Chicken Salad and Beer?

Double whammy post here! I'd like to tell you about two very different, but delish items I sampled and made this week!

Lets start with the chicken! Everyone eats it, okay, well except Vegans and Vegetarians I suppose, but the fact is that chicken is a staple in most ethnic cuisines as its fairly easy to use, costs less than Pork or Beef, and there is really no 'wrong' way to serve it. The problem with chicken is that generally speaking, whether your feeding 3 or 8 your going to make enough to feed everyone, and will almost always end up with leftovers. Yes, leftovers. Those things you put into the 'fridge with good intentions of eating, but usually end up tossing in the garbage by week's end. The key to consuming leftovers is to transform them! Here's an easy simple way of transforming that left over chicken into something new and appetizing! I used oven roasted chicken breast, but you can use any part of the chicken that's roasted.

Chicken Salad

Cut left over chicken

Clean and dice 1 stalk of celery

Quarter about 10 Red or Green Grapes

Add mayo until desired level of creamy-ness is achieved

Drizzle in about a tsp of honey

Salt and Pepper to Taste

Serve on your choice of soft bread ( Sourdough is amazing!)  with romaine lettuce, tomato, and onions if desired! Goes great as a last minute appetizer too, just dollop onto fancy crackers or toast points! Yum!

And now to the beer! I was lucky enough to get to sample a bottle of Breckenridge Vanilla Porter. Now I will be honest, its taken a very long time for me to actually be able to drink beer, and I usually tend to stick with wheat beers, so a porter is something a bit new for me. Breckenridge VP is brewed in Breckenridge, Colorado. Breckenridge is a Microbrewery (small lesson in breweries: Micro- Smaller, not widely known, think craft beers.  Macro- Large scale, advertised on TV, think Bud\Coors etc) that offers 6 craft beers year round, and 4 seasonal beers. Vanilla Porter is available year round and thank goodness for that! Crack open one of these bad boys and you will instantly be hit with a nutty, almost coffee aroma. Pours nicely with just a small ivory colored head, that quickly dispersed and left a small lace pattern on the beer. Being a porter it does have a small amount of hop bitterness, but you are left with a caramel\vanilla taste. Would love to snag another bottle and try it over vanilla ice cream! Now that's what this Diva calls Delish!