emma I just usually do the regular chicken type things. Potatoes , freen beans a salad...if you like asparagus it is really tasty with this. Anything oes good with this.

Hmmm....I love Craisins! That might work. Somehow I associate curry and raisins, so I think the raisins work great in this. But dried cranberries (craisins) might be ok. Can't imagine it without the rice pilaf, because that's the base of the whole thing. But all the other ingredients are yummy, so why not!

Ugh. No. I would have mentioned it to the waitress. They may have someone new working in the kitchen who did not understand the instructions. That happens sometimes. I work in the restaurant industry. Believe me, one has to give every single detail when training and instructing kitchen staff. Often times the dishes being made are things that they never grew up eating, and even the fruits and veggies used, are things that they may have never ever seen before. Funny: A worker made a batch of strawberry glaze and neglected to pull off the little green leaves from the strawberries. True. I know some people NEVER eat the chicken skin. I actually like it crispy on BBQ chicken but in a salad - No.

Our family had an old favorite from the 1950's or '60's. We called it green mold. It was a coleslaw with lemon and lime Jell-o to mold it. The Jell-o made it sweet, like the ones with pineapple or whatnot, but it was really good (at least to me, who grew up on it). It was tortured for many years to make it more diet friendly. It had artificial sweetener, lowfat or fat free "mayonnaise", and all the possible substitutions of yoghurt, etc. I won't list all the ways that it was disappointing, but I did lose my taste for it. I found the recipe and made it once (that's how I know that those who didn't grow up on it don't get the appeal). I followed the recipe, as stated, with all the mayonnaise, etc. It was delicious! It was delicious before the Jell-o was added, and that was really just enough to mold it and add that hint of sweet. You couldn't "see" the Jell-o (which you could once it got tinkered with). Do yourself a favor. Make it the right way, or make a different salad.