Game day salad – from aunt Cindy

• servings: 6

Ingredients

~ 1 box long grain and wild rice mix, cooked with seasonings

Juice of one lemon

1 lb. Jumbo shrimp - cooked, deveined & cut into chunks (or cooked chicken)

4 green onions, chopped

1 red bell pepper, diced

Sugar snap peas or Chinese peapods (ends removed)/or asparagus

Sliced mushrooms

2 medium avocados, diced

1 C chopped pecans, toasted

Lettuce leaves for garnish

Dressing: Combine in blender. Cover and refrigerate

2 cloves garlic, minced --

1 T Dijon mustard

½2 t salt

¼ t pepper

1/3 C rice wine vinegar

1/3 C vegetable oil

Mix all salad ingredients except avocado and pecans. Combine with dressing and refrigerate 2 - 4 hours. Before serving, add avocados and pecans and garnish crackers pain forest? with lettuce leaves.

May be made a day ahead! Serves 6

Small