Two out of three isn't too bad...

Remember the hot wing recipe I posted a while ago? Dh loves them. I love them. Unfortunately, it is kind of hard to recreate some American recipes in Australia. Take, for instance, our famous spaghetti. Oh, I have no idea how Mrs. Tornator was able to make her fabulous spaghetti in Japan, but I am unable to recreate it in Oz (ok, perhaps it is due to the commissary... an unfair advantage).

We tried a week or two ago to make wings. There are 3 key parts to wings. Sauce, the wings themselves, and then the dressing. I found the sauce, Crystal, at the "USA Foods" store. For SIX dollars a bottle. Hmm. That's only 4 times what I pay in the US. But, it's better than the mark-up on Lucky Charms. Good thing I don't like Lucky Charms. Anyway, due to lack of cornmeal, the wings were bad. Plus we couldn't find Bleu Cheese dressing. The meal was not edible. I sent dh off to find food at the nearest restaurant, which, unfortunately, was McDonald's.

Fast forward to yesterday. I found corn meal (aka polenta - duh! for not thinking of that earlier), and set off to make my own Bleu Cheese dressing using an allrecipes.com recipe. I thought it was passable, but dh turned up his nose and didn't eat his normal amount. But he did eat some. I'll continue to work on the Bleu Cheese dressing recipe... and until then, 2/3 isn't too bad..

Hotwings

One of DH's favorite meals is chicken wings with hot sauce. He LOVES them. There's a restaurant in Florida that offers such great ones that we go there twice every time we go down to Florida to see DH's parents. DH also has a recipe he likes to make at home that involves frying chicken strips and then dousing them with his homemade hot sauce. This, I have determined, when coupled with massive amounts of bleu cheese, is probably not the healthiest thing we've ever eaten. I found this new recipe and tried it the other night.

Everyday Food's chicken tenders with creamy honey mustard. Thanks Martha.

DH was horrified at the idea I would put Rice Krispies on his chicken, but he left to grab a few last minute ingredients and I snuck the required amount into the food processor. I also added a bit of yellow cornmeal.

Holy cow, they were great! DH made his normal hot sauce (based on Crystal and a few other ingredients) and we skipped the creamy honey mustard, but it probably would be great with honey mustard. For being baked, these came out absolutely spectacular. I liked them almost as much as our normal fried "wings".