For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...

So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced radish,
sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned manderin
orange slices.

What's your recipe for chicken salad?

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

On Jun 26, 1:22*pm, hahabogus > wrote:
> For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>
> So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
> chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced radish,
> sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
> filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned manderin
> orange slices.
>
> What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>
You don't want to know.

hahabogus wrote:
> For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>
> So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
> chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced radish,
> sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
> filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned manderin
> orange slices.
>
> What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>

A salad with chicken i make, often, 2 - 3 times a week. Chicken salad
.... eh!...i never liked much of the so called 'chicken salads'
especially with the raw green onions and celery and such.

Now i have on occasion taken a mayo dressing and added it to some
chicken breast meat ... very nice ... but its just a simple mayo with a
crushed clove of garlic, a big dollop of a good mustard and a bit of
vinegar, or citrus juice, all beat together and added to the diced
chicken meat. Im as likely to serve it on a bed of lettuce in an iced
bowl as i am on a cracker or piece of bread.

--
Joseph Littleshoes

"The two main political parties ruled alternately as if by tacit
agreement. Politically they were practically indistinguishable (one
perhaps a shade more liberal) but in both camps supporters were more
swayed by personalities than by issues. Both parties were heavily
dependent on the large industrial conglomerates. Corruption was
widespread, the conglomerates dictated economic policy, and with few
outstanding exceptions, politicians' reputations were low."

On Jun 26, 12:22*pm, hahabogus > wrote:
> For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>
> So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
> chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced radish,
> sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
> filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned manderin
> orange slices.
>
> What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>
> --
>
> The house of the burning beet-Alan

Well, I'm allergic to walnuts, so I'd leave those out. Sometimes I do
put slivered almonds in ... no onion, it gets too strong - no radish -
no mushrooms.


IOW, mayo, chicken of course, sweet pickle relish, diced celery and
almonds if I feel like it, well-seasoned with salt & pepper. If I had
left-over green pepper, I might put some of that in, diced. I
especially like the celery in it.

N.

hahabogus wrote:
> For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>
> So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
> chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced radish,
> sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
> filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned manderin
> orange slices.
>
> What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>
The only one I have made recently is large chunks of chicken and
pineapple, celery, water chestnuts, toasted almonds, crunchy
noodles (added at serving time) in dressing made of mayo, lemon
juice, chutney, and curry powder. I was just thinking if I did
this with smaller chunks of chicken and used crushed pineapple,
drained as well as possible, and no noodles, it might be possible
to transmogrify this into a sandwich filling. I find the normal
chicken salad sandwiches to be boring.

--
Jean B.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:

>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>
>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced radish,
>sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
>filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned manderin
>orange slices.
>
>What's your recipe for chicken salad?

I use chicken, celery, toasted almonds, green onion, halved grapes and
dress it with mayo mixed with a little lemon juice or I google for
Chinese Chicken Salad if I don't want to do the one in my recipe box
with hoi sin dressing.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Thu 26 Jun 2008 01:48:07p, sf told us...

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>
>>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>>
>>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced
radish,
>>sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
>>filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned
manderin
>>orange slices.
>>
>>What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>
> I use chicken, celery, toasted almonds, green onion, halved grapes and
> dress it with mayo mixed with a little lemon juice or I google for
> Chinese Chicken Salad if I don't want to do the one in my recipe box
> with hoi sin dressing.
>
>

That sounds a lot like mine, except that I use toasted pecans.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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I would hate to see my virtual water
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:20 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 01:48:07p, sf told us...
>
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>>
>>>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>>>
>>>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>>>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced
>radish,
>>>sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
>>>filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned
>manderin
>>>orange slices.
>>>
>>>What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>>
>> I use chicken, celery, toasted almonds, green onion, halved grapes and
>> dress it with mayo mixed with a little lemon juice or I google for
>> Chinese Chicken Salad if I don't want to do the one in my recipe box
>> with hoi sin dressing.
>>
>>
>
>That sounds a lot like mine, except that I use toasted pecans.

I'd use toasted pecans in a heartbeat.... I'm not "shackled" to those
specific ingredients, I think of them as a starting point (although
almonds are a natural with chinese chicken salad).

sf
who LOVES pecans


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Thu 26 Jun 2008 08:27:15p, sf told us...

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:20 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 01:48:07p, sf told us...
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>>>
>>>>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>>>>
>>>>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>>>>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced
>>>>radish, sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually
>>>>used as a filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add
>>>>canned manderin orange slices.
>>>>
>>>>What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>>>
>>> I use chicken, celery, toasted almonds, green onion, halved grapes and
>>> dress it with mayo mixed with a little lemon juice or I google for
>>> Chinese Chicken Salad if I don't want to do the one in my recipe box
>>> with hoi sin dressing.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That sounds a lot like mine, except that I use toasted pecans.
>
> I'd use toasted pecans in a heartbeat.... I'm not "shackled" to those
> specific ingredients, I think of them as a starting point (although
> almonds are a natural with chinese chicken salad).
>
> sf
> who LOVES pecans
>
>

Yes, almonds with a chinese chicken salad, absolutely. When you're in the
mood to use the pecans, also try adding bite sized chunks of fresh peaches
instead of the grapes, and use only the very tender white inner stalks of
celery. Sometimes I will combine a small amount of canned whole cranberry
sauce with the mayo for the dressing. A very "southern" tasting chicken
salad.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:41:35 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>Yes, almonds with a chinese chicken salad, absolutely. When you're in the
>mood to use the pecans, also try adding bite sized chunks of fresh peaches
>instead of the grapes, and use only the very tender white inner stalks of
>celery. Sometimes I will comb

Oh, I adore cranberries.... maybe the addition of cranraisins would be
good!


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Thu 26 Jun 2008 10:14:24p, sf told us...

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:41:35 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>Yes, almonds with a chinese chicken salad, absolutely. When you're in
the
>>mood to use the pecans, also try adding bite sized chunks of fresh
peaches
>>instead of the grapes, and use only the very tender white inner stalks of
>>celery. Sometimes I will comb
>
> Oh, I adore cranberries.... maybe the addition of cranraisins would be
> good!
>
>

I'm sure they would be.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Thursday, 06(VI)/26(XXVI)/08(MMVIII)
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My last cow just died, so I won't need
your bull anymore.
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:20 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 01:48:07p, sf told us...
>
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>>
>>>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>>>
>>>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>>>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced
>radish,
>>>sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
>>>filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned
>manderin
>>>orange slices.
>>>
>>>What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>>
>> I use chicken, celery, toasted almonds, green onion, halved grapes and
>> dress it with mayo mixed with a little lemon juice or I google for
>> Chinese Chicken Salad if I don't want to do the one in my recipe box
>> with hoi sin dressing.
>>
>>
>
>That sounds a lot like mine, except that I use toasted pecans.

I think this is a case of the different tastes you mentioned a week or
so ago. I love everything on the list, but there's no way I'd make
that.

Lou

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:

>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>
>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced radish,
>sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually used as a
>filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add canned manderin
>orange slices.
>

do you toast the dried minced onions in a dry frying pan, as you would
a whole spice or seed?

your pal,
blake

blake murphy > wrote in
:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>
>>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>>
>>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced
>>radish, sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually
>>used as a filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add
>>canned manderin orange slices.
>>
>
> do you toast the dried minced onions in a dry frying pan, as you would
> a whole spice or seed?
>
> your pal,
> blake
>

No I buy it from penzeys...It is minced onion that's been dried ...then
toasted...too much bother to do myself but a nice flavour additive.

I did make red onion powder once...took 2 days. Slice a red onion
finely...dehydrated it (took about 16 hours) and ground it to dust.

Tasted great...turned into 1 solid lump in about a week and I couldn't
get it outa the bottle; due to humidity and it ain't that humid here.
Bent 2 fork trying to turn it back into powder...had to chuck the bottle
and the powder out. Easier just to buy the stuff.

Although so far this year I've dehydrated some chives and some loveage.
Dried loveage is great in soups and chopping up chives is a real pain.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

On Fri 27 Jun 2008 09:27:31a, Lou Decruss told us...

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:20 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 01:48:07p, sf told us...
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:09 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>>>
>>>>For a while now I've been craving Chicken Salad...
>>>>
>>>>So today I'll make a large batch of it. My recipe is: mayo, chopped
>>>>chicken, celery, walnut crumbs, toasted minced dried onion, sliced
>>>>radish, sliced water chestnuts and sliced button mushrooms (usually
>>>>used as a filler)...salt and pepper to taste. Occassionally I'll add
>>>>canned manderin orange slices.
>>>>
>>>>What's your recipe for chicken salad?
>>>
>>> I use chicken, celery, toasted almonds, green onion, halved grapes and
>>> dress it with mayo mixed with a little lemon juice or I google for
>>> Chinese Chicken Salad if I don't want to do the one in my recipe box
>>> with hoi sin dressing.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That sounds a lot like mine, except that I use toasted pecans.
>
> I think this is a case of the different tastes you mentioned a week or
> so ago. I love everything on the list, but there's no way I'd make
> that.
>
> Lou
>
>

As you said, different tastes. :-) I know a number of people who won't eat
anything like chicken or ham salad, macaroni or potato salad, or coleslaw.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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mirror.
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:39:49 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Fri 27 Jun 2008 09:27:31a, Lou Decruss told us...

>> I think this is a case of the different tastes you mentioned a week or
>> so ago. I love everything on the list, but there's no way I'd make
>> that.
>>
>> Lou

>As you said, different tastes. :-) I know a number of people who won't eat
>anything like chicken or ham salad, macaroni or potato salad, or coleslaw.

I'll eat pretty much everything, that combo just sounds off to me.
But if I was at a potluck or something I'd probably give it a try.
Couldn't be any worse than some of the hot dish recipes I've seen.
<eg>

Lou