On Jan 22, 5:11*am, Gary > wrote:
> Chicken today. *I bought a whole one yesterday and will split it down the
> middle with my chef's knife. *That gives me 2 identical halves. *One half
> goes into the freezer for later and the other will be oven roasted today.
>
> I was planning to use barbeque sauce on it but then I realized that today is
> a good football afternoon - the two final playoffs (including MY team, the
> Patriots)
>
> For some reason, I never think about hot/buffalo wings until SuperBowl
> time. *Today's playoffs qualify. hehehh
>
> Here's my twist on wings though:
>
> Several years ago, I again got the urge for buffalo wings on SuperBowl
> weekend. *Because this is a popular food for Superbowl, the pack of chicken
> wings were priced at $4.99 a pound. *hahaha *NO DAMN WAY was I going to pay
> that for mostly bone weight.
>
> Instead, I bought a cheap whole roaster chicken for much less. *I roasted
> the whole chicken then cut it up into many pieces. From there, I treated all
> the pieces like wings......coated them all with the combo of butter and
> Franks hot sauce. *Served on plate with Maries chunky blue cheese dressing.
>
> Oh Man! *Much cheaper than wings and even better! *Instead of gnawing off
> bits of meat and skin from a wing, just imagine biting giantly into a whole
> thigh that tastes the same. *It's a good thing.
>
> So "buffalo half-a-chicken" will be my meal for this afternoon.
>
> Gary
>
> Need to get it in the oven by 12 noon * Football starts at 1:00

The prices of whole chicken here is about the same as a bag of chicken
parts - around $13. That's the strange thing about the chicken
business. Bags of processed bird parts or even a whole roasted bird or
even 2 whole roasted birds is cheaper than 1 whole bird. I hope your
bird is tasty and your team wins.