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Chicken Cole Slaw Oriental

With warmer weather approaching we gear up for some of our favorite summer foods. It's made with raw cabbage so it's a great way to add fresh veggies to your diet..especially with kids! Homemade vinaigrette dressing adds a special touch...and you can mix it up in a matter of minutes. My Mother in law gave me the recipe several years ago...I tweaked it a bit by adding garlic to the dressing. She usually serves it as a side dish. We eat it as a main course with some crusty bread. It's one of my favorite salads!   Easier than pie to prepare Chicken Cole Slaw Oriental For four: (I double or triple this for the 8 of us...we like leftovers) 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (cooked and cubed or torn into bite sized pieces)  I boil mine and then chill it. 2 tblsp. toasted sesame seeds (optional...I usually don't put these in...I always forget!) 1/2 cup (appx) sliced, toasted almonds 1/4 cup (appx) rice noodles 1 bag shredded cabbage with radishes and ca

A Tablescape of Purple Polychrome Transferware

One of my favorite color combination's is purple and amber and I have a thing for amber glass.  I don't have alot of it but I'd like to!      I had so much fun creating this tablescape tonight!      I have some antique, purple polychrome transferware pieces by Ridgway that I've been dying to do a tablescape with.   In addition, I have a silk floral arrangement I'd made up sometime back using gold, purple, and burgundy flowers and greenery.  I think it compliments the dishes so nicely.  I used two lace trimmed, pale gold window sheers as my scrunched up table runner.  This is the same one I used at this tea here . I began with these stunning hand beaded, purple placemat chargers from  Always Elegant .  This website is fabulous!  They carry the prettiest hand beaded table accessories including napkin rings and coasters to match the placemats.  There is a gamut of colors to choose from...it was hard to decide on just one but I've been conjuring up purple tabl