However, Russian Salad is actually a meal in a bowl: vegetables, potatoes and meat; equal amounts of each: carrots, peas, pickles, A Canadian Foodie

A generous layer of golden, drained pineapple chunks.

She began by boiling the chicken breast until tender, letting it cool in its own broth to stay juicy. As she diced the meat into small cubes, she remembered her own mother making this same salad. Back then, finding canned pineapple in the winter felt like a small miracle, a bright, tropical spark against the Russian snow.