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Doritos and wine.

Went to a party at a gloriously palacial home - unfortunately owned by two non-foodies. The hostess could not find her way around a baked pasta - it was mushy and tasteless. Luckily, a guest brought baby back ribs that were TDF. I brought Nutella Brownies - Definitely a high point.

Regardless of the bad food, we had a great time and it was good to meet some of our neighborhood-mates.

Nothing, we had dinner at 5:30. My husband is superstitious and he thinks we will lose if we have food out during the game.

bobcatsteph3, I'm glad to hear your happy for our boys. I hope the Browns are in the Super Bowl someday, good luck with the new coach. Our new coach won the Super Bowl!

Steak chili that had been cooking for hours, corn bread, Oreo fudge cookie brownies, and grapefruit and peach (from home canned peaches) martinis.

I went over to a friends house and I made the Cincinnati Chili from Cook's Illustrated, pasta to serve it over, and also made the CI cornbread to accompany it. It was ready to go by the beginning of the second half. Oh, and we each had one of the Trader Joe's cups of exotic chocolate ice cream from the pack of four different ones for dessert.

Ugh! I made heart attack pizza and drank cheap wine. I can still feel it today, 24 hours later.

I was invited to a potluck party, so I made a pot of homemade chili, red velvet mini-cupcakes and the blue-cheese bacon dip featured on SE a couple days ago - all came out fantastic.

But, I was SO disappointed, cause I loooove seven layer dip, and I kept thinking "well, I won't waste my time/money making that, surely someone will bring a seven layer dip. it's practically super bowl religion." Well... no seven layer dip. :( Like most of the people here, I don't eat stuff like that very often, so I was really looking forward to a one-day indulgence. Bummer.

Ate way too much! I made crunchy jalapeno bites, jalapeno cream cheese filled wontons, seven layer dip and pizza bites. Ohhh they were so good, but I probably should've paced myself a little better, I was still full this morning when I woke up. :)

I served items form my Superbowl Snack-a-thon at:
http://savorthethyme.blogspot.com/

Ended up snowboarding until halftime, so it was take-out burritos from my favorite spot. Was worth it because no one was on the mountain!
I'm looking forward to eating my leftover burrito nub when I get home, but wondering how to heat it up. I don't have a microwave. Would the toaster oven work, or should I just eat it cold?

My mom has a "Cake Doctor" book, which is all recipes that involve adding things to cake mixes. I recently made a rum cake with yellow cake mix and vanilla pudding mix (not a real rum cake, I know), and my co-workers raved about it -- especially the rum-pecan glaze I made with brown sugar and butter. And I'm crazy, but I love the batter. I like homemade best, but the results can be mixed. Sometimes the cake comes out too small or too dry.

I bake some pretty big birthday cakes and use Moist deluxe only. Usually 4 mixes divided into 2 big pans.Forget the tubs, I make a peanut butter/cream cheese whipped mousse filling, A milk chocolate frosting made with hershey kisses then covered with a chocolate ganache. For a good size birthday party there isn't a crumb left. It prob. weighs in at 25lbs or so!!!! Requested all the time.

How do you compare all box mixes when your control cake is made using the "lighter" version and iced? And then you want to compare it to a lemon bar mix or a crepe mix...how do you compare those to an iced marble fudge cake?

You are just doing taste tests of different box mixes, which will be interesting and helpful when in a pinch, but you can't use your "control" cake for comparisons.