Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo Chicken Dip

Ingredients:
12oz (1 big bottle) Frank's Original Hot Sauce
16oz Regular Cream Cheese (not lowfat), set out at room temperature
8oz Ranch or Blue Cheese Salad Dressing (I use Ranch)
1 large can White Meat Chicken, drained and chopped
8oz Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Directions:
In a medium saucepan, bring hot sauce and ranch dressing to a simmer over medium-low heat.
Add cream cheese and stir continuously until fully melted.
Add cheddar cheese and stir continuously until fully melted.
Add chicken and stir to combine.
Put in crockpot and heat on low OR put in a baking dish and bake at 350 until bubbling (she did the oven).
Serve warm with tortilla chips.

Homemade Chicken Salad - My Mother-in-Law's Recipe

I love chicken salad, especially my mother-in-law's, and since I need lots of protein to grow two healthy babies, I decided to get her recipe and make it. I thought I would share it with you guys. It is so fine, you could put it in those little quiche shells and make a yummy appetizer. In fact, I might have them at my baby shower. ;)

Becky Stroud's Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
1 lb chicken tenders
2 eggs
4 stalks celery
Pickles
Salt
Pepper
Mayonnaise

Directions:
Boil chicken until cooked. Let it cool.
Hardboil the eggs. I did a post on this previously. Let them cool.
Wash and dry the celery.
Finely chop chicken, eggs, celery, and pickles.
Add salt, pepper, and mayonnaise to taste/consistency desired.

Perfect Hardboiled Eggs

I think I got this "recipe" from Martha Stewart. Lately, I have been craving egg salad sandwiches. The weird thing is that a month or two ago I couldn't stand eggs and now I love them again. So anyways, I thought I would share how I make hardboiled eggs for egg salad or deviled eggs.

Get a pot big enough for all the eggs and water to cover.
Put in the eggs and cover with COLD water.
Put on high heat and bring to a boil.
Take the eggs off the heat, cover with a lid, and set a timer for 17 minutes.
As soon as the timer goes off, pour the water of and cover with COLD water.
Fill a bowl with ice and COLD water.
Put the eggs in and let them sit there for a while.
Peel them and enjoy.

You have to use cold water so the eggs cook a little as the water heats up.
You can't overboil because they will be overdone.
You want to put them in an ice-cold water bath so they stop cooking and it makes them easier to peel.

I eyeball everything when I make egg salad or deviled eggs, but I put mayo, mustard, vinegar, salt, and pepper into the eggs (or egg yolks for deviled eggs), and do a taste test and add stuff accordingly.

Easy and Tasty Meatballs

Ingredients:
1 (16 oz) meatballs
12 oz grape jelly
1 cup BBQ sauce

Directions:
Mix BBQ sauce and jelly in pot.

Cook on medium-low heat until the grape jelly melts and blends into BBQ sauce.

Add meatballs and mix.

Cook at least 15 minutes (the longer you cook them the thicker the sauce gets).

Enjoy! :)

Easy and Tasty Queso Dip

This queso dip tasted just like the queso dip at Moe's. It was so easy and so tasty. I thought I would share.

Ingredients:
1 lb Velveeta cheese, cut into cubes
1 can Rotel

Directions:
Put Velveeta into a pot.
Cover with Rotel.
Cook on medium heat until melted, stirring occasionally.

YUMMY! :)