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Picnic Chicken and Avocado Salad Tomato Salad

Cooking time:  15 minutes for menu Cooking schedule: see below for "menu" instructions

Picnic Chicken and Avocado Salad                                Time: 10 minutes

Cornish hen left from Saturday or 2 cold teriyaki grilled chicken breasts
1 can water chestnuts, 5 oz (150 gr)
1 avocado
2 tbs fresh snipped chives
1/3 cup (3oz, 90ml) plain or Greek yogurt
1/3 cup (3oz, 90ml) mayonnaise
1 tsp sesame seed oil or walnut oil
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbs teriyaki sauce
Lettuce for 2 medium salads

Remove meat from hens and cut into small cubes - about 1/4" (.7cm) and put into a medium bowl.  Slice water chestnuts and add to chicken.  Cut avocado into cubes the same size as the chicken, add to chicken.  Snip chives and add.  Mix remaining ingredients (except lettuce) in a small bowl.  Add just enough to chicken to make a lightly dressed salad.  Serve on a bed of lettuce with the remaining dressing (if any) on the side.   Or can be stuffed into Pita halves for sandwiches.

Tomato Salad                                                              Time: 10 minutes
I prefer to make this with cherry or grape tomatoes (from my garden) but any, fresh, vine-ripened tomato will work.  I make it on Sunday, we have some every night and I just add more tomatoes to it all week as they ripen, - starting fresh whenever we finish it all...  

1/2 - 1 cup red cherry tomatoes
1/2 - 1 cup yellow cherry tomatoes - or all red
1 tbs fresh basil, snipped
1 tbs fresh chives, snipped
3 cloves garlic
2 tbs olive oil - good stuff
1/4 - 1/2 tsp salt - sea salt if you have it.

Finely mince garlic.  Put garlic and oil in a small serving bowl and let rest while you deal with the tomatoes.  Cut tomatoes in half (other tomatoes into chunks).  Snip herbs.  Add both to garlic oil and sprinkle with salt.  Stir gently.  This is good today, better tomorrow.
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Cooking Schedule: 15 minutes Mince garlic and add to oil in small bowl Slice cherry tomatoes, add to oil Snip all herbs Add herbs and salt to tomatoes, stir Slice meat off of hens, cut into cubes, put in bowl Drain and slice water chestnuts, add to bowl

Cut avocado into cubes, add to bowl Add chives Mix ingredients for dressing Add a bit of dressing to bowl, mix gently Prepare lettuce and arrange on two plates Spoon salad on lettuce. Serve all, enjoy summer

 

 

 

 

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