Easy Buffalo Chicken Salad

This is great on a sandwich (as pictured) or on a big bed of lettuce as an actual salad.

This is a bit of a cheater recipe as I stated with Market Pantry chunk chicken breast in a can.

Ingredients:

* one can Market Pantry chicken breast, which I rinsed.

* I think it was one tablespoon Frank's Red Hot fiery buffalo wing sauce

* two tablespoons Bolthouse Farms blue cheese yogurt salad dressing (I love this stuff. Tastes great, and 35 calories per 2 tablespoons-- I splurged on the first bottle $3.99 at Target, but now it's on sale 2/$6)

* half a small red apple, peeled into ribbons

* somewhere around 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

I break my chicken into tiny mixes and mix it all up.

Buffalo Brussel Sprouts

I just ate a bag of Brussel sprouts. 4 servings. But they were so good. 

I cooked them, brushed them with extra virgin olive oil and Frank's buffalo sauce, sprinkled them with garlic powder and grated romano-percino. 

Roasted them at 475 degrees for ten minutes and flipped them then cooked them for another five minutes.

Crazy pizza

I didn't intend on blogging this one as I thought it'd be a boring, normal pizza albeit with artichoke hearts.

But I didn't have pizza sauce, or I couldn't find it anywhere. And I mixed up a crust with coconut flour, flax meal, and rye flour so maybe it is worth an attempt.

Because it turned out scrumptious.

My husband was doing some grout and caulk work in our bathroom. Child handled grating the cheese.

Preheat to 400 degrees 

Crust (all measures a guesstimate)

In one bowl, no metal utensils:

- 1 cup hot tap water

- 1 teaspoon honey

- 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil 

- 1 teaspoon yeast 

Set aside while prepping the dry ingredients. 

Dry ingredients:

- 1/4 cup flax meal

- 1/4 cup sesame seeds

- 1/4 cup coconut flour

- 1/2 cup dark rye flour

- about 2 cups white flour

(And more white flour to avoid stickiness if needed)

Combine, knead, and set aside to rise about 15 minutes.

Coat pan with extra virgin olive oil & corn meal. Spread the crust thin. 

Sauce: I used 1/2 plain tomato sauce & 1/2 buffalo sauce

Toppings: black olives & artichoke hearts

Cheese: some Swiss, some cheddar, about 6 ounces mozzarella and Parmesan.

What fell out of the freezer

I went into the freezer to find some vegetables and chicken for my dinner tomorrow and stuff started falling out. So I whipped up some processed mac and cheese and added some of the "falling out" stuff.

- one box market pantry mac and cheese

- cauliflower

- peas 

- fresh spinach

- spicy chicken bites

- extra butter

- some extra milk (today I used soy)

- some cheddar jack shredded cheese blend

- a few shakes Frank's Red Hot

Chicken salad variations

To use up the cucumber salad, my husband and I opted to make chicken salad. We had some skinless, boneless chicken in the freezer that he cooked.

We mixed the cucumber salad with the chicken once we chopped it. Then we added spices: Italian seasoning, garlic pepper. I also added golden raisins.

I split the chicken into two bowls, one heavy on the cucumber and the other heavy on the meat. The meaty bowl got mayo while the other got serious amounts of buffalo sauce. I added soft goat cheese crumbles to both.

Served on apple fritter bread with heaps of fresh spinach.

Beverage was a strawberry yogurt smoothie. (Serves three.)

- two cups strawberries

- one container strawberry rhubarb noosa yogurt

- one carnation instant breakfast packet in French vanilla

- about four ounces very vanilla soy milk

Buffalo chicken orzo

My daughter and I went on a six mile bike  today. Man, I am out of shape. But I never was an athlete!

When we got home, the family whipped up a hot lunch of leftover orzo with chopped chicken.

My husband and daughter had theirs with sugar snap peas, lima beans, and brussel sprouts drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and topped with herbs and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.

I had no lima beans and used Archer Farns buffalo sauce on mine.

Buffalo broccoli pizza

Yesterday I bought Archer Farms buffalo pizza sauce for $1.47 a jar, normally $3.29.

I made a mixed flour pizza crust (rye, sourgum flour, wheat, flax, white corn meal and coconut flour). Then topped with broccoli and about six different cheeses in addition to the sauce.

I enjoyed it.