Recipe of the Week – Chicken Salad
July 21, 2008
(from the Salad Collection at emealsforyou.com)
There are certain dishes or meals that key fond memories from an early time… for me chicken salad is all about Jane Nardoni. In our early twenties, many moons ago, the group would get together at one house or the other and have a party. When it was Bob’s turn we somehow would always wind up at his mom’s house. Mrs Nardoni was a wonderful cook and Bob was a little, shall we say lazy? So there we would be at the Nardoni house with Mrs Nardoni putting out all kinds of wonderful food, mostly Italian, for us. While all the food was great, her chicken salad was legend. No amount of pleading could pry the recipe from Jane. Running into her years later we still laughed about the chicken salad, and still, I might add, try our best to get that recipe.
While this chicken salad is not Jane’s, it is damn good. Give it a try and perhaps your kids’ friends will remember it for a long time.
Chicken Salad
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Ladies Luncheon (Theme Meal Plans) |
| 5 | medium | chicken breasts, boneless, skinless |
| 3 | Tb | mayonnaise |
| 2 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
| 1 | small | scallions, sliced |
| 0.25 | cup | cranberries, dried |
| 0.25 | cup | pecans, halved |
| 1 | pinch | dill weed |
| 0.25 | cup | tomatoes, cherry |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
Cook chicken breasts in microwave until done. Reserve cooking fluids. Lightly toast pecans. Cut chicken into bite size pieces, add reserved juices and all other ingredients and mix well.
Serve on bed of spinach or lettuce
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Entry Filed under: Lunch. Tags: chicken salad, cranberries, lunch ideas, pecans.
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