BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad
This is Larry's most favorite salad. He asks for it a lot. I like it too, but it's a lot of work for a salad.
- I made a full recipe of the salad, and a half recipe of the dressing. Tonight I did a few things different. I used a canola-based vegan mayo, fat-free sour cream and low-fat sour cream for the dressing. The vegan mayo is a bit lemony and isn't as good in the dressing as regular mayo, but when it's on the salad we couldn't tell the different. I doubled the black beans and used fresh corn instead of canned. And I used dry jack instead of Monterey jack cheese. I got to use basil, oregano and cilantro straight from the garden. The chicken marinade is excellent - just garlic, olive oil, soy sauce and salt.
- Our neighbor gave us a huge bag of Meyer lemons this weekend, so I wanted to make a lemon dessert before I juice them all - I freeze the juice. Larry opted for Lemon pound cake. Larry thought it was really, really good.
- BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad (California Pizza Kitchen Pasta, Salads, Soups and Sides, Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield, p. 23)
- Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze (Inside America's Test Kitchen, p. 249)
I love lemon poundcake. In fact, I love most things lemon.
I tend to agree with you regarding mayonnaise. Straight up, I can tell. In the right recipe, it's not noticable and makes a difference fat/calorie wise.
I don't know how this turned out because I made it after dinner and by the time it was cool I was snoozing! I'll update my entry after we try it. The recipe includes a variation, with poppyseeds.
When I tasted the dressing on its own, I was disappointed. I like the canola mayo in general, and use it on sandwiches and in tuna and egg salads. I make the dressing on its own sometimes, for a green salad. If I do that, I'll use reguar mayo.
so...? How's the lemon pound cake?
I made two this week! One went to work and it disappeared in about 30 seconds. I personally thought it was good but not so good that I couldn't stop myself from eating it. I had one piece from the first one and that was it. Larry loved it.
Your willpower is impressive!