I don't know if you've noticed (and thank you for not mentioning it) but I've lost my funny.
I'm not sure where it went, but I suspect it's somewhere in the guts of the chicken coop. Or maybe it spilt out of me when I sliced my hand open last week, building the chicken coop. It's entirely possible I lost it in the massive piles of chicken poop piling up in my backyard. Or it could be in the last place I'd think to look, in the Jesus shaped phlegm from my cold that's splattered ... you guessed it ... all over the side of the chicken coop.
Needless to say, all signs lead to the chicken coop stealing my funny. That chicken coop's an asshead.
I'm only guessing here but I'd say the chicken coop should be done in a week. I said that exact same phrase a month and a half ago when I started the chicken coop. Weird.
I suspect once the coop is done my funny will return. I'm hoping my patience, my appetite, and that 14k gold necklace I lost in the early 80's will return at the same time. It was almost just like the one Dana Plato wore on Different Strokes.
Stupid chickens having the nerve to steal my funny. I thought it was raccoons who stole delightful, sparkly things.
Speaking of Chicken & Goat cheese Salad with Roasted Red Peppers, it's my absolute favourite light dinner meal. It's the kind of thing you eat when you know you have a gallon of ice cream you want to leave room for. Or a carrot cake. Or the entire top display case of a bakery if you're having a particularly bad day. Say, for example, if you're building a chicken coop.
Chicken & Goat Cheese Salad with Roasted Red Peppers
with a Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette
Ingredients
Lettuce of your choice (I use a combination of red leaf lettuce and other mixed greens)
I harvested this particular lettuce from my garden. I've planted lettuce in a big round planter where it doubles as an ornamental plant on an outdoor coffee table.
I know what you're thinking. You thinking Sigh .... I wish I had her life. Out picking lettuce from her pretty bowl ... so nice ... Well, before you go wishing you had my life, remember the chicken coop, the sliced hand and the phlegm.
Grilled Chicken (1 boneless, skinless breast per person)
Goat Cheese
Roasted Red Peppers (½ - 1 per person)
Basic Balsamic Vinaigrette
(1 part Balsamic Vinegar, 3 parts Olive Oil, 1 tsp. Dijon Mustard, salt & pepper)
Once you've made your balsamic dressing, squeeze or pour some into a bowl and add about a teaspoon of honey. Give it a taste. If you'd like it a little sweeter, add some more. You want to be able to taste the honey because you won't believe how good it tastes with the chicken, roasted red peppers and especially the goat cheese.
If you want to make this dressing all at once, adding the honey to the main balsamic dressing, that's fine. I just do it separately because I don't like the sweeter dressing on my regular weekday salad. Adding the honey afterwards to a separate bowl ensures I have leftover, regular balsamic dressing for the week's regular salads.
Now all you have to do is assemble your salad. Greens, red peppers, chicken, goat cheese, dressing.
And then you eat it.
Countdown to funny - 7 days (fingers crossed)
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K this looks great and I would love to do it - I need a salad - bought the lettuce and have a chicken breast... I know I should know - but based on the last recipe I cooked from your blog (with ginger) I was hoping for the detailed description of how to roast peppers - sorry... I'm trying...
Sherry - You can either roast peppers on the BBQ, or on the gas flames of a gas stove. You just cut the tops off of the peppers, cut them in half, clean them out ... and then put them on the BBQ on medium high, until the pepper is cooked and the skin is blackened a bit. If you go a little further and blacken the skin completely, just rub the skin off with a paper towel. It leaves a nice BBQ/burnt flavour on the pepper. For this recipe the peppers should be cooked through, but not complete mush. ~ karen!
Okay - I'll try it... thanks
sherry
Just made it tonight for myself after the kids have gone to bed - this is soooo good! I also added some mushrooms that I sauteed lightly with some soy sauce and a pinch of brown sugar.
Elle - Excellent! Glad you liked it. It's one of my favourite light dinners. Where are you that it's night right now? ~ karen
On the shores of the Meditteranean sea
Geez, I have all this stuff and can make it tomorrow... before I blow out the rest of the leftover chicken into chicken and white bean chili.
Have a great weekend Karen!
You too! ~ K!
It's 1:26 a.m.? Where are ya, Billy? ~ karen
it looks delicious .. yummmy !!
So I made your salad tonight (with a slight variation on the goat cheese). It was a HUGE hit -- thank you!
Have a question on the dressing quantities -- it looks like you have almost a cup of dressing in that container, so say 1/4 c. vinegar to 3/4 c. oil -- and still just a teaspoon of dijon? I ended up using more like a tablespoon of dijon and it could probably have used a bit more. You're right about the honey -- it's amazing with that flavor combo.
Jennifer - Glad you liked it! You're right. Now that I think about it, I use a heaping teaspoon for that amount of dressing. :) ~ karen
Karen, Thanks to pinterest, I've been reading your blog for a couple weeks now. I've also made glowing orbs (7 of them)and I think I screwed it up by using leftover LED lights because the kinda sparkle rather than glow. Still awesome though.
One last thing, in case you weren't jesting, you have not lost your funny. I read many of your posts all in one day and most of them I still want to read outloud to my hubby - who laughs. Proof.
Heh. Thanks Cassie. I think I've lost my funny more in my head than on paper (or computer). I'm just done with the coop. It's a full time job, as is writing this blog so I'm ready for the chickens to move and so I can relax a bit and move down to working a reasonable 12 hours a day again. :) ~ karen
Anyone who calls a chicken coop an asshead hasn't lost her funny. Oh, Karen, I love your ever-fluent wisecracks. You are my sarcasm sensei.