Chicken paillard with fresh fig salad

Chicken second courses

This months cooking club recipe at the Food for Thought blog at foodtv.ca is 'Chicken Paillard with Fresh Fig Salad'. I am glad that this recipe was chosen as I had never had figs before. I had a bit of trouble finding the figs though. None of the major grocery stores that I tried had any figs. I was able to find them at the St. Lawrence market. The figs that I got did not seem to be the ripest. They were a pale pink rather than the dark pink that I have seen in some photos. They were still