1. 02 February 2010 · 09:51 PM ·

    Taco 015: Buffalo Wing Tacos


    photo: Premshree Pillai

    Were it not for food blogs, I probably would not know that the Super Bowl was coming up/existed. Honestly, if you told me you were having a party to “watch the big game” this weekend, I would assume you were watching Olympic something-or-other. American football is just not my thing. However, there are food blogs, I read them, and this is a time when people eat Buffalo Wings (and dips, and sweets… but mostly wings)

    I have never actually eaten a legit buffalo wing. Fact that I write a taco blog aside, I am no real fan of eating with my fingers. Add ooey-gooey sauce and no pile of napkins is high enough to account for my sudden onset of daintiness. Surely this is a primal pleasure for some - as, perhaps, is eating meat straight from the bone of an animal - but I decline.

    That said, in my day, I have eaten about eleventy-thousand Morningstar Farms Wings. I probably those things monthly in college. (Yum.) What I am saying is that I know at least a little bit about the concept of the buffalo.

    All of this brings us to tonight’s taco: A veggie buffalo wing taco. Using not Morningstar “wings” which are not ooey-gooey but rather crumbly and breaded, but instead the considerably ooey-gooey-er Gardein brand. (These are made in Canada so, I guess, thematic for your Olympic party also?)

    Admittedly, it is a silly thing and I do not think I will make these again, but if you are looking for a taco to eat while watching sport and being terribly American, perhaps these will hit that spot. I think these might be better if they were a wrap/roll-up sort of food that could be skewered on a toothpick and eaten at a party.

    Gardein Buffalo Wing Tacos
    INGREDIENTS
    package of Gardein Buffalo Wings
    bit of blue cheese
    smear of ranch dressing
    several stalks of celery
    tortillas

    PROCEDURE
    1. Heat oven to 400F.
    2. Place wings on baking sheet. Bake 14-17 minutes according to package instructions.
    3. Dice celery to make something you can sprinkle in (or just cut celery sticks if you prefer)
    4. Crumble up the blue cheese you want to use.
    5. To assemble, smear a little ranch on a tortilla, top with wings, sprinkle a little blue cheese, and top with crunchy celery “slaw”


    OK. This is actually just kind of dumb.

    I am running out of ideas.