Grilled Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing

I have recently come back from NYC and being a huge fan of Bergdorf Goodman's grilled chicken salad was deeply disappointed by its absence on the restaurant's menu due to seasonal changes. I guess I cannot expect things to stay the same after, oh dear, almost two years now. Since I could not satisfy my salad craving the lazy restaurant way, I am recreating it at home. I even so modestly believe that it tastes just as good and costs less - counting in a flight to JFK ; )

Grilled Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing

Ingredients:

·      Iceberg lettuce

·      Green apple

·      Grilled chicken

·      Blue cheese

·      Caramelized pecans

·      Unsweetened dry cranberries

·      Poppy seed dressing

Directions: 

Cut the iceberg lettuce into smaller sections and combine with medium pieces of grilled chicken. On the side, peel and cut the green apple into small square pieces and add to the salad. Mix in pecans, cranberries and blue cheese crumbles and drizzle with poppy seed dressing. Since the poppy seed dressing has salt and spices in it and the taste of blue cheese is rather intense, do not season additionally. Serve and enjoy for lunch with a chilled glass of chardonnay!  

Tatler Club

So here is the long promised post on the presentation and variety of Russian food menus set in the example of a few dishes I tried at the Tatler Club restaurant in the newly revived and dazzling Hotel Ukraina: 

 Spring salad with calf liver, chanterelle mushrooms 

and Parmesan shavings

 Lobster salad

 A whole stuffed carp with beets jelly 

and horseradish sauce

 Brick-oven-baked goat prepared in Tuscan style

 A biscuit souffle cake that melts in your mouth

called "Bird's Milk"  

 Varenniki, or cherry-stuffed dumplings 

with delicious cherry syrup on top 

Tatler Club: 2/1 Kutuzovskiy Prospekt, Moscow, Russia