I like your cream sauce...

4:36pm: *in the morning buy me eggs*
It's COLD in North Texas...it only got up to 34 degrees today. I waited for a long time for it to warm up so I could go walk, but it never did. I finally had to bundle up and go anyway. While I was walking, I thought about what I was cooking tonight for supper. (You might call it dinner.) I decided to make the roasted cauliflower soup I'd planned to make yesterday, but never got around to.

To go with the soup, I am making chicken salad. I have a recipe that everyone in the family loves for a cold chicken salad with grapes and pine nuts, but since it *is* so dang cold I thought that maybe I should try a hot chicken salad. I've seen lots of recipes online, so I figure it would be easy enough to find one.

And since I'm home alone and have the time to do it, I'm posting a poll to see what YOU would do. It's the BQOD -- burning question of the day!

Poll #4859 Chicken Salad: Hot or Cold?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Should I make hot or cold chicken salad for supper tonight?

10:08pm: *rock on down to the kitchen and make me an egg*
I posted about chicken salad to go with my roasted cauliflower soup tonight and fun_demented asked for my recipe. It's very simple and very basic, but we eat it a lot (lots of protein, low carb...just my thing) and it's something all three of us really, really like. It's sort of a made up recipe, based on lots and lots of them just like it and I'm not good about measuring, so I have to guess on that part.

Tweedy's Chicken Salad
2-3 chicken breasts, shredded or diced (I either roast bone-in breasts with lemon and rosemary or cook boneless breasts in foil with lemon slices and bay leaf)
about 1/3 cup mayo (I use light or fat free, they all taste the same to me)
about 2 tablespoons lemon yogurt (I shop at Kroger and they make a light yogurt that I like best)
lemon pepper to taste
Spike seasoning to taste
red or purple grapes, about a cup, sliced in half
a stalk or two (I like more, BK doesn't) celery, chopped finely
1/2 cup pine nuts, roasted on the stovetop for a few minutes, then cooled

Mix it all together! I just sort of adjust the amount of mayo to taste...be sure not to use too much yogurt or it's too sweet. It's really all just a matter of taste as to how much of each ingredient. I have been known to use apples instead of grapes and chopped walnuts instead of pine nuts, but I do this mix the most. :D