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This Football Season, It'll Be Harder to Score Chicken Wings

YumSugar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:50:34 -0800

St. Louis Rams fans: if you think a winning touchdown has been impossible this season, just wait until you try to score some buffalo chicken wings.

Wing demand is on the rise, but due to this year's waning need for chicken breast, poultry producers have cut chicken production for the first time in 36 years. Broiler chicken production is forecast to be down 3.5 percent this year - and, with only two wings per chicken, wholesale wing costs are poised to increase dramatically.

So, much like Super Bowl Sunday last year, on game day other spicy chicken dishes will just have to fly. Since what I really want to eat is buffalo chicken cheese dip, that's fine with me. Will you miss this year's wings? Or are you willing to pay a higher price for them?

Buzz News Roundup, 7/15

BuzzSugar — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:03 -0700

TBS is looking to develop Are We There Yet?, a comedy series based on the Ice Cube movie of the same name. - The Hollywood Reporter
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince scored the biggest midnight gross of all-time in earning $22.2 million as it opened at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. - Variety
Daphne Zuniga will reprise her role as photographer Jo Reynolds for at least two episodes of The CW's reboot of Melrose Place this Fall. - EW
David Arquette and Courteney Cox are confirmed to star in Scream 4. - E! Online
Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Avon Man, a comedy about a man who is reluctantly recruited into becoming an Avon salesman and then finds that he's good at it. - Variety
Starting with the first episode of the upcoming season, Martha Plimpton will have a role in a multi-episode story line on Grey's Anatomy. - Reuters
Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson and Julianne Moore will star in writer/director Stanley Tucci's dramedy The Hunter. - ComingSoon
Kathy Griffin will host the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 12, while Russell Brand will return to host the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 13. - The Hollywood Reporter
Disney has acquired film rights to the young adult novel Wings and will develop it as a star vehicle for Miley Cyrus. - ComingSoon

Come Party With Me: Independence Day - Menu

partysugar — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:45 -0700

Although I don't consider myself the most patriotic person, I love a good 4th of July celebration! With its warm weather, barbecue dinner, and fireworks finish, chances are you enjoy the nation's birthday party, too. If you haven't decided what to serve your family and friends, consider whipping up a meal that is all-American.

Start things off with finger-licking-good chicken wings. The sweet and spicy sauce is so simple it can be made with items you already have in your pantry. Next move on to a beloved classic: a bacon cheeseburger with all the fixings. No backyard party is complete without several stellar sides, so plate up a generous helping of creamy potato salad.

A platter of plump in-season heirloom tomatoes drizzled with olive oil rounds out the menu. Are you enticed by the sound of these dishes? Check out the recipes when you read more.

Chicken Wings With Sweet-and-Spicy Pantry Sauce
From Food & Wine

Ingredients

16 chicken wings, with the two joints attached, tips removed
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup hot sauce
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon light brown sugar

Directions

Make a slash on the inside of the chicken wing joints without cutting through the bone and in a few other places.
In a large, shallow baking dish, combine the ketchup with the mustard, hot sauce, soy sauce and brown sugar. Add the chicken wings and turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Light a grill. Remove the chicken wings from the marinade, leaving some of it on them, and reserve the remaining marinade. Grill the wings over a medium-hot fire, turning and basting them with the reserved marinade, until nicely charred and cooked through, about 30 minutes.
Stop basting during the last 5 minutes of grilling and discard any remaining marinade. Serve the wings hot or at room temperature.

Serves 4.

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Home-Ground Burgers With Bacon, Cheese, and Fresh Thyme
From Emeril Lagasse

Ingredients

2 pounds boneless beef chuck, cut into 1-inch cubes
6 ounces bacon, chopped
1 cup finely chopped onion
3 tablespoons thinly sliced garlic
1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
8 slices cheddar cheese
4 sesame-seed hamburger rolls, lightly toasted
1 1/2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce
8 thin slices tomato
Mayonnaise, for serving
Ketchup, for serving
Mustard, for serving
Pickles, for serving

Directions

Place the diced chuck in a large bowl.
Set a 10-inch saute pan over medium heat and add the bacon. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the bacon is crisp and most of the fat has been rendered, 7 to 8 minutes.
Add the onions to the pan and cook until they are softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, 1 minute longer. Add the thyme and toss to combine.
Remove the pan from the heat and pour the mixture over the diced chuck. Drizzle with the Worcestershire, and season with the salt and pepper. Toss gently but thoroughly to combine. Cover and set aside to marinate, refrigerated, for 1 hour.
Assemble a home grinder according to the manufacturer's instructions, using a medium die for grinding. Grind the meat mixture and then gently form it into 4 patties, being careful not to overwork it. Alternately, use a food processor to grind the meat in batches. Form gently into four patties. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
Preheat a grill to medium, and lightly oil the grate.
Remove the patties from the refrigerator and place them on the grill. Cook for 7 to 8 minutes. Then turn them over and place 2 slices of the cheddar on each burger.
Cook for another 7 to 8 minutes for medium-rare to medium, or until the burgers are cooked to the desired degree of doneness. Place a burger on the bottom of each of the 4 toasted buns. Dress with the lettuce and tomatoes, and add mayo, ketchup, mustard, and pickles as desired. Serve immediately.

Serves 4.

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Potato Salad
From Tyler Florence

Ingredients

2 pounds small Yukon gold potatoes
2 large eggs
Kosher salt
1/2 bunch sliced scallions, white and green parts
2 tablespoons drained capers
2 cups mayonnaise
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup finely chopped dill pickles with 1/4 cup juice, about 2 pickles
1/2 small red onion, chopped
2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
1/2 bunch dill, chopped
1/2 lemon, juiced
Freshly ground black pepper
Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling

Directions

Put the potatoes and eggs into a big saucepan of cold salted water. Bring to a simmer. After 12 minutes remove the eggs with a slotted spoon and let cool. Continue cooking the potatoes until a paring knife poked into them goes in without resistance, about 3 minutes longer. Drain the potatoes in a colander and let them cool.
Reserve some scallion greens and capers for garnish.
Meanwhile, stir together the mayonnaise, mustard, pickles and their juice, onion, remaining scallions and capers, parsley, and lemon juice in a bowl large enough to hold the potatoes
Peel the cool eggs and grate them into the bowl.
Stick a fork into the potatoes and lift them 1 at a time out of the colander. Break up the potatoes by hand into rough chunks, add them to the bowl and toss to coat with the dressing. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Drizzle with a little olive oil before serving.

Serves 4-6.

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Perfect Tomato Salad
From Real Simple

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds tomatoes, preferably a mix of colors and sizes
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt

Directions

With the tip of a paring knife, remove the stems from large tomatoes and slice them 1/4 inch thick. Leave grape or cherry tomatoes whole.
Divide the tomatoes among individual plates, drizzle with the oil, and sprinkle with the salt.

Serves 6.

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Super Bowl Fans' Feathers Ruffled Over Buffalo Wing Shortage

YumSugar — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:15:47 -0800

Super Bowl XLIII is less than a week away, but this year, lovers of the chicken wing - game day's unofficial snack - will be enjoying their poultry on a wing and a prayer. Since few Super Bowl parties are without chicken wings, consumer demand, as it generally is during football season, is sky-high. Unfortunately, the supply for chicken wings is way down. Major wing supplier Pilgrim's Pride of Pittsburgh, TX, recently filed Chapter 11 company reorganization. As a result, the price of wings is soaring nationwide, and in some cases, up to 30 percent in the past three months.

Consumers, restaurants, and distributors are handling the crisis in different ways. Some are setting aside vast quantities of wings for the big game. Other restaurants, feeling the pinch, have doubled the prices of wings on their menu.

In turn, customers, like the wing lovers of Buffalo, NY, the birthplace of the spicy chicken wing, are so fed up with astronomical prices that they've called for a wing boycott. This year I'll be serving buffalo chicken fingers or buffalo chicken cheese dip instead of wings.

Have you noticed an increase in price? Would you be willing to pay more simply to have chicken wings at your Super Bowl celebration?

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Buffalo Chicken Two Ways - Beginner and Expert

YumSugar — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:00:07 -0800

From pickled jalapeños to chipotle chile chocolate bars, I love spicy food, but if I were forced to pick a favorite, I'd have to go with spicy buffalo chicken. Not only is it the ultimate comfort food, but the tender chicken is also crispy, zippy, and tangy all at once.

Whether you're looking for the perfect Super Bowl party platter or you simply want something to fulfill your quest for spice, look no further than these buffalo chicken recipes.

The first, made with breast tenders and breaded for crunchiness, is a simplified version of the classic buffalo wing. Alternately, pull out your frying pan and try your ~~wing~~ hand at a traditional recipe for buffalo chicken. Both are definite crowd pleasers.

To see either recipe, read more.

Beginner Buffalo Chicken
From Every Day With Rachael Ray

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups breadcrumbs
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
4 large eggs
4 chicken tenders
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons butter
6 tablespoons hot pepper sauce
3/4 cup crumbled blue cheese

Directions

Preheat the oven to 425°F. In a medium bowl, combine the breadcrumbs, salt and pepper. In a shallow bowl, beat the eggs. Coat a chicken piece with the breadcrumbs, dip in the eggs, then coat again with the breadcrumbs; place on a plate. Repeat with the remaining chicken.
In a large, heavy skillet, heat 1/4 cup olive oil over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add half of the chicken tenders and cook, turning once, until golden, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining chicken. Bake until cooked through, about 10 minutes.
Microwave the butter at medium power until melted, 45 seconds. Stir in the hot sauce.
Place the chicken tenders on a large platter, drizzle with the sauce and top with the blue cheese.

Serves 6.

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Expert Buffalo Chicken
From Gourmet

Ingredients

Blue-cheese dressing:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup plain yogurt
2 ounces crumbled blue cheese (about 1/2 cup)
Wings:
3 pounds chicken wings (12 to 14)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (if grilling) or 6 cups vegetable oil (if deep-frying)
1/4 cup unsalted butter
3 to 4 tablespoons hot sauce such as Frank's or Goya
1 1/2 tablespoons cider vinegar
4 celery ribs

Directions

Make dressing: In a bowl, whisk together mayonnaise and yogurt and stir in blue cheese (dressing will not be smooth). Dressing may be made 8 hours ahead and chilled, covered.
Cut celery into thin sticks. Soak celery in a bowl of ice and cold water at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour.
Deep fry wings: In a large (5- to 6-quart) deep heavy kettle heat 6 cups oil until a deep-fat thermometer registers 380°F. Just before oil reaches 380°F, pat dry 6 or 7 wings. Carefully lower wings into oil and fry, stirring occasionally, until cooked through, golden, and crisp, 5 to 8 minutes. With a slotted spoon transfer wings to paper towels to drain. Pat dry and fry remaining wings in same manner, returning oil to 380°F between batches.
Make sauce: In a large skillet melt butter over moderately low heat and stir in hot sauce, vinegar, and salt to taste. Add grilled or fried wings and toss to coat.
Serve chicken wings warm or at room temperature with dressing and celery sticks.

Makes 6 hors d'oeuvre servings.

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Swarovski Flight Clip Earrings: Love It or Hate It?

FabSugar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:00:22 -0800

I go ga-ga over anything sparkly and Swarovski. These Swarovski Flight Clip Earrings ($70) instantly caught my eye. The wing shape is cool and the dark hued stones are divine. But clip-ons? Bum deal. Agreed?

Take all of my Love It or Hate It Polls here! To post your selections go to the Love It or Hate It? group. And if you want to learn how to do a blog post click here.

The Results Are In: Recast Wings

BuzzSugar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:30:53 -0700

Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

I'm so relieved to know I wasn't alone in my nerd-love for Wings and you all came up with some great new casts for this show I secretly loved for years. I could tell you guys were having fun thinking up which actors could look like brothers. alynn went the logical route and cast real-life brothers Luke and Owen Wilson. I also thought leeluvfashion was right on with her casting of Michael Vartan and Paul Walker as brothers - they totally look like they could have the same DNA.

As for Helen, I liked fatatiecat07's idea for Reese Witherspoon, as she completely embodies the spunky spirit of that character. daisydidi's idea for Michael Imperioli to play Antonio Scarpacci is awesome, though after so many years on the Sopranos I still see him as more scary than snuggly.

In the end, I just had to choose the recast with the most adorable combo of two small-screen actors as the main brothers. Congrats to Chibbie!

To see who Chibbie chose, along with a new cast photo, read more.

Chibbie's cast list:
Joe Hackett - Lee Pace
Brian Hackett - John Krasinski
Helen Chappel - Kristen Bell
Antonio Scarpacci - Naveen Andrews
Lowell Mather - TJ Miller

Recast Wings and Win a Prize!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:30:06 -0700

Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

This week, let's recast a show that I watched a lot as a kid: Wings! It's kind of an embarrassing show to admit I was really into because it was totally tame, like something only boring adults might watch as frequently as I did.

I mean, do you remember the show's opener? It's hilariously uncool. But you know what? The two lead guys were cute and that short woman with the Southern accent was sassy, and I just couldn't help but give into their charms!

So, who would you cast to play the brothers Hackett? Both are pilots and run Sandpiper Air on Nantucket Island but that's where the similarities end. Joe Hackett is the older, more mature one while Brian is the flaky ladies man. What about Helen, the attractive and smart woman who runs the lunch counter in the airport terminal?

One of my favorite characters on Wings was Antonio Scarpacci, the taxi driver on the island, originally played by Monk star Tony Shalhoub. Who else could play this romantic Italian character with a heart of gold? And finally let's recast Lowell Mather, originally Thomas Haden Church's role. Lowell is the hilariously dense airport mechanic who often frustrated the Hackett men.

Leave your entry in the comment section below, and I'll pick one winner to feature Tuesday, August 5, complete with a "new" cast photo.

To see a list of characters to recast and a photo of the BuzzSugar t-shirt, read more.

Characters to recast
Joe Hackett (Timothy Daly)
Brian Hackett (Steven Weber)
Helen Chappel (Crystal Bernard)
Antonio Scarpacci (Tony Shalhoub)
Lowell Mather (Thomas Haden Church)

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P.L.O.W. - Birds in Flight

FitSugar — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:00:00 -0700

Part of the reason I love to be outside is because of the astounding wildlife I get to observe, especially birds. The end of the summer is a great time to catch glimpses of all types of birds getting ready to migrate to warmer places. I love bringing binoculars along when I hike so if a hawk or some geese fly overhead, I can get a closer look.

This play list is in honor or those gorgeous winged creatures. When I look up and see them, I think about what it must be like to soar overhead and gaze down at our beautiful earth. It makes me feel small in a way, and it reminds me to appreciate the important things in life.

"Blackbird" - Sarah McLachlan, 2:20
"And Your Bird Can Sing" - The Beatles, 2:01
"I'm like a Bird" - Nellie Furtado, 4:06
"Bye Bye Blackbird" - Ray Charles, 3:30
"Little Bird" - Annie Lennox, 4:37
"Rockin' Robin" - Jackson 5, 2:33
"Broken Wings" - Rick Springfield, 4:06
"Noah's Dove" - 10,000 Maniacs, 4:31
"I Saw a Bird Flyaway" - Dar Williams, 2:51
"Free Bird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd, 9:09
"Winter's Come and Gone" - Gillian Welch, 2:14
"Redtail Hawk" - Joules Graves, 3:53

Total PLOW = 44:52

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Sunday BBQ: Grilled Jerk Chicken Wings

YumSugar — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:38:11 -0700

Somehow, I always forget that I'm a huge fan of chicken wings. They're simple to fix up, and are small enough that you don't feel like you're eating a lot - even after you've chowed down an entire platter. They also make perfect party food, and go great with the fall sporting season. You can do them in the oven, but why not make the most out of the last few weeks of summer by throwing them on the barbecue. To check out a great recipe for grilled jerk chicken wings, read more

Grilled Jerk Chicken Wings
From Taste of Home's Simple and Delicious

1/2 cup Caribbean jerk seasoning
18 fresh chicken wingettes (2 to 3 pounds)
2 cups honey barbecue sauce
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
1 teaspoon ground ginger

Yield: 6 servings.

Coat grill rack with nonstick cooking spray before starting the grill.
Place jerk seasoning in a large resealable plastic bag; add chicken wings, a few at a time, and shake to coat.
In a small bowl, combine the barbecue sauce, brown sugar, mustard and ginger; set aside.
Grill chicken wings, covered, over medium heat for 12-16 minutes, turning occasionally.
Brush with sauce.
Grill, uncovered, 8-10 minutes longer or until juices run clear, basting and turning several times.

Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (3 each) equals 548 calories, 24 g fat (6 g saturated fat), 113 mg cholesterol, 2,217 mg sodium, 47 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 28 g protein.

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