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April 10, 2007
Fruity Chicken Salad
I've mentioned before that I'm mainly Pescatarian (Ovo, lacto, veggies and fish), but once in a blue moon (and in fact for the first time in 2007) I crave meat around the time of that lovely female monthly visitor. For the past two weeks I've wanted chicken. At first I thought it was an iron thing, so I increased iron in my diet, but nothing seemed to take the edge off. I tried some of the chicken substitutes and still I was not satisfied. Saturday evening I baked a chicken with olive oil and rosemary, stuffed with onion and lemon. When I took a bite my whole body sighed in relief. I still don't plan to eat it everyday, only on rare occasions when I am actually craving it and the craving will not go away (thus the new category "Sometimes Meat"), but sometimes my body just wants what it wants.
Anyway, I had some left overs so I made up a batch of my Fruity Chicken Salad. When I was a kid there was an old theater in the town I grew up in that had a little cafe that operated during the week when the theater wasn't open. My mom worked up the street so sometimes in the afternoon after school my sister and I would venture up to the cafe for a snack (or in my case a late lunch...I was really bad about not eating lunch back then!) and to kill time until Mom got off work. The cafe served a wonderful chicken salad sandwich that had pineapple in it and I was hooked. The cafe closed years ago, but this is my take on their classic.
What You'll need:
2 cups of cooked chicken, shredded
1 cup of fresh pineapple, chopped into small pieces (or if you don't have fresh you can use the same amount of canned pineapple tidbits)
1/2 cup of mandarin oranges, chopped
1/2 cup of cashews or almonds
1/4 cup of light mayo
2 scallions, chopped
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Dump all ingredients into a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Serve on a bed of lettuce or on bread. Store leftovers in the fridge.
And did I mention easy? ;o)
Posted by Dianne at April 10, 2007 9:13 AM
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