Competitive Insanity

I wrote earlier about friends who have started their own food blog. And, I admit it, I'm insanely jealous and competitive. So, here's what I made for dinner. I am not posting a picture because frankly, it kinda looks a mess. Mess or not, it was darn tasty.

I found this recipe, originally, in a magazine. I don't recall which one. But, I think I must have pitched the magazine because the copy of the recipe I have was printed from a computer. I, of course, tweaked it. I'll put the recipe in as I made it . . . you can tweak it as you see fit . . . or as your most excellent, food mecca type farmers markets allow. (okay, maybe jealousy is slipping into a bit of bitter . . . but I do live in culinary hell.)

Chinese Chicken Salad

The dressing:
1/4 cup mayo
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
3 tbls sugar
1/4 (or a touch less) soy sauce
2 tbls toasted sesame oil
1 tbls thai garlic chili pepper sauce (or a garlic clove minced and 1 tbls hot sauce)
good squirt of ginger from a tube

Whisk all together and set aside.

chop up in fairly small bits:
2 ribs celery
3 green onions
(I added bagged shredded carrots because I had them . . a couple good handfuls and I broke up the longer bits and I had a good pile of snow peas from the garden so I chopped them on an angle in strips)

Add a couple spoonfuls of the dressing to the veg and toss.

Shred the meat from a rotisserie chicken, add into the veg. Top with most of the dressing and toss well.

You could chop up romaine lettuce and make a quick vinaigrette of 1 tbls olive oil, 2 tbls rice vinegar, 1 1/2 tsp sugar and toss it together and then top it with the chicken mixture. However, tonight, I chopped into fine ribbons a napa cabbage, tossed it with a bit of the dressing from the chicken and then topped it with the chicken and chopped cashews.

It was yummy. It would make a very good wrap too.

Oh, The phenom says I should confess, I actually doubled the recipe . . . but only because I'm feeding my gang tomorrow with the leftovers.