Chicken Salad Delight - Tasty and Healthy Recipe

Here is an easy and tasty recipe for Chicken Salad that even my finicky son loves! Like most kids, he goes through phases where he refuses to eat his veggies. So this is one good way of packing in the veggies so that he won't mind eating it. Plus, it's easy to make! I pick up a full rotisserie chicken at my local Costco for only $4.99.

Chicken Salad Delight

2.5 cups chicken breast meat (or dark meat if you prefer)

1 cup mayo ( I prefer Hellmann's) for creamier mixture, add more mayo

1 tablespoon yellow mustard (French's)

2 tablespoons sweet relish

1 tablespoon ground black pepper

1/4 cup chopped/diced mix of sweet red and green peppers

1/4 cup chopped/diced celery

1/4 cup chopped/diced gala apples

couple dashes of cayenne pepper - to taste
couple dashes of kosher salt - to taste (or if you are truly asian...dash of soy sauce!)

Mix all ingredients above in large bowl and spoon onto your favorite selection of bread. Recipe makes for 4 good sized sandwiches.

Something about the sweet, salty and crunchiness that makes this so yummy! If you want more of a crunchiness, add some red Baco bacon bits.

My son loves this recipe for chicken salad and I hope your tot will too. Enjoy!

Totes and more totes!

It's been almost a month since I've launched Tot Totes by Tam and I am still working and developing a design series to pitch to the local baby and children boutiques. In between job searching, reading Dan Miller's book, filling tote orders and everything else involving home and family duties, there's just not enough time in the day to do everything I want to do. How does one know if they have Adult Attention Deficiency Disorder? I know I need to just better manage my priorities and focus on the most major at hand. However, easier said than done...

Inspiring the "Green Thumb" in Your Tot...

I've always had a love for planting and gardening. There's such a reward from eating the fruits (or veggies) of your labor. In this, I've introduced gardening to Cornie at a very young age. He would love to help me in watering the plants and flowers, pulling out weeds and tilling/digging in the soil. Last year, he planted his own tomato and pumpkin plants. Pumpkins which we used to carve our Jack O'Laterns this past Halloween. This year, instead of buying the tomato plants as seedlings, he wanted to try growing them from actual seeds.



We came across these Buzzy seed kits at our local Target store. You can get each kit for $1. The one type comes in a silver pouch with tomato seeds and the other in a little 2" clay pot. You can select from a small variety of vegetables to grow in the clay pots, but we chose sweet basil, tomato and red peppers. Since it was our first time using these, I decided to try both the kits out. The kits come with a dirt pellet and you simply just add water, fluff and place the seeds. We planted the seeds last Sunday, April 11th. From the silver pouch, you can see all the little seedlings growing like crazy! The seeds that we planted in the little pots are just barely sprouting.
<----- There's got to be over 20 plants in there!





There's about 6 basil plants there ------>






The sweet peppers and tomato plants that we've planted in the clay pots have not sprouted yet. Hopefully, they will soon.

Each day Cornie checks out his little plants and gets all excited at how much it's grown from the last time. It's so fun to see his enthusiasm. If all the plants survive, along with the pumpkin seeds he's already planted in the garden outside, we will have quite the harvest this year!


<------Cornie collecting pumpkin seeds from the remains of a Jack O'Latern of the previous year.

Online store today, world tomorrow...

In the past week, I've launched an online store via www.TotTotesbyTam.etsy.com and completed some new tote designs. This week, I am working on my own website, TotTotesbyTam.com. However, being the great web guru I am not, I'm playing around on iWeb too much and feel it may be awhile until the site will be to my liking and fully up and functional, connecting all of my entities to one convenient site. Ahead of me, I still need to finish my business cards, label design and sales pitch to present to all of the local specialty boutiques/shops catering to babies and toddlers. I better get to focusing and carrying through, one objective at a time.