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In Off The Menu I share with you some of the best build your own meal combinations from salads to wraps to burgers. If you enjoy my recommendation be sure to take a pic and tag me in it @dannthefoodie on Instagram.

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Today we are at Chopt, the best place to get a salad in NYC and ever since they added cauliflower rice, it is ten times better. Chopt had me going from “cauliflower is trash” to “Lemme get that bulk bag of cauliflower rice from BJ’s”. This is a combination is for you if you love cauliflower and spice. I call it

“Spicy Cauliflower”

better names coming soon

Cauliflower Rice

Braised Chicken Tinga 

Cotija Cheese

Marinated Kale

Jalapenos 

Pickled Red onions 

Mexican Caesar Dressing

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This combination is so mhm mhm mhm so good. The braised chicken is tender, juicy and succulent. The chicken Tinga, Jalapenos, and the Mexican Caesar dressing brings the heat but not too much. This isn’t tears inducing, nose dripping spice. But we can’t have just have spice. We need some complexity.  That’s why we got the pickled red onions and cotija cheese. The cotija cheese brings the salt and the pickle red onions brings that sharp sweet tangy flavor. All these flavors come together and it just makes me want to do a little dance in my seat. But I won’t because social anxiety.

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Here are some closes up if my words weren’t enough to entice you

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