Buffalo Chicken Sweet Potatoes??

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May 26, 2025

Earlier this year, I had an amazing dinner at my weekly Bible fellowship gathering.

It was a concept that I had seen before but never made because, quite honestly, it seemed a little too “out there”. The fact that I replicated that dinner only two days later says that (at least in my book) this meal was a winner.

May I introduce: buffalo chicken stuffed sweet potatoes!

There are many recipes online for this, but I am going to tell you how I made it.

First, I roasted a whole chicken in the oven and deboned and shredded it. (Easy method: put a whole chicken - breast side down - into my Dutch oven, season well with salt and pepper, put the lid on, and bake at 300 degrees until internal temperature reaches 165+. For frozen or partially frozen chickens, this is approximately 3 hours. For completely thawed chicken, 1.5-2 hours.)

Next, I baked some sweet potatoes. (See note below)

Then, I made some homemade ranch dressing (you can find recipes online for this)

After that, I mixed together

- 9 Tbsp of my favorite hot sauce

- 3 Tbsp of mayonnaise (We prefer homemade mayonnaise)

- 1 Tbsp of homemade ranch dressing

- 1/2 tsp of garlic powder

- 1/2 tsp of salt

I then poured half the sauce over half of the shredded chicken, adding either more chicken or sauce until I got the proportion of meat to sauce that I wanted. This ratio is a personal preference!

I then chopped some green onions and put the chicken/sauce mixture on the stove to warm.

Now for the fun part….

Once the sweet potatoes were done, I cut them open and generously topped them with the warm buffalo chicken.

This recipe would not be complete without sprinkling generous amounts of blue cheese crumbles and green onions over top of the potatoes and drizzling them with extra homemade ranch.

This recipe also works well with russet potatoes. I personally liked the sweet potatoes.

If you don’t like blue cheese, feta is a good substitute. However, I recommend trying it with blue cheese first so that you can impress yourself with your adventurousness.

This meal is great because you can stage it at your convenience and keep it warm until you are ready to eat!

NOTE: For easy, fast "baked" sweet potatoes, wash and prick whole sweet potatoes with a fork. Place them into an instant pot (or other pressure cooker) with ½ cup water. (I like to use my steamer tray to keep the potatoes off the bottom of the pot, but it's not necessary.) Set the pressure setting to HIGH and cook, sealed, for 11 minutes. Quick release the pressure once done.

Happy eating!

Melissa

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For the first time in many years, we’ll be short of turkeys for Thanksgiving. Consistent with our policy of full transparency, here is why. And we’ve been short of beef now for some time. The underlying theme of this explanation is to inform you completely about why and what we’re doing about it. Unlike many businesses, we don’t call up other outfits to supplement ours when we’re short. We figure out how to produce more and until then, simply run behind. Because of that, when we explore new markets, we can’t adjust our inventory instantaneously.We’ve had a couple of incredibly exciting market developments this year. We’ve always tried to experiment with new opportunities when markets request product. You never know which ones will be long term, short term, positive, or negative. Over the years, we’ve given away turkeys when we overproduced due to assuming a certain market opportunity would come through; that’s not financially viable. As a result, we’re pretty careful about expansion. Three years ago, a large corporation in Virginia asked us to supply turkeys and Christmas hams to their 300 employees. We had no idea they would hang with us this long, but here they are, happy and showing unbelievable loyalty. We’ve been reluctant to count on them simply because these kinds of things normally don’t last. But isn’t it exciting and even exhilarating that a big company is buying our kind of turkeys and hams for their employees? The other thing that developed—and these things develop slowly—was Azure Standard asked us to supply them with 1,000 turkeys as a trial to see if their customer base would like them. By the time that deal was formalized, we were too late to order more turkeys and did not have the full number for them, but we we did the best we could. Some of you who are Azure Standard customers will no doubt see our turkeys pop up on their sales platform. When an engine going somewhere wants to hook to us, we always try to at least collaborate in an experiment. That’s where we are; if all are happy, this could be an extremely positive strategic client for us in the future. In the same way, we’ve been contacted by a new internet marketing outfit wanting some of our beef. We’ve agreed to let them have five in 2027. We’re hoping ongoing discussions will lead them to carry our poultry and pork as well—right now they’re only beef. None of this is about building an empire. It is about collaborating with the cutting edge of authentic food and circumventing Big Food, Big Ag, and Big Pharma. Innovation comes in many ways. Polyface perhaps leads the world in the production element. But processing, marketing, and distribution are also undergoing innovation and staying relevant is a daily objective. That some of the most creative significant players in the integrity food movement are asking us to play with them is wonderful. They could just handle industrial organic meat poultry, which doesn’t see pasture and doesn’t enjoy the happiness context of Polyface livestock. But they’re talking to us, and that’s awesome. All innovation carries a ragged edge as it develops, refines, and hopefully becomes efficient over time. Thank you for indulging us the freedom to explore these new venues and to collaborate with some of the best players in the good food movement. As you can imagine, growing and experimenting create their own sore muscles. Being short is not fun for either of us, but be assured it’s not because our animals are sick or we’re getting tired of being farmers. You can laugh at that. It’s because, true to our history, we are committed to putting food worth eating on plates held by friends. We count you as friends; that’s why we’re taking you on this little explanation behind the curtain. Hang in there and thank you, thank you for your loyalty and patronage.

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