Taking this to heart, and since I'm traveling for rest of the week, I wanted to make the missus a special meal, so she'd miss me a little bit. And, she had a long day at work. Grass fed beef (85:15) burgers with a tomato slice, truffle brie and crispy pancetta on a toasted bun! No pictures because I was too hungry. T
I forgot about the Jack Daniels, thanks for the reminder. We grabbed some ribs at our o.k. attempt at Southern BBQ place. Its in the same outdoor mall as the movie theater. We usually hit the movie theater next town over because it has better parking. Saw Star Wars again. Cousin has a seven year old and I didn't want to sit through Kung Foo Panda.
I made one of my old standby favorites, Mac & cheese with hamburger. And yep I used the "fancy" Velveeta shells and cheese and fancied it up even more with some Ementhaler I had sitting in the fridge.
I was shooting in the dark that time but the JD marinate turned out to be excellent for wings. When oven baking/cooking I use the same technique with ribs (other than the foil wrap), cut the temp in half about half way through, baste and turn every 15-20 minutes until the bone can be pulled clean. The true secret is realizing that the beeping sound in your head is just the timer and not another voice/sound in your head! When the dogs and/or cats gets that glazed over look in their eye's it is time to eat.
^ Hmm. May have to try wings in the oven. I like them occasionally, but missus doesn't like them deep fried. Of course, fancy girl only likes drumettes, leaving me the flat part and gnawing on the wing tips like a cave man! T
I mostly do wings in the oven. The Costco frozen wings are decent. Homemade is better. I'll never do puppies again, they are a huge pain in the butt. The dog before I bought him at 11months, the dog before him was a year old rescue, had another rescue dogs. My youth and adults, perfect dogs. The puppies all pains in the rear, even with professional training.
Wings are best grilled. I never bother frying them. Just add some cajun or BBQ seasoning and throw on the grill. Toss in either BBQ or Buffalo sauce once they are done.
Never oven-fried/baked them, treat yourself, be the mad scientist. You should give it a row but grilling them normally goes "cook faster and cook more, I burned my mouth, more more more!"
Being a natural born Buffalo native makes me a wing expert by birthright. I can say they are best when fried, but I've had some good ones that were baked or grilled. I like them as crispy as possible which is hard to do unless fried. But I don't deep fry anything at home, can't stand the way it makes the whole house smell. I also tend to like plain ole' Buffalo style (Franks' Red Hot sauce and a touch of butter) and dipped in Blue Cheese. It is traditional don't ya know.
Homemade hamburgers. Just boring Kaiser buns, little mayo, tomato from the greenhouse up the street, and for a little kick some teriyaki sauce.
All this wing talk got me hankering. So, since I'm traveling, I hit up a Buffalo Wild Wings with a former colleague. Made it up to Hot BBQ and Hot on their heat scale. Woulda tried Mango Habanero, but saw it too late in their list. I like Tabasco Habanero 'cause it's got a nice bit of sweet from mango/papaya to play off against the heat from the habanero. So, it's not just straight heat. The wings were OK, but I think I can do betterat home. I like the grilled hot wings idea. Never thought of that...T
I've only had their wings a few times even though I have one local to me. The mango habanero was one of my favorite "other" flavors. Not too hot and not too sweet. Around me there are several bars that serve WAY better wings than BWW does. Great now you guys have me hankerin for some wangs too!!
You read my mind! Picked up some oysters to fry for lunch tomorrow (might be a few lost in battle though, oyster war is hell). A light dusting of seasoned APF and some homemade tartar sauce with some sweet potato 'tater tot's that I discovered, happy happy happy!
Almost four and no dinner plan. Going through the junk mail there is lots of coupons, Wendy's, McDonalds, A&W, tempted to get something from one of them
We have a semi-local Mexican fast food place here, Taco Time and they have mexi-fries which are just seasoned tots but they also started carrying sweet potato mexi-fries. I've only tried them once and it may have been a batch not cooked long enough but they were really sort of soggy and limp. I think it's harder in general to get sweet potato fries to the same level of crisp as regular potatoes. Still tasty though but I prefer more crunch.
Just like regular fries sweet potato fries will be limp and soggy when not cooked long enough and like you I prefer my fries and tots extra crispy without being over cooked.
Indeed. There's a pizza place/bar near me that makes cheesy-bacon-jalapeno-tots. Totally ridiculous but totally good too.
