My friends have far too many parties. I mean, I’m really not complaining when someone offers to let me drink at their house and eat their food, but seriously, I don’t know how they do it. Because I hate having people over, which you should know by now.

But whatever, there was a party for the Olympics Friday night, and it came at a perfect time because I saw this wing recipe on Pinterest that I wanted to try, but wings aren’t something that I’m just gonna pop in the oven for a regular old dinner, so the party was a perfect opportunity to try it out.

I have never made wings before in my life. I leave that honor to the good folks at B-Dubs, because their wings are awesome. Also, they come in wonderful, non-spicy sauces. Which is great for me because I’m a puss and don’t like spicy things.

These wings were super easy. I’m sorry I don’t have more pictures, but they were done and then WHOOSH, packed up and whisked off to the party like freakin Cinderella. So just imagine them in your mind.

Ok, let’s get started with the wings.

You will need:

- 2-3 lbs of wings (I bought two packs; also, may I suggest buying them already pre-separated because separating the drumstick part is a BITCH)
- 4 tbsp Chinese 5 spice
- Chili powder
- Salt

Put the wings in a large bowl and cover with the 5-spice, and salt and chili to taste. I kinda just did a few shakes from each. Whatever. Then cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least an hour, can be left overnight if needed.




When you’re ready to bake, spray two sheet pans w/ cooking spray and preheat oven to 400. Put the wings on the baking sheet, making sure they have space between each and aren’t touching. Bake in the middle rack for 25 mins, and then take out and flip them over. At this point, check on them in 5 minute intervals, because you will have a lot of fat rendering and that fat is likely to burn. Fun times. I probably baked mine for another 7 minutes before I could no longer stand the screeching of my smoke alarm. By the way, did I mention that I have the world’s most sensitive smoke alarm?

While the wings are baking, gather the following:

- 4 tbsp of butter
- 4 tbsp of red curry paste
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- Sriracha sauce
- COMPLETELY FREAKING OPTIONAL UNLESS YOU’RE AN IDIOT LIKE ME AND DIDN’T REALIZE YOU WERE ALMOST OUT OF RED CURRY PASTE AND WERE TOO LAZY TO DRIVE BACK TO THE SUPERMARKET: soy sauce, thai fish sauce

Ok, so by now you can tell I found myself in a little bit of a bind when I went to make the wing sauce. And then I said fuck it, because it’s stupid wing sauce and if it sucks, I’ll just toss them with the barbeque sauce we had in the fridge. So what I ended up doing is the full 4 tbsp of butter, about 2 tbsp of the curry paste, the brown sugar, Sriracha to taste for heat (I probably added ¾ a tbsp), and then I just dumped about 2 tbsp of soy sauce and a few healthy shakes of the fish sauce. I put that in a sauce pan on the stove and let it cook down and you know what? It was damn good. I will probably use the alternate recipe next time.

The last part: dipping sauce. You could be lazy and just dip these in ranch dressing and I bet it would be awesome, but you get cool points for making a flavor coordinating dipping sauce. You need:

- A bunch of cilantro (literally – the whole bunch)
- Juice of 2-3 limes, depending on size
- ½ cup mayo
- ½ cup greek yogurt

Confession time: the original recipe called for a full cup of mayo and I made it that way. But I had to add some greek yogurt at the end because it was just tasting BLAH – needed some tang. So I am gonna go out on a limb here and suggest going ½ and ½.

Anyway – dump all that crap in a food processor. Or blender. Whatever. Process. Serve.

Take the wings out of the over and drizzle the sauce all over. Toss to coat. Eat. Enjoy. Thank me later.

summer = lazy (even though I still have to wake up and go to work every day)

Yeah I know. I'm not on "summer break" anymore. Fuck the real world, man!

But despite my weekly 8-5 schedule thy never changes, I'm still feeling a bit of that summer laziness. Which is why I have not been blogging and anything I do blog is my version of "lazy food."

So the other night I made some shrimp concoction, it was ok, not worth blogging. But because fresh shrimp were like $6/lb, the Jew in me was all like, "hell yes gimme a pound of shrimps that I will not be able to eat!" and then I sautéed them up and they were fine but alas, I had like 1/4 an lb left!

My options were: (1) toss, (2) refrigerate with the intention of eating for lunch and then finally toss 1 week later, or (3) actually eat the suckers for lunch. Normally in my household, all leftovers go the way of #2, but not this week, my friends!

So on Tuesday, I headed home for lunch and whipped up this shrimp salad, which was yummy and easy and kept me from wasting my ridiculously cheap shrimp. Win. I'm pretty sure you could substitute any protein here - seeing as I'm swimming in a plethora of leftover chicken right now, chicken salad will be next!




Alright, so you will need:

- mayo
- greek yogurt
- chopped green onions
- old bay seasoning
- garlic powder
- lemon juice
- spinach
- walnuts
- some sort of bread-like apparatus on which to place said salad

I had bought these Flat-Out fiber wrap thingys that are actually pretty dece, so that was my wrap.

Alright, in a bowl, combine your leftover shrimps, cut into smaller pieces, with equal parts Greek yogurt and mayo. The yogurt gives it a bit of tang and also makes it not so fatty. Add a few drops of lemon juice to cut the mayo. Oh ps this whole "recipe" really depends on your own tastes and how much shrimp/chicken/tofu whatever you have. So yeah.

Next, season with the garlic powder and old bay to taste. Add your green onions. tomatoes might be delish in this, too!

Lay some spinach down on your bread/wrap, then the salad concoction, and then I sprinkled a few walnuts on for taste and texture. Totally optional. Not gonna lie, when I concocted this thing, I was a bit dubious of whether it would be edible, and I must say, I was pleasantly surprised! I will definitely be scrounging up a chicken version post haste!