recipe for chicken salad with fennel and carrot

Beautiful chicken, carrot and fennel salad.

Here’s my idea of the perfect lunch: bright, clean, fresh tasting, with equal parts protein and vegetables. It’s one of my go-to salad-in-a-jar lunch recipes. Use leftover grilled or roasted chicken in this salad recipe; the vegetables and light vinaigrette are super easy to make. Get the recipe!

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recipe for roast chicken salad with seasonal vegetables

Roast chicken and seasonal vegetable salad.

This super easy main-dish salad is going to be in our weekly dinner rotation pretty much any time. This is kind of a no-recipe recipe: steam a bunch of seasonal veg, toss with a stupid-simple garlicky lemon dressing and add some shredded cooked chicken. Make it your own …

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Baked chicken and mushroom macaroni and cheese.

So, hey, yeah … Winter is here, amiright? It’s gonna be crappy again this weekend, so you know what to do: Give yourself a fun cooking project that yields the perfectly carb-y, cheesy main dish for dinner. This hearty Baked Mac ‘n’ Cheese with Mushrooms, Chicken and Fontina is just the ticket. It’s easy, but time consuming enough to occupy an hour of your Saturday afternoon. Get the recipe on writes4food.com.

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Quick breaded chicken tenders with corn salad.

You’ll want to bookmark this recipe, not just because it’s the thing to fix for dinner tonight (what with summer sweet corn being totally awesome right now), but because these Quick Breaded Chicken Tenders is a basic, all-year, even-for-picky-eaters kind of lifesaver recipe. Get the recipe on writes4food.com!

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Beautiful roast chicken salad in a jar.

This recipe is an old favorite, clipped from a Williams-Sonoma catalog a bajillion years ago. We’ve made it for dinner a number of times, and then I hacked it as a salad-in-a-jar, which is perfectly lunch-able. The roast chicken and tart apple play beautifully with the spicy pecan dressing. Get the recipe!

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Easy butter-roasted chicken.

This roasted chicken with butter, honey and garlic is stupid-easy, and just as delicious. If you’ve never made roast chicken, now’s the time to try it. Get the recipe.

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