Malkreis? Has it started again?
It's good to be home again.
Wasn’t Nadine’s party great last night?
I know, I was the joke of the season with my ruined Coronation Chicken a la Walldorf with a Caribbean Twist kind of salad. I don’t know what went wrong. Maybe it was because I replaced half the mayonnaise with yogurt. I really tried to make it a little healthier. You see, one shouldn’t. I always believed if you are using mayonnaise, you may as well use the real thing! So it taught me once more: one has to stick to ones guns! Or mayonnaise in this case. Down with half fat!
Luckily I tried the salad before Nadine declared the buffet opened. Can you believe the state of panic I was in?! M&S?! Take away... then I thought in proper German “Manier”, Nadine had terribly over catered and probably food enough for the whole street... yes, they did do street parties for the CORONATION... yes rub it in... me, Mrs Perfect deserves it.
To the bepuzzled guests on entering the kitchen I must have been a rare sight: putting 3 kilo of chicken salad in the bin! Pierre was deeply shocked and feared I would throw away all the food. With a courageous jump he got between me and the buffet trying to save as much as possible! It took a while for him to calm down!
However and since I was introduced for the rest of the night with, she, who ruined the coronation... “Oh, is that you who...” “Yes, it’s me!!!”, I thought I share this wonderful recipy with you.
Here is the absolute fool proof, if you stick to the recipe and don’t try any "to be healthy things", Coronation Chicken a la Walldorf with a Caribbean Twist kind of Salad:
You’ll need, depending on the number of guests you are expecting, I would go for probably 3 dead chicken. To make sure they are really dead you have to cook, boil or as I prefer roast them. Now if you would like to know how to perfectly roast a chicken, go on the internet or more traditional refer to something that is called a cook book. If you don’t have one, mention that to friends and family and you will find, that next Christmas you will be able to open a nice cook book shop with the amount you will receive. A nice side income in these hard times by the way.
Back to the dead chicken. Tear it apart till you have the flesh in bite size pieces on one side and the carcass on the other. I spare you a picture of these trusting your imagination.
It would be a good time now to start chopping up about 2 pounds of fresh pineapple, again into lovely eatable little chunks. I do prefer fresh pineapple and since we are cheating with this recipe immensely, I just find it is only fair to put in a little effort. In a hurry though, you may used chopped, tinned pineapple. On the other hand the time you need to find that opener thing and then to realise it has run out of of batteries, you may as well have chopped this yellow fruit by hand. Well, that’s my strong, personal view.
Now comes the fun bit. You mix all the ingredients together in a big bowl with 300g of full, fat, creamy, yummy mayonnaise. Enjoy this bit, since this mayonnaise is going to sit on your hips for a very long time. So the harder you mix, the more calories you burn... you see where I’m going?!With that mix in a good tablespoon or two or three of medium curry powder. This is really to taste.
My little secret ingredient is curry ketchup, as it is known in Germany. Again it is up to you and your sweet tooth, how much. I would put in 3 good squirts of that stuff. If you don’t have it use normal tomato sauce and a little more curry powder. It gives a good colour.
To come to an end, let it rest in the fridge for a couple of hours. You may find it needs a little salt now. Transfer the whole stuff to a nice clean bowl.
Trust me, you were much better of without my Coronation Chicken a la Walldorf with a Caribbean Twist kind of salad.
I should have called it, reflecting on it now, Thai twist!!!
However, I recovered quickly from the food poisoning!
I do have to say I am etarnaly grateful that you instead of an ambulance called the firefighters. Weren't they goergous?!
Yours thankfully
The one M
PS Did you see it? Did you? I'm flickring, linking... I have truely arrived in the... which century are we in right now? I always forget.
