Summer Entertaining

Reality has limits

Imagination is boundless

Stuffed Tomato Chicken Salad

Cook's notes: Recently I was served this delicious summer plate for lunch. The presentation was wonderful. This meal would be quite easy to recreate. It is a very balanced meal.

Ingredients:

• large tomato
• scoop of chicken salad with almonds or tuna salad
• deviled egg
• red grapes
• orange slice 
• red pepper slice 
• roll
• Bibb lettuce

Directions:

• Score tomato and cut open sections almost down to bottom of the tomato
• Clean out inside of tomato and pat dry with paper towel

• Fill with chicken or tuna salad and sprinkle with almonds
• Arrange plate according to photo 

Citrus Salad with Poppy Seed Lemon Vinaigrette

Cook's notes: serves 4 and recipe adapted from Kimberly Schlapman People Magazine

August 4, 2013  

Ingredients:

• 2 Valencia oranges, segmented or sliced
• 2 navel oranges, segmented or sliced
• 1 ruby red grapefruit segmented or sliced 
• 1 avocado sliced
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 TB. honey
• 1 TB. poppy seeds
• salt, pepper
• toasted coconut
• 1 head Bibb lettuce or butter lettuce torn into bite sized pieces
• 1/3 cup toasted, sliced almonds

Directions:

• In a large bowl toss first four ingredients together
• In a blender mix lemon juice, olive oil, honey and poppy seeds
• Add salt and pepper to taste
• Toss vinaigrette with fruit mixture
• Divide lettuce among 4 plates
• Top with fruit
• Sprinkle with almonds and coconut