The sun is setting at 9 pm!
It’s almost fall!
At the height of summer it doesn’t set until 10 pm and we have daylight until almost 10:30.
I have to rearrange my evening schedule – switch to fall mode. I’m not ready.
It was so hot that we spent most of July and part of August inside.
It’s so dry we haven’t mowed or done any trimming since June.
We missed summer…..
I ordered firewood today.
We’re still eating salads.
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PrintChicken & Green Bean Pasta Salad
This easy salad features the best of August’s produce.
This starts out as a stir-fry and finishes as a salad. The peanut / teriyaki dressing is a nice change from the usual vinaigrette.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Salad
- Method: Skillet
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups (4oz, 120gr) pasta, bite-size
- 2 chicken breasts (12oz, 360gr), cut into bite-size pieces
- 3 medium shallots, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 6oz (180gr) green beans, trimmed, cut into 1 1/2″ (4cm) lengths
- 2 medium tomatoes, cut into chunks
- 2 tbs fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 tbs Teriyaki sauce
- 1 tbs olive oil
- Peanut Dressing:
- 2 tbs creamy peanut butter
- 2 tbs sherry vinegar
- 2 tbs Teriyaki sauce
- 2 tbs salad olive oil
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add shallots, beans and stir-fry 4 minutes.
- Add garlic, stir-fry another 2 minutes.
- Remove vegetables to a plate.
- Add chicken and stir-fry until chicken is cooked through, about 4 minutes.
- Return vegetables to skillet, add Teriyaki sauce and stir well to combine.
- Remove from heat.
- Peanut Dressing:
- Put all ingredients into a medium bowl and whisk well to combine.
- To finish:
- Put pasta into a large serving bowl.
- Add chicken, vegetables, parsley, tomato and stir gently.
- Add Peanut Dressing and stir to combine.
Notes
Substitute soy sauce for the teriyaki. I used yellow tomatoes, but any color works.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
- Calories: 629
- Sugar: 15.2 g
- Sodium: 582.1 mg
- Fat: 31.4 g
- Saturated Fat: 5.1 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 68.4 g
- Fiber: 7.5 g
- Protein: 22.8 g
- Cholesterol: 20.7 mg
Keywords: pasta salad, Teriyaki Chicken
More main course pasta salads? Try Old-Fashioned Ham & Pea Pasta Salad or Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad.
We had some excitement on the canal yesterday.
As we road up to the second set of locks there were people everywhere.
Most of them were wearing blue shirts and hard hats.
There were also lots of white cars with a blue logo, a very large crane, and 2 boats sitting in the locks, with 2 more waiting.
We parked our bikes and wormed our way to the front, naturally…. to see what was going on.
The folks in blue shirts and the cars belonged to whatever agency takes care of the canals.
The crane was in the process of removing one of the gates.
Apparently it had been damaged – by the boat with the smashed prow.
There is a marina on the canal that rents these boats – called Le Boat.
We are convinced that the only requirement they have for the renters is that they know how to turn the ignition key.
We could be wrong….
This boat, apparently, smashed into the gate. We assume that the boat was trying to get close to allow room for the 2nd boat to fit inside – as happens on busy days.
The boater either misjudged the distance or didn’t tie up securely before the water was let in. Or maybe forward and reverse were confused.
Whatever – it tied up traffic for several hours while they got it fixed.
How embarrassing….
“We are convinced that the only requirement they have for the renters is that they know how to turn the ignition key.
We could be wrong….”
That’s funny! But you’re probably right. We do not have boat rentals on the lakes around us. It’s either drive your own or a friends, which means those who get into trouble are either the friend or there’s way too much alcohol involved.
My tomato plants are finally loaded however, they’re all still very, very green. My next round of grapes is starting to come on though so I’ll be doing that this weekend. Thankfully, this is the group of seedless ones so it’s a little bit easier making jam with this batch. At this rate, I’ll have enough jam to carry me through to next year which is a good thing!
We’ve been tempted to rent one – but riding the bikes is more fun plus we go faster. The canal is all limited wake.
I don’t think my tomatoes are going to produce their usual fall harvest. Some of them never produced a normal-size tomato. I didn’t make jam this year – it was a rest year (apparently) for my plum trees.
That’s a shame. I love plum jam. I had a woman here who had an overabundance of quince that she didn’t know what to do with, about three years ago. She gave me the fruit and I made jam with it. It was wonderful! She hasn’t gotten any fruit since. There’s a recipe floating around for making plum jam over the course of three days using no pectin that’s supposed to be really good and really easy that I’d like to try, but all of the plums I’m seeing right now are the size of golf balls. It would take forever to prep them.
My plums are tiny – only slightly larger than a cherry. Which means I can use a cherry pitter to take out the stones. I also have a tree that produces plums a wee bit bigger – too big for the pitter. I don’t bother with those as it would take forever. Plums – either large or tiny but nothing in-between. lol