Blush Sauce With A Twist and Mandi's Salad with Homemade Croutons

Ingredients:

1. 12 Whole Roma Tomatoes
2. 2 lbs thawed chicken breast thinly sliced
3. 2 Minced Garlic Cloves
4. Hand full of yellow onion diced
5. 6 Mini bella mushrooms diced
6. 1/8 cup sugar
7. 1 Orange Bell Pepper
8. Litehouse freeze-dried italian herb blend (Very fresh, closest I have come to fresh herbs without them picked right from the plant)
9. 3 pinches of sea salt
10. Olive Oil
11. Lite cream
12. Feta and provolone cheese
13. Multi Grain Linguine pasta
14. Sriracha hot sauce 15-20 small drops to add some tongue tingle

First start with blanching the tomatoes so that you can remove the skin easily. To do this place them in boiling water just enough to cover them. Let cook for 30-40 seconds until skin starts to bubble and color lightens. Remove and place in cold water then peal and remove core.

Chop your veggies and both the veggies and spices to the tomatoes with some olive oil coating the sauce pan. Set some bell pepper off to the side. Make sure the tomatoes are cut into smaller chunks before adding the rest of the ingredients. Cook on medium high heat until the tomatoes have fully softened. Keep it chunky or smash the tomatoes up a bit its up to you and add the drops of hot sauce. Reduce heat and add the lite cream and chesses. Let simmer until the cheeses are melted into the sauce. Be careful not to overheat or you will burn the milk contents. Reduce until desired thickness is achieved. Set to low heat to keep warm but not cooking.

Saute the thinly sliced chicken breast in some olive oil. Take the left over bell pepper and add to chicken when it is golden with a slightly crisp texture. Add to sauce and simmer for 5-10 minutes.

Serve with al dente linguine multigrain noodles. Bon Appetit

Mandi's crisp salad

Ingredients:
1. 2 1/2 cups of mixed lettuce
2. 1/8 cup orange bell pepper
3. 1/8 cup gouda
4. Home made croutons

Mix all ingredients

Home made croutons

Ingredients:

1. Day old hard baguette
2. 3/4 butter maybe more to make sure even coating of the bread
3. Lithouse Italian seasoning

Cut baguette into 1/2 thick slices then cut into fours
Melt butter in sauce pan and add seasoning
Add bread cubes
Make sure all cubes are covered in butter
Put coated cubes on cookie sheet
Bake in preheated 400 degree oven about 6-10 minutes or until golden brown
Add to salad

Notes: Do not over cook the sauce or over bake the bread cubes