Easy Buffalo Chicken Dip

It was a dippy kind of day for opening day of college football season.  If you like buffalo chicken wings you will love this dip.  It reheats well too which is an added bonus.  There's still plenty more games coming up for you to try it out.

This dip is great served with taco chips, celery and even other veggies.  

Simple ingredients.

Start with softened 8 oz of cream cheese.

Add 2 cups shredded cooked chicken.

Add 1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce.  You can add more if you like it a little spicier.

Add 3/4 cup grated cheddar cheese.

3/4 cup grated monterey jack cheese.  Mix well.

Add to a sprayed baking dish.  You can make this dish ahead of time and cover and put in the fridge.  This is what I did.  When you are ready to bake it take it out of the fridge an hour or so before you want to put it in the oven.

Before baking add some more of the cheddar cheese on top.

And some extra monterey jack cheese too.  Place in a preheated 350 oven and bake for 30-35 minutes until lightly browned and bubbly.

Now enjoy this great dip.

Easy Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe

2 cups shredded cooked chicken

8 oz softened cream cheese

1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce

1 cup grated cheddar cheese

1 cup monterey jack cheese

Preheat oven to 350 bake for 30-35 minutes. 

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Dip

Opening week of football season calls for some yummy game day treats.  I found the recipe for this great dip and had to try it. If you like apples and caramel you will love it.  The recipe is so easy you won't miss any of the game putting it together. 

I served the dip with vanilla wafers but could use graham crackers or even apple slices.  

I would suggest keeping these ingredients so you could put this together when you need a quick dish.

Start with a softened 8 oz brick of cream cheese

Add one can apple pie filling

1/2 cup caramel sauce

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix it all together well.  I used my hand mixer and it broke the apples from the pie filling up really well.

Place in a heat safe dish.  Place in a preheated 350 oven and bake for 10-15 minutes.  You just want it heated through well.  It is good both warm and when it cools off.  It also reheats well.  

Enjoy your game day and your game day eats.

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Dip Recipe

8 oz cream cheese softened
20 oz apple pie filling
1/2 cup caramel sauce
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 and bake for 10-15 minutes.

Banana Nut Cookies

Usually my go to recipe when I have over ripe bananas has been banana nut bread, but I found this recipe for banana nut cookies and they will be my new go to recipe.  They taste like banana nut bread.  They get softer the longer they sit and you can freeze them.  I have a bag of them in my freezer right now.  It's nice having cookies in the freezer.  You can bake a couple when you want something sweet without having a whole recipe that you just "have" to eat. 

I know you can't smell them but it even smells like banana nut bread here. 

I bet you have everything you might need to make these cookies.

Melt one stick butter until it turns a little brown and smells nutty.  I have a hard time knowing how long is long.

Add 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar.

Add the sugars to the melted butter.

Mix well and let cool for a few minutes.

Add to the bowl of a mixer.  Add 2 teaspoons vanilla

one egg

1/2 cup sour cream

3/4 cup mashed ripe bananas about 2 large bananas.

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour.  Mix well.

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

1/2 cup chopped walnuts.  You can put pecans if you like.

Mix well.

It looks like banana nut bread.

Scoop out on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Place in a preheated 350 oven and bake for 10-12 minutes.  Do not over bake.

Then enjoy your cookies.

Banana Nut Cookie Recipe

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts

Preheat oven to 350.  Bake 10-12 minutes.

Broccoli Pasta Salad

This is a different take on the broccoli salad that you are use to.  So if you want to try something different, but something that is very easy to make, give this recipe a try. It is also good the next day. 

It is a very pretty salad.

Very simple ingredients.

Start with 1 head of broccoli cut into very small pieces.  You will also want to cut away the hard stems.

Cook 4 cups bow tie pasta which is about 1/2 of a box.

Chop up about 7 sweet mini peppers in a variety of colors.

1/3 cup dried cranberries

Add the pasta to the veggies.

Now pour in about half a bottle of Kraft Three Cheese Ranch Dressing. After it has sat for a while in the fridge you will need to add some more because the pasta will soak it up.

The beauty of this recipe is you don't have to mix up the dressing you can pour it from the bottle.  I found this at Publix.

Add some salt

And pepper

Toss well to mix the dressing into the salad.  Cover and store in the fridge until ready to serve.

Before serving add the slivered almonds.

Toss well.  It is now ready to eat.

Broccoli Pasta Salad Recipe

About 7 sweet mini peppers in various colors
1 head chopped broccoli
1/3 cup dried cranberries
4 cups cooked bow tie pasta
3/4 cup to 1 cup Three Cheese Ranch Dressing
salt and pepper
Slivered almonds