Buffalo Chicken Nachos

This past Sunday was the Super Bowl. Did you watch? Was your team playing? I'm not a huge football fan but I do live in Philadelphia were the city goes crazy for the Eagles. If they were to make it to the Super Bowl, I'd totally hop on the band wagon and cheer them on. Alas, the Giants and Patriots were the champions so we stayed home which was a perfect excuse to make buffalo chicken nachos that I've been seeing pop up all over Pinterest (follow me if you're on)! The combination of buffalo chicken & nachos is complete heaven to me. This tasty treat was oh so easy and oh so yummy.  It's perfect for a party (or no party at all)! 

Buffalo Chicken Nachos (adapted from foodnetwork.com) 

 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups wing sauce

1/2 cup water

4 cups shredded cooked chicken

Tortilla chips

3 cups cheddar cheese

blue cheese & chopped celery

Bring wing sauce and water to a simmer.  Add chicken, strain the chicken and reserve the wing sauce. Spread tortilla chips over cookie sheet, top with chicken and cheddar cheese. Bake at 350 until cheese is melted. Top with blue cheese, chopped celery and reserved wing sauce.

White Loaves

I had a short hiatus from my blog but I'm happy to report, I'm back! The end of 2011 was hectic to say the least. I can't believe this is my first post of 2012. I hope everyone had a great holiday season and your New Year is off to a great start. Even though I've been absent on the blog, I haven't been completely absent in the kitchen. I enjoy blogging but for whatever reason it's always put on the back burner. I decided for 2012 to join an online baking group. This group has been around for a while, I know because I've drooled over the computer every Tuesday for the last couple of years. Tuesday's with Dorie is an online baking group which tackles recipes from one cookbook. The group recently finished From Baking From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan (hence the name of the group). Now they're tackling Baking with Julia and I'm happy to be a member. I'm really excited and think this is going to be a fun journey. I know I'm going to learn a ton along the way.

So let's get this started...we made white loaves for our first week. This was my first time making white loaves (without using a bread maker that is).  This was a pretty simple recipe the hardest part was 1. waiting for the dough to rise & 2. kneading the dough by hand after my KitchenAid mixer got a bit overheated (anyone else have that trouble?). I'm not going to lie...it was a pretty good workout and I'm happy to report my KitchenAid is just fine. Thank goodness! 

The bread was so very tasty! It was good warm with some butter. It was good the next morning as toast. AND it was a great bread to use for grilled cheese. What did everyone else do with their bread? 

The organizers of Tuesday's with Dorie, Jules & Laurie, selected this week's recipe. I think it was a great pick for our first post. I'm excited to continue the journey! 

If you're interested in the recipe, hop on over to Jules blog.