I LOVE chicken salad. And I almost never get it, because I don’t trust restaurants not to put 8 pounds of mayo and huge chunks of celery in it.
But whenever I get some extra cooked chicken — specifically when i have some extra pulled off the bones from making soup — I like to make some chicken salad. The most recent version had nothing but mayo, celery leaves (LEAVES, you will note, not gross crunchy blocks), dill and salt & pepper.
And as always, I am struck by how mindbendingly delicious just-plain-chicken can be when in close quarters with mayonnaise. I eat it extra slowly so as not to miss any of it, because it never lasts long. Yums.
I love gross chunky blocks of celery in chicken salad. I must agree, however, that just-plain-chicken in proximity to mayonnaise bends my mind in most excellent ways.
:sigh: Must get me some o’ that.
i dont like big chunks of celery in my chicken salad either but sometimes i’ll grate the celery so that it blends in. =)