Homemade Chicken Salad Sandwich

Here is a great nutritious idea for a sandwich for your lunch!

Most of us have tried a chicken salad sandwich at some point. Most likely this came from a can. I am going to show you my recipe for making your own chicken salad sandwich that is not only healthy but also delicious and hearty.

First you need some cooked chicken. For an easy shortcut here, you can now buy slices of cooked chicken breast. You can really light or dark meat for this but I used the breast.

Cut your chicken into slices..... 

(you will need more chicken than this if you want to follow the ratios you are seeing in the picture)

... then cut your chicken into small cubes.

Take some stalks of celery.....

... and mince them very small

Take a green onion...

... and also mince it small.

Mix all of your ingredients together in a large bowl with some mayonnaise, and some salt and pepper, you can even throw in a splash of white wine vinegar, or hot sauce and your own variety of spices (I used a roasted red pepper and garlic blend). I also threw in some minced garlic.

You can eat it immediately, or you can let the flavours develop in the fridge for a few hours.

I served my chicken salad on a ciabatta bun. 

It was delicious!

This would make an amazing sandwich for your lunch! 

Feel free to give it a try!

Please comment to let me know if you like this new step-by-step pictures posting style!

Until next time, Happy Munching!

Dinnertime Bento

Today I have a late class, and it runs right through dinnertime, so I am bringing a dinner bento!

To keep my food hot, I used a thermal bento! When I got to class and opened it up, everything was still nice and delicious and hot!

Inside I packed rice (it is under the vegetables to you can't really see it) and I made a chicken and vegetable stir-fry. First I cooked the chicken with some seasonings and then cut up and cooked the vegetables, then mixed them together again and poured on some sesame sauce and then put it all on top of my rice. 

I also included two little snacks, a few gummy bears and some strawberry yogurt and granola.

Delicious.

That is all for my dinner bento! I hope you enjoyed it! Until next time, Happy Munching!

Birthday Celebration!

Hello Everyone!

Today it is my birthday! To celebrate I went to a teppanyaki place with some friends and family! For those of you who do not know what teppanyaki is, it is a form of Japanese cuisine. The word teppan means iron plate, and yaki (in this case) is used to mean grilled, so teppanyaki is a method of preparing food that involves those items being cooked on a large heated iron surface. This is usually done in front of the patrons of the restaurant and is a combination of entertainment and eating. It was very exciting and delicious. I took a little picture to show you how it looks. Here the chef is cooking some chicken and vegetables! (and shrimp?)

In this picture the chef is flambéing the shrimp! It is quite an amazing thing to see the flame is enormous and very warm! Its a show stopper.

If you happen to be wondering what I ate while I was there, we started with a small shabu shabu soup (this is what they call it but it is the broth not the table top cooking shabu shabu), and a salad, then the show began with yaki shrimp, an assortment of vegetables, rice (everyone gets these items with their meal) and I had a delicious New York steak! It was so amazing! This place is definitely one of my favourites! 

Also, my fiance made me this awesome cake for my birthday in the shape of one of my favorite icons, Hello Kitty!! It turned out great! Here's a little picture of it before we put in the candle and cut it up!

It was delicious!! Thank you to everyone for making my birthday special again this year! I really appreciate it and I had a great time, and I hope you did, too!!