Chicken Salad

It's a gorgeous, warm sunny day here in Adelaide. I felt like something a little different for lunch, and so instead of my usual sandwich, I decided on a salad.

I cut all the vegies and then went looking for a piece of fruit to add. You see, I really like fruit in my salad. I found a lovely peach, and added that to my usual salad ingredients.

This salad also has pan fried chicken (I sprinkled it with a little celery salt before cooking), red onion, fetta, cucumber, lettuce, red capsicum and avocado. I dressed it with some white wine vinegar and a little olive oil. Yum!

Anyway, as I added the peach, it got me to thinking... do other people put some fruit in their salads, too? Or I am the only crazy one?

Some other fruits I like to add instead are grapes or sliced apple. Fresh dates are also nice.

I would love to know what your favourite salad is.... and do you ever add fruit?

Christmas Tree Biscuits

To keep us busy today, I thought we'd get in to the kitchen and make some biscuits.

I had this idea at the beginning of December and have been waiting to try it out, but just hadn't gotten around to it yet.

I searched for ages to find a decent sized tree cookie cutter. Somehow, I didn't realise that this cutter is actually giant though!

Oh well, it will be useful for something else...

Anyway, all we did here was colour some cookie dough green (we used this recipe again from here and added a little extra flour, so that we could roll the dough) and use smarties to decorate our trees with 'baubles'.

If you have a smaller cutter, perhaps mini m & ms would be much better.

We had a lot of fun making these.... and then when we realised how giant these biscuits are, we switched to the old favourite!!!

I had also bought an angel cutter in the same size, and didn't fancy making GIANT angels as well, and so Madeleine had a special christmasy lunch today!