Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Holly's Monday Night Chicken Salad Sammiches



Start by taking the chicken out of the fridge. You know, leftover from when you made roasted chicken on Saturday night. Yeah that one. The one you should have dealt with on Sunday but were "too busy" napping to get around to.

So, take that out, and pull all the rest of the meat from the bones. Put the bones in the freezer for chicken soup later, because you're certainly not making chicken stock right now. Put half of the chicken meat in the freezer too, so that you can use it for soup once you're done cooking the carcass for stock. Now chop the rest of the chicken.

Chop a stalk of celery and dump it on top of the chicken. Throw the rest of the celery away as it appears to be perhaps growing something un-celery like.

Add some dried cranberries because they are really good in chicken salad. Also add some chopped pecans because you saw them in the freezer when you put the chicken bits in there and you thought they might be a good crunchy compliment to the cranberries.


Put a spoonful of mayo on top, and some mustard. Season with some curry powder. Stir it up. Taste it, and use more curry powder. Maaaaaaybe a little more than that. Hmmm. Add more mustard, that will give it more tang. Eh, good enough at this point, you *are* hungry you know.



Now toast some potato bread slices, and wash a few romaine lettuce leaves. On one slice of toast spread a little mayo and mustard, but not too much. Put the lettuce on that side. On the other slice of bread spread the chicken salad. Put sammich together, and cut each in half for ease of snarfling. (notice that snarfling does not anger the spell check gods like your original version of the word "spoonfull" does) Serve with baby carrots, and some music. The Decemberists are a good compliment to this meal, or perhaps even Ben Folds Five.

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