Subj : Re: Chicken Salad To : Ruth Haffly From : Dave Drum Date : Fri Jun 16 2023 05:48:00 -=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=- RH> Yesterday Steve made some chicken salad (mayo and Mrs. Dash) sandwich RH> fill with some of the chicken. Tonight we'll have chicken with leftover RH> fried rice (from chinese take out) and a bagged salad. We're still not RH> doing a lot of cooking but more than we were last week. DD> Maybe it's just me but I like something with a bit of "tooth" or DD> crunch in my chicken/tuna salad. That's why I usually add celery diced DD> small. RH> We do too, but I'd not picked up any celery when we did some grocery RH> shopping earlier in the week. Just got basics, figured celery would RH> wait until we do a full trip (yet to come). I've got a celery heart in my cart for a grocery pick-up later today at Hy-Vee. There is tuna salad in my near future Bv)= RH> I've seen it on the menu quite often when we've gone in but usually RH> ordered roast beef. They've made a decent Rueben sandwich in the past RH> but their gyros are nothing like the ones we had over in Germany. DD> I like their roast beef ... especially the "French" dips. I get the DD> twofer deal and use one of the tubs of "au jus" for both sandwiches DD> then drink the second one like a soup or beverage. Bv)= Gyros is VV> a Greek RH> We usually get the 2/for and a side of fries. We each have a sandwich RH> and I have a few fries. Steve will have probably 90% or more of them. DD> I like the Arby's curly fries. Their chicken-bacon-ranch fries can be DD> a meal by itself. Bv)= RH> Ranch isn't a flavor either of us care for. The other day Steve picked RH> up some chicken strips at PDQ; the only sauce they put in was a ranch RH> dill. It got binned when he got home and I unpacked the bag. I, otoh, like ranch dressing. It's right up there with bleu cheese dressing AFAIAC. Diff'rent strokes and all that. DD> thing. I'd not expect a place whose name means "America's Roast Beef! DD> Yes Sir!" to doa good job on it. Besides I have a family run place DD> called Gyros Stop which is nearer my home, lower priced and run by a DD> Greek family. Their souvlaki is killer, too. 8<----- EDIT ----->B RH> Only grocery store in the town I grew up in was taken out by Hurricane RH> Irene in 2011. It's in a floodplain, at the headwaters of a NYC RH> reservoir, serves several smaller towns in the area. NYC was a real RH> bear about them rebuilding so the local Dollar General and mini RH> mart/gas station started carrying more basics. It took quite a while RH> but the grocery store was finally rebuilt--in the same location. At the RH> time, my folks were still able to get out on their own so would shop RH> when they had medical appointments elsewhere. My brother worked out of RH> town (lived accros the street from mom & dad) so he'd shop elsewhere RH> also but a lot of people were hurting for decent grocery shopping. We've got some villages around here that have just one grocery/general store - usually a long established Mom & Pop. The big grocery operations in Springfield all have a location on the exit routes from town. They do a good business in supplying the bedroom communities. But the folks who live and work in and near the villages are loyal to their "home town" stores. DD> (Niemann Foods) put an new stupormarkup in that inner city area RH> .... it's busy all the time as it's near two senior high-rise DD> apartment buildings and much "affordable" DD> housing. And on two DD> different bus routes. RH> Good for them for meeting a need! And turning a tidy profit whilst they're at it. MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: Bleu Cheese Dressing Categories: Sauces, Cheese, Dairy Yield: 32 servings 1 lb Bleu cheese; crumbled * 1 c Buttermilk 1 c Sour cream * 2/3 c Mayonnaise 4 tb White wine vinegar 1 ts Sugar; to taste, opt 1 ts Garlic powder or more * Salt & pepper In a small bowl, mash bleu cheese and buttermilk together with a fork until mixture resembles large-curd cottage cheese. Stir in sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, and garlic powder until well blended. Season to taste with salt and pepper. * I use active-culture yoghurt in place of the sour cream. And half a TB of garlic granules instead of powder. I have also used Gorgonzola for my bleu vein cheese. It shreds very nicely instead of crumbling and makes a nice presentation when shredded over the top of the dressing. UDD Serves: 32 servings (2 TB each) By: Marie Freeman, Poquoson, VA RECIPE FROM: https://www.justapinch.com Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen MMMMM .... Alimony: Bounty after the mutiny --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12) .