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Article: Chicken salad, simplified Create cool summer salads with ready-cooked meat.(Food)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- July 23, 2003
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Byline: Deborah Pankey Daily Herald Food Editor
If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen - or outside, for that matter - cold chicken salad provides a summertime supper solution.
But instead of baking, poaching or boiling a whole chicken or chicken parts and heating up the kitchen, start with a roasted chicken from the supermarket.
While that shortcut might dismay old-fashioned chicken-salad purists, it cuts the amount of preparation time and it helps you keep your cool in the kitchen.
"I have no problem with shortcuts," says cooking teacher Barbara Lauterbach, author of "Chicken Salad: Fifty Favorite Recipes" (2003 Chronicle, $18.95). "The more I teach ...