Fowl Fare

NICE SLICE: Honey-Grilled Turkey Tenders with Peanut Sauce.

Chicken Little

Chicken offerings on kids' menus around the country come with as many names as they do side dishes and sauces:

• Orbital Chicken Strips are served with french fries at Sky City in Seattle's Space Needle.
• Chicken Dinosaurs on the Lil' Wrangler menu at Hereford House in Leawood, KS, are a milder version of classic chicken fingers, served in fun dinosaur shapes.
• Little Chicken Crispers are on the menu at Chili's, along with the Grilled Chicken Platter.
• Chick-Chick-Chicken Fingers at Red Robin restaurants are offered with a choice of melon, celery, a side salad or steak fries.
• Grilled Chicken Strips at Bob Evans come with a choice of BBQ, honey, ranch or honey mustard sauce, plus a fresh garden salad.

Turkey Tally

In 2005, the National Turkey Federation reported a 53 percent increase over the previous year in foodservice recipes viewed on its web-site (www.EatTurkey.com) by industry professionals. The top five recipes were:

• Creamy Turkey Soup
• Turkey Vegetable Soup
• Bourbon Smoked Turkey Wrap
• Roasted Turkey Reuben
• Turkey Filet Mignon Wrapped in Turkey Bacon.

Winning Ideas

Recipe contest winners are also among this month's menu ideas. Look for the Cherry Apricot Chutney Chicken recipe from Chef Bob Wagner of Red Lion Hotel at the Quay, Vancouver, WA. It was the winner of the Red Lion Hotels Cherry Recipe Contest conducted in conjunction with the National Sweet Cherry Foundation.

Another winner is the Asian Grilled Squab with Peanut Vegetable Slaw, the creation of Mark T. Bole, who was a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh when he earned the $1,000 Entrèe Category first prize in the 2005 Peanut Advisory Board Chefs' Recipe Contest.