Sweet Honey Walnut Chicken Salad

I love grocery store sales. Especially when things are buy two get three FREE? You only needed one, but since you now can have three for FREE, you end up with five of whatever you were (or were not) shopping for in the first place.

Above is the story of how I ended up with five bags of frozen chicken breasts in my freezer.

Despite the wasted freezer space, it did lead to the creation of the delectable Sweet Honey Walnut Chicken Salad.

Ingredients

• One bag of frozen chicken breasts (about 2.5 lbs)
• 3 cups of mayonaise
• 1 cup of halved grapes
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 2 tbsp of honey
• 2 tbsp of sugar

Preparation

1. Bake/grill (I prefer to bake) chicken per the instructions on the bag.

2. Cut up chicken in smaller pieces, put in a large bowl.

3. Add other ingredients

4. Mix together

5. Enjoy!

This is a SUPER easy and quick chicken salad, that you can put on anything.

Today I made a salad, tomorrow I may make a sandwich.

So many possibilities.

Chai Bread

I am in a new quest for being domestic.

It’s a slow work in progress.

Until I achieve that ultimate goal, I’ll have to settle on stumbling through messing up one recipe at a time.

This time, the final product resembled the picture.

The original recipe was Chai Banana Bread. Unintentionally I made a few changes that made it my own bread.

Ingredients

Bread

• 1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana (about 3)
• 1/3 cup plain fat-free yogurt
• 5 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 10 ounce all-purpose flour (2 1/4 cups)
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1  teaspoons vanilla extract
• Cooking spray

Drizzle Topping

• 1/3 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons 2% milk
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon allspice

Preparation

1. 1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. 2. Combine banana, yogurt, butter, and eggs in a bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed just until blended. Add sugars; beat at medium just until blended.
3. 3. Weigh or spoon flour into dry measuring cups. Combine flour, soda, and salt. Add flour mixture to banana mixture; beat just until blended.
4. 4. Combine spices and vanilla. Stir into batter. Pour into a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 65 minutes (really bake for 65 minutes. During my baking venture, I thought it said for 10 minutes. It didn’t work.) or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on wire rack. Remove from pan; cool.
5. 5. Combine remaining drizzle ingredients. Drizzle over bread.