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Winging It #1: Rippin’ Red Wing Sauce

I love spicy hot foods. Notice I didn’t just say “spicy.” These days the term “spicy” has become another word for “hot.” But in my book “hot” is hot as in mouth burning heat and “spicy” means lots of spice. Since not all spices are hot, spicy doesn’t have to mean hot. But when you

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Frozen wings are for the birds! Get some fresh ones!

I like chicken wings are much as the next guy. For years I used to buy the bags of pre-cut, frozen “drumettes.” One day I was walking through the meat department of one of my local grocery stores and noticed whole chicken wings on sale for $.99 per pound.This got me to thinking about those

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Smokejumper Wings!

Rob Bergstrom (Twitter @Smokejumpers) came through Rocklin last week and we had a chance to have dinner and catch up on his new business venture, Red Boat Fish Sauce. Rob had just gotten back from a trip to Phu Quoc, Vietnam where the fish is caught, salted and fermented.

I had scored a bottle

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My New Char-Broil RED Infrared Grill (Part 2)

First cook on the new Char-Broil RED Grill was 60 chicken wing drumettes for a review of some BBQ sauces. The grill performed great. I was amazed at how fast it got hot. I even tackled some smoking during the first cook.

Used one of the Wild Cherry wood "pucks" from Appalachia Smokers. The

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