Pasta & Chicken Salad

Pasta & Chicken Salad (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

This very simple salad came about as a result of me being lazy, but very hungry. I had some leftover roast chicken in the refrigerator and my usual go-to in such cases is fried rice, however, I wanted something even simpler and with a lot less work. Remember I’m being lazy. Somehow I cannot cook Fried Rice or Chowmein without veggies and the usual trinity of ginger, garlic and hot peppers and since I was… come on say it with me, being lazy, there was no way that either of those dishes was going to be cooked.

 

Ah pasta! Comes to one’s rescue ever so often. A pot of salted boiling water gave volume and tenderness to my penne and a little later I was sitting down to a bowl of