Chicken Salad

I did not like chicken salad when I was a kid. I always swore that I would serve deli sandwiches instead of chicken salad at parties because I love a good deli sandwich and chicken salad was "delicate" food. However my best friend Kellie Jo made some chicken salad for her daughter Averie's baby blessing and I loved it! I got her recipe and have been making it ever since. My in laws also have a really good recipe and I decided to experiment and combine both of them. It turned out good minus me adding too much sauce, next time we'll go for less. The hardest thing that I have had with starting to food blog is writing down recipes. I am a here's a dash, a sprinkle, a dab, and a dollop kind of person. I think you can do a lot of that with cooking. Baking is different. So on some of my recipes I am guesstimating. I've been trying to measure but sometimes the creative side takes over.

5 thawed chicken breasts
Onera seasoning (found at Harmon's)
1 bunch of green onions
1 yellow onion
Dill
1 can of water chestnuts
2 bunches of celery
Apples
Juice from half a lemon
Miracle Whip and Mayo

Line a baking sheet with tin foil and preheat oven to 300. Rub Onera seasoning onto chicken breasts and cook until done. Let the chicken cool and then you can either shred, cut, or put you chicken in your food processor. Let the chicken chill in the refrigerator. Next take the onion, dill, water chestnuts, and celery and pulse in your food processor until minced. In a bowl combine everything: chicken, lemon juice, and everything you minced. Here is where I went wrong this time. It looked like quite a bit so I started out with 2 cups of each Miracle Whip and Mayo. It could have used a lot less. I would start out with 1 cup of each and go from there. You can serve them on apples like I did or cut up the apples and put them in the chicken salad.

Also great life lesson: all the extra things you can cut off, i.e. bottom of the celery, lemon peels, onion core etc don't throw them all into your garbage disposal or you'll have my problem of turning on the disposal and having food spewing out several feet in the air all over your spotless kitchen and clean dishes right before you're supposed to have company over ;) Which resulted in Kenna try to plunge the sink, which didn't work and finally calling emergency maintenance over and having him pulling out stalks of celery stuck in the pipes.