The sous vide made supper simple last Friday night, and after giving prepped frozen vacuum-sealed split chicken breasts a little over two hours in a 153°F immersion bath, I whipped up a chive-heavy dressing to toss it all in after I finely diced it. Brioche buns were perfect for piling the goopy goodness onto, along with kettle chips.
Downtown Winston-Salem is, of course, a wonderful mix of people and things. I often make reference to how much I love where the house is located, so close to the many attractions that make up the city's center. If this house were two blocks west, in the West End neighborhood, it would have cost me at least 1.5 times what I paid for it. The Holly Avenue neighborhood is much more to my liking, even with all the panhandling and loud motors and mufflers on weekends and the methadone clinic around the corner. The cheap rent in the old unkempt houses on Spring Street guarantee an eclectic mix of folks, almost all of whom are generally nice and likable. It's actually surprising how many of them have settled in for a good long while.
On Christmas Eve Eve, one of those neighbors, regularly greeted as he passed the house on his way to and from work or the store (and to whom I'd passed on leftovers several times) was the subject of a police manhunt, unfortunately. Not sure what got in his head or how he lost his bearings, but he's been arrested for attempting to rob a Family Dollar on the other side of downtown, got himself shot by an employee, and refusesd to cooperate with the police when they tracked him back to his apartment. You can imagine the police presence on the block that night. It appeared to me that he must've paused on my driveway, given the bit of blood that was left there.
Adapted from "The Best Classic Chicken Salad Recipe," from J. Kenji López-Alt, Chief Culinary Consultant of SeriousEats.com. [Published 03 June 2015 / Updated 17 April 2020]
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