Essay Sample on Honey Garlic Chicken Wings

Introduction

I have loved chicken wings for as long as I can remember. However, there was only one method my mother utilized, and that was deep frying. I still appreciate fried chicken wings, but that method of preparation has become archaic and very lacking, to say the least-it is probably the same thing people did three thousand years ago. At the moment, my favorite food is an upgrade of fried wings: the honey garlic chicken wings topped with baked potatoes.

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My account of where I bumped across the honey-garlic chicken wings recipe is quite faded. However, the recipe can be found on the internet. Honey garlic chicken wings are primarily chicken wings baked to a crisp and after that doused in a thick, boiled paste of honey and soy source. To ensure the flavor is even more tantalizing and to achieve the pervading aromatic essence characteristic of this dish, ginger, pepper and of course garlic is added to the paste.

The honey garlic chicken wings always bring about reminiscences of that first Christmas right after high school graduation. It was a holiday spent mostly indoors even with the fleecy-white backyard and the prospect of trumps in the cedars out back. However, there was a sledding expedition to take place later that afternoon with a few high school friends. That Christmas, a lonely one as it was, was when I experimented with the honey-garlic chicken dish and it proved a success. Sitting by the large bay window overlooking the front porch, I took a bite of my late, solitary lunch. There was an explosion of flavors as my taste buds tried to decipher what it was I had just ingested. The chicken was spicy, courtesy of the pepper, without being hot or overwhelming, sweet but not distinctively so. The bittersweet feeling that comes when high school is no more, and you are about to leave childhood behind, both the sadness for what is past and excitement for what to come. It all comes back to me every time as if woven in the fabric of my being. Talk of first impressions! I can yet feel the sticky sensation of the chicken wing in my fingers although I have held many more ever since.

Of late there has been further experimentation with the honey-garlic chicken dish, just enough to accentuate the flavors and aroma but too much to the point it loses its essence. One of the latest aromatic additives is chopped cilantro or parsley leaves garnish, or a sprinkle of cardamom.

I always find the chicken wings not complete without a baked potato to go with. Both foods have a primary requirement of having crisp skins with a tender, wholesome interior. In my estimation, potatoes carry the fragrance of fresh, moist earth with them. Once baked, the scents of soil blend together with the tangy of a crisp outer layer. And the taste of a baked potato certainly never disappoint its evocative aroma. The glorious, creamy sweetness just past the crunchy skin is what you need to make the honey-garlic chicken experience memorable.

Conclusion

The phrase 'we are what we eat' is ridiculous, demeaning even, but perhaps the things we eat leave little imprints which make up a certain part of us. The term 'chicken wings' is mundane; it is a common food enjoyed by many. Some may love it and some may not. But to me, it is not just my favorite food; it is tied to memories that shape my past.