A Salad I Can Love

I get bored, fast, with food. For a while I was stir-frying vegetables for dinner, then I got bored. I was making salads, then I got bored.

I made a salad last night with homemade dressing and it was DELISH!

1 cup spring mix lettuce

1 cup butter lettuce

1 chicken breast cooked on the stove top with olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic salt (use 1/2 for salad, save the other half for another day) or your choice of protein

Handful of your preferred nut (sliced almonds, walnuts, pecans, sunflower seeds, etc)

1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

1 1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

*Cook chicken/protein in a small skillet for about 8 minutes (I used Extra Tender, might take longer for a thicker chicken breast), or until there is no pink inside.

*Mix balsamic vinegar and olive oil in a small container and put in refrigerator for a few minutes (I prefer my dressing cold, if you don't, then no need to cool it)

*Use whatever lettuce you prefer, I just happen to like the mix of the two I listed above. I like to make things easy, so I just use bag lettuce because I don't feel wasteful. Put the lettuce in a bowl of your choice, add nuts.

*Cut chicken in half, set one half aside for another salad. Cut the half you're using into small pieces, however small or big you'd like, add to the salad.

*Pour dressing over the salad, toss, and enjoy!

This was perfect for me because I had one chicken breast in the freezer and I was able to use it for 2 meals. You can definitely make a larger amount of the dressing and set aside for regular use. I don't have a great container for it, so I just make it as I go. I've heard 3 parts oil to 1 part vinegar, but I found that resulted in a very thick, oily dressing, lol. So I used 1 part vinegar to 1 1/2 parts oil.