brown sugar in a pan until the sugar is melted)

Newmans Own Balsamic Vinagrette (pour to coat, just before serving)

Frozen Hot Chocolate

Frrrozen Hot Chocolate: Serendipity's Best-Kept Secret

Ingredients
6 half-ounce pieces of a variety of your favorite chocolates
2 teaspoons storebought hot chocolate mix
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 cups milk
3 cups ice
Whipped cream
Chocolate shavings
Preparation
Chop the chocolate into small pieces and place it in the top of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring occasionally until melted. Add the cocoa and sugar, stirring constantly until thoroughly blended. Remove from heat and slowly add 1/2 cup of the milk and stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature.
In a blender place the remaining cup of milk, the room temperature chocolate mixture, and the ice. Blend on high speed until smooth and the consistency of a frozen daiquiri. Pour into a giant goblet and top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings. Enjoy with a spoon or a straw. . . .or both!

Pecan Crusted Salmon and Parmesan potatoes!

I just made this tonight and it was delicious!

Pecan Crusted Salmon:

4 salmon fillets(about 6 ounces each)

2 cups milk

1 cup finely chopped pecans

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 cup packed brown sugar

2 teaspons seasoned salt

2 teaspoons pepper

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Place salmon fillets in a large reusable plastic bag, add milk.

Seal bag and turn to coat. Let stand for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a shallow bowl, combine the pecans, flour, brown sugar, seasoned salt and pepper. Drain fish; coat with pecan mixture, gently pressing into the fish.

In a large skillet, brown salmon over medium-high heat in oil. Transfer to a baking pan coated with nonstick cooking spray. Bake at 400 for 8-10 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.

Parmesan Potatoes:

4 medium red potatoes, thinly sliced

1 small onion, thinly sliced and separated into rings

3 tablespoons of butter, melted

1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

1/8 teaspoon garlic powder

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

Place half of the potatoes in a greased 2 quart baking dish. Top with onion and remaining potatoes; drizzle with butter. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Bake uncovered, at 45o for 25-30 minutes or until the potatoes are golden brown and tender.

Wreaths

Melt: 1 cube butter
34 large marshmallows

Remove from head and add:
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. green food coloring
4 1/2 cups corn flakes

On parchment paper, form the mixture into wreaths and then add red hots to decorate.

I Like Turtles

1 pkg Rollos
1/2 pkg Pretzels
4 oz. whole pecans

Unwrap the Rollos and place on pretzels on a pan lined with wax or parchment paper. Stick pan in the oven, heated to 400 degrees, for about 1 or 2 minutes, until they are shiny. Pull out and smash down a pecan onto each one. Make about 50 pieces.