Tag: Boxborough
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A Boxborough Standby
A takeout container and a cup of ranch, six days after the grocery-run post above — whether this is a callback to that raw package finally getting cooked, or an entirely separate takeout night, the timeline is a little fuzzy. Either way, Boxborough was clearly getting a lot of wing traffic in late 2022. Recipe…
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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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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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Backyard Pizza, Boxborough Edition
June 2022, Boxborough, Massachusetts, and this pizza made it all the way outside — photographed on a wood peel with grass visible in the background. Olives and assorted toppings on a crust that looks like it got real oven (or maybe outdoor pizza oven) heat. Boxborough is a new town for this archive too, which…
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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.