Asian Salad with Thai Peanut Dressing

Figuring out what to do with all your stuff  is a challenge when you decide to merge two households to one. It is at that very moment in time when you realize just how emotionally attached you have become to your stuff and need to make decisions to sell, give away or keep. Next month the lake becomes our permanent home. Right now this could be me on the floor 

so when I found a way to shortcut my Asian Salad with Thai Peanut Dressing with a little different planning I knew this was just the supper I needed to replenish my stamina.

Cook's Notes: The ingredients listed for the salad can be increased or decreased depending on how many servings you need. The dressing is enough for 3 salads. It's a thick dressing so use immediately rather than refrigerating. Creamy peanut butter works better as crunchy gives it a different texture. Thai Peanut Dressing is just amazing with a wonderful blend of sweetness, saltiness, sourness and heat with red pepper flakes. Add in cooked chicken or pork and the salad becomes a main meal. 

   Asian Salad with Thai Peanut Dressing

Salad Ingredients:

• 1/2 bag of chopped Asian Salad Mix (discard the dressing packet)
• Snow peas, diced diagonally
• Thinly sliced cucumbers
• Mini sweet red and yellow peppers, diced
• Red onion, diced
• Peanuts, coarsely chopped 
• Optional cooked chicken or pork 

Thai Peanut Dressing Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 2 TB. rice vinegar
• 2 TB. fresh lime juice, from one lime
• 3 TB. vegetable oil
• 1 TB. soy sauce
• 2 TB. honey
• 2-tsp. sugar
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1-inch square piece fresh ginger, peeled, minced about 1 TB.
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/8-1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
• Optional 2 TB. fresh cilantro leaves

Salad and Dressing Directions:

• Mix the salad ingredients in a bowl.
• Mix dressing ingredients in a blender. Use a spatula to remove all the dressing from the blender. Blend with  salad ingredients.