Wings!

We played around with some chicken wings on the day before the Super Bowl, and I think we've got a winner. In our opinions, you want wings that are very crispy and flavorful while coated in a rich and spicy wing sauce. Here's our secret for that.
Buy a package of wings and go through them, using a very sharp cook's knife to cut them at each of the two joints per wing. Take the wing tips and toss them into a stock for later with some of the Trinity (carrot, onion, celery) and some relevant spices. Now your wing pieces are ready for breading and deep frying, which is the best way to get them super-flavorful and super-crispy. Now, I don't generally counsel cooking all your food in a deep fryer, but for some things it seems essential, and this is one of them. So fill your deep fryer with peanut oil and set it on 375 F (170 C).
While the oil is heating, bread the wings. The key to successful breading is a mnemonic I think of as "FEC;" as in, "I know what the FEC I'm doing." FEC stands for flour, egg, crumbs. Dust each wing with flour, dip it in beaten egg, and roll it in bread crumbs. You can get creative with the crumbs, use crumbs from your own sourdough, from garlic bread, from graham crakers, corn flakes, whatever you have. Place them in the fryer basket until it is full in one layer.
Drop the basket and fry the breaded wings for about 10 minutes. While they are frying, prepare the wing sauce, using equal parts butter, honey, and red pepper sauce. In the Northeast and in Buffalo they use Frank's Red Hot sauce, but you can use anything. I love a Mexican hot sauce called Cholula. Heat this mixture until liquid, and toss the freshly fried and drained wings in it. After the wings are coated, remove them from the sauce with tongs and place on a serving platter. Serve immediately, and continue processing additional batches. If you make enough sauce at the beginning you can re-heat it to coat each batch of wings as they come out of the fryer and are drained for a minute or two.
This recipe is quite simple when you read it through and it is delicious. Mette is no fan of chicken wings, having grown up in a non-Superbowl-loving country, but she pronounced these the best she has ever eaten, and she loves them. Our friend Sharon, who has not missed a Super Bowl since she was four, and is a huge fan of wings, pronounced these "killer" and said I have to post them. So good luck and enjoy.