Family of Walls

This is a blog about a loving family that has since scattered across the country (soon to be five states). We are a goofy bunch. The adventures that we have on each of our different paths create great stories that we all love to share with each other. Now with this blog I hope that you can enjoy them too.

Friday, August 07, 2009

Chicken Wings as per Marty's Request

Hey, Marty, here's the recipe for chicken wings the way we made them all those years when you were growing up. We had two main recipes:

On the Grill:
You can grill them on medium heat (spray the grill with Pam first) with my medium spice on all sides (coat with olive oil first so the spice will stick). Grill 5 minutes on one side and then turn. Coat the top of the wings with your favorite BBQ sauce (I add several tablespoons of Cookie's Hot Wing Sauce to whatever BBQ sauce I have on hand to kick it up) to the exposed side and after 5 minutes turn again and grill on both sides for two minutes to caramelize the sauce.

Here's the traditional oven recipe:
3 pounds chicken wings, thawed and cut into pieces. Discard the little tiny wing thingies.
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon Bing's Medium spice
vegetable oil in your favorite skillet between 1/8 and 1/4 inch deep on medium heat

Directions:
Put oil in skillet and turn on high heat until it warms up. Then reduce to medium. Turn on oven to 350. Rinse the wings in cold water. Mix the flour and spices together in a cereal bowl. Dredge the wings one at a time in the flour-spice mixture until coated. Place the coated wing in the heated oil skillet and do the next wing until all wings are dredged. Fry wings 2 minutes a side, careful not to burn them. When fried on both sides, add wings to a cake pan. Continue frying until all the wings are fried on both sides. Put the cake pan with the wings in the oven one layer thick (i.e. not on top of each other.). Turn after 10 minutes. After 20 minutes coat wings with your favorite BBQ sauce (I add a couple of tablespoons of Cooikies Hot Wing sauce to regular BBQ sauce). Stick under broiler in oven for a few minutes to caramelize the sauce. Turn and caramelize the other side. Serve immediately.

Misc:
-3 pounds of wings will feed 4 people. For a crowd of males and females I figure 6 per person. If all males 9 per person.
-You can buy frozen wings at the grocery store already cut into the little pieces. This saves some work and they are often the same price or less than buying fresh from the meat market.
-If you buy frozen wings take out of the freezer the number you want the day before and put them in the fridge. They'll be mostly thawed by the time you are ready 24 hours later.
-Don't make these wings unless you want people to rave and oooh and awwwww at your miraculous ability.

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2 Comments:

At 2:15 AM , Blogger Dr. Bing said...

A disadvantage of writing a recipe on this blog is that I get hungry for what I'm writing about. So we had to have Chicken wings after writing this. It was a hot, muggy August day so we did it on the grill. I used Medium Hardy's BBQ sauce and they were a bit hot but not too bad. The Iowa Sweet corn was to die for as was the Farmer's Market Cucumber Salad, which I'll tell you about in a separate blog. The garlic bread off the grill wasn't bad either. Even the baked potato hit the spot as did the Diet Coke with Hershey's choc. Sorry you missed our summer Iowa meal.

 
At 8:50 PM , Blogger Fritz said...

Wings were a hit dad! Thanks!

 

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