Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad

I only go for the finest of dinnerware

Who doesn't enjoy a nice chicken caesar salad at lunch? It's kind of basic, and if you don't know how to make one, then I'd say you probably shouldn't cooking/visiting a cooking website in the first place...but anyway, it can be an idea if you're looking for a not-really-that-healthy-but-it's-a-salad-so-we-can-call-it-healthy lunch. Or dinner. Or salad to go with dinner. Or salad to go with lunch.


Ingredients:

• Caesar dressing (I'm all about the creamy Shop Rite Caesar dressing, and no, this isn't a product placement type of thing)
• 1 chicken breast
• Lettuce (I prefer romaine)
• Croutons, optional
• Parmesan cheese, optional

Directions:

• Cut chicken into cutlets. 
• Spray nonstick oil on grill. 
• Put your grill (mine's a panini grill) on medium heat. Grill ~5-8 minutes, or once it's cooked through. I personally like mine excessively browned and 120% cooked through. Time depends on thickness of cutlets and how obsessive you are about avoiding salmonella.
• Cut into 1-2 inch chunks.
• Toss with salad greens, Casar, croutons, and Parmesan.

Ta da!! Easiest recipe ever! Unless I made one of eating plain lettuce greens or an apple or something.

Tri-Color Rotini Salad

My own personal revamping of a combination of several recipes I found. I'd suggest mixing in really whatever veggies your heart desires, the amount of each being adjustable as well. However, this is what I used and it was quite delish. 

Ingredients:

• 1 box tri-color rotini 
• 1/2 red onion, diced
• 1 tomato, diced 
• 1/2 green pepper, diced
• 1/2 red pepper, diced
• 6 oz. Swiss cheese, cubed (A lot of recipes use mozzarella but this was YUM)
• ~6 oz. Italian dressing (I killed what was left at the end of the bottle...it's really lightly covered with no glop at the bottom with this, but you can add more)

Look at that pasta cooling

Pretty!

Directions:

• Boil pasta according to package directions. Let cool.
• Dice/cube vegetables.
• Throw pasta and veggies in a large bowl. 
• Pour Italian dressing.
• Mix & serve! 

Prep: ~20 minutes (Took me longer, but I'm a little obsessive with the dicing)

Yield: I'd guess a week's worth of lunches. I'm only on day 1 today.