Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Chicken Salad

A good way to use any left over rotissery chicken.

2 1/2 cups diced cooked chicken
4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
1/2 cup thinly sliced celery
1 cup halved red grapes
3/4 cup mayo
1 T dried parsely flakes
2 tsp finely minced red onion
1 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 dash Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Combine chicken, bacon, celery, and grapes in a large bowl and set aside. In another bowl whisk together remaining ingredients; add to salad and toss to coat. Chill until serving.

Original recipe found on allrecipes.com. I did tweek it a bit.

Easy Chocolate Truffles

Soooo good (and super easy too).


Ingredients

1 (8 ounce package Phili cream cheese
3 cups powdered sugar
12 (1 ounce) squares Baker's semi-sweet baking chocolate (melted)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Suggested coatings, such as ground walnuts, unsweetened cocoa, powdered sugar and/or angel flake coconut.

Beat cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Gradually add sugar, mixing until well blended.

Add melted chocolate and vanilla, mix well. Refrigerate 1 hour until chilled.

Shape into 1-inch balls. Roll in walnuts, cocoa, powdered sugar or coconut. store in refrigerator.

I've also added some raspberry flavoring to the truffles and it was delish!