Chicken and Potato Lettuce Wraps

Delicious, refreshing, light, and fun!  Yes, these truly are!  So it is about 107 outside, and I wanted to do lunch with a friend...  I'm also on a budget these days (all play and no work makes for poor Danielle).  Anyway, solving the problem was more than simple with this delicious recipe!  Its a potatoy-chickeny salad, and probably not like any other potato salad or chicken salad you have had before  :)  Yum!

So it is definitely warm outside and this recipe does use the oven, but the results are sooo worth it!  The basics:  peel, cut and roast 4 or 5 russet potatoes (depending on their size), fry up 3 or 4 strips of bacon (depending on how much scrumptious you want), and poach 2 breasts or 4 tenderloins of chicken (depending on what you have in the freezer). 
 

Okay, while all of those ingredients are cooking away, chop up about half of a small yellow onion, one large stalk of celery and two cloves of garlic.  Dice them pretty fine, as they are going into your salad raw, and the last thing you want is a large bite of onion!  Put them into a bowl that is big enough to mix all of your ingredients.  Now add about 3/4 cup of light mayo, 2tsp mustard, 2tsp apple cider vinegar, 1tsp rubbed sage, 1tbsp dried parsley (or fresh if you have it!), and 1tbsp paprika.  Mix it all together now!

Excellent!  Now you are ready to crumble your scrumptious bacon and add it, plus your chicken and potatoes to the mixture!  Now, we could put this on bread, but I feel like that would just be overload... (I could go for a nice crusty bread and smear this on... but I have a better idea! And really, why use light mayo if you aren't going to go light the whole way...)  Get out a large head of romaine or other big leafy lettuce and make lettuce wraps!  Now it is the perfect light and healthy lunch!  :D