Is it lunch time and you have some leftover chicken but don’t know what to do with it? Try this easy chicken salad recipe that will delight your tastebuds!

Chicken Salad with Cranberries

leftover cooked chicken, white and/or dark meat, chopped

dried cranberries, about 2 tbsp or to taste

1-2 tbsp mayonnaise

salt and pepper

2-4 slices of your favourite bread (here I chose an Italian Calabrese bread)

Mix all of the ingredients together. Taste and season to preference.

I like to butter my bread first. Then pile on the chicken mixture. Enjoy!

Bread is delicious, is it not? And it comes in so many varieties. Nothing quite beats homemade bread either, but I will wait for the cooler weather to put my oven on at 450 degrees F to once again fill the house with the smell of baking bread.

This reminds me that in John 6:35 Jesus says “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst,” NKJV. Jesus is speaking of the fact that He satisfies every longing of our hearts. He fills the hole in our lives that nothing on this earth can fill. Blaise Pascal is the one who said, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.” In my 42 years as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ I can only say, “Amen to that!” Jesus is truly “all in all,” Colossians 3:11c, and I have found that He is the one who completes me and fills my lonely, longing heart. His love, grace, mercy and hope are continuous and immeasurable. He fills the hole in my heart and He is the Bread of Life who sustains me no matter what comes my way. I enjoy time in His word, time worshipping and praising Him, and His blessings far outweigh anything this world has to offer. “Blessed be the LORD, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation!” Psalm 68:19. I still experience temporary, physical hunger and thirst, but the deep longings of my soul are satisfied with the Lord Jesus Christ.