Slow Cooker Pulled Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches

 

I have another Gameday recipe for you, and you should make it immediately. My husband is a buffalo wing connoisseur and these recieved his stamp of approval. My initial plan was to make these into sliders, but after not being able to find slider buns at 2 different stores I gave up since this would easily work with sandwiches. Where do you buy slider buns anyway?

Since these are made in the slow cooker they are so easy to make,  just throw a few ingredients in the slow cooker and have a finished product 8 hours later. One word of advice I have is do not make these when you'll be home all day. I work from home on Friday's and it was torture smelling the buffalo chicken all day long and having to wait until dinner to gobble it up.

I tried not to make them too spicy since my husband can't handle the heat like I can, he's more of a mild wings type of guy. These still came out spicy, just not too spicy, but please adjust the sauce ingredients to fit your tastes. The blue cheese dip to spread on the sandwiches helped balance out the spice nicely. Since I wanted to mix both light and dark meat this recipe makes way too much chicken for just the two of us, but it would be good for a crowd and I'm excited to find uses for it in other dishes.

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Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

This peanut butter banana smoothie is one of my favorite breakfasts. It's easy, filling, and tasty, a perfect way to start your day! It is also works well as a post workout smoothie, since it provides you with protein, fiber, and potassium.

I add ground flaxseed to this smoothie, which you could leave out if you don't have any on hand, but I recommend buying some. Flaxseed has great health benefits (click here to see more specifics) and is very versatile. You can throw a tablespoon into hot or cold cereal, mix it in some mustard before putting it on your sandwich, use it when baking, or add it to your smoothie like I did here.

The smoothie tastes better with bananas that are a little brown and ripe and you should definitely adjust the quantities to suit your tastes and preference on how thick you like your smoothie.

Ingredients
1 frozen banana (doesn't have to be frozen, but I prefer it that way)
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1/4 cup old fashioned oats
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed (can use flaxseed oil if you like a thinner consistency)
Ice (optional)

Directions
Place all of the ingredients up until ice in a blender and combine. If you would like a thicker consistency add a few ice cubes, if you are looking for a thinner consistency add a little more milk or water.

It's Football Season!

It's football season! That means it's one of my favorite times of year, I love lazy Saturdays and Sundays of watching football, snacking, and drinking bloody mary's and beer.  Go Chiefs!, Go Giants! Go Jayhawks!, and Go Blitz Divas (my fantasy team)!

To kickoff the season I'll share this easy and tasty dip that my aunt made when we were out visiting last week.  It doesn't look pretty, but trust me, it's good and perfect for Gameday.

Ingredients
1 lb ground turkey breakfast sausage
1 can Rotel
1 brick low fat cream cheese
Tortilla chips

Directions
Break apart and brown turkey in stove top pan over medium heat. Add cream cheese, stir until melted. Then add rotel and stir until combined. Use tortilla chips for dipping and enjoy!

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Tamale Pie

When I saw this in-a-hurry tamale pie posted on Eat, Live, Run I knew I had to give it a try. Instead of the typical cornmeal crust in a tamale pie, a polenta roll is used in this dish. This makes it a lot quicker to make and also dirty's fewer dishes. It's so easy on the clean up side, after dinner when my husband was doing the dishes, he thanked me for cleaning some of them while cooking. I didn't clean a thing, but don't worry I still took credit and said you're welcome. I'm sure if he knew I didn't clean them, he would thank me for not dirtying a lot so the you're welcome would be warranted regardless.

I made a few adjustments, the main one was adding ground turkey, where the original recipe was a vegetarian option. It was a quick weeknight meal, that I will be making again. If you can restrain yourself from eating it all the first time around, the leftovers were even better! Keep reading for the recipe.

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Tour de Kansas (and Missouri)

I hope you all had a nice Labor Day weekend and enjoyed the last unofficial days of summer! We took an extra couple of days off and visited my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and second cousins across the state of Kansas and Missouri, covering over 700 miles.

After flying from New Jersey to Kansas City we headed to my grandparents farm in Dodge City.  On the way, we were sure to make a stop in Kinsley, KS at Midway USA, the midpoint between San Francisco & New York.

Next up the farm, and I was excited to show my husband my grandparents farm. I have so many great memories from visiting the farm while growing up; cooking with Grandma, 'helping' Grandpa out around the farm, and having way too much of fun with my cousins.

 

 

 

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