Nigel Slater’s chicken salad recipes

Early summer, late morning, time to make lunch. Mix a dressing, select cold cuts and greens, get the big bowl outThere is a moment in early summer, late on a Monday morning, that I have grown to love. The kitchen is quiet, calm and mercifully cool. I take the remains of yesterday’s roast chicken from its plate and tear away the flesh in fat, ragged, generous chunks. The plump “oysters” of flesh hiding under the carcass come too, as do the juiciest bits of brown meat – the