Chicken Salad Stuffed Avocados and Pomegranate Chocolates

I have never had an avocado in my life until tonight. I also never had a pomegranate until a few days ago. Since we are just now getting back into the groove of things, you get a two-for-one deal. Dinner and dessert. The dinner inspiration came from a photo a friend posted on Facebook from a restaurant she was at. 

Dinner Ingredients:

Avocados

Chicken breasts, cooked and cubed

1 stalk of celery

2 teaspoons of mayonnaise

1 teaspoon of pickle relish

salt and pepper to taste

For my family, we used 3 avocados and 2 large chicken breasts. Preheat oven to 350F and cook chicken breasts until done. Cube the breasts small enough to fit into your food processor. Cut the celery stalk into half inch size pieces and put into food processor to blend with chicken. Cut, pit and peel skin off of the avocados. In a large bowl, mix your chicken and celery (after it has been through the processor), mayo, pickle relish, salt and pepper together. I also add a few dashes of hot sauce for more flavor. Scoop chicken salad into the centers of the avocados. Goes nicely with a fresh salad!

Dessert Ingredients:

Pomegranate

Dark chocolate

Retrieve seeds from the pomegranate. There are all kinds of how-to's out there, but the easiest way I have seen from them all (and was successful with myself) is this. Cut ends off of both sides of pomegranate. Cut a .25" slit in quarters around the pomegranate. Break open. Hit the skin side with a wooden spoon and out come the seeds. Now you need to melt down the chocolate. You can do this in the microwave in 15 second intervals or use the double broiler method. Line a mini muffin tin with mini cupcake liners. Spoon in a little chocolate, spoon in some pomegranate seeds, spoon more chocolate over the seeds. Add a couple more seeds on top to make it pretty. Put in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes to set the chocolate. It's messy, but delicious. I didn't use any set measurements, just eyeballed it. Some people will want more chocolate, some more pomegranate. Either way, it's delicious!