Orioles’ Playoff Wings: Taste as a good as victory

Playoff Wings: Here are some samplings of wing recipes that might win over any sports crowd. Bake and baste chicken wings and drummettes, place in a three container crock pot and serve warm.

Decorate table with team logo or fall colors. Chips and salsa, a few dips and snacks. Premade dipping sauces for wings, optional. Add selection of local wines and assorted beers. You’re good to go. You’re good to win!

Teriyaki Chicken Wings: 1970s,

(Marilyn, Bunny, Clare and Karen)

• 3-4 pound package uncooked chicken wings, drummettes or combination
• Marinade:
• 2/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 to 1/3 cup sake, cooking sherry, vermouth or dry white wine (my preference is cooking sherry)
• 2 tablespoons sugar or honey
• 1/2 to 2 teaspoons minced or grated fresh ginger (depends on your taste for ginger)
• 3 green onions, minced
• 1 clove garlic, crushed or chopped

Optional: two recipes I found called for an additional 4 tablespoons Hoisin sauce, 3 tablespoons plum sauce and 2 tablespoons rice vinegar. I haven’t tried this variation but thought someone else might like to try it.

Mix all ingredients and add chicken pieces. Marinate chicken in refrigerator for several hours or overnight. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. Baste 2 or 3 times during cooking.

Wing Man: My husband, David, is the wing man at our house. When he realized I was working on recipes for Wings, he readily contributed two of his recipes. They are less complicated than my Teriyaki Chicken Wing recipe and require less preparation. He also included his meatball recipe. Again not much preparation time. Poster by David.

Orioles 1983

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David’s Wings

• 2-3 pound package uncooked chicken wings, drummettes or combination.
• Sweet Apple Mississippi Style Barbecue Sauce, 18 oz. bottle
• Bake chicken pieces naked for 40 minutes in a 300 degree oven.
• Continue cooking in the oven for an additional 20 minutes basting chicken with ½ bottle of the barbecue sauce. Baste pieces every 5-10 minutes, turning after each basting.
• Place the remaining1/2 bottle of sauce in a crock pot. Remove chicken from oven, place in crock pot and mix with sauce. Serve warm from crook pot.

Irish whiskey Glaze Chicken Wings

• 2-3 pound package uncooked chicken wings, drummettes or combination.
• 8 tablespoons dark brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 3 tablespoons Irish whiskey
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 ½ tablespoons crushed red chili pepper, optional (but it does add a zing).

Bake chicken pieces naked for 40 minutes in 300 degree oven.

Meanwhile, add ingredients for sauce, combining with a fork.

Continue baking chicken in oven for an additional 20 minutes, basting chicken with glaze. Baste pieces every 5-10 minutes, turning after each basting.

Remove chicken from oven and place in crock pot, discarding any leftover glaze in baking pan. Serve warm from crook pot.

Meatballs Too!

• 1 pound (16 oz.) package frozen or precooked meatballs
• 1 jar of Marinara sauce
• 1 (4 oz.) can green chilies
• Toothpicks for serving

Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Place in crook pot and serve warm.

Go Orioles!