Champagne Punch

Served at Matt and Liz's engagement party.

Ingredients:

• 1 12 ounce can lemonade frozen concentrate
• 1 12-ounce can orange juice frozen concentrate
• 1 12-ounce can limeade frozen concentrate
• 2 2-liter bottles ginger ale
• Approximately 1 cup mixed berries
• Approximately 2 liters champagne (Used Freixenet Brut 1.5 L bottle)

Instructions:

1. Make an ice ring using 1 bottle ginger ale and mixed berries.
2. Thaw frozen juice concentrates.
3. In a large punch bowl, combine the 3 cans of juice concentrates with ginger ale.  Pour in Champagne.  Add ice ring.

Buffalo Wings in the Slow Cooker

I first made this for Matt and Liz's surprise engagement party!

Ingredients:

• 4-5 pounds frozen wings
• 1 cup Franks Hot Sauce
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 6 tablespoons honey

Instructions:

1. Place frozen wings in slow cooker
2. Mix together the rest of the ingredients; pour over wings.  Stir to coat.
3. Cook on low setting for 6-7 hours or high for 3 hours
4. Remove wings and set aside.
5. Pour sauce into saucepan and reduce over medium heat until thick and reduced by at least half.
6. Meanwhile return wings to slow cooker and keep warm.
7. Pour sauce reduction over wings and toss to coat.
8. Place well coated wings on a cookie sheet (for easy cleanup use foil or parchment paper) and broil for 4 minutes.  Turn and broil an additional 3 minutes.
9. After draining extra sauce, return broiled wings to the slow cooker to keep warm for serving.

Note:

I cook the wings and reduce the sauce one day and refrigerate both overnight.  The next day I warm the wings in the slow cooker, skim fat from the sauce reduction, and pour over the wings. Once wings and sauce are warm and wings are well coated, I broil them.