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Monday, January 21, 2013

The Old Blacksmith Shop


Peeking inside the the window of the Wysong Blacksmith Shop, circa 1840, Fincastle.

For a more in-depth history on the blacksmith shop, visit Botetourt History.

I want to share with you the BEST chicken salad recipe in the world! Yes, Hotel Roanoke got back to me with their recipe!




Conner’s Chicken Salad

1 pound chicken, grilled or roasted
2 oz. onion, fine diced
2 oz. celery, fine diced
3 oz. mayonnaise
1 Tbsp. honey
1 lemon, zest and juice
A dash or Sriracha, or your favorite hot sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

yum!

Almost all of our snow has melted leaving a big muddy mess in its place. Yuck!

36 comments:

  1. I love old stoneware, and I actually remember when blacksmith shops were in business! Looks like a yummy recipe too.

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  2. The salad sounds yummy! Thanks for sharing it and I love that old jug.

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  3. Not happy with your mud-lucious roads? Head North with that recipe. More snow tonight.

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  4. Very cool old jug! Hope your chicken turns out just like the hotel's (or better!).

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  5. I've copied that recipe down, I do love good chicken salad, can't wait to try it! Love that jug, I collect jugs and crocks, they remind me of an earlier time when food was a slower process... I'm so glad you came by to share on Weekly Top Shot #66!

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  6. Those old jugs are great! And getting harder to find.

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  7. What a cool photo! I love the jug. Thank you SO much for the chicken salad recipe!! I am going to try that!

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  8. we used to have several of these old jugs and crocks in my family.

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  9. That old jug is awesome! I love it.

    Thanks for visiting my blog! I'm your newest GFC follower :)

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  10. I'll have to try this recipe. I do make chicken salad often w/ our chickens.

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  11. Thanks for stopping by.......Your post was timely as I was just sitting here wondering what to fix for dinner. I am looking forward to trying this:-) Love the old stoneware pot.

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  12. Shirasha is one of my favorite hot sauce :-) Thanks for stopping by pret-a-vivre.com

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  13. Thanks for the recipe and visit. I can't belive you have snow and we do not yet... I live in NJ.

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  14. That is a neat shot of the old jug. Thanks for the yummy sounding recipe!

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  15. So beautiful that old jug Tanya
    have a nice week

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  16. Thanks for sharing the recipe, and your beautiful photo!

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  17. Lovely peek of a (wine?) jug - and I'm so impressed the hotel got back to you, the recipe sounds delicious!

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  18. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. If you can believe this, we make chicken salad almost every weekend to take to the beach. We LOVE it. We always put grapes cut in half and a pinch of pepper and these two ingredients seem to bring it alive. I will definately try this combination now.
    Laurie

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  19. More, more! I love blacksmith's shops!

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  20. Oh I would so love to peek in a blacksmith shop's windows! Great find. The recipe sounds delicious too! have a great week.

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  21. That is so naughty giving us only a sneak peek.... might try out that recipe of yours too. !!

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  22. Salad lover checking in. Recipe looks worth a try. Our snow is stuck on the ground and I think we are getting some freezing temps in the next day or two. So no slush yet :). I just want to see some blue skies. Like that jug, too!

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  23. Great mean to measure time and life indeed.

    Please have a good Tuesday.

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  24. Love the old time feel of those jugs. Nicely captured!
    Thanks for stopping by my blog! Hope you can link up next week. :)

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  25. Oh I like everything about this post Tanya yummy for eyes and tummy. B

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  26. That nice picture, excellent capture, gorgeous.

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  27. A great piece of stoneware AND a nice recipe too!

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  28. Cool photo. And I'm so glad you got The Recipe. Yay!

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  29. The chicken salad sounds wonderful. I copied the recipe. The antique crock is really neat.

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  30. What a lovely old pot. And in it's proper setting too!

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