Sun Dried Tomato Chicken Salad

1 Pkg Spinach
Kraft Sun Dried Tomato Dressing (enough to coat spinach to your liking)
Frigo 3 cheese Italian cheese (parmesan, asiago, and romano)
2 Chicken Breasts

Cook chicken any way you like and shred or chunk.
Toss spinach with dressing, cheese and chicken.

*it tastes great with just parmesan cheese.. but the mixture is great!

Rigatoni Salad

By Racquel D.

Mix in a bowl:

1 16 oz pkg rigatoni pasta (cooked)
2 chopped cucumbers
1 onion chopped
1/2 green pepper chopped
3/4 cup chopped celery
1 cup white vinegar
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp accent
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
stir and let marinate

Cafe Rio Salad

By Charise V.
It seems like a lot of work, but it really wasnt too bad! It is so worth it!

Café Rio Dressing
1 buttermilk ranch dressing packet (make as per recipe)
2 tomatillos (tomato like vegetable with a husk around them)
½ bunch of cilantro
1 clove garlic
Juice of 1 lime
1 jalapeño (Use the seeds too if you like it spicy. You could substitute a few drops of green tobasco for the jalapeno.)

Mix your Ranch Dressing. Use a food processor to chop all other the ingredients add to the ranch shake well. Refrigerate.

Cafe Rio Chicken
1 small bottle Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing
1 T chili powder
1 T cumin
3 cloves garlic—minced
5 lbs chicken breast

Cook all together in a crock pot for 4 hours, shred meat and cook 1 additional hour.

Café Rio Rice
3 c water
4 t chicken bouillon
4 t garlic –minced
½ bunch cilantro
1 can green chiles—or equivalent fresh
¾ t salt
1 T butter
½ onion
3 c rice (*see note)

*Blend cilantro, green chiles and onion together in food processor. Bring water to a boil and add all ingredients, simmer covered 30 minutes.

Start with a tortilla, then layer on romane lettuce (chopped) cooked beans (I just get a bag of uncooked black beans and follow the instructions), rice, lettuce, specially seasoned chicken, cheese and a cilantro ranch dressing that is delicious.

I build my salad in a big tortilla that is placed in a aluminum cake tin (disposable) just like Cafe Rio!

Peach-Bananna Smoothie

From the "All You" Magazine

Peach-Banana Smoothie

Serves 4

Place 2 peeled, sliced peaches, 2 bananas, 27 oz. orange juice and 12 ice cubes in a blender and mix until smooth. Serve in tall glasses.

Choose the best fruit. Pick the ripest peaches you can find for the sweetest flavor.

Our Favorite Chicken Salad

Dressing:
1/2 tsp Pepper
1/2 cup canola or sesame oil
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup white vinegar
2 Tbsp Sugar
*I like to use just a little bit extra of each ingredient just to coat the salad a little more.

3-4 Chicken Breasts-boiled or oven baked. Shred the chicken into bite sized pieces.
12 oz spiral cork screw pasta (the multi colored pasta looks great) cooked according to package directions.
1 cup cashews
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1 pkg spinach
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
3-4 green onions, chopped

Mix all together!
Tastes lots better when it sits all together in the fridge for a few hrs.
*Don't add cashews until you are ready to serve. They will get a little soft.
*The best way I have found to do it is to mix the dressing in a large plastic zip lock. Add the shredded chicken and cooked pasta in the zip lock and let it marinate with the dressing. Put it in the fridge for a couple hrs.