"Egg-cellent" Egg Salad

She Said:

I was trying to come up with a really easy thing to take for lunches this week and I remembered egg salad. I love egg salad! It's one of those comforting foods, ya know?

I particularly love MY egg salad - is that rude to say? I hope not. Here's what I do.

Pat's Egg-cellent Egg Salad

6 hard-boiled eggs
1/2 cup light mayonnaise (I use the olive oil kind)
1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard (Gulden's is the best)
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4-1/2 cup India relish (to taste)
Fresh ground black pepper

Dice up the hard-boiled eggs and place into a bowl. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Adjust seasonings as desired.

Serve on your favorite bread or wrap.

That's it. It took us all of 10 minutes to assemble this last night, including peeling the eggs! It's really easy, it's really delicious and it's CHEAP!

I really enjoyed my lunch today.

Editor's Note - 8/22/10 - I have changed my recipe. Now I add a lot more onion powder (I'm thinking like almost 2 teaspoons and I don't add the mustard. It is so much better!!

Dijon Chicken Salad

She Said:

We could call this a New Year's resolution, but we won't. He has decided that He is going to be making something that He has never made before, once a week. He outdid Himself yesterday. He made three things that He's never made before.

The first one I'm going to talk about is the Dijon Chicken Salad. Based on this recipe, we made it our own. Here's what we did:

Dijon Chicken Salad

1 lb. chicken breast tenders, cooked
1 cup sliced celery
1/2 cup halved green grapes
1/2 cup halved red grapes
1 cup very roughly chopped walnuts (you can leave these as halved walnuts, depending on how much you like walnuts!)
2 teaspoons dried chives
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
3/4 cup light mayonnaise
Salt and pepper to taste

Mix together the chicken, celery, grapes, walnuts and chives in a bowl. Whisk together the honey, mustard, mayonnaise, salt and pepper in a separate bowl. Add the mustard mixture to the chicken mixture and stir to coat.

I absolutely loved this recipe and it was really, really easy!