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Shine's Kitchen Weekly Recipe Winner!!

Have you checked out "SHINE'S KITCHEN" lately? It features great recipes sent in by Shine FM listeners like you...as well as our friends at Community Natural Foods!

Each week, one lucky person who shares a recipe with us wins a $50 gift card for Community Natural Foods, and this weeks winner is Carol Weland!!

Carol Sent in a recipe for a Yummy Rice Salad... Mmmmm!!

Healthy & Yummy Rice Salad ~ Perfect for Summer Picnics

1 cup brown rice
1 cup wild rice
4 cups chicken broth
4 stalks celery, sliced
5-6 green onions, sliced
2 cups thawed frozen peas or fresh peas if you can get them 1/2 cup pine nuts
3/4 cup dried cranberries and/or dried apricot pieces

Salt and pepper
1/4 cup olive oil or other healthy oil ~ your preference
2 Tbsp rice vinegar
1 teaspoon honey
2 Tbsp dark sesame oil

1 Put the chicken broth in a medium sized saucepan. Add the wild rice, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover and let cook for about 10 minutes. Add the brown rice, cover and continue to cook for a total of about 45 minutes. Remove from heat. Scrape rice into a large bowl and cool completely.

2 Heat a small skillet on medium high heat. Add the pine nuts. Cook, stirring frequently, until lightly toasted. Remove pine nuts from pan and let cool.
3 Put the oil of your choice, rice wine vinegar, honey, and dark sesame oil into a jar and shake OR use a wand blender to mix together.

4 In a large bowl gently mix together the cooled cooked rice, sliced celery, green onions, peas, dried cranberries, pine nuts, and dressing. Add a bit of salt and pepper to taste, if desired.

5 Chill Completely before serving...Serves about 8-10!!