So, I've been wanting to make this recipe for a while
It's from my Real Simple cookbook. It calls for peaches, blue cheese, almonds, rotisserie chicken, lettuce, and a simple vinaigrette made with white wine vinegar. I found some apricots that I liked the look of, in fact they just sat around for a while as I admired their luminous quality:
See, lovely little guys. Then I got down to bidness, as we say in this household.
I washed and spun dry some locally-grown redleaf lettuce, crushed some almonds lightly, chopped up the apricots, shook out maybe a tablespoon of crumbled blue cheese, and mixed up the vinaigrette. Meanwhile I pulled out a bag of grilled Murray's Chicken which I'd skinned and deboned earlier in the day. Put it in a bowl in the microwave to heat it up. Here's the salad before the chicken went in:
And after, with the dressing added:
We ate in the greenhouse, as it was a tad too cool to eat outside, and we had this with homemade semolina bread I'd made earlier in the day. Oh my. There's something about the Murray's Chickens. They are so tasty and tender. It only takes a little to give a meal big flavor. I keep thinking of what Julia Child said in her memoir, how when she first got to France decades ago, the chickens were so much more chickeny than they are now. Murray's have so much flavor, I think I know what she meant.
See, lovely little guys. Then I got down to bidness, as we say in this household.
I washed and spun dry some locally-grown redleaf lettuce, crushed some almonds lightly, chopped up the apricots, shook out maybe a tablespoon of crumbled blue cheese, and mixed up the vinaigrette. Meanwhile I pulled out a bag of grilled Murray's Chicken which I'd skinned and deboned earlier in the day. Put it in a bowl in the microwave to heat it up. Here's the salad before the chicken went in:
And after, with the dressing added:
We ate in the greenhouse, as it was a tad too cool to eat outside, and we had this with homemade semolina bread I'd made earlier in the day. Oh my. There's something about the Murray's Chickens. They are so tasty and tender. It only takes a little to give a meal big flavor. I keep thinking of what Julia Child said in her memoir, how when she first got to France decades ago, the chickens were so much more chickeny than they are now. Murray's have so much flavor, I think I know what she meant.