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How to Make Chicken Wings

February 3, 2021 by Laura Leave a Comment

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Here’s how to make chicken wings at home. You’ll wonder why you never tried this before!

Truly, this is as easy as the “Just Dump Some Sauce on Some Chicken” idea I shared a while ago. I’ll share a recipe below, but if you don’t even want to read that far let me just give you the simple instructions now:

How to Make Chicken WingsYum

  1. Put chicken wings in a crock pot. Who cares if they are still frozen?
  2. Dump on some sauce. Use whatever sauce you have. The final plops of three different bottles will work just fine.
  3. Cook this on low for a few hours.
  4. Eat the chicken as it falls off the bones.
  5. Smile and wipe yo mouth.

Chicken wings seem to be something we only order at restaurants. They seem like one of those hard-to-make special foods when in fact, all you have to do is dump some sauce on some chicken and let your crock pot do the rest.

I love fun food like this. {Sheds a tear.}

Oh, and if you serve your Chicken Wings with some Homemade Sweet Potato Fries, you will make your family feel like they’ve gone to a restaurant when in fact you’ve all stayed home and spent a total of $5.78 to feed your entire family.

Other great side dishes to serve with your Chicken Wings

  • A tossed salad
  • A steamed vegetable (such as green beans, peas, broccoli, cauliflower)
  • A roasted vegetable
  • Cream Cheese Corn
  • Honey’d carrots
  • Baked beans

How to Make Chicken Wings

How to Make Chicken Wings
 
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Author: Laura
Serves: 4-8
Ingredients
  • 2-5 pounds of chicken wings
  • 8-16 ounces of sauce (barbecue, teriyaki, sweet and sour, anything you like!)
Instructions
  1. Put chicken and sauce in a crock pot.
  2. Cook on low heat for 6 hours or until chicken is falling off the bone.
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I wish I could give more specific instructions but truly there are no perfect measurements for such a simple recipe idea. Just put your chicken in your crock pot. Cover it with sauce. Let your crock pot do the rest. You’re going to love this!

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Best Dips for Your Super Bowl Party

January 22, 2020 by Laura 2 Comments

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Here are the Best Dips for your Super Bowl Party.

I watch football exactly once each year. Scratch that. I eat dip and pretend to watch football exactly once each year.

At our house, we’re a little bit more into soccer (actual futbol, thank you and good night). But we all still love a good Super Bowl party because of the fun it offers with friends. As it turns out, a lot of people really like watching football. They scream a whoop at the TV just like I do when I’m on the sidelines watching a good soccer game.

Sometimes they’re veins bulge at their neck and their faces turn funny colors. Football games bring out a side of my friends I don’t see on a regular day. So perhaps I could say that I like to watch my friends watch football. While I’m eating dip…

Dip is the reason for the season. Super Bowl parties were invented so people could eat dip!! I’m just sure of it.

Football lovers and Chip Dip lovers – unite! This fun event provides a win-win for all of us! (Not that I can guarantee that your favorite team will win. But the dips – we all win with dip. Heh.)

Best Dips for Your Super Bowl PartyYum

  1. Easy White Queso – My Current Favorite!
  2. Simple Bean and Cheese Salsa Dip
  3. Creamy Chocolate Fruit Dip
  4. Creamy Italian Veggie Dip
  5. Cream Cheese Salsa Dip
  6. Bacon Ranch Chip Dip
  7. French Onion Dip
  8. Bacon Tomato Dip
  9. Black Bean Salsa
  10. Easy Veggie Dip
  11. Healthier Cheese Dip 
  12. Hot Spinach and Artichoke Dip
  13. Nacho Cheese Pretzel Dip
  14. Easy Guacomole
  15. Easy Cheesy Bean Dip
  16. Hamburber Sauerkraut Dip
  17. Cream Cheese Fruit Dip

What are your favorite Super Bowl snacks? Who loves dip as much as I do?!

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Real Food Bacon Ranch Chip Dip

February 4, 2016 by Laura 7 Comments

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Bacon Ranch Chip Dip

I was looking through Pricematerz.com this week to see what produce I could get for great prices, and what do I see? Oodles of sale prices for chips, frozen pizza, and crackers. It must be Super Bowl Week.

I’d forgotten all about it. For us right now it’s Blizzard Week, and we are in preparation for Youth Rally Weekend (where our church hosts 120+ teens for a fun and spiritually encouraging weekend). Therefore, I’m very much out of football mode. This is not such a shocker, since I’m always out of football mode and don’t even know who’s playing this weekend. Denver? And some other team? Forgive me.

Now that I’m (only barely) caught up on what most Americans are thinking about this week, I’ve decided to share a new chip dip recipe in case you want to make this for your Super Bowl party. It includes bacon, sour cream, cream cheese, ranch dressing mix, and shredded cheese – so you know that means it is delicious. Since the recipe is coming from me – so you know that means it is easy.

Our family tested it with corn chips, potato chips, and baked tortilla chips. We all preferred a different chip – which basically means that anything goes.

Why do we have so many chips on hand? Oh my goodness, you do not want to see my stash of chips right now. It has just a little something to do with my preparations for Youth Rally Weekend where somewhere between 15-20 teenage boys will be staying at our house from Friday-Sunday. They’ll eat their meals at the church building, but it’s so weird that they are all hungry again when they come back here for the night. It’s like they’re normal or something.

For this dip recipe, you’ll need this Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix recipe. Make it by the jar-full because that mix is what makes the world go ’round.

Real Food Bacon Ranch Chip Dip

Real Food Bacon Ranch Chip Dip
 
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Author: Laura
Serves: 10
Ingredients
  • 1 pound bacon
  • 8 ounces softened cream cheese
  • 3 Tablespoons homemade ranch dressing mix
  • 2 cups shredded cheese (I used colby jack)
  • 2 cups sour cream
Instructions
  1. Cut bacon into ½-inch strips.
  2. Cook the bacon to your liking, then drain.
  3. Stir cooked bacon into a bowl with all other ingredients.
  4. Spread mixture into a 2-quart baking dish.
  5. Bake in a 400° oven for 20-25 minutes or until dip is bubbly and hot.
  6. Serve with corn chips, potato chips, or baked tortilla chips.
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Easy Real Food Bacon Ranch Chip Dip

Are you in Super Bowl Week mode? Or Blizzard Week mode? Or Something Else Week mode? Or all/none/some of the above?

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15 Delicious Dips for Your Super Bowl Party

January 30, 2015 by Laura 6 Comments

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As is always the case this time of year, I have absolutely no idea who is playing in the Super Bowl. If it mattered to my husband it would matter to me. But it doesn’t, so it doesn’t. Make sense?

What does matter to me is the fun night of fellowship we will have at our friend’s house during the game. Matt and I actually do enjoy watching the occasional game of football. The big buffet of fun foods never hurt my feelings either. I’m all about the dips at a Super Bowl party. I have several I’m thinking of making to share. Here are some of our favorites:

15 Delicious Dip Recipes

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Black Bean Salsa
 – Five healthy ingredients, it’s like a flavorful meal all by itself.

Cream Cheese Salsa Dip – This is the easiest dip on the planet (2 ingredients!) and everyone loves it.

Easy Veggie Dip – Oh my cucumbers. This is the very best way to enjoy raw veggies. It stirs together in about two minutes.

Healthier Cheese Dip (a Velveeta/Rotel Knock-Off) – Who needs “processed cheese product” when you can have the real deal?!

Hot Spinach and Artichoke Dip – Just like the kind you pay too much money for at a restaurant.

Nacho Cheese Pretzel Dip – Just do it. This is amazing.

Spicy Avocado Dip –  My family devours avocados when we quickly mix this up. Hello, healthy goodness.

Easy Cheesy Bean Dip – This also only includes five delicious ingredients. Easy and healthy – that’s how I roll.

Hamburber Sauerkraut Dip – Even if you don’t like kraut, you will love this. It is incredibly good.

Cream Cheese Fruit Dip – This is like whipped heaven in a bowl, perfect with apples and strawberries.

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But there’s more! A big part of healthy snacking is healthy dipping. I love that dips can add nutrition as well as help us get the veggies down. In our newest eBook, 227 Healthy Snacks, we’ve included several new dip recipes like:

  • Super Easy Hummus
  • Green Chili Dip
  • Fresh and Quick Salsa
  • Spicy Sausage Chip Dip
  • Spicy Lentil Dip

227 Healthy Snacks

Not only will you find these 5 awesome new dip recipes, you’ll find 222 more healthy snack ideas and recipes too. From bars to muffins to hearty cookies to fruit and veggie snacks, you will be totally equipped with loads of healthy snacks to keep your and your family full and nourished! Get all the details about this book here.

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Menu Plan for the Week

February 6, 2011 by Laura 10 Comments

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French Toast made with Cinnamon Swirl Bread

The no-good flu bug has hit our house. Fever, body aches, coughing, no energy, no appetite, no good. Elias and I were down for several days last week and are just now starting to feel almost normal(ish)…just in time for Malachi to wake up with a fever today. :(  Matt’s been holding down the fort. What would I do without him?

Since Elias and I have been lying around together for days (being pitiful), he helped me with our menu plan for this week. Ah, it would appear that our appetites are coming back. :)

Sunday, February 6
Breakfast cake, fruit
Italian pasta bake, tossed salad, corn
Super Bowl Party at friend’s house – sending Seven (or Nine) Layer Dip and chips  (I’ll be staying home with the sick ones tonight. Someone let me know who wins, will ya?)

Monday, February 7
Simple soaked pancakes, blueberries
Quesadillas, peaches
Venison steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas

Tuesday, February 8
Mini breakfast pizzas, orange slices
Hamburgers, ranch potato wedges, green beans
Chili with cheese, smoothies

Wednesday, February 9
French toast, pears
Salmon patties, creamy mac and cheese, steamed broccoli
Chicken and rice stew, fruit salad

Thursday, February 10
Orange muffins, fried eggs, applesauce
Nachos, apples
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, steamed carrots

Friday, February 11
Crepes with jelly
Beef and cheese burritos, clementines
Homemade pizza pockets, carrot sticks, apples

Saturday, February 12
Homemade poptarts
Leftovers
Lamb roast, carrots, potatoes, gravy

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What ARE the Seven Layers in the Seven Layer Chip Dip?

February 4, 2011 by Laura 73 Comments

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Five women friends and I were standing around after church Wednesday night talking about and planning our upcoming Super Bowl party. If you could have listened in on our conversation, you may have rolled your eyes. Or maybe you would have shrugged along with us? 

“What time does the game start?” “What channel is it on?” “Who’s playing this year?”

Clearly, we are a well informed group of ladies, always keeping up with the latest trends and world events.

One of the girls jumped in excitedly with, “No wait. I’ve got this one.” Then she told us not just one, but both of the teams playing. Very impressive. I can’t for the life of me remember what she said now.   I was just in awe of the fact that one of us actually knew.

We should have stopped talking right that minute, or at least began to focus on the food part of our planning. But no. Instead we had to discuss where we thought the teams were from. Why? Why would we do that?

It would appear that we don’t know our football geography very well. I’m not going to rat anybody out, but somebody thought the Steelers were from California. 

(Just so you know, in case you are also going to a Super Bowl party, the Steelers aren’t…from California. There is no end to the helpful information you can learn while reading this blog. I am always glad to be of service.)

Finally my friends and I moved on to territory we are well informed about:  FOOD.

My pregnant friend who was helping to plan the party suggested hinted BEGGED that someone should really make “that seven layer chip dip thing”. Hey, I’ll make anything for my pregnant friend, since she finally figured out something that sounds good.

In addition to the dip, I’m planning on taking something else fun (suggestions???) in that above pictured  football dish someone loaned me. 

And I could do a Swag Search to find a recipe for Seven Layer Chip Dip Thingy. But you all are so smart and have so many fun ideas…I decided to just ask you.

What seven layers should I layer?  Meat or no meat? Onions or no onions? Never mind. I don’t think she’ll want onions. But she does want avocado. (Don’t you love it when I think out loud?)

I’m afraid with all of your answers I’ll end up with a Twelve Layer Chip Dip Thingy. That will probably be okay though, won’t it? We will, after all, be needing a large container of dip while we visit in the background watch all the commercials thoroughly enjoy the game.

In addition to your Seven Layer Chip Dip ideas…please let us all know if you’re hosting or going to a Super Bowl Party and more importantly…what are ya making to eat??

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