Dinner Last Night

"Ranee Mueller" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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: My MIL is here for the week to help us out at home
: with the
new baby,
: and has been doing a lot of the meal prep, cooking and
: cleaning
for us.
: When we were trying to decide on dinner for last night, we
realized that
: we had the fixings for several great salads, so we
: had a salad
night.
: Rich made a green salad with several lettuces, spinach,
: radish, scallion, carrots, celery, cucumber, tomato, etc
: and a dressing
to go
: along with it. MIL made a gorgeous fruit salad with Maui
: Gold pineapples, strawberries, honey mangos, bananas,
: red flame
grapes,
: braeburn apples, oranges and tangerines. I made my
: red potato
salad and
: a chicken-pasta salad which turned out quite well.
: We served
some hot
: garlic bread (not bread with garlic spread, but bread with
garlic baked
: in it) a chardonnay and sparkling cider.
:
: Mustard Chicken & Pasta Salad
:
: 1 lb tricolor pasta (whatever shape you like) 3 half
: chicken breasts salt pepper
: 1/2 C olive oil 2 T cider vinegar 2 T dijon mustard 2 T
: grainy mustard
: 1/2 C mayonnaise 1 tsp paprika 2 large celery ribs, sliced
: 1 bunch scallions, sliced 1 heaping T capers
:
: Boil the pasta in lots of salted water until just
: done. Cook
chicken
: breasts, well seasoned with salt & pepper, in a
: little olive
oil, cut
: into chunks and refrigerate.
:
: Whisk olive oil, cider vinegar, mustards, mayonnaise and
paprika
: together to make dressing.
:
: Toss pasta with chicken, celery, scallions, capers and
: dressing
and
: chill well.
:
: Regards, Ranee
:
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What a wonderful meal Ranee!! Glad to hear everyone is
doing well too.

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Cyndi <Remove a "b" to reply

In article <i7Gac.148791$_w.1659338@attbi_s53>, "Rick & Cyndi"

Quoted message said:

What a wonderful meal Ranee!! Glad to hear everyone is
doing well too.

Thank you. I am back on my own at home. The family all
went home yesterday. In a way, I am glad, because I don't
have to deal with more people at home, in a way I am sad
because I enjoyed having them here, and it _was_ a huge
help. We are fortunate, because Rich works so close and
his company is extremely family friendly, so it is no big
deal to them if he comes home to help me lift something I
can't (or someone, like putting our 2 year old to bed for
quiet time) or take our oldest to and from school.

As for the meal, we all really enjoyed it. I wonder why
we don't do meals like that more often. This week, we're
primarily eating leftovers to clear out our fridge in
preparation for Easter. I think we're also going to turn
on one of the extra refrigerators in our basement.

Regards, Ranee

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"The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord
of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man."
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