Buffalo Chicken Dip

First, let me say that this is not haute cuisine, not at all gourmet fare. This is jock food for watching sports games and drinking beer. And it's not exactly healthy for you. But for the rare occasion when you have a bunch of people watching the Super Bowl, the World Series or doing a live fantasy football draft (**raises hand**) this is perfect.

To cook the chicken, I cut four thawed chicken breasts roughly into strips and boiled them in plain chicken broth for an hour to an hour and a half or so, until they were cooked through and shredded easily with a couple forks. Crock pot cooking the chicken apparently also works, as does using a rotisserie chicken.

There are several varieties of Frank's Red Hot Sauce - I used the simple Original sauce. I also used about a cup more of shredded cheddar than is called for. For dipping, either a sturdy chip or sticks of celery work well. The entire bottle of Frank's Red Hot is offset by the Ranch and cream cheese, and while the end product is definitely spicy, it is not nearly as spicy as I was expecting.

I got the recipe from the Chowhound cooking boards, and the thread with this recipe also contains many ideas for possible variations.