Dinner Last Night

I promise to have better pictures in the future!

Since I titled this blog "Housewifery" it seems like a logical place to post recipes and house goings-on. So last night I made this fabulous dinner and I'm going to pass along the "recipe" to you. Note: Unless I'm baking, I typically don't cook from recipes. The measurements are not 100% accurate. The fun in cooking, for me, is to experiment and try new things. I find when I'm concentrating too hard on a recipe it becomes more like a burden or chore.

Asian-Flare Chicken & Cabbage Salad
Serves 4 as a main or 6-7 as a side/
2-3 chicken breasts cooked and shredded (use more if serving as a main dish to more than 2-3 people)
1 head each of Napa cabbage and Red cabbage, chopped or sliced
3-4 carrots, shredded
1 bunch of scallions, thinly sliced
1 large avacado cut into bite-size chunks
1/2 cup of toasted peanuts or cashews
Salt & Pepper to season

Dressing
1/2 cup (or more) of low-fat or fat-free plain yogurt
Juice of 1/2 lime
1 teaspoon of sugar
Drizzle of soy sauce
Few tablespoons of olive or peanut oil

Whisk dressing ingredients together until well blended and smooth. Toss with salad ingredients and sprinkle toasted peanuts or cashews over the top before serving. Delicious!

P.S. Don't be shy of cabbage... it is an extremely healthy vegetable that not enough people eat. It contains more Vitamin C than oranges, is high in fiber, and has many other excellent nutrients and antioxidants.