| of all the things my mom makes, one of jarred's and my favorites is her simply chicken salad. it's so good that my cousin scott requests it every single year that we all go to the beach. but some things are just harder to make on this side of the world. this year, however, a few things new to our world over here have made the process SO much easier and the result is us eating a lot of really good chicken salad sandwiches. 1) for the past 5 years i have only been able to find grapes with massive seeds in the middle, but this spring a store right outside our complex gate has started carrying these delicious, seedless grapes! 2) danielle sold me her nut chopper when she moved home and let me tell you, making sliced almonds out of whole ones is 100 times easier with this thing than with a knife. and 3) though not pictured because who can really pick up those things and a crock pot at the same time is that i learned the best secret of cooking chicken ever is to just throw it in a crockpot on high for 2 hours without even adding water and even if the chicken breasts are still frozen- why didn't i learn this years ago instead of trying to poach chicken. these 3 things plus splurging on some imported mayo has made our favorite spring/summer meal a weekly dinner! |
