Oven Baked Hot & Spicy Chicken Wings

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Basketball season is upon us. We are a big sports family and we get together often to watch basketball games, especially the playoffs and the college games now in March. We always cheer for our hometown teams and always eat lots of food. One recipe I always make for game watching parties is oven baked hot & spicy chicken wings! These wings are a family favorite, especially because they are baked, not fried.

Like most recipes I share on the blog, these wings are very simple to make. I like easy. I cannot do a complicated recipe because let's face it, we all have other things we could be doing other than standing over our kitchen counters. These wings do have a long cooking time but you can be doing other things while they bake in the oven.

Oven Baked Hot & Spicy Chicken Wings

Prep time: 2 hours

Cooking Time: 1 hour

Serves 8

Ingredients:

2-3 lbs chicken wings (cut into wing and drumstick pieces)

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp cayenne pepper

1 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/2 tsp dried parsley

1 tsp tabasco sauce

1 cup hot buffalo sauce

In a medium sized bowl, add chicken wing pieces, flour, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, salt, black pepper, dreid parsley and tabasco sauce. Toss to coat. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for at least one hour, preferably two. 

Remove from refrigerator and re-toss chicken pieces in bowl. 

My preferred method for baking wings so they come out crispy all over is to bake on a wire rack. If you don't have a wire rack, line a baking pan with aluminum foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place wings on wire rack or baking pan, move to middle rack in oven and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour. If you bake on a wire rack, make sure to place the wire rack over a drip pan. Turn wings half way during cooking to insure even crisping.

After baking, remove wings from oven. In a bowl, add your hot buffalo sauce. Then, dip each wing in the buffalo sauce, coat evenly and set on a serving dish. 

Serve wings with a ranch or bleu cheese dip. These wings will be very spicy!

When serving spicy foods to your guests, be sure to keep some essentials handy such as Nexium 24HR capsules. Nexium 24HR, is the new #1 selling frequent heartburn brand* (based on IRI sales data 52 weeks ending 11/1/15 among OTC brands. May take 1 to 4 days for full effect. Use as directed.)

Keep your guests comfortable while they are at your home watching games. Keep your house stocked with yummy foods and all the basketball essentials you might need. Walmart is the best place to go to get everything you need for this basketball watching season. (Psst: click here to save money on all Pfizer essentials)

Tell me: Do you take part in all the March basketball craziness? What's your go-to recipe for game-watching?

Opening Night Amazingness!!!

Last night was one of the funnest nights I have had in a long time. If you follow me on Instagram (@scggirl) you already know that we went to the opening night Miami Heat vs Washington Wizards game for the 2014-2015 season. On top of being there for opening night, it was Adrian's first Heat game. We decided that this was the year where we would start taking him to games and opening night an early birthday gift for him (his birthday is November 10th). We made the right decision! I have never seen him so happy and nervous!

Warning: Most pics are phone pics!!

First thing, we rode on the train. He had been asking me to ride the train for years now but there was never really an occasion to take him. By the way, the train is the Metrorail, an above ground rail train that took us to downtown Miami where the American Airlines Arena is. Way easier than driving downtown, paying $30-40 for parking and then being stuck in traffic.

When we arrived at the arena, I took this picture. This picture will be printed out and framed for sure!

The tickets we purchased for opening night included an early access pass. We went to one of the back entrances and were allowed into Section 112 at around 6pm to watch the players warm up!

Adrian is a BIG Birdman fan so he was super excited when Birdman came out to warm up!

I wanted to make this night extra special for Adrian so I made sure he was part of the High Five Club!

The High Five Club is an experience for the kids. They get to line up on the court and high five the players as they come out to the court for the game! I wasn't able to go down there with him but I was able to download these pics from the HEAT fan site.

Adrian is int he row on the right, sixth kid. If you look closely, he looks terrified! 

When they brought him back to me, he was ecstatic. "Mommy, I touched Dwayne Wade's hand! and Mommy, Birdman is bigger than last time!" He had met Birdman before! Maybe he grew a few inches? LOL!

After that it was gametime. Adrian was able to keep up with the game but since he had never been to a basketball game before, he just looked and listened for a bit. When he figured out that you could yell and trash talk, it was on!! Definitely saw a new side to him last night, unruly sports fan!

We had a wonderful time! The Heat beat the Wizards 107-95. It was a great opening night game. I'm hoping Adrian is old enough to remember this special day for years to come, I know I will!!!

Have you taken your kids to a basketball game? 

Yay It's Friday!

Happy Friday!! I have been on my game this week. I'm getting stuff done. I'm making a big deal because I'm usually the one behind every one else! I have a super busy weekend planned but first, my Friday randoms!!

1. There has been Halloween decor going up at home. Little by little, it will all be up this weekend! The banner is from Michael's, the spider from Wal-Mart, the mantle cloth from JoAnn and the rest from Dollar Tree, just in case you were wondering!

2. We went to IKEA over the weekend. The IKEA we went to just opened and it's only about 30 minute away so you know we had to go check it out! I was walking around trying to find the perfect couch and when I look back, this is what I saw:

Really? They were supposed to be helping with the couch search! Ugh!

3. I love football season but we are a sports family and JC is a BIG basketball fan so we need to make sure we spread over time evenly among sports. The NBA season starts Oct 29 for the Miami Heat and we already bought our Opening Day tickets! Oh and even more exciting, Adrian is going to be one of the kids that gets to high-five the players as they come onto the court. It's part of his birthday surprise!! I didn't forget about football though, my brother and I will be at the Dolphins vs/ Vikings game in December!!

4. Have you guys seen all the amazing boots currently on Zulily? I bought these, only $29.99, and can't wait to wear them!!

5. Just curious: How many pumpkin spice lattes have you actually had? I've had ONE! Just one! I work by a bunch of coffee shops yet have been too lazy to go get more! I will definitely have some this weekend and some pumpkin ale at the Pumpkin Patch!!

What are you up to this weekend?

As always, I am linked up with all these amazing ladies:

 

Super Saturday

Super Saturday is the perfect way to describe this past Saturday. It was the type of day that any parent with kids dreads, the "everyone has an event I need to be at" type of day! Thankfully, all the events were at different times throughout the day. Adrian had basketball playoffs in the morning, Gian had his Kindergarten graduation in the afternoon and Amberly was exhibiting an art piece in a gallery in the evening. In between all this, there was outfit changes and JC had to work. Oh, the joys of family!

Let's start with Adrian. Saturday morning were his basketball playoffs. His team "the Dragons" were in second place coming into the playoffs and unfortunately, they lost the championship game. The Dragons remained in second place closing out the season. Rank doesn't really matter in his league anyway, so after the game, it was trophy time!!

Of course, Adrian is the clown on the team.

After basketball, quick showers and outfit changes and off to Gian's graduation. The ceremony was held at his school. About 16 students were graduating. He attends a small private school. He behaved amazing and we were so proud to find out that he made Principal Honor Roll meaning he was on honor roll all 4 grading periods. He is such a smart boy!

I got a real genuine smile out of him (rarely happens!)

In the evening, we went out to support Amberly artistic talents. Man, this girl is amazing!! I wish I had a quarter of her talent. I don't know of many 8-year olds that are able to display their art in a gallery in Wynwood. We arrived before she did, her mom was bringing her to the gallery. JC was a nervous wreck scanning all the walls looking for her piece. I spotted it and he quickly relaxed. I think he thought they had forgotten her piece back at the studio. There was a band playing, local kids/teens playing awesome music. Amberly arrived a little after us and I will never forget her reaction at walking into a gallery full of people with a band playing. Pure joy! She was in her zone. 

This was the student wall. 

Amberly's piece was created in chalk pastel. I told you she was talented!! Hers was the only chalk pastel in the whole gallery, everyone else had painting or drawings in pencil. 

Ana, the director of the gallery and the Art Atelier, the studio where Amberly takes her art lessons. We are so grateful for Ana inviting Amberly to display a piece at the gallery!

All in all, it was a crazy but amazing day. Each child was allowed to have their moment to shine! I am so proud of each of them, individually and together supporting each other! 

Harlem Globetrotters Summer Skills Clinic - Save $10

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. I received admission to my local summer skills clinic in exchange for this post.

We are a basketball family. We watch it on TV, root for our hometown team, Adrian plays pee-wee basketball and hopes to go pro one day! It's a super serious sport and takes lots of practice and determination to succeed. There is also a fun side to basketball and that's the Harlem Globetrotters. They are amazing. On top of their nation-wide tour, they host a Summer Skills Basketball Clinic for kids. Luckily, they will be making a stop in Miami in July and you know we will be there.

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