Curried Chicken (or Turkey) Salad

I genuinely enjoy a good chicken or turkey salad, but this is the first time I have ever been inspired to want to make some for myself. Meredith, a friend of mine made this treat for a baby shower this weekend, and I think I spent more time making trips to salad bowl than I spent with the guest of honor. It's that good.


Curried Chicken/Turkey Salad

In a medium bowl, combine:

• 2 c diced cooked chicken or turkey
• 1/4 c chopped toasted walnuts, almonds, or cashews (Meredith used cashews)
• 3 scallions, chopped
• 2 celery ribs, thinly sliced
• 1 apple, cored, peeled, and coarsely chopped**
• 1/4 c dark or golden raisins**

Mix in a separate bowl:

• 1 T curry powder toasted 30-60 sec in a skillet over low heat with 1T vegetable oil, cooled
• 1/2 c mayonnaise
• 1/2 t lime juice
• 1/2 t honey
• 1/8 t salt
• salt and black pepper to taste

Stir mayo mixture into meat and combine.  Serve on a bed of lettuce leaves.

**Alternatives for the fruit might include water chestnuts, cucumber, red bell pepper, or sweet onion

Flourless Chocolate Cake

I have a roommate right now who makes some pretty awesome food on occasion (hello RM) - and some of these recipes need to be shared because they are just too yummy to keep to myself :)


For instance this Flourless Chocolate Cake. Think of brownies on steroids and you will be pretty close to the mark. And so easy too - she told me it was, but dang! She wasn't kidding!


So here it is - reblogged from her food blog,  the recipe is from a 1997 issue of Gourmet.

Flourless Chocolate Cake

4 oz good bittersweet chocolate (I used a 72% dark chocolate bar, and it was pretty decadent. You could easily go lighter...)

1/2 c real butter

3/4 c sugar

3 large eggs

1/2 c unsweetened cocoa powder

1 t vanilla (the original recipe does not call for this, but comments on Epicurious recommend it)

Preheat oven to 375 F. Butter an 8-inch round cake pan and line bottom with a round of wax paper; butter paper. In a double-boiler-type setup, melt chocolate with butter, stirring till smooth. Remove from heat. Whisk in sugar. Add eggs, whisk well. Sift in cocoa and whisk till just combined. Pour batter in pan and bake in the middle of the oven 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust. Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate. 

Then fancy it up as your whims dictate - a chocolate ganache, berries, powdered sugar, whipped cream... so many yummy possibilities.