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COOKING IN COLLEGE
I say dip it, dip it good
BUFFALO CHICKEN DIP Prep time: 1 hour + 5 hours inactive Cook time: 1 hour Servings: 8-10
Chips with a strong dip are the key to your gameday viewing party ROBERT SCARPINITO Copy Chief scarpinito.61@osu.edu When it comes to viewing parties, an arguably strong contender for the most expected food could very well be many bags of chips and a nice, tasty dip. Chips and dip is a fairly universal idea, and it is versatile enough to fit into many diets. For example, cheese is typically used in many dips, either as the central ingredient like in queso dips or as a small addition like in taco-based dips. However, for people who are lactose intolerant or who simply don’t like cheese, there are many dips that don’t require it — like guacamole or hummus. The variety of dips are endless, and nearly anything can be an ingredient in a dip if done well. Fruits — like tomatoes, oranges and mangos for instance — make a great base for some salsas because of their inherent juiciness. Even meats can be used in dips, although they are typically shredded or pulled in some fashion and require some other ingredient, like cream cheese, to be the glue. Flavor profiles of entire meals, like pizza or cheeseburgers, can be captured and emulated through a dip as well. Take this week’s featured recipe as an example; buffalo wings have that distinctly bold kick
1/2 cup water 1 whole chicken (or about 20 ounces canned shred ded chicken, drained) Salt Black pepper Cayenne pepper 16 ounces cream cheese, softened (2 8-ounce packages) 1 cup ranch 3/4 cup hot sauce 1 1/2 cup shredded cheese
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With Saturday’s Ohio State football game at Rutgers, why not bring some buffalo chicken dip to a viewing party for everyone to enjoy?
from the sauce and that inviting texture of the chicken. The wellknown dish is fairly well emulated in this dip through the shredded chicken’s texture and the cheesy yet bold spice from the sauce. The full recipe involves getting a whole chicken and preparing it from scratch, which is fairly easy to fit into a daily schedule because most of the cooking is done through a slow cooker. It’s a fairly low maintenance way to make pulled chicken. However, it’s understandable if
you don’t want to deal with removing the bones from the mixture, so I’ve added some notes that substitutes the whole chicken with some cans of shredded chicken or a rotisserie chicken that you can pull yourself, which essentially leads to the same outcome with less of a time commitment. With Saturday’s Ohio State football game at Rutgers, why not bring some buffalo chicken dip to a viewing party for everyone to enjoy?
In a slow cooker, pour the water in and turn it to high. Dry the chicken using paper towels, and then evenly spread a mixture of salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper on the surface of the chicken. Place the chicken in the slow cooker and wait for at least 5 hours for it to cook. Once the chicken is cooked and tender, start to pull it apart using two forks, and remove as many bones as possible. Drain the chicken, and return it to the slow cooker. (If you’re using cans of shredded chicken instead of starting with a whole chicken, heat up the chicken on the stovetop using a skillet, and then transfer it to a slow cooker.) Take the cream cheese and rip it into smaller pieces. In the slow cooker, stir in the cream cheese, ranch, hot sauce and one cup of the shredded cheese. Turn the slow cooker to low, and sprinkle the rest of the shredded cheese on top of the mixture. Let the mixture cook for one hour. Serve with some chips.
PLAY FROM 4
Another actor in the play is Sara Perry, a first-year MFA student in theatre. She plays Amber, who plays the mean girl archetype in the story. “I’ve had a very interesting experience from reading the play to working on it. When I first read the play, one of the things that’s so powerful about it is that it really starts a dialogue about a subject matter that
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Zak Bainazarov, who plays one of the football players in “Good Kids.”
can be difficult to talk about,” Perry said. “The playwright really presents a lot of stereotypes and myths that we, as a culture, perpetuate and feed into.” The mean girl is just one of several archetypes that plays into the story that Iizuka has created. “You can see these archetypes on stage and everyone can kind of relate to them but on a deeper level, and what makes the playwright so brilliant is that she’s really putting those (archetypes) out there so the audience can identify them and ask really difficult questions about this all-American football player,” Perry said. “He’s a good kid, but he did this horrible thing. So, how do we justify what that says about who he is, where he comes from and our reaction to it as a community?” The height of the play is when all the characters come on stage and get into an argument about whether what happened that night at the party constitutes as sexual assault or as rape. At the end of each performance, the Sexual Assault Response Network of Central Ohio will speak and answer any questions that the audience may have about sexual assault and rape. The play will is set to premiere Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Bowen Theatre located at the Drake Performance and Event Center. The play will run until Nov. 1.
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16th Annual President and Provost’s Diversity Lecture and Cultural Arts Series with WIL HAYGOOD
President Michael Drake and Provost Joseph Steinmetz invite you to attend the sixteenth annual Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series at The Ohio State University. This program offers the campus and the Columbus community opportunities to benefit from some of the most eminent scholars, artists, and professionals who discuss and exemplify excellence through diversity.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER
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Ohio Union | Performance Hall | 1739 N. High Street Award-winning author Wil Haygood, in his highly-anticipated Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, recounts the ferocious, five-day fight in the U.S. Senate over Lyndon Johnson’s 1967 nomination of the first African-American to the United States Supreme Court. In this new portraiture of Marshall, Haygood revives the life an American hero whose NAACP leadership and decades of legal maneuvering brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine that had relegated African Americans to secondclass citizenship. The battle to confirm Marshall’s nomination, vehemently opposed by a powerful band of southern Senators, took place against a backdrop of nationwide urban riots protesting the unequal treatment and living conditions of black Americans. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and the first in his family to earn a college degree, Haygood went on to report for decades for two of the nation’s leading newspapers, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. In
those roles, he witnessed Nelson Mandela’s release, was taken hostage by Somalian rebels, provided extensive coverage of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, traveled with candidate Barack Obama, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In his well-known New York Times bestseller, The Butler: A Witness to History, Haygood recalled the life of a previously unknown White House butler who served eight U.S. presidents and was later an associate producer of its film adaption starring seven Academy Award winners, including Forest Whitaker, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Robin Williams, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, and Oprah Winfrey. Haygood will discuss Marshall’s historic confirmation and his belief in the American court system to end racial injustice. An opportunity to hear this homegrown, nationally-revered writer talk about the civil rights lawyer who successfully argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, is an evening not to be missed.
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments available. Book purchases and signing at conclusion. For more information contact: Colby A. Taylor | taylor.972@osu.edu