Category: Wings
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Before They Were Wings: The Grocery Run
Every home-cooked batch starts somewhere, and this entry captures that somewhere: a plain package of raw chicken wings, straight off the store shelf, price tag and nutrition panel included. Not glamorous. Not yet sauced. But honest — the unglamorous middle step that every single other post on this blog conveniently skips over. Recipe inspiration for…
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Framingham Center Takeout, Round Two (Same Spot, Probably)
The GPS on this one lands within about nine meters of the February 2023 entry below — same address, near-certainly the same restaurant, whatever it was calling itself by late 2022. Styrofoam container, foil liner, and a sauce cup with a handwritten “B” on the lid, which I’m choosing to believe stands for “Buffalo” and…
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The Pepper Rub Experiment
August 2022, and this batch got a heavier hand with the black pepper than usual — you can see the coarse crack all over the skin in the photo, alongside, once again, a side of bacon, because apparently that pairing became a habit sometime after the 2019 Acton entry and never really left. The extra…
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Lancaster, NY: Wings With a Basil Garnish, Very Fancy
A white plate, a black ramekin of white dip, and — I want to stress this — an actual basil garnish. Someone in the Lancaster, NY wing scene is trying, and I respect it, even if I can’t tell you who. This is easily top three for “restaurant clearly cared” in a photo where the…
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West Albany Patio Wings, Basket Included
A wooden bowl lined with pink parchment paper, a pink-tinted dipping sauce that means business, an outdoor patio, and an Allagash beer (a Maine brewery, several states from where I was actually sitting, but that’s craft beer distribution for you). This is one of the more visually distinctive presentations in the whole archive and I…
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Amherst, NY: A Buffalo Suburb Warm-Up Lap
Before the main event in Buffalo proper (see: the Gabriel’s Gate post, the one with the historical placard and my dignity intact), there was this: a quiet dine-in plate with a side salad in Amherst, one of Buffalo’s suburbs, apparently a training session for the real thing. No restaurant name visible, but salad-as-side suggests someone…
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A February Boxborough Batch
A blue plate against a dark kitchen backdrop, February 2022 — deep-winter wing energy, the kind of meal that exists specifically because it’s cold outside and the oven makes the kitchen warmer. No further ceremony required. Recipe inspiration: RecipeTin Eats’ Truly Crispy Baked Buffalo Wings.
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North Andover: Wings Next to Oysters, As God Intended
A December visit to what was clearly a step up in venue: wings with ranch and hot sauce on the side, and — visible in the background — a plate of oysters on ice. Whoever I was dining with had better taste than me, or at least a bigger budget. No restaurant name in frame,…
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Patio Wings and Crayons: An August Afternoon in Nashua
Patio weather, a rose in a stemmed glass, a cup of crayons doing nothing to keep the kids’ menu occupied, and a plate of wings lined up like dominoes — a Saturday afternoon on a restaurant patio in Nashua, New Hampshire. These wings skew classic — bright orange sauce, a single ramekin of ranch, no…
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Fourth of July Wings in Fall River
Independence Day, 2021, and instead of a barbecue I apparently found a plate of wings with a little salad garnish for balance — the culinary equivalent of wearing sunscreen so you can stay out longer. No restaurant name in the shot, but it was a good enough plate to justify skipping the grill entirely. If…