Feel better soon! I’m on day 12.
And best wishes to you. My boss was off for a week and a half while the germs were circulating through her household. That virus going around is a particularly nasty one.
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Sorry to hear about the wings but your whole dinner looks good.
I am flattered and sorry at the same time 
! Hope you shake that stoopid crud very, very soon!
If that’s the woman who literally just tore her ACL a week ago and decided to compete anyway… she had to be helicoptered to medical care. I can’t even.
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I do not have a good track record with wings. My favorite method is charcoal grill, then sauced with 1:1 butter and Frank’s. Unfortunately I can’t grill right now, and any hot sauce is too hot for mom.
So I made a recipe of Sohla’s that looked good. The sauce desperately needs acid and tang, which I should’ve grokked just by looking at the ingredients.
That said, I’ll reuse the trick of weighing them down the oven with a rack again, however.
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That’s the one and it was extremely painful to watch - legs and ski equipment flying in all directions and in unnatural angles.
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Given my accident proneness just going about my daily life, I hesitate to ever get on anything fast or high (skates, skies, sleds, horses).
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Not watching the big Superb Owl game, but I did make wings and stuff as a homage.
Baked honey BBQ wings,(breaded, not my favourite style but still tasty), wedges of spuds, carrot sticks and a spicy, garlicky feta dipping sauce.
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For my Super Bowl dinner, I went with deviled eggs with mayo, s/p, paprika and green onions, packaged coleslaw with added grated carrots and shredded red cabbage, with a slightly gingery-mapley dressing, and oven-baked bone-in country-style pork ribs with my standard pork rub and Stubbs’ Sticky Sweet BBQ sauce.
There was wine.
I had a craving for chocolate pudding, so I made some homemade with Guittard cocoa powder. Topped with fresh whipped cream, Heath toffee bits, and a couple of nonpareils.
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Here’s hoping you kick that virus soon. I’m a little over @mig 's day 12, but the fatigue from this thing is killer. So is the stuffy nose.
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Mr Bean decided he wanted make dinner. From the NYT Sheet Pan Chicken Tikka Thighs. This was very easy to make. The thighs are marinated in a blend of plain yogurt, garlic, ginger, Kashmiri chile powder (we used cayenne), garam masala, cumi, turmeric, S and P and oil. In addition to the onions and peppers called for in the recipe, we added potatoes to the sheet pan as I still a have lot left from my CSA winter stock-up box leftover. A local grocer had some nice okra fro sale so I made Bhindi Masala. I made it a little saucier than usual and added some tamarind which kicked the flavor up.
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Super Bowl party at our friends’ place. She made ribs, buffalo chicken dip, crudite, and homemade soft pretzels and put out olives and marcona almonds. On request I brought a big green salad with lime-honey-cider vinaigrette, red cabbage, baby arugula, green grapes, two types of pear, mint, cilantro, and toasted pepitas. We also brought shrimp cocktail with homemade sauce. Pending dessert is Yossy Arefi’s cookie butter bars, to which I added Speculoos chunks and toasted pecans and a bourbon glaze. Currently debating coffee/tea v. Port-finished rye.
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Talk about susceptibility! All this Superb Owl talk errrrywhere had me craving wings after all! 
We picked up a family pack of whole wings at the Jine Iggle that my PIC split with a cleaver (as well as he could, freezing what we weren’t going to use, and saving the wing tips for a lil stock I’ll make tomorrow). Tossed the air-dried wings with baking powder and salt before frying them to well done at 400˚F in the AF.
They may look anemic, but the skin was nicely crispy & the meat juicy.
Frank’s OG hot sauce & “extra hot” (but not really) hot sauce plus TJ’s habanero (actually) hot sauce whisked with a generous amount of melted butter for tossing, as well as a Nashville hot sauce. I much preferred the Nashville hot sauce. Better, more interesting flavor.
I’d also whipped up a bhatch of ghuac — perfectly ripe avocados, 1/2 a finely diced shallot, Iime juice, cumin, salt, Sinatra, TJ’s bird’s eye pepper sauce — to have with tortilla chips.
My dude made tantalizingly tart margaritas
& a blue cheese dip for the “healthy” part of our dinner: carrots & celery 
A big fat slice of chocolate mousse cake awaits for dessert.
Def not a diet day at casa lingua 
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oh i’m a total salt hound and could eat potato chips of any stripe every day of my life, so I am already using a CONSIDERABLE amount of self-restraint! 
but I tested myself last night - i had a couple spoonfuls of chex-mix, the leftover of the BF’s bowl as a late-night snack, JUST FOR SCIENCE, and took my BP this a.m. - 116/78 - nice and low!
I’m still not going back to the nightly salty snacks.
and re “young lady” - you and me both!
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wow, that’s incredible! i’m sure movie popcorn is way more salty (and tastier!) than the at-home version. which has often been my night-time snack for the last couple of years.
i sent my newly low numbers to the doc and he said good going, schedule an appt. if it goes way up again.
now i want movie popcorn!
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Saw a FB Reel with a guy making a Vietnamese fried tofu/tomato dish, so I found a recipe for it on Hungry Hue, and that was dinner. Super simple and tasty, though I added way more fish sauce than called for - otherwise, i wouldn’t really have gotten the “Vietnamese” of it. And it was my first time frying the tofu - BF usually does it. Found it quite easy after all - we have a very tiny pot that holds maybe 2 cups of oil, max, and i did the tofu cubes in batches in that. With steamed rice and Laoban frozen steamed ginger chicken dumplings. Even though we usually make our own, these were really pretty good - i liked how gingery they were.
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Superbowl party for two boomers.
Pre-game: BBQ pork.
Kick-off : Popcorn and drinks, including seltzers, TJ’s Triple Ginger Brew, and a couple of hard ciders from our local cidery: black currant (which has always been my favorite) and a new-to-me sour cider (possibly my new favorite).
First half munchies: Salt and pepper chicken wings with crudities. A dip inspired by a NYT recipe for chipotle-honey wings.
Second half munchies: A thin crust pizza in a 12” Lloyd pan. Homemade marinara. Two cheeses. Black olives. Pepperoni.
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Superb Owl food. Salmon burger on a toasted sourdough bun, with “Seattle sauce” and arugula. “Seattle slaw” and garlic fries. I didn’t win any money but at least the Seahawks won, 
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