Friday, May 23, 2008

Oscar's Chicken Salad

This post features two vintage pics! Whoopee! Check out my growth as a photographer...

Oscar's Chicken Salad

When I was at Hull House, I worked with a lot of cool people. It almost made it okay that the president's secretary was an out-of-hand, psychotic bitch who would forget that she asked you to do something, and then scream at you for doing it. Almost. Anyway, there was this guy named Oscar who made the greatest chicken salad for the potluck occasions.

I know it may not look that appealing, but it is really tasty. He would boil a chicken, pick it, then add mayo, cayenne to taste, lots of paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper, a drained can of peas and carrots (you heard me right), and chopped boiled potatoes. When I make it, I pick a cooked rotisserie chicken. I ain't boiling no chicken.

I like to serve a couple scoops of it on a bed of romaine lettuce with some French or Western dressing drizzled around the edges, like so:

Oscar's Chicken Salad

The salad is like a one-dish chicken dinner, and it is never too hot outside to eat it.

Is it a Mexican thing to do to put the peas and carrots in salads? I'm wondering, because when I was in school last year, I saw another student eating tuna salad that her husband had made. It had peas and carrots in it, and I said, "Is your husband Mexican?" She said, "Yeah! How did you know?" Huh!

6 comments:

  1. Yum. My favorite chicken salad involves grapes and walnuts,. so this would be a different taste experience, but I don't think I've ever met a chicken salad I didn't like.
    Also, interesting about the peas and carrots being a Mexican thing...I'll have to look into that!

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  2. I'm very happy that you have your "groove" back. You seem to be feeling better and can handle food topics without throwing up. Good for you!!!!

    Dad (Paul)

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  3. saprophyte says : I absolutely agree with this !

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  4. Looks good. Well actually it looks kind of awful, but it sounds good. Also, the chicken salad from Arby's is pretty damn tasty. That's right, Arby's.

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  5. I know, it looks a bit like baby spew in the pics. Sorry. My aim is not to gross out... But it really is delish, and doesn't look frightful in person.

    G

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  6. I was a huge fan of the Arby's chicken sandwich until I looked up the nutritional content. I don''t know how they did it---surely chicken, nuts, grapes and mayo alone can't be THAT bad---but I haven't eaten one since.

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