I can’t say I am crazy about  kale — but I know that it  is a nutritional super star  (full of Vitamin A , C and K and other good things)  so I was so happy to discover a kale recipe that is also delicious.

Myokyo,  the abbess of Enpuku-ji,  served me this salad as a light meal before we ventured off to experience Cité Memoire, a multimedia project in Old Montreal celebrating Montreal’s 375th anniversary.   An evening of treats for the senses.

The recipe, created  by Anna Jones, appeared in the NY Times.

This is a great summer salad recipe. I have borrowed it, again, from my friend Jude, who indicated in her cookbook that it came from the Bon Appetit  August 1991 issue. I like both its texture, the variety of ingredients, and the spicy and sweet combination. It is made with regular pasta, but gluten-free pasta can be used. I have made this salad at least 30 times, for groups ranging from 4 to 20 and I have never heard anybody be disappointed.

One of my fondest memories of making this salad dates back to the time when I was the caterer on my daughter Elza’s second feature, Go In The Wilderness, during the summer of 2011.  The film shoot lasted 5 weeks. I made this salad for a crew of 20, and each week they wanted me to prepare it again!

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I first tasted this delicious salad at my sister Mireille’s. It is part of a cookbook that her friend Jude Rand wrote for her sons. Jude writes, at the beginning of her cookbook:

“When our first-born went off to university in 1998, it occurred to me that our family’s recipes would get lost if I didn’t make an effort to write them down.  So that year, I started this collection of our favourites and I gave our son Kyo a copy of the first edition for Christmas. I updated it four years later when his brother Michel went off to college, and I have updated it a couple of times since. 

Jude first emailed the cookbook to a few friends, including my sister, who had heard about this endeavour. Through word of mouth (no pun intended!), and thanks to the internet, it has become part of  many a family’s standard fare, including mine! Jude obtained this particular chicken salad from a caterer in Ottawa, where she and her family lived for a while. It is so simple, refreshing, nutritious, and tasty! I have prepared it many times and each time it reminds me of Jude and of my sister.