If using whole wings, cut off tip, then cut wing at joint to separate into drummies & "flat" sections. I used just drummies, they were on sale...why not? Place chicken in a large (gallon) resealable bag. Pour marinade over and seal well. Make sure chicken is well-covered w/ sauce.
Marinate for 12-24 hours in refrigerator, turning frequently.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Arrange wings on a rack set over a shallow pan I lined the pan w/ foil so that I could use it again one day. Bake for 12-18 minutes or until skin is browned and crispy and meat has begun to pull away from bone at ends It actually took mine ~35 minutes to get to this point!!.
This is the point where I will say it again...doesn't it just drive you crazy when you see an amazing photo in a cookbook? Crazy in a great, must-have...hungry crazy way. But, also crazy when you make the same recipe and end up with a different result? A different "photo", if you will?
Yeah, they still look pretty good. But, the picture in the book- oh man! They were molasses-colored and sticky and finger-lickin' good! Mine didn't exactly turn out that way :( Oh well, they were okay. I really like the flavor combination in the marinade, but I'm definitely adding something sticky and messy next time. I want the napkins to stick to my finger tips! I want messy fingerprints all over my beer bottle! I want to pick sticky bits of goo from between my teeth! So, good in theory...but I think it could have been better...and will be next time.
I'm off to mark more pages and drool over more food photos.... Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY for the month of May! It has to do with chiles (any kind, mild or hot, raw or cooked or pickled...please join in). And I didn't even realize that May was National Chile month when I started dreaming of chiles...it happens to me about the same time every year... guess I'm just good ;)
I do the exact same rip-able bookmark thing each time I get a new cookbook, too!
Mmmm, this looks yummy. We do a really similar marinade with boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Barbecue them outside and put them between two buns. They are amazing. You really cannot eat just one. I'll bet these were just as tasty :)
The marinade is mouth-watering all on its own. Did you ever see the Food Network Challenge where they have to stage pictures? They have all sorts of tricks for making the food look good. They even use inedible stuff. So don't be so hard on yourself, the picture looks pretty darn tasty from where I'm sitting!
Definitely good looking to me.
Infinitely yummy!!!
The wings look yummy!... and don't trust pictures in books... I have found so many errors.. I can't count 'em. If you look closely sometimes.. ingredients are in the pic and not the recipe... or they don't cook it until its really done... but looks nice for the pic...
You pic makes them look delish!
As for bookmarks... I use skinny posted notes... they're perfect
I think your picture is awesome... good enough to eat! It always amazes me that the same recipe made by different people always looks different. The photos in cookbooks are staged, as Reeni said.
Well, I think these look picture perfect and if I could reach into the screen I would grab one and eat it right now! They look like the are cooked perfectly!
And the other chicken was probably airbrushed like all of the models in magazines! :0)
...yes, I know...they are staged. Still, darn them making them looks so yummy. Reeni, I want to see that episode, I'll have to search it out. Thanks for making me feel better guys :)
These look very, very good. Few of us can duplicate the work of food stylists. I'd like to poo-poo what they do, but their pictures are what sell cookbooks.
Did you save us any? Well I would eat that right up, and find some left on my fingers I am darn sure, to lick off!
I got my piece ready, just posting it later this week for the chili, and yes it is chili month...Horray for Chilies!
I think your wings look absolutely delightful, and I loved the comment about the other wings probably being airbrushed! For shame, I have never tried making wings, but you're inspiring me to!
I've had my eye on this book for a while, just haven't actually purchased it yet :). These look so delicious!
Post it tabs--I have them all over the house! ;-) I think your wings look amazing but I know the feeling. Especially with Donna Hay recipes--she has the most amazing food styling!
Buffalo wings the ultimate of sports food and luckily is b-ball playoffs are on right now and I've been craving for some lately. And I do love my wings.
btw...i do the same thing also with the bookmarks and now just for cookbooks either. lol.
Dar I will go to Jungle Jims and see if I can find us Mushroom Soy Sauce! I have never seen it before? ANYWAY your chicken wings look incredibly YUMMY!! Somehow we have to see how far we are from each other and meet halfway!! Coffee or wine is on me....
omg!! i do the same with my cookbooks too..bookmark, bookmark!! n i love books with nice pics in them..very partial towards them :)
I'm a pretty easy sell for a cookbook with beautiful pictures. But half those pictures aren't real because real food doesn't hold up well under all those photography lights while someone is making them artistically pleasing.
So, I think you chicken wings look real and DELISH!
Your food always looks delicious (whether or not it matches the cookbook). About the mushroom soy sauce, my husband worked in a restaurant run by an Asian family and they insisted it was the best kind of soy sauce so that's all we ever have in the house, I had never thought about there being all sorts of different kinds before, I love your improvising!
...thanks Kristin :) I am still looking for that actual mushroom soy!
Funny, I was just reading something on Serious Eats the other day where the guy SUBBED mushroom soy sauce for something else. Hope you find it!
The whole sticky thing is exactly why I don't like wings all that much. I know, I'm weird. :P But I can relate to the whole recipe photo thing, as you know. I have no doubt many of your dishes look plenty like the photos, even if this one didn't. ;)
man - good picture or not, that looks DELICIOUS!
This marinade sounds terrific and the chicken looks picture perfect to me!
Mmmmm, wings.
I think we all have billions of little strips of paper, old grocery receipts, old grocery lists, everything sticking out of all of our cookbooks. It makes me nuts because they stand there in my kitchen, waving all around, making me feel so guilty about marking recipes and not doing them!
I think these drumsticks look great! I'll have 3 or 4, thank you very much. But yes, I have a Madhur Jaffrey cookbook with photos to die for!
These look excellent and the marinade sounds terrific here! Yum!
For all we know, that picture used aloe vera gel to make it look all shiny and finger-lickin' gooey! Your picture is much more appetizing because I 'know' who made it! This marinade is awesome - I wonder if it would be okay for the grill or if it would burn too easily? Well, let's try it . . . !
Your book marking addiction makes me feel better about my own addiction :) I've got stacks of cooking magz with markers in them and right now am marking/working my way through a ton of cookbooks too! The wings look pretty tasty but you're right, wings just aren't the same if you have clean hands!
This dish looks delicious. I have to try this.
Great recipe. Want to try this out on my foreman.