A common misconception about cooking is that in order to create a truly delicious and healthy meal, you have to buy dozens of ingredients and spend hours in the kitchen chopping, mixing, baking, and preparing your ingredients only to be completely exhausted afterwards. Our friends at Cooking Light prove that this isn’t the case at all! This Tortellini, Chicken, and Arugula salad comes together in a cinch thanks to the use of a few quality items such as hearty cheese tortellini and shredded rotisserie chicken. Prepare the dressing and pasta ahead of time to make the final assembly even faster. Who knew making dinner on busy weekday nights could be so easy?

Ingredients:

Instructions:

Tips & Trick:

• For a gluten-free option, substitute the tortellini for brown rice pasta or quinoa.
• Kids can help shred the chicken and mix the dressing!

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.

Tesse, of Tessemae’s All Natural, needed a way to get her three sons to eat their vegetables and knew covering them in sauces and dressings filled with sugars and artificial ingredients wasn’t the most healthful option. That’s why she made and perfected her own dressings! Tesse’s sons realized how delicious her dressings were and knew they had to share them with the world – and thus, Tessemae’s All Natural was born! Tessemae’s Soy Ginger dressing is one of The Creative Kitchen’s favorites, and it’s a big hit with our Whole Foods Market campers! After making Veggie Sushi, our campers love dipping their rolls into Tessmae’s Soy Ginger dressing. Tessemae’s All Natural uses only real ingredients to flavor their dressings and spreads and naturally sweetens them with date puree instead of refined sugars, making them a healthful and delicious choice!

From the Mouth of a Kid:

I love eating my vegetables when they’re covered in this yummy sauce!
 

From the Eyes of a Parent:

Most pre-bottled salad dressings in the grocery store contain so many ingredients – most of which I can’t pronounce. Tessemae’s Soy Ginger dressing is made with only 7 ingredients! The dressings are great time savers and add delicious flavors to my dishes! I love to use the Balsamic dressing in my pasta salad and as a marinade for chicken for my family’s dinner.

Flavorful Features:

Tessemae’s has a variety of salad dressings, including:

• Ranch
• Classic Caesar
  
• Lemon Garlic
  
• Southwest Ranch
  
• Zesty Ranch
  
• Balsamic
  
• Cracked Pepper
  
• Lemon Chesapeake
• Classic French
  
• Classic Italian
  
• Green Goddess
  
• Lemonette
  

The Icing on the Cake:

Tessemae’s uses only all natural ingredients that are non-GMO, and their dressings have no refined sugars!

Time to Eat?!

The perfect topping for any salad or vegetable dish in any meal.
 

Mix it Up!

Use Tessemae’s Soy Ginger dressing as a marinade for chicken, tofu, beef, or any other protein. It’s also great as a dip for sushi.

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.