Turp's Tailgate Wings

My nephew's family has a blog, and it includes this delicious recipe for wings.

We had some friends over for New Year's Eve and I decided to make hot wings. I tried many, many different recipes for hot wings and I never could get them crisp like I like them. Finally, a good friend of mine gave me this recipe and so I thought I would share it with you.

Turp's Tailgate Wings

buy a five pound bag of wings

pre-heat oven to 500 degrees

spray 3 glass casserole dishes with non-stick cooking spray (I use 3 dishes for a 5 pound bag of wings and using glass dishes is the key to crisp wings)

place the wings in the dishes (I have found it better to thaw out the wings even though they would still turn out fine if you forget - you just collect more juice in the dishes when they are not thawed out)

sprinkle the wings with black pepper and garlic salt

turn the wings over and sprinkle again with black pepper and garlic salt

place wings on the top shelf of the oven and cook for one hour

after the first 30 minutes take the wings out and turn them over with a fork and place them back in the oven for the final 30 minutes

To make the wing sauce you need to do the following:

• buy your favorite hot sauce from your local grocery store (I usually use either Franks hot sauce or Texas Pete's wing sauce, but you can use whatever you like)


• pour the entire bottle of hot sauce in a blender


• add butter that has been softened in the microwave to the blender and mix for 5 to 10 seconds or until the butter and hot sauce is mixed well (the more butter you add the milder the sauce will be - also, if you want a thicker sauce then do not melt the butter as much. A good starting point for a medium sauce is 50/50 hot sauce to butter. All of this will be done to taste.)

There are five of us in my family and this recipe feeds us well. I usually deep fry some french fries, cut up some celery and make some good old sweet tea to go with the wings. Well, that's it - I sure hope you enjoy them.