Anna Steve Papoutsakis

Easiest Chicken Salad

This is a ridiculously easy recipe for a chicken salad simply using four ingredients. It works well with leftover roasted chicken, but is even tastier with boiled chicken. This salad is particularly tasty as a wrap, but you can use it in sandwiches or just eat it by itself.

1 Pound Chicken, chopped into 1/2 cubes or chunks
1 Cup Blue Cheese Dressing
1/2 Cup Walnuts, roughly chopped
1/2 Dried Cranberries

• Combine the four ingredients in a large mixing bowl.  Chill for at least four hours and mix before serving.
• The ratio of ingredients above is simply a guide, adjust the amounts to your taste preference.

New Recipes

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Sneaky Calorie Cutting

Once again, I have not made time for the blog.  What can I tell you?  Summer is an extremely busy time with activities almost every weekend.  My borderline psychotic obsession with the New York Mets season also does not help matters, as my food hobby is replaced by my baseball hobby.

The past month I have been watching what I eat in honor of summer and in honor of the wedding party that  I am in next month (must be able to fit loosely in the dress to account for the obscene number of calories which will be consumed on August 16th).  In finding ways to cut calories, I have a new fav lunch/dinner treat.  It's an avocado cheeseburger, but made with one of my new 100 calorie fake meat patties, Morningstar Farms Vegan Grillers.

Vegan Burger with Cheese and Avocado
1 Morningstar Farms Vegan Griller Patty
1 oz. Shredded Light Cheese
1/3 Avocado, sliced
1 Multi-grain English Muffin or Sandwich Pita
1 tbsp. Ketchup
1 tbsp. Sweet Hot Mustard

Fix up the burger whatever way you want - grill, microwave, pan-fry, etc.  The whole sandwich is 360 calories, 14.5 grams of fat (the majority of which is from the heart-healthy avocado), 26.5 grams of carbs, 25 grams of protein, and 11 grams of fiber.  More importantly, it tastes bangin.

Spicy Pepperoni

I am usually kind of grossed out by pre packaged cold cut type items, particularly by big name brands, but the other day I discovered something I like.  Hormel Hot & Spicy Pepperoni.  It's made with Tabasco and other spices and has a great kick.  A really nice combination I discovered is to take a Table Water cracker, spread it with Brie (particularly Creme de Brie by Alouette if you're feeling a little ghetto) and top it with a Hot & Spicy Pepperoni slice.  It's a great combination of crunch, buttery smothness, and spice.  If you're having a small party it's a quick and easy crudite.