Spokane Food Blog

Walking into the market. I discussed my day and unintentionally used the idiom, “running around like a chicken with its head cut off,” to describe my feelings. I stopped. Hum, I am actually at the store to purchase ingredients for my first chicken salad (my second attempt at eating chicken.)

Thinking about the origins of this idiom reduced my enthusiasm to eat chicken – poultry may sometimes run around frenziedly for several minutes after decapitation. Oh well, I was determined to try this American fad: chicken on every salad.

The trend has hit all walks of American restaurants; from the upscale bistros to drive-through McDonald’s. In the past I have ordered the Oriental Chicken Salad without the chicken, or I would go to low quality restaurants and order the Chicken Cesar Salad without the chicken, making sure they were low grade enough to leave the anchovies and fish juice out of the dressing.

Forging ahead I am going to eat a chicken with its head cut off, and make sure it is plated over a nice green salad. Earlier in the day I checked my favorite blog group, *sugar, and found a great fall salad on Yumsugar. Butternut squash and pomegranate with toasted pecans over greens. Yum indeed.

A bit turned off by the plastic wrapped chicken I decided not to meet my meat face to face in its raw form. After the chicken miraculously landed cooked on my salad I skeptically geared up and took a bite. Not bad.

I just might try chicken on a salad again next month.