You Can Take My Mayo, But You Can't Take My Freedom!

So, Braveheart was a truly bad movie, but it is so quotable that you have to love it.  Guess what!? Eggs are out now too.  I'm not a huge mayo person, but I do love chicken salad.  So, I got on the Google machine and started searching.

Full disclosure: I LOVE GUACAMOLE!  And in our family, we eat it all the time.  And then I found this recipe. It combines two things that are amazing: chicken salad and guacamole.  So tonight, I'm testing it out.

Even more disclosure...I'm not a food photographer.  It's going to be pretty obvious the minute you look at my pictures.  Also, how awesome is that cutting board?  I'm pretty sure it was a Target special in 2002 and is still going strong.

So the recipe said it would take 50 minutes and it ended up taking me about an hour and forty five minutes.  Apparently I didn't 'pound the chicken' hard enough.  TWSS.  So it was too thick and took FOREVER to cook through.  Prepare yourselves for some amazing photography skills...

Wait for it... Step One-marinate the chicken.  This marinade was amazing tasting and I will totally utilize it for grilled and baked chicken moving forward.

Step Two-cut up stuff.  I was supposed to also include cilantro with this, but I couldn't find my grocery list when I got to the store tonight and considering I was buying all of the ingredients from memory (and I have never made this before), only forgetting one thing was pretty amazing.

Red Pepper, Red Onion, 12 year old cutting board and knife I think I 'borrowed' from my mom a few years ago with no intention of returning.  But look how fine that pepper is!

Step Three-Cook chicken.  So...here's where I had some issues.  Apparently, my chicken was still too thick, so when I cooked it on the stove, it was still pink in the middle, so I decided to stick it in the oven.  Twenty-five minutes later...it was finally done.  And still super juicy.

Doing it's thing on the range...

Doing it's thing in the oven...forever....

Cook chicken cook!! 

Finished product was delicious, was nice and lime-y without being too lime-y and hit the spot.  Who needs mayo when you have avocados?  I ate the salad with tortilla chips, because that's how I roll.

Guacamole Chicken Salad Recipe HERE

So far, dairy and eggs are now out, but coffee, alcohol, corn and these cookies are all safe:

Lucy's = Happy