Chicken Almond Salad

After coming home from a grocery store, I realized that I bought the wrong kind of chicken meat for my soup. I always use dark meat for making chicken bouillon, soup or borscht, but had purchased chicken breasts. So, to make more tasty, I put a little more of the meat than usual in the water. After I had fed my family the soup, there was still plenty of chicken at the bottom of the pan. No one in my family eats boiled chicken meat, so I came up with a good idea! I made a healthy delicious salad with it. My husband taught me how to make this Chicken Almond salad a few years ago, when he was trying to lose some weight. The salad is tasty and it has good proteins and vitamins. Here is the recipe for it…

 Chicken Almond Salad

2 cups cooked chopped chicken

2 cups chopped apples

¾ cups sliced almonds

½ cups mayonnaise

Combine chicken, apples, and almonds in a large bowl. Add mayonnaise and mix with a spoon. There you have it! You can always put more apples if you want it sweeter or more almonds if you want it crunchier or more mayonnaise if you want it creamier.

Bon appetite!

P.S. Thank you Nichi – The Mandatory Mooch for such a great link-up party!
There is another great link-up party at http://www.flamingotoes.com/ 🙂

Green…green-blue…blue

Today’s outfit was inspired by an interior design project that I was assigned when I was studying interior design. The project was to create a nature inspired interior. In order to achieve an organic design in the room, I used the combination of green, blue-green (cyan), and blue colors. The project was a success, and here is why.

Green, green-blue, and blue colors are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. The combination of these three colors is called the analogous color scheme. Lack of a strong contrast makes this combination relaxing and pleasant to the eye. Green and blue also look organic when paired with each other, because they associate with nature…green forest, green grass and blue ocean, blue sky…

So, back to my outfit…Imagine me wearing just my blue shirt and skinny jeans. It would look boring, even with my blue nails. Green shoes and green bag created a nice smooth contrast with the rest of the outfit. Green –blue accessories helped to bring the outfit together. A touch of gold made the outfit look more interesting and dressy.

Similar outfit… 

Top Forever21 , Jeans  VictoriaSecret, Shoes JCPenney, Handbag Zappoz, Necklace Boston Proper, Bracelet Kohl’s and BestBeadPrices

Enjoy!

Slow Cooker Chicken Barbecue

I decided to make Zesty Slow Cooker Chicken Barbecue for dinner today. The recipe is from allrecipes.com, and I must say that this website is one of my favorite. It has everything I want to see and read when I cook something new…comments, advice, ratings, nutritional information, serving calculations…and the best thing is that anyone can post their own pictures of the food they made. So, I get an idea of what it should look like once I’ve made it. You would think the website paid me to say all these nice things about it, but no they didn’t. It is not an advertisement (even though it may sound like one 🙂 ). I just really like it. It is easy to use and very helpful for anyone who likes to cook.

Back to my dinner…It has very few ingredients in it, and it’s tasty, easy to make, and the best part of it is that my husband loved it! Try to make it and don’t forget to come back to comment on how yours turned out!

Zesty Slow Cooker Chicken Barbecue

    • 6 frozen skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (I used fresh ones)
    • 1 (12 ounce) bottle barbeque sauce
    • 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
    • 1/4 cup brown sugar
    • 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1. Place chicken in a slow cooker. In a bowl, mix the barbecue sauce, Italian salad dressing, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over the chicken.

2. Cover, and cook 3 to 4 hours on High or 6 to 8 hours on Low.

Bon appetite!

DIY vase

It was a month ago when I came up with this very simple vase DIY. I had a bouquet of pretty flowers that my husband gave me for my birthday. After a week or so the bouquet didn’t look as fresh, so I had to throw away most of the flowers. There were only few of them left after all, so I had to find something small to put them in. A simple glass was a perfect size!. 🙂

For this vase DIY I used: a glass, the yellow waxed paper (I believe that’s what it’s called) that the bouquet was originally wrapped in, yellow paper ribbon, and scissors.

Enjoy the weekend!

 

FINAL! Striped Dress. 5 days/5 ways. Day 5.

The last fifth outfit for the Striped Dress Challenge is here. Finally! I added a peplum belt to the dress to make the challenge more interesting! I am not very good at sewing yet, so the belt is not made perfectly. 🙂 I will post however, a picture of how I made it.

A peplum belt enhanced the outfit making it elegant and playful. It also, just like any other peplum piece, gave the body a flattering curve. This belt could be used with pencil skirts, tops, and other slim dresses. Peplum piece by itself is a focal point of the outfit. Therefore, the main trick to remember when wearing it is that the rest of the pieces in the outfit should be simple and well fitting. Otherwise the outfit may look too bulky and bubbly.

Enjoy the rest of the day!

Beet Salad

Here is one of my favorite salads! It’s a healthy, full of vitamins, and tasty beet salad. I will be posting a recipe of it along with step-by-step photos soon. The salad has beets, cheese, prunes, walnuts, garlic, and mayonnaise in it. Very very tasty! 🙂

Final 5th outfit is almost here…!

Here are the 4 outfits I have posted so far for my 5 days/5 ways Striped Dress Challenge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, my Final 5th outfit is coming very soon! All I can say about it is that these pretty red shoes in the image below were my inspiration for something fun and elegant.

Stay tuned, and feel free to comment! 🙂

My Honey Wheat Berry Bread

Here is the honey wheat berry bread I made yesterday with my Zojirushi breadmaker machine. My husband gave me this machine for Christmas in 2007, and I used it probably 10 times since then. However, it is very easy to use, and I love how it mixes all the ingredients for you. There was a little book of recipes that came with the machine. My favorite recipe is Honey Wheat Berry Bread. I am not sure why it has the word “berry” in it, because there are no berries in the recipe at all. However, the bread is very tasty and somewhat healthy…or better to say, at least I know which ingredients it consists of. 🙂

I was slightly disappointed to find out that most wheat breads have white flour in them. It allows the bread rising better when baking. So, my favorite recipe of a wheat bread consists of 4-1/4 cups of bread flour (which is white flour!) and ½ cup of cracked wheat to make it more healthy. To make it “even” healthier, I used 2 cups of wheat flour and 2-1/4 cups of bread flour.

So, just in case someone has the same machine (Zojirushi Model: BBCC-X20), here is the recipe:

 Honey Wheat Berry Bread

1-3/8 cups – Water

4-1/4 cups – Bread Flour

1/2 cups – Cracked Wheat

3 tbsp – Honey

1-1/2 tsp – Salt

2 tbsp – Butter

2 tsp – Active Dry Yeast…and relax! 🙂

Can there be anything better than hot home-made bread!

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