Butter Lettuce Cilantro Spicy Salad

Worst name for a salad, ever, but whatever. Here’s what I had for dinner last night:

  • Butter lettuce
  • 1 1/2 avocados, diced
  • 1/4 cup diced white onion
  • Fistful of cilantro (like, a big chunk)
  • 1 tsp Louisiana hot sauce
  • 1 tsp garlic olive oil
  • Fresh ground salt/pepper

Toss everything in a bowl, and enjoy.

Chipotle Chicken Lettuce Wraps

I don’t know that I necessarily consider this a “recipe” in part because it was easy and I just randomly threw it together. However, a lot of individuals have reached out recently wanting to know simply “what I eat,” and it’s rarely far from elaborate or difficult. So, here’s what I had for dinner last night, which rocked my socks off.

Keep in mind, most of my dinners are either from food I cooked and/or prepped over the weekend – to easily last me throughout the week, OR, leftovers and random things I throw together from items I have on hand, like this. Also, I don’t typically measure when I make things like this (I estimated to give you a baseline), so feel free to change the ratios or add more/less of an ingredient per your personal preference (my own personal preference is to add a shit-ton of cilantro)!

Chipotle Chicken Lettuce Wraps

  • 2 avocados, diced
  • 1/4 cup diced red onion
  • Fresh juice of 1/2 a lime
  • Handful of cilantro (probably a loosely packed 1/4 cup)
  • 1 1/2 cups finely diced chicken (again, I used leftover crock-pot roasted chicken I have on hand)
  • 1 1/2 TBSP Sir Kensington’s Chipotle Mayo
  • Salt/pepper
  • 3 romaine lettuce leaves (for wrapping)

Mix all ingredients except for the romaine lettuce leaves, well. Spoon the mixture into the 3 romaine leaves, wrap, and eat. I had a little leftover, but was full with 3 wraps. Also, I feel like a key component of good lettuce wraps, is finely diced chicken 🙂 This could easily be replicated in a larger quantity, too.

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Signature LLL Salad

Seth suggested I name this the “LivingLikeLinds” salad, because I make it at least once a week, if not twice, and have been doing so for almost a year.

  • Organic herb lettuce mix
  • Cilantro
  • Tri-color pepper rings
  • Avocado
  • Black olive
  • Red onion
  • Kosher Salt
  • Black Pepper
  • Olive oil

I throw the lettuce in a big bowl and cut it up for ease of eating. Then I add a ton of fresh chopped/milled cilantro, tri-color mini bell peppers quickly sliced into rings, diced avocado, rinsed black olive, and diced red onion. Then I season generously with kosher salt and black pepper, and a light drizzle of olive oil. Toss, and inhale 🙂

This salad is so flavor, and incorporates all the colors you need in a day from vegetables in one meal: purple, red, yellow, orange, green (isn’t it gorgeous?). This is definitely a recipe for those individuals that have an aversion to black olives or avocado, as the tastes meld perfectly. Trust me!