This is a good summer salad. The chicken and the bulgur need to be cooked, but that’s the extent of the cooking for this dish. Larry’s not totally crazy about it, but I love avocado and I love bulgur.

• Chicken and Bulgur Salad with Avocado (Food and Wine, September 2002)
• Sourdough bread with Sauteed Garlic Butter (Fine Cooking #43, March 2001, p. 49)

Wine:White Oak 1999 Russian River Chardonnay. Larry and I generally don’t like the typically heavily-oaked California Chardonnays, but this is a pretty good wine. When it’s hot out, a chilled white wine is really refreshing.