Chicken Cesar Salad

Ok, technically it wasn't a straight cesar salad. I added a few extra ingredients. To me, straight cesar is good. Usually, it's just romaine lettuce, croutons, grated or shaved parmesan cheese & sometimes anchovy fillets. I usually see anchovy fillets at better restaurants. Sometimes they're courteous enough to ask because I don't think anchovies go over well with most people. I had an Italian teacher once. Yes, she was Italian (like from Italy) and with her great accent she said: I would never think of eating a pizza without anchovies. I thought that was interesting.

So, to this cesar salad kit (included dressing, grated parmesan & croutons), we added little grape tomatoes, red onion (sliced thin) and I threw in some crumbled gorgonzola cheese we had in the 'fridge leftover from steak salad. Anyway, because I added extra ingredients, the dressing that came it with fell short. I needed to supplement. So I dug around the refrigerator and found a bottle of Silver Palate cesar dressing. I was so psyched. Then I went to pour some out and there was barely a tablespoon there. So I sighed. Then *lightbulb* I remembered we had some Ken's creamy cesar lite dressing. And there was plenty of that. So in that went to the salad bowl. For the chicken, I used tenderloins and broiled them on a rack over a sheet pan. They'd been seasoned in a bag with olive oil, oregano, s&p. They broiled up in minutes. Dinner took less than 15 minutes to prepare. Isn't that the bestest? I cut the chicken into medium-sized pieces and tossed the whole thing in a giant wooden salad bowl.

Steve and I really enjoyed the salad. We aren't experts on cesar salad so we didn't mind the mixture of the three dressings. Also, the chicken was very tender. I've been doing pretty good with baking chicken lately. And as for the additional ingredients added to it, the gorgonzola was especially nice. It added more richness to the already rich dressing. Darnit, I should've grated some romano cheese over it. I know I've had it before with parmesan but never romano. I have ambivalence towards shaved hard cheese versus grating. Steve likes his cesar with shaved cheese. He even ran out and bought the slicing gadget after he'd had it that way for the first time. It makes me so happy when things turn out good cause then you get to Eat Something Good!