Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Had any of you snarks looked at this magazine before you attacked? It has excellent recipes and decorating ideas. There is a middle ground between Julia Child and McDonald's. I cannot believe how many negative comments were entered. What a bunch of snobs.

And here's an idea! If you don't like her -- DON'T WATCH HER. No brainer. But then many of you seem to be no brainers.

I personally am subscribing.

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!

Pittsburgh is our hometown and now we live near Tampa so we attended an awesome tailgate party right down the street from the stadium. There was a variety of food but I took two dishes of Robin's (Big Red Kitchen) Jalapeno Popper Dip and three dozen hungarian sausages from Geir's German Market.

They like the Steelers, but they LOVED me~~!! They ate everything and almost licked the bowls!

I'm pretty sure that most people who watch her show are doing it for the comedy. I know I do. Her Christmas shows are a holiday tradition in my house. Bjorn, the cocktail tree, the Kakes of Kultural Insensitivity. It's not Christmas without those things.

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.

She isn't talented, she can't cook and the ONLY reason she got a TV show in the first place was because her husband at the time was some rich businessman. I actually had a co-worker tell me how much she likes her (I thought my head was going to explode on the spot). Seriously, Sandy a magazine? Whats next your own line of tablescapes or cocktail mixes?

Is she even really, like, worth a comment? Come on.

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. :)

Huge grill out: chicken, shrimp, scallops, dove, quail, 4 kinds of pork, 5 kinds of beef, stuffed jalepenos, bacon wrapped shrimp with cheese & jalepenos, an ENTIRE baby pig, o yeah, and a huge spicy pot of boiled crawfish. I love Texas in February!!