Buffalo Chicken Tacos with Bleu Cheese Slaw

Welcome to football Sunday! 

I have the perfect recipe for your Sunday Night Football party tonight.  

Just put some chicken in a slow cooker, so you can enjoy this beautiful afternoon and 

just add the fixings for the game tonight.  

Just start with a package of chicken tenders, this was 1.75# in the slow cooker with 

1 cup of chicken broth along with 

1 tbsp minced garlic, 

1 tsp of onion powder and 

fresh ground black pepper. 

Let this cook for 3-5 hours on high. 

And the chicken was cooked. 

From the slow cooker to the plate for shredding. 

Juicy tender meats shred so easily after a few hours in the slow cooker. 

My new go-to starting ground for dinner. 

When in doubt, throw some meat in a slow cooker and I'll figure out the rest later. 

The chicken was placed back in the slow cooker, 

be sure to drain the cooking broth first. 

About 1/2 cup of Hot Sauce and 1/2 stick of butter were added to sauce things up a bit. 

Stirred it all up a bit and kept it on low until we were ready to eat.  

The ultimate topping for these tacos is bleu cheese slaw. 

Perfect combination of familiar flavors and textures.  

All you need to do is stir up 3 simple ingredients...

3 cups of shredded cabbage, 

1 cup of bleu cheese dressing and 

1/2 cup of bleu cheese crumbles.

RECIPE:

Ingredients:

1.75# of chicken tenders

1 cup of chicken broth

1 tbsp minced garlic

1 tsp of onion powder

Fresh ground black pepper

1/2 cup of Hot Sauce

1/2 stick of butter

Soft taco shells

BLEU CHEESE SLAW

3 cups of shredded cabbage, 

1 cup of bleu cheese dressing and 

1/2 cup of bleu cheese crumbles

Celery for garnish

Directions:

Cook the chicken in the slow cooker on high for 3-5 hours or low for 5-7 hours along with the broth, garlic, onion and pepper. 

Shred the chicken, pour out the cooking broth. 

Add the chicken back to the slow cooker, top with hot sauce and butter. 

Leave in slow cooker on low until ready to eat. 

For the slaw, top 3 cups of cabbage with bleu cheese dressing and crumbles. 

Assemble the tacos by placing the chicken in the taco, topping with the slaw and garnishing with celery. 

Bacon Bleu Burgers topped with Herb and Carmelized Onion Mayo

Ok, fine, the cat is out of the bag.

We don't always eat healthy...

But, when we do indulge, we are sure to save it for ourselves, uh, protect our children from it. Yeah, right, that's what we do.

Truth be told, it was a rare occasion when all three kids were gone and when I asked Jerry what he wanted for dinner he said steaks or burgers.

No brainer for me...Burgers it is!

I enjoy a good steak, when someone else prepares it for me, but I'm no connoisseur of selecting or preparing a good steak, so I'd rather leave that to the professionals.

Besides, there are so many good fun things to do with burgers!

And a steak wouldn't leave me with much to share with y'all.

It didn't take long to scan my mental burger wish list and come up with these amazing babies...Bacon Bleu Burgers.

And, here Jerry just thought he was getting plain-Jane burgers…boy was he wrong! 

Starting with the most obvious AND delicious ingredient

fried up 4 slices of heaven, uh, I mean bacon. 

Crumbled the bacon into a bowl with the 1# ground beef and about a cup of crumbled bleu cheese. 

Also added 1 tsp of seasoning salt, which was completely unnecessary.  

Combine all of that deliciousness. 

Divide into 4 patties and throw on to grill (or grill pan, as the case may be). 

While the burgers were cooking, sliced up some leftover onion. 

Thought that some caramelized onions would be a nice topper. 

I was right!!! 

They cooked down and browned right up! 

Another fabulous topping could be some herbed mayo.  

Snipped some fresh basil and parsley from my deck,

Gave them a rough chop and mixed them into about a cup of mayo.  

Nice fresh condiment to compliment the burger. 

(The left over onions were mixed in for an even better sauce!)

Here is my burger, with the onions mixed right in the mayo…

(See how Jerry gets the fancy plate too!)

So fabulous!  

RECIPE:

Yield: 4 - .25 lb burgers

Ingredients:

4 slices of bacon

1# ground beef 

1 cup of crumbled bleu cheese

Half of an onion - sliced

1 cup mayo

handful of fresh herbs (basil and parsley)

Directions:

Cook and crumble bacon. 

Combine bacon, bleu cheese and ground beef. 

Divide into 4 burgers and grill until done. 

Brown the onion for a burger topper or mayo ingredient. 

Chop up fresh herbs and stir into mayo.