football is back!

football is back! and that means football watching food is also back (not that I ever need an excuse to cook/bake), but at least now i'm not the only one chowing down on food every weekend :)

finally got around to making cauliflower buffalo wings, and i'm not really sure it's any healthier than the original, haha, but it sure is tasty. I combined two recipes, one from food and one from alex thomopoulos

Cauliflower Buffalo Wings
Serves 3-4
1 head cauliflower, broken into florets
1 cup flour
2 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp paprika
1 cup water
1/2 cup Frank's original hot sauce
2 tbsp olive oil

Preheat oven to 450F. Whisks together the flour, garlic powder, paprika and water. Dip the cauliflower into the mixture then place on a sprayed baking pan. Pop into the oven for 18 minutes. While those babies cook, combine the hot sauce and the olive oil. After 18 minutes, drizzle the hot sauce mix over the cauliflower and pop back into the oven for another 5-8 minutes. Enjoy with blue cheese dip! *I made the recipe with 1 cup of hot sauce and it was just too sauce-y (read- my nose and eyes were running like crazy)

Blue Cheese dip
Makes about 2 cups

Minced garlic
Sea salt
1 cup sour cream
2/3 cup plain yogurt
Black pepper
4 oz crumbled blue cheese
1 tsp white vinegar

Combine ingredients. Serve with the cauliflower wings or with cut up vegetables (or with actual buffalo wings for that matter, it's just tasty).

I re-purposed the artichoke spinach chicken bake (shredded the chicken) and baked it as a "dip" to serve with olive bread. i would have added more cheese and sour cream/cream cheese if i'd had any, but i guess by default i made it healthy.

I keep trying to remind myself to take a picture of these cookies, but they disappear as soon as they come out of the oven. These are ridiculously good. By far my favorite oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe ever. And the great thing for portion control, I've been keeping the chilled dough in bake ready form and only baking just enough for that day. So instead of all 12 cookies disappearing in one sitting, I still have 2 waiting for me in the fridge and I made the dough on Thursday (for those that know me, this is a real life miracle).

Oh, and the ravens lost...good thing I had good food at least