I want to share with you my chicken salad recipe....this is my favorite all time chicken salad recipe...I have tried others and I just finally tweaked and played around until I found the right combination for me....this makes a huge batch and is a big hit at any gathering or baby shower...gosh just any occassion...It is like chips...once you take a bite you can't quit....I HAVE NO SHAME IN TELLING YOU I CAN EAT TWO CROISSANTS AT ONE SETTING!!! LOL
THIS IS SIMPLE..REMEMBER I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY TO STAND OVER A STOVE AND MY FAMILY DROPS IN UNANNOUNCED AT EVEN GIVEN TIME! LOL
HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED...
I chop all my onions & celery & nuts up really...really small...I cannot stand a big chunk of raw onion or celery in my mouth! HERE IS WHAT MY STUFF LOOKS LIKE ONCE IT IS CHOPPED UP.. 
YOU WILL LOVE THESE GRILLED CHICKEN STRIPS...THEY SMELL & TASTE FANTASTIC! 
ONCE I GET EVERYTHING ALL TOGETHER WITH ALITTLE SALT AND BLACK PEPPER I PUT A BIG HEAPING TABLESPOON FULL IN THESE GREAT TASTING LITTLE CROISSANTS FROM WAL-MART... 
I MAKE UP TWO PKGS (16 CROISSANTS) AND KEEP THEM IN THE FRIDGE IN THE SAME CONTAINERS ..THAT WAY THE KIDS AND GRANDKIDS CAN JUST GRAB ONE WHEN THEY COME OVER...AND I STILL HAVE A BIG BOWL OF IT LEFT TO JUST EAT WITH CRACKERS OR BY ITSELF..YEA ...IT MAKES THAT MUCH...AND JUST LOOK AT HOW MOUTH WATERING THEY LOOK....WAIT TILL YOU TASTE THESE..YOU WILL SWALLOW YOUR TONGUE!!!!! 
If you like chicken salad..please give this a try and let me know what you think...here is the recipe!
DOT'S CHICKEN SALAD
3 Bags of Tyson Grilled Chicken Strips
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup chopped green or red seedless grapes
3/4 cup dill pickle relish (I use Vlasic)
4 hard boiled eggs chopped
6 heaping tablespoons of the Hormel bacon bits in a bag
1 1/2 cups mayonnaise (I used Bama)
salt & pepper to taste (just alittle salt)
I chopped the bags of grilled chicken into small chunks...
I chopped the onion and celery into TINY little specks! lol
I chopped the pecans into little pieces...
I also chop the grapes into small pieces...
Add all the ingredients together in large bowl with the mayonnaise...it makes a big bowl...cover with clear wrap and keep in fridge...It is fantastic on a croissant or even just plain white bread!...Let me know if you make it and how it turns out for you...if it gets famous...remember..I get all royalties!!!! lol
Hope you like it...take care everybody and have a great week! Love you guys!
45 lil sweet taters came by...:
mornin Dot, girl my mouth is watering and its 6:30 am!! These ingrediants will be on my grocery list today, can't wait to make it! Come by and see my Fall post, have a great week sweetie, xoxox
YUMMO, you know I'll try that, just have to cut it down some. Just two of us. :)
Hugs,
Chris
Ohhh my!
Dot, that just sounds and LOOKS Awesome... wish I could just walk in an snag a few of those... LOL ... as it would have it, this morning we are making chicken salad. I have had it your way, minus the grapes, but I do like that idea and will suggest it! Thanks so much for sharing...
I hope you and your family are doing well... God bless...
~hugs 'n prayers~
Pearl
This looks so good! If only I did not have this "thing" with Fruits and Nuts co-existing with anything savory. I think I am going to have to step out of my comfort zone and try it... Lovin' your recipes so much though.
Tiffany
"caniquitmyjobanddecorate"
Sounds yummy. I don't like chicken but my family does and this is perfect for a gathering!
Oh, I love grapes in my chicken salad. Look, I have a hard time chopping all that stuff as I have spinal stenosis and can't stand, so why don't you just mail me that platter? You have it all ready made!
Question: Why aren't you fat??? LOL
If this is as good as your quickie chick 'n dumplin's, then I will eat 3 croissants at the same time! ;-) Bo
I've got it copied and will try it soon!
Have a great day!
Reading your posts makes my day...
Have a great day Dot.
Oh my! That is my favorite recipe for chicken salad! Makes me want some right now! I haven't made it in ages, and I agree about chopping everything tiny! My Mama always put chopped celery in her's too, but I can take it or leave it. I actually prefer not to have the celery in this particular recipe.
I hope you are having a great day so far. :)
Oh, how I wish I had this recipe yesterday for our family party!! I am going to try it though,Jess and his friends love ready to eat snacks...bet they would not last an afternoon around here....have a good day my friend, talk soon !!!
Your welcome for the Autumn Award , it looks so cute on your blog. Thanks for the tip on making your chicken salad for 2.
Hugs,
Chris
My deception goes even deeper, I don't own any decorating chickens or roosters! LOL!~! That's not to say I don't like them in other people's homes, I just don't use them to decorate. Funny thing is mom had a big old rooster that sat on our kitchen table for years and years! I don't know what happened to him after she passed on. I'm just not an animal person. I do pick the chicken out of things and give it to my husband to eat! I like things made with cream of chicken soup, just no chicken for me. I don't eat a lot of meat period. When we absolutely were flat broke we cut out a lot of meat in our diet and I just never put it back in! My kids think all casseroles are meatless!! LOL!! Sorry to break your heart my chicken/rooster-loving friend but this is the true me! Love me or leave me, LOL!!
thanks for coming by sweetie, you always manage to get me all teary-eyed!! I'm still hopeful we will get a chance to meet one day! Love ya Dottie xoxo
GM Sweet P, Good lord girl between you and Helen I will never get out of the kitchen...this looks yummy girl!! loved the vegatable soup did that the other night and we are still eating that..good lord girl it make enough to feed an army..Please tell Helen I put my big girl panties on and even made corn bread haha!! love ya sis..Hugs and smiles Gloria
Can't wait to try this recipe out!
Sounds yummy!
Oh my, you are just a cooking fool! Another good recipe to try; it looks really yummy. Sally
Hi Picket!!
I've missed you :)
This recipe made my mouth water, so you know I'll be trying it soon ;)
I love your new pumpkin and I'm so happy you could find it!
love you!!!
rue
Yum, Yum, sounds so good..just may have to try that recipe and soon as both my and my sweet honey like chicken salad a lot.
Amelia
I swear girl, I add pounds just by visiting your blog! These will have to be served at our upcoming bridal showers. How delicious and yummy. I love tried and true recipes from wonderful cooks like you.
Thanks:)
Beth
Alabama... Where in the heck in my head did Florida come from?
thanks for clueing me in!
Hi Picket!
Going to try your Chicken Salad recipe....looks delicious!
Been searching and searching for a Tex Mex recipe I saw on someone's blog just yesterday. I can't find it now and I forgot to save it in my "favorites". Would you have a clue where to look?
Thanks a bunch!
Man that sounds good. Does that chicken come in the refrigerated section? It's already cooked for you? Woohoo!
I love chicken salad, and yours looks yummo! I know to look in your refrigerator when I stop by. ;-)
Oh my gosh, this looks so good! I love chicken salad, and would love to have it on croissants, but I can't have those any more. Waahh! It would be really good as a wrap sandwich though! Can't wait to try this!
Kady
I've made these before and bought the cossiants at Walmart too, only the chicken salad had almonds in it!
I'm copying this recipe down because I just might need it again.
Rondell
Hmmm.. I have to say it looks interesting, but I don't think I'd be putting grapes in mine. That just doesn't seem right. Grapes don't go with chicken and mayo! Pecans are a little odd too, but I bet they give a nice little crunch. And the relish? Oh, no way!
Justine :o )
I will have to try your chicken salad recipe for sure. I have such great memories of my mom and dad making chicken salad when I was a kid. They always pressured the chicken and then run it througjh an old meat grinder. My dad always let me put in all the pickles and eggs and such. We always made chicken salad in antisipation of my moms sister coming for a visit. She would always request my mom make it. She thought no one could make it better than my mom. I have a very funny memory of chicken salad gone "rancid" if you want to call it that. My mom made up a batch for our family trip to Walt Disney World and packed us up some sandwitches in the cooler to enjoy later. Lets just say those sandwitches had a little haunting after effect to them and we rode most of the way of the 15 hour trip to Florida with the windows rolled down. It got to be so funny we would laugh so hard we wopuld almost run off the road. Come to think of it I don't think that I have had chichen salad since.
Thanks for the recipe and the memories,
Shanda
This recipe goes right by the Chicken n Dumplin's, Vegetable Soup, and.....oh, heck I just need me a "PICKET'S COOKBOOK". I am going to try this. I have never made it with the grilled chicken strips but it sounds good and easy! You also have my favorite...BAMA mayonnaise!
But what if I don't want to be cured?!!
I had to laugh when I read your recipe...it is almost identical to mine. I have one granddaughter that loves it on those sweet Dinner Rolls and when I go to the school to eat with her, I fix it and take 5 of them to her for lunch....lol
Thanks for sharing..
love, bj
Sounds so good... I copy everyone of your recipes and try them... They are really yummy. I just shared the Chicken & Dumplings with my daughter and she is so anxious to try it.
Thanks
Hugs,
Donna
Hi Dot! thanks for your comments about my baby Alex. Now you know I'm going to try this recipe after the chicken and dumpling recipe. I had already told my husband I was going to make the dumplings for the ladies in my savings club, but now I'll have to see which one I will make I'll let you know, and take pictures. My turn for the meeting to be at my house is the end of October. Deb
Hi Dot!
I saw your comment on Stacey's blog & decided to stop by your blog. I can't wait to try some of your yummy recipes!
Carol * in Oklahoma
Oh yum! That looks so good! And I am hungry!
To make that banner, I just went thru some of my photos and after processing them, I cropped it into the strip like I thought I wanted it to look, then saved it. Then I went to my blog, click customize, click that top part below the nava bar, added the photo from my computer making sure I 'click to fit' and the photo was loaded.
Then on the tabs in the upper left hand corner, I changed some of the fonts and colors. There you have it.
Hi Picket, Thanks for stopping by my new blog this morning. I remember you from RMS. Your spaces are really pretty and I remember your beautiful yard too! Your chicken salad looks wonderful! I'll have to copy that receipe for sure! Stop back by for a visit soon. I'll be visiting you! Kristen
well lookie how cute you look in your new picture!! I gotta get me some of those highlights, your cut looks so nice!! Hows things with you sweetie? I'm off today and going to the store for your chicken salad fixins! Last night was a big pot of potato soup so theres gonna be leftovers tonight. Tomorrows October, can't believe it! I hope we all can do some Christmas shopping this year with all this terrible economic mess going on! Maybe get back to handmade gifts of long ago. Wouldn't ya just love to go back to the 50's, it was a gentler kinder time. Oh well back to reality, have a great day sweetie!! xoxo
Morning sunshine, thanks for coming by yesterday,glad you liked the photos, boy they do grow up fast thats for sure....going on a University of Toronto tour with Meg in a week, keep your fingers crossed for us, its alot closer to home!!! Enjoy your day...0x0x0x0
It looks Yummy....but anything that has more than two ingrediants ain't simple LOL...That whole cooking, mixing, chopping thingie is so out of my league!
GM, Sweet P.
Hey girl you got a new Picture up and you look like you have lost weight!!! how can that be with all this cooking?? hope you have a great day, love ya sis Hugs and smiles...Gloria
Hello Dot, I have been waiting for this recipe. It is just in time for my family this weekend. Remember the wedding shower for my great niece?
Well, the wedding is this Saturday at the Biltmore Estates. It is really a huge family reunion. All of my children and grandchildren will be there. My leg is doing great and I am going to dance. smile ( slow dance)
Anyway, We will have 17 for the weekend and chicken salad is on the menu. My RV will even be full. I am moving in to my bedroom this week because the guest room will be full too. Thank heaven for the cabin. Oh, what fun we will have.
Gosh, I didn't mean to go on so. Thank you for your comment on the scrap booking pages. My cousin will be so pleased.
Love and hugs to you dear Dot. I noticed you wrote a new profile and you look so pretty girl.
...Jeanne (oops ... has a new meaning now. Re: Mamma Mia) LOL.
Good morning sweet friend.. Thanks so much for swinging by the front porch... I always enjoy your upbeat visits... like you I love the sound of a swinging screen door.. I'll have to show you our pantry door.. it's a screen door with an old bread sign on it.. my Bill thought I was a bit on the nutso side.. but I soooo love it.. and everyone else does that comes for a visti..lol.. Thanks for sharing another great receipe.. I'll be trying this one soon...hope all is well with you and yours..hugs ~lynne~
Oh my gosh, I love chicken salad and mine never really turns out well. Thanks for the recipe and congratulations on your fall blog award.
Edwina
HI Dot! Ohhh this sounds delicious! Is there anything that doesn't taste good on a croissant?lol I need to try this, I love chicken salad (I put dried cranberries in mine!) I'm in a slump so I haven't posted anything new!lol I just noticed you had something else I didn't see so I'm checkin it out now! Have a great week - Sincerely, Jeannette (it's time for lunch now!)
Me again! I forgot to tell you that is a really pretty picture of you! Lookin Good!!!! Sincerely, J
hey Dot you've been playing on the computer again, that new header looks great!!! You're getting good at this blog stuff LOL!! xoxo
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