We clean up the deck, break out the deck chairs and table, complete with umbrella and bright and summery tablecloth. Also, our meals are simpler–we grill eggplant, zucchini (usually a humongo beast from our garden), bell peppers, and disks of sweet red onion, and some of the best chicken wings ever conceived.
Now a few words about these grilled chicken wings–first, we’ve been making them for a solid 20 years. They are a staple of our summer dinner table to the point that the first wing grill of the season is actually an observance in our family. But MOST notable is that they only require three ingredients–chicken wings, salt, and pepper.