Good Morning Everyone!

Looks like rain is in our forecast this morning, I don't mind giving hot Mr. Sun a rest...

Tonight's menu is a simple one; Fried Chicken Salad and Garlic Cheese Rolls.

Enjoy! Gina

Fried Chicken Salad

serves 61 head of lettuce and a bunch of leaf lettuce
1 carrot, scraped and julienned
2 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1 tomato diced
1/2 lb. bacon, cookead crisp, drained and crumbled
1 red or green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 cucumber, washed and chopped
4 chicken breasts, cut into strips
1 c. buttermilk
1/2 t. seasoned salt
1/4 t. black pepper
1/2 t. paprika
1/2 t. garlic powder
1/2 t. basil
2 c. flour
vegetable oil for frying

Let the chicken pieces sit in the buttermilk. Mix the flour in a large bowl with all the seasonings and set aside. Meanwhile, prepare the eggs and bacon and set aside. Prepare the salad greens by washing and tearing into bite size pieces. Spin them dry. Put them into large salad bowl, add carrots, cukes and bell pepper. Set in fridge while you prepare the chicken.

Dip each strip of chicken in the prepared flour mix and carefully place into hot oil. Fry til golden brown and tender. This should only take a few minutes per batch. Be careful not to crowd chicken while frying. Drain onto paper towels. Remove the salad from fridge, add tomatoes, bacon and eggs and top with the chicken strips.

Serve with croutons and your favorite salad dressing. We love Honey Mustard with it.

Garlic Cheese Rolls

These rolls are fast and so easy to prepare using refrigerated dough breadsticks from your faavorite grocer. They came about while I was thinking, "what else can I do with this", one day...

1 pkg. refrigerated dough breadsticks (the kind that has 8 in the tube)
2 T. olive oil
garlic salt
paprika
parsley
grated parmesan cheese
1/2 c. mozzarella cheese, grated
1 egg beaten

Unroll the dough and spread out to make a large rectangle. You will be rolling each one individually later so don't meld together. With a brush lightly brush on the oil and sprinkle with all the seasonings. Sprinkle on the cheeses and one at a time, roll a stick of dough up, pinwheel style and place each into a greased muffin tin cup. Brush the tops with the beaten egg and sprinkle with some more parmesan. Bake at 350 for about 15-18 min or til golden brown.