I will hereby take a break from travel pictures to share a picture of something must less important… Dinner. Also, why you should never eat anything I prepare.
So, I was hungry… looking in the fridge: there’s a bag of spinach and an over ripe mango. I happen to recall that I have a several month old package of chicken in the freezer. So, with these three ingredients we have the basis for something that resembles food.
Internet says mango-chicken salads take arugula not spinach. Experience says that salads including fruit go with vinaigrette. Internet also says something about honey-mustard chicken. So, now we have inspiration.
For the chicken – as it turns out, I don’t have any honey. So, since I’m using mango, I substitute a bit of orange juice concentrate for the honey and add garlic.
My spinach isn’t magically changing into arugula, so that’s just not going to happen. Plus, spinach probably has more nutritional value.
For the dressing – I’m not sure what the actual ingredients of balsamic vinaigrette are, so I mix the vinegar, oil, the last few frozen blackberries from a bag in the freezer, a couple of the mango bits, some oregano, some thyme and some garlic. The seasons are the biggest issue here – I really don’t know what oregano or thyme taste like, how they’ll mix or what they’re supposed to go with.
Mix all ingredients in a big bowl and toss and the result is:
Voila: Salad!
It was relatively edible. Maybe even good in some ways, but I don’t think I need to make it again.
