Breakfast Parfait

Start your day off right with a medley of summer berries, fresh fruit and crunchy granola, served up with a dollop of vanilla yogurt and drizzled with honey. This is a great way to step away from the ordinary breakfast. Quick, easy, and tasty are the only ways to describe how great this recipe is. Impress your friends by creating this stylish and tasty breakfast treat. They will have no idea that it only took you a matter of minutes.

If you get tired of the same fruit, try something new. The sweet nectar's of the different fruits will make your taste buds come alive.

Go ahead, give it a try. Sweeten up your breakfast.

Ingredients
1 cup (250 mL) fresh fruit or berries (see list below)
1/2 cup (125 mL) plain or vanilla-flavored yogurt
1/2 cup (125 mL) granola or other whole-grain cereal
1 tbsp. (15 mL) honey or your favourite fruit jam

Cooking Instructions
Spoon half of the fruit or berries into the bottom of a parfait glass or other ice cream sundae-type dish. Top with half of the yogurt, and sprinkle with half of the cereal.
Repeat with remaining fruit and remaining yogurt.
Add a decorative drizzle of honey or a dollop of jam and sprinkle the top with the rest of the cereal.
For a finishing touch decorate with a single, perfect berry or slice of fruit. Beautiful!

Other Fruits To Add:
Strawberries
Raspberries
Blueberries
Peaches
Pears
Cherries
Apples
Nectarines
Pineapple
Mango
Papaya
Kiwi
Banana

Pecan Crusted Chicken Salad

Juicy, warm chicken breasts baked in a crunchy pecan and garlic flavored coating sit on a bed of crisp romaine lettuce. Dried cranberries and mandarin oranges add a sweetness that is balanced by the tanginess of crumbled blue cheese. Ranch dressing ties the dish together to make a wonderfully light, filling salad.

You and your family or guests will absolutely love the flavor of this salad. It is a sensational hit at the dinner table. Being easy to prepare, this salad only takes 15 min of preparation time and in 25 minutes to cook the salad is ready to eat after you toss it together.

Ingredients:
1 cup creamy garlic salad dressing
1 cup finely chopped pecans
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
1 head romaine lettuce leaves, torn into 1/2 inch wide strips
1 (15 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained
1 cup dried cranberries
4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup Ranch dressing


DIRECTIONS
1-Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2-Place the creamy garlic dressing and pecans in separate bowls. Dip each chicken breast in the dressing then in the pecans to coat. Arrange chicken on a baking sheet.
3-Bake chicken 25 minutes in the preheated oven, until juices run clear.
4-Cool slightly, and cut into strips.
5-On serving plates, arrange equal amounts of the lettuce, mandarin oranges, cranberries, and blue cheese. Top with equal amounts chicken, and serve with Ranch dressing.

Enjoy!

Strawberry Spinach Salad

This salad will make your taste buds explode. It is so delicious. In my family we like to have this dish along with our hot off the barbecue grilled chicken. This salad is the perfect mixture of sweet, salt and flavor. Just thinking about how good strawberries taste, will start to make your mouth water. What I especially like about this recipe is that the dressing is light. It is light in texture and taste.

When you make this salad, you should know that there is quite a bit of dressing made. There is enough dressing that if you used twice the amount of salad mix the taste and texture of the dressing doesn't change.

If you are taking this salad to a party, I suggest that you not put the dressing on till you get there. If the dressing sits on the spinach leaves too long then the leaves lose their crunch.

Also, if you want to try a different fruit, I would suggest raspberries, peaches, blueberries and other varieties of softer fruit.


Salad
1 bunch spinach, rinsed
10 large strawberries, sliced

Dressing
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup white wine vinegar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon poppy seeds

In a large bowl, mix the spinach and strawberries.
In a blender, place the sugar, salt, vinegar, and oil, and blend until smooth. Stir in the poppy seeds. Pour over the spinach and strawberries, and toss to coat.

Fruit Pizza

Crust :
1 cup softened butter
1 egg
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp. almond extract
Cream all of these together in a bowl with you beater then add....
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
Press into a lightly greased pizza pan and cook at 350 for 12 - 15 minutes ( until it is golden brown on the top) - I make mine in a cookie sheet which you totally can do, but you will have to double this recipe, however you won't want to use all of the dough because it will be too much. So still double it, but just use half of the double if that makes sense! Your best just to do it in a pizza pan!

Topping :
16 oz softened cream cheese
1 7 oz cool whip
1/2 - 1 cup of powdered sugar ( just to taste, as sweet as you want it!)
whip the cream cheese until it is completely soft, then fold in the cool whip. After that pour the powdered sugar in and whip it all together! For the fruit on top you can put whatever your heart desires! (kiwi is really yummy!!)