Chicken Strawberry Salad

(adapted from a local Italian restaurant where I worked as a line chef)

Ingredients:

Chicken Breast, cooked and sliced

Fresh greens, washed and dried (whatever works!)

Strawberries, washed and sliced, with stems and hulls removed

Walnut bits

Crumbled chevre (aka plain goat cheese)

Fresh ground pepper to taste

Dressing Ingredients:

Balsamic vinegar (1/4 to 1/3 of the total dressing liquid)

olive oil (3/4 to 2/3 of the total dressing liquid)

salt and pepper

minced garlic cloves

spoonful dijon mustard

pinch of sugar

I've never met a cheese I didn't like. When life allows, I'd love to have my own goats and figure out how to make this stuff for myself!

 No picture-by-picture steps for the dressing.  I don't like set amounts in recipes-- throw the dressing ingredients together and adjust based on your taste. End up with too much dressing?  Keep it in the fridge and use it on any other salad in the next week.

 Toss together the greens, chicken, and strawberries with the dressing. Stack salad on plates and sprinkle with walnuts and use your fingers to (generously) crumble bits of chevre over the top.

It's a great summer meal (greens and strawberries from the farmer's market?) and travels well so long as you hold off on adding the dressing, walnuts, and cheese until just before serving.