Good morning folks.
To address the obvious I am in no way, shape or form bothered by the injury to the Vikings rookie QB. PERIOD. He was supposed to have a year or two off to develop and now he has the first year guaranteed off.
Sit your ass over there and hold this clipboard.
That’s it. I have low expectations but a high opinion of the overall team so let’s just wait and see shit develop first.
On that note…
Kickoff approaches! And the closer we get to game time the closer we need to examine possible game day food. Even considering possible tailgate food choices.
It’s time to think about football food dammit!
All of the wonderful, unhealthy, salty, spicy, savory things that go fantastic with beer and can easily be consumed while watching TV.
This menu today fits all of those categories.
If this one looks familiar, then thank you for being a long time reader and that’s a pretty goddamn keen eye you got there.
Although the previous time I did not make loaded tots nor have they ever been featured on Sunday Gravy before so it’s TOT-TIME TODAY!
I have indeed made Korean style gochujang wings before but it had been entirely too fucking long since I had them and I felt I should remedy that bullshit.
So stealing directly from myself, here we go.
“Korean style spicy chicken wings.
1/2 to 3/4 cup of gochujang
2 tablespoons of dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of rice vinegar
2 teaspoons of sesame oil
1 teaspoon of grated or minced ginger
1/3 cup of diced green onions
5 cloves of garlic minced.
3 pounds of chicken wings cut into “drumettes” and “flats” with the tips removed
1 teaspoon of toasted sesame seeds
1 disposable aluminum pan. Seriously. Get the lasagne pan size not the big ass turkey cooking size.”
Mince the ginger and garlic.
These badass wings are called Gochujang wings for a reason. Let’s break that shit out!
We’ve talked this up before but gochujang is, according to the wikis, “A savory, sweet, and spicy fermented condiment popular in Korean cooking.”
It’s basically a red chili paste with some sweet and some funk and a hefty motherfucking kick of heat.
If you haven’t used it you can start fucking around with it by replacing your barbecue sauce with it, then the possibilities are endless. We’ve used it before and featured it before and I’ll keep saying the same shit I said before because this stuff is fucking awesome.
Please. Branch out and give this a go if you haven’t already.
You need to add some brown sugar for balance and to “cut” the gochujang a bit.
Doesn’t that shit look delicious already?
Get yourself some sesame oil.
Combine with the rice vinegar, garlic and ginger then mix everything together and you’ve got the wing sauce!
This shit is going to be so damn good.
Get some wings.
Already cut to flats and drums this time thereby eliminating any potential scars from the chicken butchery.
Put the wings in one of our handy 1 gallon zip top freezer bags and add in the sauce.
Combine.
Let mingle overnight.
With all of that sugar and gochujang and such, you really want to use one of these for the baking part. You would get a sticky-ass mess that wouldn’t even be worth an attempt to wash.
Save the misery and the cookware.
The choice for a side dish today was as easy a choice as I’ve ever had on this site.
If you are a wing person like myself, and I’m betting the vast majority of you good folks out there fall into this category, then you probably got a local wing spot – or two – and maybe even a big national chain that you may visit that serves wings with loaded tots.
It’s just a fucking perfect combination.
Now, since none of those big national chains actually pay my ass to speak for them, they can go fuck themselves. I’m sure you know the national chain or two I’m hinting about.
These tots can be super fucking simple and cheap to make at home too.
We can even use a shortcut or two if we want. Here’s one right here.
Also not a paying sponsor but as far as store bought quesos go this is a pretty solid one. Got a little bit of a kick but not too much and it’s got the “melt” we are looking for in the finished product.
The rest of this is easy as a motherfucker.
Get them tots ready for the oven.
Exactly. The frozen bag we all know. Follow directions to cook in the oven or shit man, you can fry them up too. Your call.
We will start cooking the wings first.
Take the wings out of the refrigerator a good hour or two before cooking so they reach room temperature,
Dump the wings and sauce into our disposable pan, then these will go in a preheated 350 degree oven for 20 minutes, after which we crank the heat to 425 and cook for 20 minutes more. You can also time your tots to finish at the same temp around the same time.
While they’re cooking, cook some bacon.
Extra crispy so it crumbles nicely.
Take the wings out of the oven after they’ve cooked.
That’s real pretty right there. Not to mention the smell. Use your olfactory imagination and take a big whiff.
Go ahead.
Garlic? Ginger, chilies? Ain’t that a motherfucker right there?
Damn right it is.
We do want to sexy them up a bit with some toasted sesame seeds.
Just toast these in a dry skillet for a few minutes until they impart a lovely toasty aroma.
Finally dice up your green onion. Both the green and white parts. Now here you have a choice. You can put the diced green onion both on the wings and the tots or one or the other or neither. We’re making this as easy as fucking possible cuz we’re pretending football is on TV or some shit.
You can also use this time to nuke a scoop or two of that queso to put on the tots in a second.
Plate it up!
And the typical close ups.
Wings first.
That big chunk in the middle that looks like a slab of ribs really is a wing, it’s just got some breast meat still attached and there’s NOTHING wrong with that!
The tots.
Yeah, you already know these damn things are going to kick some righteous ass.
This shit is a perfect balance. The wings are spicy, earthy, sweet, tangy and funky. They make your taste buds just fucking dance. Follow that with a crispy, cheesy, bacon-y tot. Add the sharp, fresh note of the green onion and well just, fuck.
This shit is ridiculous and it’s perfect football food!
It’s easy to make, can be eaten in front of the television and it requires many, many cold frosty adult beverages.
Is this not what you want for game day!?!
I certainly do.
We’re getting close kids. Only two more episodes of season ten of Sunday Gravy then we kick this motherfucking shit OFF!
Hell yes.
How about we get together again next Sunday?
Sound good?
I’ll see you then. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.
PEACE!
Going through 1200+ pages of medical records, (don’t drive drunk, kids), where the patient is described as “unresponsive to to verbal and painful stimuli,” which always makes me think of this classic:
Wings! Tots! Right again, Yeah Right!
Thank you.
It was glorious.
Trapped inside and I’m so bored I’m working.
Beats watching preseason football
I’d sit outside in the rain and read my steadily rotting newspaper before I did that.
Raining heavily here today, so good day to go to the gym early. On the way back I saw cars from Oklahoma, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida, and NY.
Which means it’s time for the good residents of Mansfield, CT to start complaining incessantly about the return of college students and the influx of cash and infrastructure they bring that allows us to have a functioning downtown instead of the empty fields and one-light ‘business districts’ (looking at you, Abington), that surround us.
Was your town named after Jayne? If so, that would be awesome!
If not, you should still have a statue of her in the town square.
Something tasteful like this:
It was incorporated in 1702 and named after Moses Mansfield, one the of earlier settlers who I can guarantee did not look as good in leopard print as Jayne did.
( I just looked up all that stuff, except the part about Moses Mansfield and leopard print, which is strictly hypothetical on my part)
That’s a pretty accurate depiction of our local history museum.
Re: Hippo’s comment earlier
Pep is retiring in Liga MX before really retiring in MLS. Book it.
Haaland is a claymation configuration by Aardman Animations of what a striker should look like.
Never gets old
https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-get-erling-haaland-banned-from-association-football-because-it-s-just-not-fair
Still 138 signatures short.
Probably due to Haaland haters not even knowing how to sign “X” as their name.
“Is he made of cheese? Asking for a friend.” -Mr. Wallace, Wigan
scotchy – are you and the doggie joining the Ole! shouts?
I’m a lover, not a shouter?
Take The Broom out once the game is in hand.
/a quibbling criticism
Man City brought Phil Foden in off the bench. I think they’re going to be ok.
/I’ve said it many times but I’m just not accustomed to this level of basic competency and success in teams that I have an interest in
It was like that for me watching the Celtics in the playoffs. I’m so used to expecting the bottom to fall out it was very strange to *not* expect it.
Oh, did you have to start Doku instead of Foden? And next week might start Foden instead of Doku?
Pity, that.
We invested, heavily, in a shed this summer. Wait, Mrs. Fozz invested heavily, because she was tired of hearing us scream like maniacs whenever Lamar tosses an interception.
But . . . it’s not finished yet (according to Mrs. Fozz). We need to put insultation up, we need to cover it with paneling, we need to put in a floor. We need to get electricity run to it instead of snaking extension cords all over the backyard. Can Italians be white trash? Apparently we can.
Here’s said shed:
Insulation? Can’t your wife just wear a hat? It’s not like she’s going to walk back to the shed in November without being bundled up in the first place.
It’s not like winters in Maryland are brutally cold. I dunno. I just shut up. I am Al Bundy.
It looks like Studio 54 if it was built by a developly-challenged Armenian on a very strict budget.
Not much room for dancing. hopefully not as much coke as was available at Studio 54
I mean, the amount of coke in that room is totally in your hands.
speaking of the beak, how much you reckon Ederson did this morning?
All of it? I mean, his fave actor is Christian Bale.
JJ FOZZ: Hey! Where’d all the coke go?
JIM IRSAY: [sniffling] I don’t know.
Well done. Mancave in progress.
Is that picture just woefully out of perspective, or is one of your sons bigger than two couches?
Which is handy, in case JD Vance comes around and needs to be fended off.
Doggo is trying to tag in that rasslin’ match.
[begins fantasizing about living in a similarly appointed palace] – Jim Tomsula
Do you guys use the Draft Hero Extension for FF?
I don’t mind playing around in-season and trading and making moves and stuff. You know, just focusing on my own team and ignoring the outside noise. I hate the draft part of this.
Yesterday was a pretty exciting day in the Deadly household because the Dr. Mrs. finally conquered her fear of the (Ikea equivalent) slap-chop. Does anyone else have one of these? I always felt a bit silly using it until I saw one of the contestants on Top Chef bust it out (without fanfare) but it really is incredibly useful.
Wife asked me if I wanted one but I find slicing vegetables to be a meditative thing to do. (for large dishes) As well, just because I’m a cooking nerd, I like doing the various cuts that have those fancy schmancy names.
Seems important to generate good muscle-memory for when you need to execute these fillets in a dimly-lit underpass.
No one in my discussion group understands why I oppose Infrastructure Week. More lighting on major throughways? Are you kidding me? They’re voting against their own best interests!
I would think that anyone who lives in the same neighborhood as you would have “more lighting” absolutely be in their best interest.
“And now we have the last motion before the board, which is to make people wear tap-dancing shoes when walking our streets at night….”
I had a version before (the blade was a W-shape that rotated a partial turn each slap) and it just didn’t work good — very good change I misused it — so I’d get a pile of carrots where the middle is marble-sized chops and the outside is puree. Tomatoes were a non-starter.
But, again, user error / I bought cheap stuff.
Mine is designed the same way but usually does a good job. I find that having the skin side down creates problems, if you avoid that you are usually golden. Also important not to overload it.
The exterior of Chelsea’s stadium looks like a tenement building that Fred Trump would prevent Blacks and Jews from living in.
I am getting more tatter tots tips this year which is greatly appreciated because I love tatter tots. Thanks Yeah Right, you have a great season going on here as usual. Appreciate your work Sir.
Verona getting set to take on Marika’s Napoli. I hope they have her on nationality tonight but if not… Just in case…
That’s such a better picture than the one with the fruit platter.
Antonio Pierce still hasn’t picked a Day 1 starter.
I feel like I’m the only one who has heard, “QUARTERBACK IS THE MOST IMORTANT POSITION IN FOOTBALL AND IF YOU DON’T HAVE A GOOD ONE, YOU’RE DOA!”
So here is my of-interest:
Do AI-generated Raiders articles get straight to this point and declare the Raiders dead in 15 words — or do they AI-it up for 600 words about “hopes”?
I don’t want to tell a certain commenter who her favorite player should be but, Doku is out there.
I read about him. Apparently, he’s an
“explosive dribbler.” Not in my house, sunshine!
Once you imagine Cole Palmer as “Simple Jack” from Tropic Thunder you really can’t unsee it.
HULKA, HULKA burning love!
/you can’t knock that guy off the ball
His balance is incredible. Might be his highest superpower.
City being awfully ballsy passing the ball thru the crease a few times.
HULK SMASH now with finesse???
I worry about The Broom getting older but then I think, “He doesn’t have any speed to lose”.
/my actual worry is that injuries will start to pile up though
at least his pale skin won’t fry in the Saudi desert. FOAR one last season, anyway.
Chelski have EIGHT keepers on the books. Hippo proposes they start a differernt feller between the sticks every week. Dunno if that would be rocking! but it sure would entertain ME.
What’s your notion/feeling regarding Pep and his future?
He’ll stay another 3-ish seasons.
I just wondered what a manager of his caliber would move on to when the ability to pay him is not an issue.
I mean, he can’t coach the Real Cuntfaces or Spanish national team (politics). Retirement gig at Monaco, or sommet like that? I think he’d be bored.
Saudi Premier Religious Police League?
Try to be calm but Man City is about to defend their three titles right now.
Does that include the 115 charges of various financial chicaneries they’re defending themselves against?
European Euros hero OG making an impact in League play!
whhhaaaaatttttt a friend we has in BEESUS.
Why is Yeah Right’s name LaserGuru on the linked original wings SG?
Also, a Korean family moved in a couple houses down. Nice people. The wife just feeds me and walks around cleaning whenever I am there. That’s pretty cool.
Laserguru was my original log in on the original WordPress. When it got upgraded i changed my log in to yeah right.
I’ve airways been yeah right and I’ve always been Laserguru.
Thanks for watching “Behind the Music.”
yeah right owns and operates the Jewish Space Lasers obvs. Teh peaces FIT!!!!1111
It was funny going on the Universal Studios Tour and they’re like, “these two Jewish guys did this then brought on another Jewish guy and they sold it later to a single Jewish guy who worked with Jewish guy, Jewish guy, and Jewish guy….”
and that’s not even teh SECRET ILLUMINATI version!
That’s basically what happens whenever my mother-in-law stays with us. And then the Dr. Mrs. gets mad at me for enjoying it.
You should tell her to be more like her mother.
And please film yourself doing that.
He should not.
Vikes ain’t tankin’
Vikings 2024 ended when Cousins walked.
It didn’t end, it evolved.
Why would we continue trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit?
Welp, need to update the Cowboys preview.
Again.
Beautiful training ground free kick there by Sunderland for the opening goal. I love when they show the replay of the manager and he pantomimes the little phantom header along with the player on the field. Whoops! 2-0!