Meat recipes good cold?

[steorra]

Hi, I've been watching this community for a few months, but just joined. I'm looking for good recipes (preferably fairly simple, though I might be able to handle a more complex one) that contain meat and are good eaten room temperature/cold. I have a feast coming up that will be sort of picnic-style, without much chance to reheat food. (There is a microwave, but it may be pretty busy with other people trying to reheat things, and I'd rather not get into that competition.)

A few restrictions:
-No nuts or peanuts (pine nuts are okay, though)
-No hot pepper or black pepper

(In my inquiries elsewhere, the best candidate recipe so far is salami rolled around cream cheese, which has been suggested by two different people.)

Comments

[lassarina]

Well, if kosher's not a restriction, there's always this:

Take some prosciutto. Lightly toast it in your oven--well, not so much toast as "throw some warm air at until it's a bit drier and less greasy." Wrap around small chunks of goat cheese and pear. Serve.

Chicken in a pasta salad, as suggested above, is a good option.

Alternately, bake up some chicken. Cut it into small (half bite-sized?) pieces. Your options at this point diverge:

* put it in a pita with some tzatziki (you can buy decent premade at the grocery store; if you have a heavy Greek population where you live, it'll be better quality), onions, and tomatoes--but I am a freak and eat gyros and chicken-equivalents-thereof cold, so.
* toss it with some BBQ sauce and wrap it up in tortillas with some shredded cheddar for snack wrap things
* as above, but with honey-mustard dressing, some lettuce and diced tomato. Sliced avocado, lightly sauteed mushrooms, and/or provolone can make tasty additions.