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Nighttime Dinner Salad with Chicken and Dried Cherries
Nighttime Dinner Salad with Chicken and Dried Cherries
This is sooo not what I had wanted for dinner last night. I had started the day with a measley breakfast and proceeded with a paupers lunch and, as the day faded, I was starving. As sometimes happens, however, it got to be late, too late really to fix anything substantial. Still, I had a hankering for something good (you know that feeling, when you want something good, but you dont know what it is). Then, as I was pondering the ways I could (for the third time this week) transform the leftover roasted chicken into some sort of healthy but satisfying, filling but not too substantial, culinary treasure, the tornado sirens started sounding in my neighborhood. I quickly turned on the tv to find that we were once again, for the second time in less than a week, in the bullseye of a line of severe thunderstorms. I really do not like severe thunderstorms and while I actually enjoy the rumble of thunder that comes with your run-of-the-mill summer storm, these are of the ferocious type where the sky turns blackish green and you can feel the change in pressure in your head. My stomach turns, ties up in knots and my heart starts to beat faster. The tv meteorologists make it sound as it the world may come to an end and, with sirens still blaring in the background, I decide to seek shelter in my closet. I sat perched on top of my collection of flip flops and waited, convinced that my house would crumble around me at any second. *Of note, I have been known to needlessly panic and, at times, be a touch more dramatic than necessary. The long and the short of this story is that the storm came and went, my house did not fall down around me and at 9:30pm I threw some lettuce, shredded chicken, onion, cheese and some dried cherries (for good measure) on a plate with some red wine vinegar and olive oil and called it dinner.
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