Imaginary Curried Chicken Salad

In my imagination, I am all powerful.  I can make it a sunny 82 degrees with low humidity and a nice breeze.  I can slay dragons-- except with my imagination powers, I just make them my friends.  I can envision a dominoing of green lights spreading out before me and my car.  My imagination is a great place.  You wouldn't believe how good I am at karate, there.

Reality sticks its warty nose into the middle of things too often, though.  It's almost 100° outside.  At least I got the low humidity part right.  One errant cigarette butt is going to set my lawn on fire and I got caught at every single red light this morning.  Luckily, I've been able to avoid dragons so far today.  There's still time.

My imagination did provide a good idea, however.  Curried chicken salad for dinner.  Leftover grilled chicken meets mayo, dried cherries, some tamarind, and other good stuff.  Then, maybe, I can use those tasty smells as a gateway to a mental sojourn featuring a bustling sensory assault of a Ganges dream-- even if it's only in my imagination.


Curried Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

4 1/2 C of chopped cooked chicken
1 C of dried cherries
1 diced shallot
3 stalks of celery diced or sliced

Toss the above together.

Whisk together in a separate bowl:

1 1/2 C of mayo
2 tbs of curry powder
1 ts of garam masala
2 ts of honey
1 tbs of tamarind paste
3/4 ts of salt
1/4 ts of pepper

Fold chicken mixture and mayonnaise mixture together and serve.

I imagine you'll like it.