Tastes like fall...

Some recipes I have made recently that taste a bit like fall:

Orange-Cran Chicken Salad  (recipe adapted from the Our Best Bites cookbook)

2 cups chopped cooked and cooled chicken breast (2 chicken breasts or 1 can chicken.  I think at Thanksgiving left over turkey would be perfecto for this recipe as well.)
1/2 cup chopped celery
3 chopped green onions
grated orange peel zest (from 1 medium orange )
1/2 cup craisins
1/2 cup mayo
1/4 cup jellied cranberry sauce
1 tsp grainy dijon mustard
juice from 1/2 half orange (i just cut the orange I grated in half and gave 1/2 a big squeeze)
pecans (optional)
rolls

Mix together chicken, celery, green onions, orange zest, and craisins.  In a seperate bowl whisk together mayo, cranberry, mustard, and orange juice.  Pour mayo mixture over chicken mixture and stir to coat.  Refridgerate for at least an hour.  Add chopped pecans if desired and serve sandwiched in rolls. Serves 12 rolls.

Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies (recipe adapted from the 1976 Betty Crocker's Cookbook)

3/4 cup shortening (I know shortening is bad...I'm over it)
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup chocolate chips
3 cups rolled oats

Mix together shortening, sugars, egg, water, and vanilla.  Add salt, cinnamon, baking soda, cloves.  Add flour.  Add oats.  Stir in raisins and chocolate chips.  Form into balls and space 1 in apart. Bake at 350 degrees for 13 minutes on a greased pan.  Allow to sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes after baking to set.  Cool on cooling rack.  Makes 30 large cookies  (These cookies are crisp and chewey.  You need the raisins to balance the sugar).