Tag: Homemade
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Sudbury Era Begins: White Pizza, Overhead Shot
May 2020 — new house, new location tag (Sudbury, Massachusetts, which shows up all over this blog’s wing archive too), and a return to the white-pizza-with-ricotta formula, this time shot from directly overhead on a wood table. The pandemic spring when everyone’s home cooking hobbies got a serious upgrade shows up here too, apparently. I’ll…
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March 2020 Wings: We All Coped Differently
Late March 2020. You know exactly what was happening in the world, and apparently my household’s response was to keep making wings, this batch ending up stored in a repurposed plastic takeout tub — because why dirty another container when the world’s on fire and you’re just trying to get through the week. No judgment…
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Two Pizzas, Bright Light, No Date to Be Honest About
This one has no timestamp in its file data at all, so in the interest of honesty: I don’t know exactly when this was taken. What’s clear is the content — two round pizzas side by side on a wood table, one white with a green garnish, one red-sauced, photographed in genuinely good natural light…
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The Retrospective Collage
Not a single pizza night but a multi-panel collage — five different pizzas from five different moments, assembled together at some point rather than shot in one sitting. No date survives on this one, but it reads like a “best of” compilation someone put together looking back through the archive. Fitting, honestly, that this collection…
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The Foil-Wrapped Rest Period
June 2019, and this batch got the foil-wrap treatment — letting the wings rest, tented, for a few minutes after coming out of the oven before the sauce toss. This is a genuinely underrated move: it lets the crust set a little more and keeps the whole batch hotter for longer once it hits the…
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March Wings, No Particular Occasion
Early March 2019, a white-and-blue plate, wings arranged with more care than usual — almost fanned out, like I was trying to make a statement. The statement, as far as I can reconstruct it, was simply: these are good wings and I wanted a nice photo of them. Recipe inspiration: RecipeTin Eats’ Truly Crispy Baked…
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Wings and Bacon at the Home Office, No Regrets
This is one of my favorite entries in the whole archive: a grey plate of wings and a few strips of bacon, eaten at what is unmistakably a home office desk, keyboard included. I don’t remember exactly what possessed me to pair wings with bacon rather than, say, anything green, but February 2019 me clearly…
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Pre-Holiday Wings, Because Priorities
Three days before Christmas, and instead of cookies or a ham, the kitchen produced a grey plate of wings. I respect this decision entirely — holiday cooking is stressful, and sometimes the correct move is a low-effort, high-reward plate of something you already know how to make well, before the real marathon begins. Recipe inspiration,…
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The Placemat Era
September 2018, Acton, and a blue plate resting on a placemat with enough pattern to suggest someone in this household was, at some point, trying to make dinner presentation a whole thing. The wings themselves look like a solid oven batch — good color, no obvious burnt bits, the placemat doing its part to elevate…
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The Plain One That Almost Didn’t Survive the Archive
A round, lightly-topped pizza with a browned edge, preserved only as a small, low-resolution thumbnail — April 2018’s entry didn’t make it through the years in full quality, but the shape of the story is still there: another pizza, another Thursday, another photo taken mostly out of habit by that point. By April 2018 this…