This recipe is one of very few ways I’ve found to get crispy skins on wings without deep-frying them. Note that the lack of a deep fryer doesn’t make these healthy per se, but it certainly makes the cleanup easier.

For a traditional buffalo-style sauce, try this.

This is the result of a confluence of me being on a rosemary kick and my mother being on a quest for the shortbread cookies of her youth—solid and crisp when you’re handling them, but sandy when you bite into them. The trick to getting that texture turns out to be replacing some of the flour …