Correct me if I’m wrong but it’s still summer, right? So it was completely insane to me to find us under a frost advisory. Sunday afternoon we grabbed as many tomatoes as we could as the plants were too tall for us to cover. The only other veg we really had to worry about were the peppers. So we got those covered. Turns out the temperature stayed just high enough but we have two more evenings this week that may get close to frost. I had to dig out my winter hat to walk the dogs!
For Saturday I wanted to do a light healthy meal with chicken and avocado. I was put in the mood for this last week when we had some gorgeous weather. Saturday rolls round and it’s raw and cold. I would not be dissuaded! I put on more layers and got on with it. 🙂
This is super simple with layered flavours and it’s quick to put together. The longest bit was the side of roasted potatoes.
Cook up 5-6 rashers of streaky bacon.
Set aside the cooked bacon on paper towels and pour out most of the bacon fat and save for other dishes. You only need a tablespoon or two. Thinly slice a chicken breast and start browning it in the bacon fat. Add a couple of chopped garlic cloves and a couple of mushrooms.
As the chicken cooked I made the dressing. This was a bit of an experiment as I had an idea of what flavour I wanted as well as consistency. But wasn’t sure how to get there. I started with a base of mayo.
In hindsight I should have started with half the mayo I actually used. I added sriracha sauce, lime juice and cilantro. The important thing is not to have the aftertaste of mayo.
To serve I layered lettuce leaves with the chicken, mushrooms, and chopped bacon.
Add sliced avocado and fresh tomatoes. Drizzle the dressing over and serve.
Now the idea was to make these as wraps but I served it this way because there was a lot of food. Kudos for my family for being game and making them into wraps. The thing I loved about this dish was it was filling but not heavy. I hate feeling stuffed but also dislike being hungry a short time after so this was perfect. And we had just enough room for popcorn and watching “Young Frankenstein” with the kids.
Hump, what hump? Great movie.
My son is 10 so it was interesting what innuendo he got. The great knockers bit went over his head. He wasn’t impressed when Madeleine Kahn suddenly started singing. That was obviously heading into the mushy category!
That was a great movie! It’s always interesting to see the young ones watch these older movies. I tried to get my son to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind when it came out on Netflix. He got bored during the very slow beginning…too used to constant action, I guess.
I woke up to 1/2 an inch of snow on Monday morning, not sticking to the ground but it had piled up on roofs and walls. As it warmed up a bit it all melted away. I’m certainly not liking how this late/summer early/fall weather is shaping up. Of course, nothing says fall like bacon, though, does it!
You know, I’ve never seen that movie? I probably should check it out.
They have said that winter will be brutal again this year but I didn’t think it would start now!
Me either. Very early Monday morning I woke up to snow – I live in the twin cities, Minnesota, but this was unprecedented. It nearly broke the record for the state which was .3 cm on the 14th of September 1964, but that was International Falls on the Canadian border. Luckily It rained and melted away within the hour as the sun came up. This is just crazy!
I agree!