Sunday Dinner - Superbowl Edition

Tonight's menu:

• Oven-baked wings with classic hot sauce
• Oven-baked wings with garlic-teriyaki sauce (not pictured)
• Cold leftover take-out pizza
• Chips with corn and black bean salsa
• Ranch and blue cheese dipping sauces...because we're serious about wings

So let me start out by saying that Matt and I don't really care much about football. In fact, we didn't even know who was playing in the super bowl until we sat down to start watching the game, at which point we decided to root for the Saints (a good choice, as it turns out) because we had actually been to New Orleans...clearly we are not real football fans. But we decided to watch the super bowl because it seemed like a great excuse to eat a lot of really unhealthy, completely indigestible, and absolutely delicious food.

Also, I found this recipe for baked wings that supposedly taste like deep-fried, an assertion we felt we needed to personally test. So we bought 5 pounds of wings and underwent the 8-hour drying process, and while it was a lot of work, it was so worth it. These wings were amazing. So tender they were falling off the bones, but still crispy on the outside. And we didn't even do it right, we stopped drying them and started baking after only 6 hours!

Matt made two kinds of sauce for the wings: a classic hot sauce, consisting of Frank's Red Hot Sauce (it has to be Frank's. Trust me.), melted butter, and a dash of Worcestershire. The other sauce was one he just concocted out of his head (he's so good at creating sauces and marinades). Its ingredients were soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, ginger (freshly minced ginger root, not powder), sesame oil, and orange juice. I would share the proportions, but I'm pretty sure Matt just keeps adding and tasting until it's delicious.

The other dishes were just things we had around that seemed like they fit into the football-food theme. Ironically, we actually bought celery stick and carrots in a half-assed attempt to add something healthy, but we were so excited about the wings that we forgot to serve the veggies. In any case, it was a great game and we certainly enjoyed it to the fullest!

Note: If reproducing this meal at home, we recommend taking an antacid before eating. Seriously, you will thank yourself later.