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From our Food Goddess, TaMara:
It’s that time again. Super Bowl Sunday, when you sit down to stuff your face with favorite snack foods, drink beer and watch the Super Bowl Commercials. I think there is some football in there somewhere. What’s on your Super Bowl party menu? Do you make your own snacks or go for the quick and reliable chips and dips? Need some ideas for quick and easy snacks?
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You can’t go wrong with nachos – easy and easy to pile high with your favorites ingredients. Here’s rather healthy (?) version: Black Bean and Corn Nachos, JeffreyW gets a little more creative with his pizzas, here, here and here (the man does love a good pizza).
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I’ll never turn down nachos, or pizza for that matter, but when I was thinking about favorite party foods, tortilla pinwheels came up pretty quickly. So many things you can do with them. Four variations follow.
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Now it’s your turn, what are you planning on making this Sunday and more importantly what beer are you serving? Who has the best recipe for hot wings, a football must have food? (Up next week: Slow Cooker/Crock-Pot ideas)
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Basic Tortilla Pinwheels
* 1 (8 ounce) package whipped cream cheese
* 10 (10 inch) flour tortillas
* 1/2 cup green onions, chopped
* 1/4 cup black olives, chopped (optional)
* 3/4 cup chopped ham slices
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You spread the ingredients on the tortillas, roll them up and slice them into 1 inch pinwheels. Couldn’t get much easier.
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So how do we add some dazzle? Flavored tortillas and a variety of fillings.
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Here are some ideas I had:
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Jalapeño & Cilantro Tortillas and Black Bean Tortillas
* Cream Cheese
* Pickled jalapenos
* Sliced green chilies
* Turkey
* Salsa
* Black olives
* Shredded cheddar cheese
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Roasted Red Pepper Tortillas and Sun-dried Tomato & Basil Tortillas
* Cream cheese mixed with crushed roasted garlic
* Spinach
* Pepperoni
* Grated parmesan
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Plain Tortillas and Whole Wheat Tortillas
* Cream cheese
* All-fruit style strawberry preserves
* Crushed red pepper flakes
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The list is endless, limited only by your creativity.
Raven
Take the giant Amberjack filets from the honker you caught Thanksgiving. Brine them for a couple of hours. Slap em on the Cajun Cooker Water Smoker for about an hour. Mix grated cabbage with mayo and Tabasco Chipotle to taste. Heat the torts. Feeeessssshhhh Tacos!
Mnemosyne
Something I learned from Alton Brown — buy the “scoops” tortilla chips, put a spoonful of chili and sprinkle of cheese in each one and then bake. Nacho yumminess that doesn’t end up in your lap.
Just Some Fuckhead
That looks good enough to eat! God, BHF, we were made for each other, you with the food, me with the appetite. You could sit beside my bed and feed me, and periodically clean out my fat rolls, and soothe me when the crane was lifting me out of the house for my doctor’s checkups. It could be special.
abo gato
I am going to make this recipe that I saw in the NYT a couple of weekends ago….
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/magazine/the-bo-ssam-miracle.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=sunday%20magazine%20pork%20recipe&st=cse
Have not made it before, but it sounds wonderful and it seems like a great party food…..make it and have it available for people to eat as they wish.
Violet
Superbowl Sunday is the one and only time each year I allow myself to make classic queso: Velveeta and a can of Rotel tomatoes. Microwave until warm. Disgusting and delicious. I can’t wait.
Cat Lady
I’d eat that.
Fonda Nachos
I like my nachos with black beans, white cheese & sour cream
Violet
I’m not going to a Superbowl party. Just staying home. So no party food. Just food for me. It’ll be junk food, though.
MikeJ
My superbowl food:
Smoked salmon
bbq sauce
on nachos
mmmmmm.
MikeJ
@abo gato: I made that bo saäm the week the NYT printed it. Excellent. Nice that the local Korean supermarket had people willing to translate labels for the white guy.
Mnemosyne
My Superbowl party is going to a cooking boot camp at a local cooking school. Their ratings on Yelp aren’t great, so I’m a little nervous, but hopefully all will go well.
I want to try and hit a giant yarn sale on the way, but we’ll see. I’ll only have about half a hour between when the doors open and when I’ll have to leave for my class.
lamh35
ok, so flip side of eating good food is staying healthy, I’m gonna post this video because 1) it’s awesome, and 2)I don’t know ’bout anybody else, but it makes me wanna get fit
Push ups: FLOTUS vs Ellen Degeneres
Linkmeister
I make this nice and simple crab dip every year.
galileo126
Oh man, thanks! I miss when one of the Juicers post recipes! It’s been a long time – my cycle of food is getting ‘stale’, and I need ideas.
Anne Laurie? Got any food thingies? It’s been a while. John (or John’s Dad’s recipes) ?
Good food makes boosts morale – what say Juicers? Give it up!
Gali
Elmo
What, no love for cocktail weenies? Wrap in Pillsbury Croissants and bake. Best. Snack. Evar.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh35: If I’m not mistaken, you posted that a day or so ago at the tag-end of a dying thread. But it was insomnia time in the Duinne household and I clicked. Holy shit those ladies are fit! Have been an Ellen fan for years and am second to none in my admiration of the FLOTUS, so this is pretty much perfection for me. Thanks for the link.
HRA
Last week we had a family birthday party with “snack” food. Most impressive was a casserole baked dip of chopped hot peppers with the cream cheese filling usually found in the whole stuffed hot peppers that is the latest rage here in the home of the original chicken wings. There was a chicken wing dip, too. Second place goes to a meat filling made with filo leaves.
The Super Bowl party is now (after the nest was emptied) Sunday dinner with a special dessert and maybe a special snack as well.
galileo126
To Elmo:
Cocktail weenies…Simple, unsophisticated awesome.
The key is the choice of mustard (yellow, brown, German whole grain, Dijon)? I’m one of those NK-17’ers. “No Ketchup on dogs after the age of 17.”
Heh.
TaMara (BHF)
@Just Some Fuckhead: I hate to break it to you, but that picture is JeffreyW’s so…
But other than that, wow what an offer. ;-)
The prophet Nostradumbass
For some reason I no longer remember, on Super Bowl Sunday, my brother and I usually do some grilled Korean-style short ribs. Marinade recipe:
1 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup sugar
2 sliced green onions
1 tablespoon white sesame seeds
2 tablespoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons gochujang
Just combine all of that stuff, and marinate the Korean-cut short ribs in it for an hour or so, then grill them on a charcoal barbecue. The marinade can be saved, and boiled for a few minutes, to be used as a sauce. Good served with rice.
TaMara (BHF)
I am sick in bed with a lingering cold and the beginnings of a blizzard have begun outside my window. I’m afraid you are all on your own tonight as I contemplate moving to Bali.
Just Some Fuckhead
@TaMara (BHF): JeffreyW is a little cooktease.
Cacti
Serving:
Smoked tri tip sammiches (woods are mesquite and pecan).
Libation:
Paulaner Hefeweizen
Elie
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
I ccan work with this — thanks!
And I am so happpy to have Thursdays with Tamara again!
Bob2
Hey Cole or DougJ or someone?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202
Can you guys bump this rollingstone article somewhere too? I agree with the Komen exposure, but this could use a bump.
Also, lol at HRC honoring Goldman Sachs.
http://www.change.org/petitions/hrc-theres-no-honor-for-goldman-sachs
Blah I hope this doesn’t get caught in the filter.
Bob2
Also, Ellen not fired by JC Penney.
ruemara
You must be sending out some Mexican food vibes, Tamara, I got a new batch of kids tonight from Kunming and whipped up spicy tacos for them. Well, I’m at work, the mate gets to warm up the taco filling and introduce them to constructing your own damn taco.
food processor chopped onion and pepper pan fried with my reserve of lamb lard (shut up, it smells delicious). A cup of precooked black beans, half a cup of vegetarian soyrizo. Cook til all is tender and soft. Toss in about a table spoon of nutritional yeast for a cheesy flavour, season. When ready, add to tacos filled with lettuce, top with shredded cheese, fresh guac. I heard they ate a couple, which is a good thing. By the time I get home, they will probably be heading to bed. I also heard we are lame because we have no ps2.
I think I will make the pinwheel sammies for them for the busy Saturday and Sunday we will all have. I’m filming both mornings for a friend’s short and my own short. Poor Mr. He will be doing all the entertaining of the kidlets by himself.
Bruce S
I know that Jeebus stuff probably isn’t terribly popular around here, but “speaking of feeding the hungry,” Prez kicked some serious butt this morning at the NatPrayerBreakfast (yeah, I know – it was started by creepy cultmiesters), rocking some deep spiritual values and very explicitly drawing a clear line between his vision of society and moral responsibility vs. the diffident musings of a certain guy from Bain…
http://titanicsailsatdawn.blogspot.com/2012/02/for-whom-much-is-given-much-is-required.html
Yutsano
One must have guacamole with nachos. And zero excuse to not make your own:
4 Hass avocadoes
1/2 red onion, diced
1 tomato, chopped
1 jalapeno, seeded and minced
1 lime
2 cloves garlic, grated
1/4 bunch cilantro, finely chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Slice avocadoes on half, then remove flesh from skin. In a large bowl, mash avocado halves with the juice from the lime. Add in the remaining ingredients and stir well until thoroughly combined. Leave on counter at room temperature for at least one hour before either serving or refrigerating. Amazingly delicious and fresh!
Anon
WTF is with all that cream cheese?