A Great Summer's Night Meal

Buffalo Chicken Skewers

Homemade Coleslaw

The summer is usually the time for friends, family and of course grilling. One of the easiest things to do on a grill is skewers. There are meat skewers, vegetable skewers and seafood skewers. I found a great recipe for buffalo chicken skewers. I wanted to add some shrimp to my meal, so I decided to do buffalo shrimp skewers too. The skewers have vegetables with them like celery and tomatoes. Our family likes onions so I added onions to the skewers. I marinated the chicken in the buffalo sauce  overnight in the fridge and the shrimp 30 minutes before i put them on the grill . These were such good skewers that my dad keeps asking me when I am going to make them again!

As I researched side items for buffalo style foods one of the sides that was mentioned in almost everything I read, was coleslaw.  So I found an easy homemade coleslaw recipe. The recipe just called for cabbage, not a specific kind. So I used Napa cabbage which worked just fine, except I decided to drain it a little before mixing everything together. It was a really good coleslaw! Even if you don't like coleslaw, I would encourage your to try this one! It was a mix between sweet and salty. Just try it!!


What is a meal without dessert!?! For dessert, I made a super easy crock pot cherry cobbler! Now you can choose whatever fruit you want, just in case you don't care for cherries. It was so simple that it is something we made last for a couple days! It was perfect with a scoop of ice cream! This was a great dessert to make late morning or mid-afternoon and enjoy that night! One of the things that I had to adjust was we did not have a 5 qt crock pot, but a double crock pot that had 2, 2.5 qt pots. So it was easy to split the recipe between the two pots.

Crock Pot Cherry Cobbler

 Now this sounds like a perfect summer evening meal! Next up on the blog post lineup, blueberry angel food cake bars!

Enjoy!

-Kym's Kitchen

Here are the recipes:


Buffalo Chicken Skewers 
(from Jamie Dean; foodnetwork.com)

Ingredients:
1 pound chicken tenders, cut into 1-inch cubes
1/3 cup Buffalo wing sauce
Cooking spray
About 30 bite-size pieces celery (about 5 stalks)
About 30 grape tomatoes
Blue cheese dressing, for serving

Directions:

1. Combine the chicken and Buffalo wing sauce in a large bowl. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

2. Spray a grill rack with cooking spray and preheat the grill to medium high.
3. Thread the chicken, celery and tomatoes onto skewers.
4. Grill, covered, until the chicken is cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side.
5. Serve with blue cheese dressing.

** To make the shrimp skewers, follow the same directions except only marinate them 30 min before grilling them **



Homemade Coleslaw

Ingredients:
6 cups cabbage, shredded
1 cup carrots, shredded
1 cup mayo
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1 tsp celery seed
1/4 cup sugar
Salt and Pepper (to taste)

Directions:
1. In a large bowl, combine the carrots and cabbage.
2. In a smaller bowl, combine: mayo, sugar, vinegar, salt, pepper, and celery seed.
3. Toss cabbage with dressing and serve. 



Crock Pot Cherry Cobbler 
(from: http://www.food.com/recipe/crock-pot-cherry-cobbler-49912) 

Ingredients:

2 (21 ounce) cans cherry pie filling 

1 (18 1/4 ounce) package yellow cake mix, dry 

1/4 cup butter, soften 

1/2 cup chopped pecans 

Directions: 

1. Pour pie filling into 5 qt crock pot; spread evenly.

2. In a large bowl, combine dry cake mix with butter until it is crumbly. 

3. Sprinkle cake mix over pie filling. 

4. Sprinkle with nuts. 

5. Turn on crock pot to low and cover and cook 3-4 hours. 6 Serve warm.

** The nuts can be optional if you would like**