Buffalo Chicken Salad Wraps

Tonight's dinner was sooo easy it seems crazy to post about it. But than again, it was sooo good it would be even more crazy NOT to post it. After all, those are my FAV meals - EASY but D-lish! Enjoy! :D


As you all know I am into making things super easy for myself, so I usually start with things where some of the work is already done. For example chicken tenders vs. breasts in this case and bags of salad, which in this case I chopped even more. It's not necessary but I like my salad fixin's chopped small, plus I think it's easier to wrap it.

Ingredients:
Chicken Tenders (6-8)
Olive oil
Hot sauce (your choice)
chopped romain lettuce
thin sliced carrots/celery (optional)
blue cheese dressing (your choice)
wrap (your choice)

How to:
Lightly brown chicken in a skillet with a little bit of oil, turning as needed. Prep your veggies while the chicken browns.  Chop the cooked chicken, return it to pan and add hot sauce stirring to coat well.  Set out your wraps load them and roll. So easy a monkey could do this!

I used the following "choice" items:
a few Tbs. Emeril's, red pepper sauce
a few drops of Taste of Thai, garlic chili pepper sauce
a good bit of Marzetti, light chunky blue cheese dressing
Joseph's flax, oat bran and whole wheat Lavash
(These wraps are healthy, soft and rectangular so they work very nicely!)

Please note:
I kept the chicken plain for the kids and just put the salad in a bowl for them. While the hubby and I enjoyed the wraps. Also he likes a side dish so I served him baby carrots on the side rather than in the wrap. The things we do for men!

The First Thanksgiving...

OK well MY first Thanksgiving, anyway! It totally rocked, like Plymouth only better.  I can't wait to tell you all about it, but right now I am spent so you'll have to wait a few days.  I have a very busy Family-Fun-Filled weekend ahead of me and then my son Andrew's 5th Bday is monday!. Good times! Gobble-Gobble!!!

Vegetable Chicken Stew

I think I would call our version of this stew Fall in New England Meets Little Italy.

Mom and I modified this online recipe slightly to better suit my taste and the items I had on hand. The results were fabulous! My only regret was the lack of a nice loaf of scali bread to go with! ;-)
Mangia! Enjoy!

 

Here is the link to the original recipe:

Chicken Vegetable Stew 

 

Here are the alterations we made:

• skipped the mushrooms (simply becase I don't like them)
• used a variety of colored carrots (which would have been even more beautiful in a clear broth!)
  note the carrots flavors were similar, but if you want different then parsnips would also be yummy)
• used a mix of white and red baby potatoes (less cutting)
• no rosemary available so we used a can of crushed toamtoes with Italian herbs which added a nice, get this, Italian flavor.
• substitued the whites of several scallions for the onion.
• included chick peas beacuse I love them and figured it would tie in well with the new Italian twist.
• skipped the flour (it seemed thick enough without it)
• added the whole can of crashed tomatoes and a whole small can of cambell's broth (since I had more stuff to begin with! ;-)
• again, should have had a nice loaf of Scali bread to soak up the tomatoe-based broth!

Mmmmm! Delizioso!

Please note:
I am a horrible speller, since they always made the kids who spelled the word incorrectly sit down.  DUH!!!Please further note: I am also not a very good typist, since my HS typing teacher was a drunk and didn't really teach me anything.  OOOPS! Therefore, please excuse any typos you may sea. Thanx!

PS - and my gramma ain't that good neither! ;-)