Is salad cooked or prepared if some aspects are hot?

I'm only asking because I've just made a salad with some chicken. And damn fine it was too.

Good fresh ingredients are the key, obviously, so I ensured that I didn't have any by being a lazy bastard and buying them yesterday and then buggering off to the pub.

So I made it this afternoon for 2 people who have almost 0 vegetation in their diet, and they've both eaten it. This is a miracle on a par with the blind man seeing, the lame man walk and getting a duck to say "I am a goat"

Fear my powers.

I was initially worried that the chicken would be dry because of the way I made it, but it was fine. A shade tougher than I'd have preferred on the outer edges but it was still very very edible. In for about 3 minutes too long, probably.

I want to learn to cook duck and other game birds, just for the ability to say things like "This duck has not been seared as I'd have done it" or something and I want to cook posh food with oranges in it and stuff.

This is unlikely.

Oh, and I should be moving out of my current abode within the foreseeable. Yay for me.

Salad could have done with a few more radishes though.