Chicken, Beet, Radish and Feta Salad

Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
Beets.
Beets who?
Beets me...but I forgot the joke.

Every so often it's good to get on a healthy kick.  We decided to do a week of salads for dinner, to balance out all the creamy-buttery goodness we perhaps have been indulging in a bit too often.  These salads are packed and chunked full of yummy and filling healthy ingredients.  Get some ideas and try your own week of dinner salads.  I dare you.

Night one: Chicken, Beet, Radish and Feta Salad.

Here's what you need (this serves 2):
2 thinly sliced chicken breasts (I cooked up 4, to save time for tomorrow night)
1-2 teaspoons olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons of balsamic
2 tablespoons of olive oil
juice from 1/2 a lemon (or a whole lemon, if your lemon is not juicy enough)
1 tomato, chopped
4 radishes, sliced
5 pickled beets, sliced
2 tablespoons of pickled beet juice
2 large handfuls of mixed greens
2 tablespoons of crumbled feta cheese



Get olive oil going in a pan on medium high heat.

Assault your chicken....with salt and pepper on both sides.

Cook chicken.

Keep cookin, until juices run clear and pinkness is gone.

Get your dressing going.  My buddy Whitney taught me this...Get the dressing and wet stuff going at the bottom of the bowl, then top with your greens and dry toppings and toss together when it's time to eat.  She's a pretty clever cookie.  Add 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar to the bowl.

Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and some salt and pepper to taste.

Add juice from 1/2-1 lemon.

Get yourself a purdy tomato.

Chop it up and add to the bowl.

Slice up 4 radishes and add them in, more if you're feelin extra radishy.

Slice up about 5 pickled beets and add them in.  Drop in 2 tablespoons of pickled beet juice too.  Mix it up. It'll be all pink.  Pretend it's Valentine's Day.

Top dressing with 2 large handfuls of mixed greens.

Add in 1-2 tablespoons of crumbled feta cheese.

Thinly slice up 2 chicken breasts.

Add them on top.

When it's time to eat, toss those suckers up.

Plate up.

Tastyness!