Our Family Tradition to Yours
My mother did not know how to cook before she met my father. Growing up very poor as a sharecropper’s daughter, basic food items were not very plentiful, so she never learned how to make many items. However, as she learned how to cook, she started really liking cookbooks, and she would collect many of them to cook at home. My father would come home and modify almost every recipe.
The chicken salad was one of her favorite recipes, but my father didn’t want just to put a chicken salad scoop on a plate like so many others. He originally had the idea to add the chicken salad scoop to a cantaloupe half, however he did not like the flavor profile.
That’s when he came up with the idea of trying it in a pineapple and that was perfect. The secret: it has to be a Gold pineapple—not a yellow one!
Now he had his dish. And since it automatically comes with a cup of “The soup”, how can it go wrong?
This is one of those quick pick up lunches that the family grabs all the time. We just get a scoop in a go cup and eat it at our desk in the office or in the car (better than texting)
Some people eat the pineapple with it and others do not.
Which type of person are you?
