On Wednesday’s our team wants to provide you with drink and appetizer recipes to save you some time before heading into the weekend! Everyone enjoys a good happy hour especially when you’re entertaining guests.

Be sure to check back every Wednesday for our happy hour recipes! Do you have any of your own recipes? We would love to hear them!

On today’s menu, our drink recipe will be a blackberry-cucumber vodka tonic and our appetizer recipe will be spicy wings, enjoy!

Blackberry-Cucumber Vodka Tonic:

• 4 slices cucumber

• 5 fresh blackberries

• 1 cup crushed ice

• 1 ½ ounces vodka

• 3 ounces tonic water

Muddle 3 slices of cucumber and 4 blackberries in the bottom of a rocks glass. Fill glass with crushed ice and add vodka. Top with tonic water and stir to combine. Garnish with remaining slice of cucumber and blackberry.

Spicy Wings:

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp freshly ground black pepper

• 1 ½ tbsp garam masala

• 2 tbsp salt

• 4 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp sugar

• 1.5 kg (3 pounds) chicken wings

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• Optional: lime and diced green onions for garnish

Pat chicken wings dry using paper towels. Make sure that they are as dry as possible. If you have any extra time, leave wings to dry out in the fridge for around an hour, uncovered.

1. Preheat the oven to 210C/410F. Line baking sheet with foil, or use parchment.

2. Mix salt, garam masala, baking powder and sugar in a large bowl. Add chicken wings into a bowl, drizzle olive oil on top and mix everything, making sure to cover the wings evenly.

3. Layer wings on a baking sheet, making sure they are not touching.

4. Bake for 30 minutes, flipping halfway through.

5. Serve with lime wedges, topped with chopped scallions.

Note: This recipe also works in an air fryer if preferred. Just add the wings in a single layer and cook on the highest heat setting for 15 minutes before flipping, and again for another 10- 15 minutes to finish cooking.