Chicken Salad

*1 lb cooked and shredded chicken breast
*1 chopped celery stalk or some celery seed
*some chopped onion if I'm not coming over for lunch
*1 cup cooked pastina or other small pasta, drained and rinsed and chilled if you are making sandwiches. Big pasta like elbows or wagon wheels are fun if you want this without bread. Chop the chicken instead of shredding it if you are doing this or you get a bunch of different sizes and textures of food mixed together and that really grosses me out.
*salt and pepper to taste
*a big glob or two of mayo

Serve with Chicken Corn Chowder

You can cut the top off a tomato and clean out the snot and stuff this in there if you want to be fancy, and my Aunt serves this on croissants which is good for the tastebuds but bad for the waistline.

I think chicken salad must always be served with iceberg lettuce. It is a rule in my house.

Tuna Salad

*as much tuna as you need, drained
*1 chopped apple
*1 chopped celery stalk
*1 shredded carrot
*some onion if you like it
*1 handful of shredded cheddar
*fresh ground pepper to taste
*mayo to taste

Mix it together

Grilled Corn Salad

*1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
*4 ears corn
*1 cup diced, seeded tomato
*1 cup diced, seeded cucumber
*1/2 cup thinly sliced fresh basil

Lime Juice mixture
*2 tbsp lime juice- go ahead and use one of those plastic squeezy green things. I won't tell
*1 1/2 tsp olive oil
*2 tsp sugar
*1/2 tsp salt
*1/4 tsp pepper
*1/8 tsp garlic powder

Brush oil over corn

Broil corn 20 minutes, turning every 5 mins

Let the corn cool while you make the lime juice mixture and then remove the kernels with a sharp knife, blade pointing away from you, please. Or toward everyone having fun out in your back yard around the grill while you are inside stripping the damn corn off it's ears.

Add everything else and mix well