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Game Day Recipe Roundup: Chili
If you're having a bunch of people over to watch the game, nothing's easier and more satisfying than a big pot of chili. Whether you're going with ground beef, turkey, or a vegetarian version with just beans, we have all the recipes here. Some of them call for a drizzle of beer, others are enhanced by ground coffee beans, a splash of bourbon, and even anchovy filets. What are your special chili ingredients? Continue reading »
Game Day Recipe Roundup: Salsas and Dips
Yesterday we brought you guacamole recipes, but today we're opening it up to the greater dips genre. Spinach and artichoke, seven layer, and all the salsa varieties. Let the dipping begin! Continue reading »
Game Day Recipe Roundup: Guacamole
Ah, guacamole. The piece de résistance of the dips while you're glued to the game. One of my favorite press releases to receive all year is the one from the Hass Avocado Board (HAB) telling us how many pounds of 'cados we'll be consuming during Super Bowl festivities. This year: an estimated 69.6 million pounds. Here are some traditional and more experimental guacamole recipes. Adding bacon: blasphemy? Continue reading »
Game Day Recipe Roundup: Wings
Whichever team you're rooting for (or against) in the NFC and AFC championship games this weekend, we can all agree to be on Team Wing, right? This week we'll be rounding-up our favorite game day snacks leading up to the big Super Bowl. First up, wings! Continue reading »
Wing Week »
Wing Week: Chile Chicken Wings
Just when I thought I had the Wing Week, line-up all figured out, I was thrown for a loop when Erin sent me this recipe for chile hot wings from the new cookbook Michael's Genuine Food. I read the ingredient list and was immediately captivated—Thai sweet chile sauce mixed with tahini. The traditionalist in me couldn't fathom what this clash of cultures would taste like. I needed to know. Continue reading »
Wing Week: Old Bay Wings
That taste of the Maryland shore did wonders for the wings, which had only passing resemblance to hot wings. These are their own thing. The Worcestershire and Old Bay dominated, and it's a stellar combo. As I watched a Maryland native going from one wing to the next, with a finale of finger licking, I knew I had a winning recipe on my hands. Continue reading »
Wing Week: Habanero Barbecue Wings
Rubbed wings stay juicy and get a nicely browned skin after about 30 minutes of cooking over indirect medium-high heat, at which point barbecue sauce is applied and they start to caramelize. Another coating of sauce and some time directly over the coals creates the layers of sauce that I love—a little sticky, a little charred, and just overall delicious. Continue reading »
Wing Week: Extra-Crispy Thai Sweet and Spicy Wings
Double battered and fried, these extra-crispy wings' initial crunch gives way to a sweetness, then tang, and ends with a punch of heat—a combination that ensures every last one of them will be devoured. Continue reading »
Wing Week: Wings al Pastor
Al pastor on its own is pretty awesome, but on chicken wings—now that's something special. Guajillo and chipotle chiles give the baked wings an earthy heat, while pineapple, cilantro, and lime add freshness to create a combination that's hard to beat. This also marks our first post of Wing Week! Every day this week we'll be sharing a different non-Buffalo wing recipe for your Super Bowl parties next week. Continue reading »
Super Bowl Taste Tests »
Taste Test: Fast-Food Wings
So it's five minutes before the kick-off on Sunday and you're expecting a massive posse in your living room, and you only have one bowl of guacamole. To split 32 ways. Luckily you can always order fast-food wings. We tasted a mess of them with all different sauces (Buffalo, Honey BBQ, various spicy levels) from KFC, Domino's, Papa John's, Popeyes, and Pizza Hut. The winners, revealed. Continue reading »
Taste Test: Buffalo Wing Sauce
The basic components of Buffalo wing sauce are hot sauce and butter. Heat plus fat. But not just any old hot sauce will do. They've got to be made with the slightly thick, spicy but not blow-your-head-off, super vinegary stuff. We tried seven sauce variations in pursuit of the most finger-lickin' good. Continue reading »
Taste Test: Best Salsa
With Super Bowl ahead (and Cinco de Mayo and all the Taco Tuesdays), we were curious about store-bought salsas. So we tried 17 different brands and opened two bags of tortilla chips (edible spoons!). All of the the salsas were of "medium" heat level and tomato-based. Find out our five favorites here. Continue reading »
Taste Test: Kettle-Cooked Potato Chips
Even at their worst, kettle chips are a near-perfect snack. It's hard to go wrong with thin slices of potato fried to a crisp and doused in salt, and kettle chips, which are fried in small batches to facilitate greater control of oil temperature to optimize texture and flavor. The kettle cooking approach takes these perfect guilty treats to a new level of, um, perfection and guilt. Perhaps because there's so much to like about potato chips in general, it was difficult to pick a favorite variety out of 17 brands, a task made harder by the wide variety of salt, texture, and flavor preferences among tasters. Find out which brands won for most classic, most crunchy, most lard-filled, and more. Continue reading »
Taste Test: Hot Dogs
Ah, hot dogs. Meat tubes bursting with stars-and-stripes patriotism and, when they're good, a poppy snap with salty-garlicky-beefy juiciness. Even if you're not a "hot dog person" they just taste better on the Fourth. We went grocery shopping for the most nationally-available brands of all-beef franks, both skinless and with natural casing. Check out the results. Continue reading »
Taste Test: Baked vs. Fried Buffalo Wings
Can Buffalo wings be baked instead of fried and still retain all their finger lickin' flavor and crispy skin goodness? They sure can. Plus you won't have to stand over a pot of bubbling oil while everyone else is on the couch nursing a beer and watching the Super Bowl. Continue reading »
KFC's New Fiery Grilled Wings
If a secret fast-food constitution exists, I believe one of the laws would be "Food can claim to be spicy but not actually make a person break a sweat, let alone reach for a glass of water." Mass-marketed food can't get too high on the Scoville scale without turning off a huge audience, so we figured KFC's new Fiery Grilled Wings wouldn't be that crazy. Continue reading »
Taste Test: Spicy Chips
Between the abundance of college football bowls and NFL games on television right now, who doesn't want to dive into a bag of tasty chips while watching? And what could heighten the salty perfection of chips better than a dash of spice. Continue reading »
Drinks For the Super Bowl »
Fresh Margaritas
This recipe uses the International Bartenders Association's ratios of tequila, cointreau, and citrus juice, which makes a pretty strong margarita. Feel free to add extra syrup or to water it down some to suit your own tastes. Continue reading »
Time for a Drink: The Smash
Described by bartender Jerry Thomas in 1862 as "a julep on a small plan," the Smash has all the things I love about a julep, with much less of the hassle. And even better, the smash is flexible: While forests have been decimated to create the paper on which countless screeds concerning the One True Way to make a julep have been printed, the Smash can go whichever way you choose--it's equally good made with bourbon, rye, brandy, or a good aged rum. Continue reading »
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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Party Spreads
Last week for our Weekend Cook and Tell we asked all of you to share your Game Day menus for a challenge we called Super Bowl Spreads. Judging by the menus that all of you served last weekend, it looks like you more than covered the spread. Let's take a look at some of our favorites. Continue reading »
An Ode to RoTel Queso (Plus 4 Things You Can Do with RoTel)
Wow. Y'all really like RoTel, huh? I know how you feel, because I love the stuff, too. Mostly because it's the key ingredient in one of my favorite easy-to-make, last-minute party dips: RoTel-powered queso. Continue reading »
Need Super Bowl Snack Ideas?
Still looking for recipes to serve at your Super Bowl party (or someone else's)? Head on over to our Game Day Headquarters for guacamole, salsa, wings, chili, and every other kind of party snack you can dream of. Recipes right this way! »
Watch ESPN's Top 5 Super Sunday Moments (Made from Food)
This is pretty neat. ESPN released this stop-motion animation of its favorite Super Bowl moments — made of food. I especially like the Santonio Holmes made-of-pizza bit at 0:35, and the portrait of Drew Brees and his son from Super Bowl XLIV. [via @DetectiveFisch] Continue reading »
The Super Bowl of Food: Pittsburgh vs. Green Bay
It's Super Bowl time, and at Serious Eats, that means the same showdown we do every year: which team wins for the best food city? This year, we'll give each city a wide berth—say, 150 miles, or until you encroach on another team's territory. After all, Packers fans don't just live in Green Bay. So if delicious foods were predicting the Super Bowl score, how would the game play out? Follow along with us, quarter by quarter. Continue reading »
Taste Test: Fast-Food Wings
So it's five minutes before the kick-off on Sunday and you're expecting a massive posse in your living room, and you only have one bowl of guacamole. To split 32 ways. Luckily you can always order fast-food wings. We tasted a mess of them with all different sauces (Buffalo, Honey BBQ, various spicy levels) from KFC, Domino's, Papa John's, Popeyes, and Pizza Hut. The winners, revealed. Continue reading »
French in a Flash (Super Bowl): Hotdog Vol-au-Vent
There is definitely something rustic-glam about making your own pigs in a blanket, replete with sweet onion Dijon mustard, and light-as-air puff pastry. Gone by halftime—promise! Continue reading »
SE Staff Picks: Favorite Party Snacks
With Super Bowl on the mind, we were chatting at SEHQ about our favorite snacks to serve or bring to a party. Whiskey wieners, bacon guacamole, Popeye's fried chicken, fried eggplant balls, and more picks from all of us here! If you host a party and serve any of these, you will probably make more friends. What are your go-to recipes? Continue reading »
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The Great Fast-Food Wings Taste Test
In preparation for the big game, we ordered a mess of wings from the big chains: Domino's, KFC, Popeyes, Pizza Hut, and Papa John's. Braving the threat of orange fingernails, we found the spiciest, the slimiest, the all-around most delicious, and the most edible blue cheese sauce for dunking.
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