Tag: Homemade
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Three Angles of the Same Plate, Because I Was Proud of It
November 2024, and this batch got the full photoshoot treatment — three separate angles of the same plate of deep-orange, well-charred wings, because apparently I nailed the color on this one and wanted proof from multiple angles. No notes. This is what confidence looks like. Recipe inspiration for chasing that same color: RecipeTin Eats’ Truly…
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An October Batch, Nothing Fancy
Two photos, one plate, late October 2024 — a straightforward batch with no particular story attached, which after this many entries has become its own kind of tradition. Sometimes the wings don’t need an occasion. They are the occasion. Recipe inspiration: Inspired Taste’s Crispy Baked Hot Wings.
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The Charred Grill Pizza, Sudbury Backyard
September 2023, back in Sudbury, and this one has serious grill-marks-and-char energy — a heavily blistered crust on a wood board with grass in the background, looking every bit like it came off a hot grill or outdoor pizza oven rather than a conventional indoor one. By 2023 this household had clearly graduated from wire-rack-on-the-counter…
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Late Summer, One Plate
The first of September, 2023, still warm enough to eat with the windows open, one plain plate, no company mentioned or pictured. A quiet, solo wing dinner to close out the summer. Recipe inspiration: Budget Bytes’ Buffalo Wings.
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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.
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Wayland Pizza, a One-Off Location
May 2021, and this one’s tagged to Wayland, Massachusetts — a town that doesn’t show up anywhere else in this archive, wings or pizza. Pepperoni and banana peppers on a well-browned crust, photographed on a wire rack. Someone’s kitchen, someone’s oven, just not the usual one. I’ll guess this was made at a friend or…