Cooking Cranky Style part three
Because apparently there are not
enough cook books in this world, books by kooks, cooks, crooks and chicks with
looks, I am contemplating adding one more…a cook book by a crank, “Cooking
Cranky Style.” A book of Cranky recipes. Meals that are
quick, easy, need no special ingredients and are tasty. Food that is not
special, but that anyone can make. Simple stuff that can be whipped together without extensive
shopping, planning and measuring. Meals that are easy clean ups.
This is part three:
Cranky Chicken salad
Yeah, I know, BORING! Hey, I said not special, simple and cheap. Besides, this has a super-secret ingredient.
INGREDIENTS:
Two Chicken breast
Three celery stalks (inside, not those stringy outside
stalks)
One large tomato (or two small tomatoes, perhaps three
real small tomatoes, or about ten cherry tomatoes.)
Mayo (Does not have to be “Hellman’s”,
regardless of what my ex-wives say, mayo is friggin mayo)
Salt/pepper
And the
super-secret ingredient shhhh:
A large handful of raisins
Steps:
1. Grill both breasts till cooked but
not so much as to dry out
2. Have one breast for dinner, save the
second to make salad
3. Remove skin from second breast and
chop meat into small chunks (no bigger than ½ inch squares)
4. Chop celery into quarter inch pieces
5. Chop ½ tomato into quarter to half
inch pieces cut the rest in slices (If you used cherry tomatoes forget the slices)
6. Add chicken to a bowl and salt and
pepper to taste (That
means lots of salt and lots of pepper)
7. Add celery, tomato, raisins with
spoonful of Mayo and mix
8. Add more mayo if all ingredients are
not evenly coated
Serve on a bed of lettuce (iceberg, none of that stringy veiny healthy crap) and a half
Thomas’s English muffin (Does
it have to be Thomas’s? YES!) and the slices of tomato with a
glass of Pinot Grigio*.
Enjoy!
And the mayo needs to be Best Foods. Just saying. This sounds really good. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day, Joe. ☺
You're making me hungry and I agree with Sandee - I use Best Foods - PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteSounds yummy!
ReplyDeleteThe trick is to keep the raisins from blabbing their secret to everyone; those little black dots are notoriously bad hiders. . .
I beg to differ! A rich, buttery Chardonnay would go quite well, though I think a croissant is a better option than the English muffin. Maybe you're trying to be healthy 😂
ReplyDeleteIt sounds very good indeed.
ReplyDeleteIf one must drink white wine, I suppose Pinot Grigio is all right.
ReplyDeleteBijoux - Swill I tell you! It may pair well with Reality TV though.
ReplyDeleteCatalyst - Clearly you can't have red with poultry!
I have no idea why not, but clearly!
Sandee/ Debby Hellmann's and Best Foods are brand names that are used for the same line of mayonnaise and other food products. The Hellmann's brand is sold in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and also in Latin America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Canada and South Africa.
ReplyDeleteAnd all mayo is made the same and tastes the same, it is not rocket science!
"made the same and tastes the same"
DeleteNo and No.
If chardonnay is swill, I love swill!!
ReplyDeleteI was with you until the raisins.
ReplyDeleteSounds tasty. The raisins were a surprise, but I enjoy the Arby's chicken salad sandwich, and they use grapes. I guess your "grapes" are just a little older.
ReplyDeleteIceberg lettuce is rubbish, all water and no taste. I use cos lettuce, which you people call romaine and it isn't at all stringy, I buy the baby variety.
ReplyDeleteThe salad sounds interesting, but I might use less mayonnaise, for me things don't have to be completely coated. My favourite mayo is the "Thomy" brand, good flavour with just the barest hint of mustard.
Thomas English muffins = muffin crumbs. I would have to drink the whole bottle of chardonnay if I had to deal with those sorry excuses for a bread substance.
ReplyDeleteI love chicken salad. I’m showthis to my wife.
ReplyDeleteChicken salad is one of my favorites, especially with good ole mayo and not any of that MW stuff my wife likes.
ReplyDeleteI do like your Cranky cooking style and would be happy to sit down with you.
You had me at the raisins. My very favorite salad addition.
ReplyDeletehope this is serious one Joe
ReplyDeletenever tried chicken for salad as it meant to be about veggies mostly