Super Bowl Snacks

Wow, it’s already Super Bowl weekend. That snuck up on me. One of the things I love about Super Bowl Sunday is all the yummy snacks that I get to make. Usually I have a plan. This year I have none. I think finger foods are key. I usually like to make a few dips. I often make different kinds of meatballs. I’ve done a taco bar, wings, hot roast beef. There are so many fun options. Here are a few things I am thinking of making this year.

Of course there will be lots of beer on Sunday. But here is a little twist on that to offer a fun cocktail – The Michelada, a beer-based cocktail. I have seen these made a couple of different ways. One common recipe contains Worcestershire Sauce and Hot Sauce. I like it better and find it more refreshing when it is lime based.

RECIPE: Micheladas

• 2 limes
• 1 bottle beer
• 1 beer mug
• coarse salt
• ice

1. Rub a lime wedge around the rim of a beer mug and dip and in salt.
2. Add ice to mug.
3. Juice 2 limes and and pour juice into the bottom of the beer mug.
4. Top with beer and serve.

Chili is a great winter/football food. Biscuit chili-cups are a great way to make it a finger food.

RECIPE: Chili Cups

• 1 Muffin Baking Pan
• cooking spray
• 1 package of prepared biscuit dough (the kind that comes in a tube)
• 1 recipe of your favorite chili.
• Cheddar or Monterey Jack Cheese, grated
• sour cream

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. Pull apart the biscuit rounds.
3. Spray the outside bottom base of the muffin cups with cooking spray.
4. Shape each dough round around the outside of each muffin cup.
5. Place muffin pan upside down on a cookie sheet so the biscuit dough rounds are facing up. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
6. Remove from the oven. Let cool slightly and pull each biscuit cup off the muffin pan.
7. Fill with hot chili and top with cheese and a dollop of sour cream. Serve

I think this year I am going to make Tequila-Lime Drumsticks in place of wings.

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