Grilled West Indies Spice-Rubbed Chicken Breast with Equatorial Fruit Salad
We spent yesterday gardening, cleaning up the backyard, and puttering around outside. To reward ourselves for a job at least adequately done, we grilled. A few weeks ago, t he husband's parents made this Grilled West Indies Spice-Rubbed Chicken with the cookbook -recommended grilled banana, which was so good we had to make it ourselves. However, I find that the grilled banana can become a bit cloying, so we switched out the accompanying fruit for a far zingier Equatorial Fruit Salad with lime and jalapeño . We walked away with five important messages about the salad from the meal: 1.) The Equatorial Fruit Salad is phenomenal. The sweet acidity of the pineapple next to the smoothness of the papaya just tastes like a tropical summer. The lime gives a further zing that plays off of the creaminess of the bananas. I was a little worried about the heat, so I put in only 2 jalapeños. However, because you seed them, the ...