shizzling - (mis)adventures in food

BBQ Buffalo Wings Recipe - Smoked Chicken Wings With A Sweet, Spicy Sauce

Makes: 18 wings. 

Preparation: 10 minutes. Cooking: approx 75 minutes

Authentic Buffalo wings, as invented in Buffalo, New York State, are deep fried chicken wings that are coated in a sauce made of melted butter, vinegar, hot sauce and cayenne pepper.  My version cooks the chicken low and slow on the barbecue to give a smoky accent to the flavours. 

Road Trip - Day 7 - Houston to Austin, Outer Space to Stellar Brisket

So here we go for a round up of Day 7 of the road trip. 

We pottered around in the hotel for a few hours before heading over for a tour of the Houston Space Center.  If you ever travel to Houston you really need to see this. On first entry I was a bit worried - it looked like a kids interactive exhibit, but it's the tour of Mission Control and various other Space Center buildings that makes it worth visiting. In particular, the Saturn 5 rocket in one of the hangars is breathtakingly enormous. 

Road Trip - Day 6 - Alligators, Traffic Jams and Tacos

Today was the day when we finally did some driving - 350 or so miles from New Orleans to Houston. It was a loooooong drive that ended with a good meal at a cheap Taqueria. 

Road Trip - Day 5 - The New Orleans RoadFood Festival

I saw an ad for the New Orleans RoadFood Festival and decided to head over there in the lunch break from the conference I am attending, in order to film some of the stalls and sample the food. 

Here's a video I made of the event. 

 

Road Trip - Day 4 - Fried Green Tomatoes and Chicken To Die For

Day 4, and the weather has turned. Glorious sunshine and temperatures in the upper 20s make New Orleans into a much more attractive looking city. At lunchtime I headed back to Le Bayou and had a pulled roast beef po' boy. It was delicious, but I think I may have hit my po' boy tolerance level after having at least one a day since I got here.

Road Trip - Day 3 - Pints, Weddings and Po' Boys

Day 3 in New Orleans had spectacularly bad weather, alternating between violent storms and humid drizzle. Lots of the roads were like small rivers. 

I finally hooked up with Paul, one of my travelling companions for the road trip, and we decided that, given the apalling weather, the best course of action was to spend the afternoon in bars.. ..not the most original plan, but an enjoyable one nonetheless. 

In one break from the storms we saw a New Orleans wedding procession, complete with jazz band.

 

We started off in Ye Olde Absinthe House and then moved on to Boondock Saint, just off Bourbon Street, where we settled in for a few hours of drinking and generally talking bollocks. 

At about 10pm we moved on to the Deja Vu Restaurant and Bar for much needed solids. I had, yet another, Po' Boy - this time with BBQ pulled pork - before heading back to the hotel to crash out.