Sweet Tea Oven-Fried Chicken Sliders w/Jalapeño Cheddar Corn Slaw + Crispy Onions.

Could my recipe names be any longer?

Actually, there is also a little chipotle honey drizzle, but somehow I stopped myself from throwing that in there too.

I have issues. Issues with trying to stuff way too much good stuff in one itty bitty slider bun. I had all these flavors going through my head, and then I just couldn’t stop with just one. The slaw is must, the crispy onions are the perfect topper and while the chipotle honey drizzle is not a must, it is pretty darn good.

It’s a little sweet, a little spicy and all things good, spring/summer and barbecue cookin. Although, I will never understand why fried chicken is consider a barbecue summertime food. I mean, it’s fried (or in this case oven-fried) and has nothing to do with the grill? Who knows and who cares, it’s a southern classic and I don’t see many people complaining about it.

Ok, but sweet tea? How do we feel about it?

Personally tea of any kind of makes me gag. I know that is horrible and a little weird, but no matter how many times I try to force myself to drink it, and try to like it, I just can’t.

Same with coffee. Well, coffee does not make me gag, I just do not like it. It’s probably because I have only ever tried it black, very BLACK. It’s the way my dad drinks it, so that’s just what I went for.

I am thinking of trying ice coffee this summer though. I think I could really benefit from some caffeine these days.

Anyway, using sweet tea for brining chicken, that is one way I can handle tea.

And kind of fun too. I just like telling people, “oh, it’s Sweet Tea Oven-Fried Chicken”. It just sounds good… or at least I think it does.

Sooo, these sliders kind of have a lot going on, and yeah, they are a tad high maintenance for a slider.

BUT they are worth it. You can make things easier on yourself by prepping pretty much everything in advance if you wish. Perfect for Memorial Day which is somehow only a week from today.

Memorial Day already? How is that even possible? Asher only has nine days left of school and then it is summer vacay for her. I have to say, I am pretty jealous of all the kids in school that are now heading into summer. That whole mindset of summer – no school, no homework, no set plans and nothing but time, swimming and warm summer nights sounds pretty incredible.

Sometimes I feel like I skipped a little too fast into adulthood, but then not really because I am so happy with where I am at. I wouldn’t  do anything differently.

Well, that and I can’t actually sit without doing something for more than like fifteen minutes.

After fifteen minutes I start to get bored and have to come up with something productive to do. So while the thought of being bored and without a care in the world sounds kind of nice, in reality I could never actually do it.

What I can do is pile a lot of things on a slider.

Actually, I did have slider size buns, but by the time I piled on all the topping these things were kind of huge. In a good way, of course.

Really though, you have to make these sometime this late spring/summer. They are just the perfect warm weather, feel good kind of food.

Told you, a little big for sliders, but SO GOOD!