every thursday i have dinner with my girls, and by have dinner i mean i cook and we drink a bottle of wine and watch grey's. this week we decided that we anted comfort food. mac and cheese, buffalo wings and brownies comfort food. usually i bring the food and pans to amy's because she has the biggest kitchen, but this week i hadn't gone grocery shopping and neither had amy, so we went to meijer to get inspired. well, meijer probably has the best gluten free/ organic selection of any store here in chambana (except strawberry fields, but it is a little far from the bus). we bought some brown rice pasta and lots of cheese when amy decided that we needed chicken. so, we bought chicken breasts pre-cut into tenders, and what we got was an amazing meal of comfort food to go with the celebration wine that we busted out to celebrate my post-graduation employment.
buffalo chicken with the other special sauce:
1/2 bottle frank's red hot sauce (the smaller size, should be about 3/4-1 cup)
2 -3 T stone ground mustard (this is approximate, i just squeeze it 3 times)
honey to taste
1 package of boneless skinless chicken breasts cut into strips (1-1.5 pounds)
whisk all the ingredients together and taste. if there is too much of a kick add a little more honey, but keep in mind that the sweetness pops as it cooks. if it isn't too hot but the flavor seems a little flat, add more mustard. marinate for about 15 minutes in a large bowl.
cook chicken in a large skillet on medium-high for about 5 minutes on each side. pour extra marinade in the skillet with the chicken. serve with ranch dressing for dipping (i make this one).
you will have to soak the skillet to get all of the sauce out of it, but it is a tasty way to prepare chicken and is one of my special sauces. the secret to everything is in the sauce, and this sauce is impossible to ruin.
the mac and cheese was a slightly less successful experiment, and although it was delicious, it was very much dumping cheese, milk and butter into the pot with the rice noodles and seeing what came out. and it was delicious, but i definately used too much cheese. and i made my brownies. i must say, i love comfort food.
anyways, pardon my rambling and my inability to create scientific recipes. my cooking is really just a little of this and a little of that...
4 comments:
My recipes are the same way..sometimes it's so hard to write them down.
I love Frank's hot sauce...thank goodness it's GF.
i do adore franks, i have to buy it in bulk.
Sounds awesome!
I have never tried it with ground mustard. I will have to. It sounds delicious.
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