Saturday, February 1, 2014

Cheesecake Factory Redo and Nostalgia Salad


Some title, what's the big idea.  Well, I used to love a certain dish at the Cheesecake Factory and ordered it every single visit.  It was really the sauce that made the dish divine it was the grilled chicken medallions.  My vegan version was refreshing and my tummy appreciated it.


Saute Chick'n Medeallions
Chick'n Scallopini
4 garlic cloves
5 cups spinach
2  chopped red bell peppers
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar 

1/2 tbsp. arrowroot flour or cornstarch
2 cups no chicken broth (2 tsp to 2 cups water)
Salt and Pepper to taste

Heat 1 tbsp. oil add cutlets to pan and cook for 2 minutes on each side. Remove cutlets and set aside. In the same pan add oil, garlic, spinach and bell pepper cook until spinach wilts.  Deglaze with balsamic vinegar and broth, add cutlets and simmer until heated thoroughly about 5 minutes.  Serve with Rice

This nostalgia salad is a favorite childhood pastime meal.  As a child I was the weird one that loved salads, I know weird right?!?  I grew up eating thousand island dressing on my burgers, salads, French fries it was just put on everything.  Well I'd wanted a salad just like I ate when I was a girl and throw it together in a snap.

Nostalgia Salad
1 head of butter lettuce
1 diced tomato
1 diced cucumber
3 tbsp. of diced red onions
5 tbsp. bacon bits
Fresh ground pepper


Thousand Island Dressing
2 tbsp. vegenaise
1 tbsp. ketchup
3 tsp relish
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder

Sweet Treat Take away, instead of obliterating a piece of cake kick the sweet tooth with fresh cut pears and dates bowl, pic shown below. Simple, quite easy but satisfying!


Happy Eating :)