So, have you given up on the blog? Remember when you were a food blogger for like four months? Are you just not going to blog anymore or…?
Questions I’ve been getting for the past almost year. And all very good questions! And I’m glad for the questions because it makes me feel like people actually read what I wrote and care. Success!
To be completely honest, I kind of lost my mojo. Work got busy and Sutton got busy(er) and we bought a house and then holidays and then… life, right? And in all of this I lost my blog mojo. It felt like something looming over my head, a pushed-to-the-bottom item lurking on my to-do list that I constantly felt guilty about. I mean, I’m paying like $8 a month to keep this domain name as mine, I should probably put that $8 to good use.
Then this salad happened. The Salad that Saved my Blog (a crunchy, fresh, Asian-y, chicken salad with enough bulk to actually make you feel full). A total fluke. 100% planned at the grocery store while circling through the produce section. Nathan thought of half the ingredients, the other half are things I love to eat pretty much all the time (avocado, pasta, cashews, more avocado, etc).
Not inventing anything new here, folks. Just found a combination of simple ingredients that complement each other really really well. You can definitely adapt based on what you have in your fridge or what your picky little human will or will not eat (lettuce is forbidden!). Would I recommend trying it out as written? Yes, I think I would. Oh, and it’s easy. Super, super easy. 30 minutes max, probably less. Which, due to said busy(er) boy above, is mandatory 🙂
The Salad that Saved my Blog
A fresh, crunchy, Asian-y, chicken salad that's toddler approved, generates almost no dishes and can be on your dinner table in right around 30 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 small head romaine, chopped into 1 inch pieces
- 2 cups cooked chicken, shredded
- cooked Asian noodles I like Cantonese style, but live in Austin so can get whatever I want. Ramen noodles (cooked without the seasoning packet) would work, so would linguine
- edamame
- thinly sliced carrots, cucumbers, radishes
- minced fresh basil, cilantro, green onions
- roasted salted cashews
- clementine orange segments (not pictured, but oh so tasty)
- fried wonton strips
- avocado, diced
- your favorite Asian dressing I used a sesame orange dressing - it was perfect
Instructions
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Combine all the ingredients except dressing and noddles in a big bowl. Drizzle with dressing and toss to combine. Toss the noodles with some more dressing and serve in nests on top of the rest of the salad. Promptly remove all lettuce from toddler's plate before serving, of course 🙂