Chicken Salad

Today was the kickoff at my library for our summer reading program and I decided that to celebrate that by throwing together a pot-luck at work.  One of my contributions was chicken salad.  It's a super short and easy recipe, but very tasty.  To make it, you'll need: ~3 C cooked chicken; 1/4 C dried cranberries; 1/2 C diced celery; 3 Tbsp diced red onion; 1 diced apple; 1/4 C chopped toasted pecans; 6 Tbsp (or so) mayonnaise; 2 tsp lemon juice; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/8 tsp black pepper.

Just get yourself a rotisserie chicken; it's so much simpler that way

Either chop up or shred your chicken into little bits and combine it with the cranberries, celery, red onion, apple, and toasted pecans.

Like so

In a little bowl, combine the mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.  Stir it into the chicken until it's all nicely mixed (add more mayo if you need it).  And you're done!

Ta-da!

The only "difficult" part is all the prep work, especially chopping up the onion.  That always makes my eyes water something fierce.  Anyway, you can serve this alone, on rolls or crackers, or, my favorite, on banana bread!

Heaven on a plate

I've got a pretty good recipe and Panera has a great recipe for peanut butter banana bread.  I know it might sound a little weird, but trust me: chicken salad and banana bread go great together.