Stiney's "Famous" Wings

Friday night was a friend's recital, and I was drafted to help make food for the reception which followed. I went the lazy route, and made chicken wings, which are easy, popular, delicious, and easy.

I have two variants, one of which I've only been making since the Super Bowl this year (it has supplanted the version I learned from my mother), and the other I've been making since I first started cooking, in 2003 or so.

Buffalo Wings
Ingredients:
1 package fresh or defrosted chicken wingettes (these are the separated kind. It is a huge, huge pain in the ass to cut the whole wing into bits, and then you wind up wasting the very tip, unless you save it for stock.)
2/3 cup butter
1/2 cup Sriracha sauce
Salt (to taste)
Pepper (to taste)
Garlic powder (to taste, optional)

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Place wings into roasting dish (I usually use my Pyrex dish, though I have been known to use aluminum as well). Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
2. Cook wings for 1 hour, until golden brown. Remove from oven.
3. Meanwhile, melt butter, then stir in sriracha sauce.
4. Pour sauce over wings, and mix so that all wings are coated.

Serve with bleu cheese and celery sticks. Eat and enjoy! The sauce for this was modified from the Frank's Red Hot Sauce recipe. I was going to make buffalo wings and asked if Digital Paper Revolution had "hot sauce" without specifying what kind I meant. The answer was yes, but there was no Frank's Red Hot sauce to be found. He had sriracha sauce, so I decided to made do rather than run to Shaw's. Sriracha sauce is significantly hotter, so I doubled the butter. The sauce is more flavorful (and more buttery!), and sticks to the wings better.


The other variation my mother made up, and is delicious and even easier. This would be easy to modify, as well, but I find it so simple and easy that I haven't experimented with it at all.

Soy Sauce Chicken Wings
Ingredients:
1 package fresh or defrosted chicken wingettes (these are the separated kind. It is a huge, huge pain in the ass to cut the whole wing into bits, and then you wind up wasting the very tip, unless you save it for stock.)
Soy sauce (to taste)
Salt (to taste)
Pepper (to taste)
Garlic powder (to taste, optional)

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Place wings into roasting dish (I usually use my Pyrex dish, though I have been known to use aluminum as well). Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
2. Cook wings for 1 hour, until golden brown. Remove from oven.
3. Pour sauce over wings, and mix so that all wings are coated.

Eat and enjoy!

Feel free to do with these what you will. A link back to this blog would be awesome, though.

Election Weirdness

I was in 7-11 last night, picking up NyQuil for my ailing roommate, when I saw the weirdest election thing ever.

They have blue Obama cups. They have red McCain cups. And they have cream-colored Undecided/Independent cups.

I kid you not.

I hope you all registered to vote!

Don't Forget to Register to Vote!

US Citizens! If you aren't registered to vote at your current address, make sure you are! Deadlines for some states have already passed, and others are rapidly approaching. (I need to mail mine in before 10/15. It's been in my bag for over a month, for want of a stamp. Yes, very delinquent of me.)

The most important thing is that everyone votes. I know not everyone reading this will agree with my political opinions, or vote for the same people as me, but you should vote!

Also, make sure to research the candidates running for Senate, House, and lower levels, and to consider any issues that will be on the ballot. I know MA has three questions this year, and I already know how I'm voting on them.

Oops, I almost forgot a title

Two whole months? Geez, I've been negligent.

But also productive! I moved to a beautiful new apartment the weekend of September 1st, so I'm going to give myself a pass on the lack of blog updates. I also have a freshly completed knitting project to show off (because I'm a ham like that).

On the basis that my boss has no idea I have a blog, I present to you:

Saartje's Bootees (as knit by me):







My boss is having his first baby, and the due date is November 1st. So I decided to make these, which I've thought were adorable for ages. They are a quick knit, though I found the strap instructions really confusing.

Yarn: Rowan RYC Cashsoft 4-Ply in Mosaic (main color) and Dive.
Needles: US 1 Clover Bamboo DPNs (It's knit flat, but I don't have straight or circular 1's, so I made do.

Yarn and buttons both came from A Good Yarn in Brookline. (I'm going to miss living 500 yards away...)

I hope they like the booties, and that they fit. And they don't unravel. I always fear so much when gifting knits.