Buffalo Wings
5 pounds chicken wings
1 bottle Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Wing Sauce
2 quarts peanut oil, for frying
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cornstarch
4 stalks celery, cut into thin sticks
2 large carrots, peeled and cut into thin sticks
Blue Cheese Dressing
1. Remove wingtips and separate remaining wings into two pieces each.
2. Heat oven [...]
Blue Cheese Dressing
5 ounces crumbled blue cheese
6 tablespoons buttermilk
6 tablespoons sour cream
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
4 teaspoons rice wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
ground black pepper, to taste
1. Mash blue cheese and buttermilk in small bowl with fork until mixture resembles cottage cheese with small curds. Stir in sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, and garlic salt. Season to [...]
Kielbasa over Pasta w/ Fake Vodka Sauce
A spicy twist on plain-jane pasta. Vodka sauce is typically a creamy tomato sauce with about a cup of vodka added. The vodka gives depth to the acidity of the tomato sauce. This recipe is based on a cream sauce without vodka, but uses red pepper flakes to add the missing flavor depth.
1 pound kielbasa
8 [...]
Grilled Banana Splits
The perfect easy and tasty dessert to end your cookout.
4 large firm-ripe bananas, skins washed with detergent to remove any residue
1 bar (4 oz) milk chocolate, broken into small pieces
⅓ tablespoon cinnamon
1 pint ice cream
1 cup heavy whipping cream, lightly sweetened to taste and whipped
¼ cup chopped toasted walnuts
3 maraschino cherries
Prepare a gas or charcoal [...]
Fried Oysters (and Breading 101)
Around here, fried oyster dinners are aplenty. Firehouses and churches sponsor them in the months with an “r” in them. John and I used to attend them regularly with his parents. But mom and dad have moved to Delaware, and we don’t feel like waiting in line for over an hour for [...]
Four Down, Sixty-Three to Go
John installed the ceiling fan in the sitting room today. It went off without a hitch for once. While going over the instructions for the wireless wall switch, he realized that it used an unusual battery size that we didn’t have on hand, so we were going to end up running to [...]
A Recipe for Thanksgiving
John and I have 12 guests for Thanksgiving every year, and we occasionally have some “drop ins” too. I’ve just about got Thanksgiving down to a science; this how I do it.
November 1st
If you’re having a fresh turkey this year, place your order. (I just placed mine this morning, as a matter of [...]
