Love At Home

"One certain way we can demonstrate genuine love for mother is to live the truths mother so patiently taught." ~Thomas S. Monson


     Happy Mother's Day to one and all.  Every year during the week before Mother's Day is held the HMQS (Home Machine Quilting Show) at the South Town Expo Center in Sandy, Utah.  I have attended for three years in a row now.  The quilts on display are amazing.  I will show just a few here that I loved.

     Since this is Mother's Day, I'm including two recipes that any mother would love to have served on her special day.

 

 

Orange Sesame Asian Chicken Salad

From Our Best Bites

 

Dressing

Zest from one medium orange

1/3 cup fresh orange juice

6 T. rice vinegar

4 T. honey

1 T. chopped green onions, use the white part

2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped

1 T. sesame oil

1 T. soy sauce

¾ cup canola oil

1 T. toasted sesame seeds

 

Salad Ingredients

Romaine lettuce

Purple cabbage

Cooked chicken, shredded or diced

Cilantro leaves

Chopped green onions, the green part

Julienned carrots

Sliced cucumbers

Chilled mandarin oranges

Cashews

Crunchy Chinese noodles

Prepare dressing. Wash and zest orange, and set aside.  Place orange juice, vinegar, honey, onions, garlic, sesame oil and soy sauce in blender and blend until smooth.  With blender running on low, slowly drizzle in canola oil in a small, steady stream, to emulsify.  Add orange zest and pulse to combine.  Place dressing in a lidded jar and add sesame seeds, shake to combine.  Refrigerate until ready to use.

Mix salad greens and vegetables.  Right before serving, add orange slices, nuts and crunch noodles.  Toss with dressing and serve.

 

 

Banana Pudding Poke Cake

From The Country Cook

1 box yellow cake mix

Ingredients to make cake (eggs, oil, and water)

2 (3.4 oz.) packages instant banana pudding

4 cups milk

1 (8 oz.) tub frozen whipped topping, thawed

20 vanilla wafers, crushed

Banana slices

Caramel syrup

Prepare cake mix according to package directions for a 9x13 cake.

Once cake comes out of oven, allow it to cool for a couple of minutes.  Then, with a wooden spoon handle or a spatula handle begin poking holes in the cake.  You want the holes to be big so that the pudding has plenty of room to get down there.  Be sure to poke right down to the bottom of the cake. 

In a bowl, whisk together instant pudding with 4 cups milk.  Stir until all the lumps are gone.  Pour pudding over cake; taking care to pour it right into the holes as much as possible.  Spread it all out and using the back of the spoon, gently push down into the holes.

Put the cake in the fridge to set and cool (about 2 hours).  Once your cake has completely cooled, spread on whipped topping.

Use a rolling pin, crush the vanilla wafers in a Ziploc bag.  Leave some pieces big.  Sprinkle wafers on cake when ready to serve so they stay crunchy.  Serve with slices of fresh banana and drizzle some caramel sauce over the top, if desired.

 

 

 

I finished reading this book this week.  I love almost all the books by this author.  This one was just as good as all the rest!  It's a nice romantic mystery.