My Meatless Mondays -- -- Brown Rice Salad

I am in cleaning up mode and I am busy sorting and throwing out and more throwing out.  This, is in preparation, for the new school year.  In the Fall, I run off tons of sheets, for my new fifth grade, and that gets me started for quite a while.  Of course, I continually make new sheets, as I need them.  These, that I start the year with are what I generally do, as an introduction to the major subjects.

What a pleasure to be able to pull out a folder, labeled, "Scientific Method" and have all my worksheets and information, in one place.  I simply, take that folder to school, with me, and I am ready to go.

What does this have to do with cooking and recipes?  In my piles of neatly organized school subjects, I found a folder of recipes, ones that I have not made, in ages.  One of these is a brown rice salad that we used to have, quite often.  

Somehow, this sheet silently got itself into the folder that sneaked into my school papers.  How do these pesty recipes take on a life of their own?  Who cares?  I am now sitting with some of my golden oldie recipes and I plan to make some of them.  I did make this brown rice salad and it is as good as I remembered.

Brown Rice Salad

Ingredients: 

Combine the following.

3 cups cooked brown rice
1/2 cup raisins or cranberries
1 onion
1 red pepper

1 carrot

Dressing - Mix all ingredients together and pour over rice.  Let sit for at least, an hour, before serving.

1/2 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ginger

Mix dressing ingredients together.

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