Not Your Normal "Chicken Salad"

Sorry that I've been so absent. Just to give you a quick rundown: I am enrolled in school full time. I'm a 32 year-old freshman taking 12 credit hours. I also have a full-time job that I work from 2:30-11:30 at night. When I'm not at school or working, I'm hanging out with my beautiful family: my husband of 6 1/2 years, our 9 year-old daughter, and three dogs and a cat. Needless to say, I'm a very busy lady. At any rate, I truly am sorry, and I will try to blog more often.

If you check out my Twitter, @InterestingDash (Summer Buis), I post a lot of pictures of our meals, and I'll gladly give you the recipes you that you would like to try.

With that said, tonight, I made a light, healthy meal for my family. Romaine greens, juicy tomato, and chicken grilled in basil-infused olive and garlic make for a deliciously easy meal. We put a small slice of store-bought garlic bread to go with it. Did I mention the salad was topped with that basil-infused olive oil and mango-infused vinegar? Light, tasty, and interesting.

Here's what you'll need:
(Yields 4 servings)

8 cups of bagged romaine salad
12 oz chicken
2 medium tomatoes
1 medium avocado
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil (mine was infused with basil) for chicken
2 tbsp minced garlic
4 tbsp EVOO for salad
4 tbsp red wine vinegar, or any tasty vinegar your family likes

1. Heat EVOO and garlic in a skillet until fragrant. Thoroughly cool chicken in oil and garlic.

2. While chicken is cooking, prepare salad by cutting up tomatoes and avocado.

3. When chicken is done, chop up. Place on top of salad. Top each salad with 1 tbsp each of EVOO and vinegar.

We love bread in our house, so I put garlic bread with the meal.

I hope you try this easy and delicious recipe soon. Dinner was finished in twenty minutes, and the meal was, as usual, interesting.

~Summer

Again, feel free to follow me @InterestingDash (Summer Buis) on Twitter.