s/o chicken salad

[Anonymous]

…who else ate chicken salad for lunch today?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rotisserie chicken, shredded and chopped (my mom used pressure cooker chicken)
Diced green onion, celery, parsley
Quartered grapes (either/both colors)
Mayo, sour cream
Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, curry powder, paprika

Serve with fresh sourdough

I like it with fruit salad and deviled eggs and kettle chips in warmer months. Tomato soup when colder. Always pickles (cucumber, dill, carrot, jalapeño, etc…).

All of this plus tarragon

Aw, man, the tarragon chicken salad at American Cafe in the 80s.

Divine.

I loved everything at the American Cafe! Did you ever have the chicken salad with avocado and bean sprouts on french bread at the Boogeymongers (before it was sold) in Georgetown in the 80s? Unbelivable, so delicious.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a lifelong vegetarian and have never had chicken salad. However several years ago I discovered Waldorf salad with Mayo, apples, grapes, celery, walnuts and mini mashmellows! I think! It was at a salad bar. I loved it! I would never have tried it Baer on those ingredients but one day I was up for it and the taste and texture was delicious!

You’re a lifelong vegetarian who eats gelatin?

In other words, not a vegetarian!

Yeah, I do, I admit. I still consider myself vegetarian. Much more so than you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rotisserie chicken, shredded and chopped (my mom used pressure cooker chicken)
Diced green onion, celery, parsley
Quartered grapes (either/both colors)
Mayo, sour cream
Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, curry powder, paprika

Serve with fresh sourdough

I like it with fruit salad and deviled eggs and kettle chips in warmer months. Tomato soup when colder. Always pickles (cucumber, dill, carrot, jalapeño, etc…).

All of this plus tarragon

Aw, man, the tarragon chicken salad at American Cafe in the 80s.

Divine.

I loved everything at the American Cafe! Did you ever have the chicken salad with avocado and bean sprouts on french bread at the Boogeymongers (before it was sold) in Georgetown in the 80s? Unbelivable, so delicious.

Booeymongers! You are my kind of person, fellow…sixty-something? How did that happen??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t, because it’s disgusting and I’m not from the Midwest.

I'm a NYC jew born and raised and we ate a lot of chicken salad (and egg salad) . Easy kosher meal.

You must not know many jews.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t, because it’s disgusting and I’m not from the Midwest.

Well bless your heart, chicken salad is a mainstay of the south. Specially if you have a biscuit with it, some pimento cheese, and a mess of fried pickles. That's what we call good eatin'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rotisserie chicken, shredded and chopped (my mom used pressure cooker chicken)
Diced green onion, celery, parsley
Quartered grapes (either/both colors)
Mayo, sour cream
Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, curry powder, paprika

Serve with fresh sourdough

I like it with fruit salad and deviled eggs and kettle chips in warmer months. Tomato soup when colder. Always pickles (cucumber, dill, carrot, jalapeño, etc…).

All of this plus tarragon

Aw, man, the tarragon chicken salad at American Cafe in the 80s.

Divine.

I loved everything at the American Cafe! Did you ever have the chicken salad with avocado and bean sprouts on french bread at the Boogeymongers (before it was sold) in Georgetown in the 80s? Unbelivable, so delicious.

Booeymongers! You are my kind of person, fellow…sixty-something? How did that happen??

Reporting in on American Cafe -- still yearning for that tarragon chicken salad and have never been able to replicate it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dice up leftover chicken, celery, fresh chopped parsley and/or dill.

Dressing is mostly plain yogurt with a tiny bit of Mayo and djon mustard and a splash of half and half whisked smooth, add salt and pepper.

-if I’m doing curried chicken salad, I add curry power and golden raisins. If not, I omit the curry and add grapes or dried cherries

Sometimes I put on a bed of spinach or arugula, sometimes on a fresh croissant.

Please never serve that to guests you don't know well. I'm one of the chicken salad haters. I could choke down some of the versions to be polite but all the fruit esp dried fruit is just beyond disgusting.

Do not choke that down. Slide that plate of deliciousness across the table to me and I will happily consume it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicken salad does contain:
Chicken
Finely diced celery
Salt/pepper/a little dill or maybe a little paprika
Mayonnaise

Chicken salad DOES NOT contain:
Grapes
Nuts
Raisins

Stop ruining life.

Stop taking the Joy out of Cooking. Those are variants in that classic cookbook

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Anonymous wrote:I bake boneless/skinless chicken breasts seasoned with salt, pepper, and a little paprika. Dark meat should never be in chicken salad. Cut into tiny pieces. Add Mayo (Dukes) salt and pepper. That’s all you need for really good chicken salad. Don’t use a greasy store bought rotisserie.

Sometimes I add grapes and pecans. Sometimes I add a curry. You could also use apples or mandarin oranges.

Your last three sentences negate whatever authority you thought you had on the subject.

Why are you pretending putting fruit in it is so crazy? EVERYWHERE makes it with some type fruit in it. You are the weird one

“Everywhere” does no such thing. Go to any reputable NYC deli. There will be at least four kinds to choose from, and only one will have fruit. For the wrong people. Because they still want your money.

Why would you ever buy chicken salad in a reputable NYC deli when you got your brisket, your chopped liver, your egg salad, and your pastrami.

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Anonymous wrote:Curried chicken salad was really popular in the early 1980s. By curried, I'm not talking about authentic curry - it's the curry powder you get in the spice section at the grocery store. I got it as a rare treat, but never managed to successfully replicate at home. It always tasted way too punchy when I made it at home. It contained the usual suspects - chopped celery, green onions, plus raisins, maybe apples. Really yummy.

I enjoy a nice traditional chicken sandwich but it's hard to get a good commercially prepared version. You have to make it at home to have it turn out really good, and you can include the ingredients you enjoy - grapes, raisins, apple, etc.

The old Watergate restaurant had a chicken salad with a fancy name but I can't remember it. It was a mound of traditional chicken salad on a bed of lettuce and with four spears of perfectly cooked and peeled asparagus sort of dividing it into sections. One summer I temped at a law firm and the partners always ordered it for their lunches A few partners would skip the lunch and we would make a mad dash for the two or three leftover salads. Now that I am a law firm partner, I eat a cup of yogurt and yearn for the thrill of partner luncheon days of yore.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a funny thread. Chicken salad is simultaneously… blue blood and middle America … bland and too flavored with fruit etc … country club and Applebee’s.

It is hard for me to understand how people are judgmental about chicken salad. Would tuna and egg salad bring on the same level of critique? I like it no more or less than many other lunch foods, and mostly cannot believe there is now a 3 page thread debating it 😂.

Yes. So disgusting. And Deviled Eggs

You would love deviled eggs if you added a bit of curry to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a funny thread. Chicken salad is simultaneously… blue blood and middle America … bland and too flavored with fruit etc … country club and Applebee’s.

It is hard for me to understand how people are judgmental about chicken salad. Would tuna and egg salad bring on the same level of critique? I like it no more or less than many other lunch foods, and mostly cannot believe there is now a 3 page thread debating it 😂.

Yes. So disgusting. And Deviled Eggs

My go-to dish last summer was ham salad.

Don’t fall over.

Diced ham, pickle relish, and mayonnaise? Divine.

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Anonymous wrote:I was taught to poach chicken for chicken salad. Never tried it with baked or rotisserie.

Yes I always poached mine too.

Ok. Are all you chicken salad enthusiasts really old? B.c I don't know anyone who poaches anything other than eggs. It seems like it went out in the 60s. At least sous vide, people!

You do realize that 90% of the United States of America does not know what sous vide means (unless they studied French). But about 90% of the United States has eaten some form of chicken salad. You are young but callow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curried chicken salad was really popular in the early 1980s. By curried, I'm not talking about authentic curry - it's the curry powder you get in the spice section at the grocery store. I got it as a rare treat, but never managed to successfully replicate at home. It always tasted way too punchy when I made it at home. It contained the usual suspects - chopped celery, green onions, plus raisins, maybe apples. Really yummy.

I enjoy a nice traditional chicken sandwich but it's hard to get a good commercially prepared version. You have to make it at home to have it turn out really good, and you can include the ingredients you enjoy - grapes, raisins, apple, etc.

The old Watergate restaurant had a chicken salad with a fancy name but I can't remember it. It was a mound of traditional chicken salad on a bed of lettuce and with four spears of perfectly cooked and peeled asparagus sort of dividing it into sections. One summer I temped at a law firm and the partners always ordered it for their lunches A few partners would skip the lunch and we would make a mad dash for the two or three leftover salads. Now that I am a law firm partner, I eat a cup of yogurt and yearn for the thrill of partner luncheon days of yore.

Awww. That's a great memory-- it's just not the same these days. Partner lunches, Watergate Salads, Red Sage, Les Halles, billable. Now everything is less cushy, less glamourous.