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Friday, August 4, 2023

The Chicken Box Restaurant Chicken Salad

A simple chicken salad made with shredded chicken, boiled egg and celery with a mix of flavorful seasonings.

The Chicken Box Chicken Salad

If you've hung around here any length of time, you already know I love chicken salad! It's a great meal any time of the year, but especially when the summer heat is on.

The one I make the most is what I call a classic deli-style chicken salad. It's a very basic chicken salad, absent all of the other goodies like grapes or cranberries or even avocado, or bacon and nuts and all the little extras we like to throw into our chicken salads these days.

Still, I'm not staunchly tied to one single chicken salad to be the one and only chicken salad, so I find myself constantly experimenting and trying new recipes, and, in fact, I've got quite a few different versions published already here at the website... and more to come!

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Monday, June 5, 2023

Pineapple Chicken Salad

Chicken salad, made with cooked chicken and classic seasonings, with the addition of pineapple.

Pineapple Chicken Salad

I love a good chicken salad!

I make one that is a basic deli-style chicken salad the most often, but I've ventured out to try some new things over the years of blogging about food and recipes.

I have about a half dozen full recipe posts for different chicken salads, though some of those have multiple variations in the notes that I've also tried over the years, and yet more in drafting stages.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Chicken Salad with Grapes and Pecans

An easy, filling chicken salad, made with cooked chicken, seedless grapes and salted, roasted pecans, lightly tossed in a creamy dressing.

Chicken Salad with Grapes and Pecans

Fall doesn't arrive for a few more weeks and it's still pretty hot, so I'm hanging with the summertime food vibe here y'all.

I'm not quite ready to say hello to fall themed dishes, but there are plenty of other food bloggers out there who've got your back if that's what you're looking for!

In the meantime, chicken salad is such a good and easy meal, especially during these extended southern dog days of summer and I lean on it a lot.

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Basic Egg Salad

A basic egg salad made with hard boiled eggs, onion, celery, seasoned salt, pepper, Cajun seasoning, parsley, mayonnaise and mustard.

Basic Egg Salad

Some of you will think it's downright silly to have a "recipe" for egg salad, but believe it or not, I get asked all the time how I make mine, and folks land on my other egg salads all the time from Google, looking specifically for an egg salad recipe. I guess they are just looking for approximate measurements, or just curious to see what other folks do. Makes sense to me!

Anyway, I had a craving for some egg salad and made a batch this weekend, so I finally decided to take some photos to put it up on the site. Since many of you are likely on food overload right now from all those Super Bowl eats and probably not really all that interested in any new recipes today, I thought it might be a good time to sneak in a post on the way I like to make my egg salad.

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Southern Ham and Egg Salad

Chopped cooked ham, typically leftover from a holiday ham, and boiled eggs, come together with celery, green onion, mayo, mustard and a little Cajun seasoning, for a southern favorite - Ham and Egg Salad. Easy and delicious!

Southern Ham and Egg Salad

Here's another one of my favorite egg salad recipes, made with ham and a perfect sandwich filling to utilize leftover holiday ham.

Of course, if you don't have leftover ham or ham that you've previously frozen, just pick up a ham steak from the meat department or ask the deli to slice you a 1/4-to-1/2-inch slice of ham.

That's what I do!

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Avocado and West Indies Salad

West Indies Salad is a well loved Gulf Coast favorite, where crab is marinated in oil and vinegar, with minced onion, and covered with crushed ice.

Avocado and West Indies Salad

Whether served on a bed of mixed baby greens, in a tomato, spooned onto a cracker or like here, in an avocado, this is a pretty simple vinegar and oil dressed salad, likened to the popular sweet & sour cucumber salads so loved in the south, but made with crab instead.

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Sunday, July 5, 2009

Shrimp and Macaroni Salad

Shrimp and Macaroni Salad from Deep South Dish blog. A macaroni salad made with shrimp, celery and green onion, and dressed with a blend of seasoned mayonnaise and sour cream. Sliced grape tomatoes are tossed in just before serving.

Classic Shrimp and Macaroni Salad

What a great, relaxing, wonderful weekend this has been! I hope all of y'all had a great one too - and maybe even an extra day off of work tomorrow?

The fireworks display for the 4th was just simply beautiful. I tell you what ... there is nothing like having a front row seat right on the Gulf of Mexico to watch those colorful explosions of light.

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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Old-Fashioned Deli Style Chicken Salad

Cooked chicken, celery, mayonnaise and a little pickle relish, makes up a classic, old-fashioned, deli style chicken salad. It's a favorite!

Old-Fashioned Deli Style Chicken Salad

Rotisserie chicken purchased from your local grocery store deli is a great quick meal for those rushed weekday dinners. Buy the larger one and you'll have some leftover chicken, perfect for this chicken salad.

Otherwise, just prepare a whole chicken just like you do for soup or chicken and dumplings, or try my oven poached version, because this is one great sandwich!

There aren't too many versions of chicken salad I've run across that I don't love to be honest. Tarragon, even curry are a little unusual but tasty, though I lean more toward the dried cranberry and honey chicken salad, or my grown up tea room style with apple, grapes and pecans, and in my case, another little secret ingredient!

The one that many of us love the most, is this very simple, old-fashioned, deli style. I often add chopped, boiled eggs to mine.

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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Grown-Up Southern Tea Room Chutney Chicken Salad

Inspired by Martha's Tea Room in Ocean Springs, MS, this is a grown-up, southern tea room style chicken salad, made with chicken, red onion, apples, grapes, and pecans and a secret ingredient of fruit chutney.

Chutney Chicken Salad

This is not your standard deli style chicken salad with creamy mayo, celery, and sometimes, chopped up eggs - though that's pretty darned good itself and I sure love it. No, this one is the kind that you get when you go to lunch with the ladies at 'Tea Room Restaurants' all across the country, and in fact, Martha's Tea Room, right here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, was the inspiration behind this chicken salad recipe I wrote.

The only "secret" I could pull out of the now previous owner, Martha Reichard, was that it contained her mother's homemade mango chutney.

Many people have tried to duplicate this top secret chicken salad and as Reichard stated in a television interview, nobody has come close. Well, this isn't her recipe either of course, it's just my tea room style chicken salad, inspired by Martha's Tea Room.

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Tuna and Egg Salad

Classic tuna salad mixture of tuna, hard boiled eggs, green onion, celery, pickles and dressed with mustard and mayonnaise.

Tuna and Egg Salad

Now honestly, I guess I wouldn't generally post about making something as simple as an egg salad, or here, tuna and egg salad. Or, maybe I would {scratches head} dunno... but, it is Lent afterall and I'm tryin' to do my best to stay away from meat on Fridays and so, I wanted some tuna and egg salad for lunch - so I figured what the heck.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

Godchaux Salad - Shrimp and Crab Main Dish Salad

A mix of lettuces with vegetables, shrimp and crab and tossed with a Creole Vinaigrette for a light main dish salad.

Godchaux Salad - Shrimp and Crab Main Dish Salad

This is one of my favorite salads. Nice and light, fresh and just delicious, perfect for ushering in spring!

It's a take on the Godchaux Salad from Galatorie's Restaurant, said to have been named after one of the department store owners of the same name in New Orleans. Patterned somewhat after a similar but retired salad, it's pretty famous in the Quarter.

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