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Food Blog: Hanley Field Chicken Salad

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Theresa Lopez Student Contributor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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Emily Cleary Student Contributor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Illinois chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

During my summers off from school, I spend a lot of time with my Grandma. This is her take on a classic chicken salad in honor of one of her favorite places to pick wild blueberries, Hanley Field in Munising, Michigan.

Ingredients:
2 cups of blueberries
2 cups chopped romaine lettuce
2 cups boneless skinless chicken breast
1, 6-ounce container Stony Field Lemon Yogurt
½ cup coarsely chopped pecans
½ cup thinly sliced green onions
½ cup chopped celery
¼ cup Gorgonzola crumbles
3 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise
1 tablespoons sesame seeds

Directions:?
In a large bowl, combine your dry ingredients: the blueberries, cooled chicken breast, pecans*, green onions, Gorgonzola, sesame seeds, romaine lettuce and celery.

In a separate small bowl, combine a 6-ounce container of Stony Field Lemon Yogurt (an off-brand is perfectly acceptable too) with 3 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise.

Add the yogurt and mayonnaise to the large bowl. Chill in the refrigerator for an hour and serve it up.

*Tip: Leaving your nuts in the freezer will preserve the natural oils and prevent them from becoming stale. 

Emily Cleary is a 22-year-old news-editorial journalism major hoping to work in the fashion industry, whether that be in editorial, marketing, PR or event planning is TBD. With internships at Teen Vogue and StyleChicago.com, it's clear that she is a fashion fanatic. When she's not studying (she's the former VP of her sorority, Delta Delta Delta), writing for various publications or attending meetings for clubs like Business Careers in Entertainment Club, Society of Professional Journalists, The Business of Fashion Club, or for her role as the Assistant Editor of the Arts & Entertainment section of her school's magazine, she's doing something else; you will never find her sitting still. She loves: running (you know those crazy cross-country runners...), attending concerts and music festivals, shopping (of course), hanging out with friends, visiting her family at home, traveling (she studied abroad in London when she was able to travel all over Europe), taking pictures, tweeting, reading stacks and stacks of magazines and newspapers while drinking a Starbuck's caramel light frappacino, blogs and the occasional blogging, eating anything chocolate and conjuring up her next big project. Living just 20 minutes outside of Chicago, she's excited to live there after graduation, but would love to spend some time in New York, LA, London or Paris (she speaks French)!