what's cooking wednesday - buffalo chicken soup

Tucked in amongst the various parcels we received this Christmas from my Mom was a bottle of wing sauce from that famous wing place across the border, Honeys. Now I love the taste of chicken wings, but who wants to go through the hassle of making them at home? Wait that sounded vaguely infomercial-ish. Sorry about that folks, Ron Popeil has not, I repeat, has not hijacked this blog. Basically I was wondering what on earth I could use this sauce for besides wings. Behold, I give you.....



Buffalo Chicken Soup

1 small onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, chopped
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup chicken broth
2 cups diced, cooked chicken
1/4 - 1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce to taste
4 oz velveeta, cubed
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp celery salt
1/2 tsp garlic salt

In a saucepan over medium high heat, saute onions and celery in butter until soft. Stir flour into pan. slowly whisk in milk and broth. Stir in rest of the ingredients and simmer over medium low heat, stirring occasionally until the cheese is melted.

Recipe Notes: If you're making this for the first time I highly recommend starting with a little bit of wing sauce and adjusting up from there. I doubled the recipe, but didn't double the wing sauce and Mike found it to be a bit too much, but he's a self proclaimed wimp when it comes to spicy foods. I made only two changes beyond that. One, there was no celery because I didn't have any. It was fine without it, in fact I would recommend skipping it all together. Also I grated up some old cheddar and used that instead of the velveeta. Again, because I didn't have any in the house. I'd say it was a hit since Mike was already asking when we were going to have it again.

What is What's Cooking Wednesday and how can I play?

What's cooking Wednesday was born out of a desire to get out of that what's for dinner rut. Playing is easy, on Wednesday post a recipe that has been tried and tested by you and then pop over here and add your name to the Mr. Linky. When entering your name also add the name of the recipe in brackets and make sure you link to your What's Cooking Wednesday post and not just your blog's front page. And don't forget to link back here, the home of What's Cooking Wednesday.

So for example I would write Shan (Speedy Chicken Stir Fry) in the name section. For the URL section I would post this: http://shanrev.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-cooking-wednesday-speedy-chicken.html

I'll let you in on a little secret. Much to Kaffy's chagrin, my WCW recipes are almost never made on a Wednesday. So feel free to cook and photograph whenever you have time and join us posting on Wednesday.