Healthy Curried Chicken Salad

There are few dishes that are commonly adored by so many people but bring up so many absolutes at the same time. Here’s what I mean.

Let’s take a look at easy chicken salad. It’s really quite simple: chicken, mayo, celery, a little salt and a little pepper. That’s it, at it’s most basic level.  Then we go and “make it our own” by adding in assorted fruits, nuts and all sorts of seasonings.  That’s where people have their personal likes and dislikes with chicken salad.  I can honestly say, that I’m one of those people that will eat almost any kind of chicken salad that’s put in front of me. I have yet to try one that I just could not eat. Then again, I grew up eating chicken salad as a meal that was made up exclusively of leftovers. Chicken salad, at our house, was never something that was made up special. It was pretty much the refrigerator cleaner upper.

At our house now, I will get cravings for the stuff and make it up specifically so that I can eat it for both lunch and dinner for at least a couple of days in a row (I don’t mess around with my cravings.).  But it is still a great dish to help clean out that refrigerator that seems to get bits and blobs of things leftover in containers that are crammed into every nook and cranny.

Remember that cauliflower steak I made?  No, there’s no cauliflower in this, although I do try to sneak that veggie into all kinds of things, so it would probably work here too.  I had some of that curry sauce left over, that I just couldn’t bear to toss out, so I thought I’d make a curried chicken salad recipe out of it.  Let the chicken salad purists start the rebelling.

Easy chicken salad is kind of one of those DUH phrases.  I mean, chicken salad is easy, that’s one of the main reasons why we make it and love eating it so much.  For this one I went full on in curry mode.  You’ve got the curry sauce, chopped pineapple, celery, almonds, cranberries (ok-that one might not be too legit with the curry), coconut and tangy yogurt in place of the mayonnaise.  So not only is this an easy and delicious recipe, it’s a healthy chicken salad recipe too.

Well here’s an invention that men everywhere have been looking for: The Time of the Month Warning Wristband.  Think of it as a mood ring for the period set.

A guy, who’s been married for 16 years and listened to his buddies bitch about their women and their PMS has come up with an idea for a wrist band that women can wear and show the men in their lives when they need to be handled more softly or when to expect the fires of hell to rain down on their heads for being a complete moron.

Although there is no actual device, at this writing, Mr. Dorn (the idea man) has entered his idea into a contest in Britain that is looking for the next great idea.  His wristband will use temperature technology to register the change in a woman’s body temperature that occurs during ovulation until the time her period starts.

All I have to say about this is it better have at least 5 carats of diamonds in its design or I’m pretty sure that the only indicator a man is going to get that his female partner is PMS’ing is a swift kick in the groin for trying to make her wear a piece of junk that will make her feel like she’s stuck in Tron.

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