Life is a bowl of cherries...and chicken

I love this time of year! All the fresh local fruits and vegetables. There's a wonderful orchard near my house where you can go to pick all manner of fruits throughout the growing season. Yesterday, I went cherry picking, so I have a lovely basket of dark, sweet cherries just begging to be experimented with. I thought...well grapes are good in chicken salad...why not cherries? So here is what I came up with.

Cherry Chicken Salad

Ingredients 

2 Cooked Chicken Breasts*
1/2 cup Cherries
1/4 cup Walnuts
1 stalk Celery
2 Tbsp Mayonnaise 
Salt and White Pepper to taste (I'm sure Black Pepper would work just fine too.)

• Cut chicken breasts into small cubes, or shred. Either way is tasty.
• Pit and quarter cherries.
• Rough chop walnuts and celery.
• Mix all ingredients with mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

Can be served on a bed of greens or made into sandwiches...whatever strikes your fancy. I opted for whole wheat wraps with arugula. The spice of the arugula added a nice dimension.     

*I cooked a whole chicken in the crock pot and took the meat from that. Typically when I make chicken salad I poach the breasts. 
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