Food Blog: Game Day Eats

Monday, February 1, 2021

Game Day Eats

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Monday, February 1, 2021

Good morning!

1200 words on pellet ice, the best ice.
This baked feta pasta has been going viral on TikTok and it reminds me of a punchier version this, so you know it will be insanely delicious.
Something fishy is going on in American kitchens.

Given that January was 6184 days this year, I thought we'd never make it to February but here we are, and with it, a great and mighty gust of snow up the East coast, much to my delight. (If it's going to be cold, it might as well be pretty.) Plus, the Super Bowl is this Sunday and with it, the excuse to eat some of the best foods of the year. You definitely have time, while snowed in anyway, to perfect your soft pretzel game and do know that this is the only way we make Buffalo wings. Bean chili, vegetable-ful nachos, and the best icebox cake there is. I hope you find something new and fun to make this week.

Cheers,
Deb

Fresh and New

plush confetti cupcakes

New: To make the most plush, moist, tender-crumbed vanilla-scented confetti cupcakes? Skip the eggs and butter. These cupcakes are vegan, one-bowl, and can be entirely finished in under an hour. You can use the same recipe to make a full-sized party cake as well; instructions in the recipe. I hope this provides a welcome dose of color and festivity to your week.

Game Day Eats

soft pretzels, refreshed

How to get February off to a proper start: homemade pretzels, spicy mustard.

baked buffalo wings

Browned, crispy, craggy-surfaced, well-seasoned, and so little hands-on work, you get to eat them as much as often want.

corn and black bean weeknight nachos

In my forever quest to have more nachos in my life, I've found that 3 vegetables, 9 salad-y toppings and 0 skimping on the melty cheese is the magic formula.

three-bean chili

A three-bean chili for the stovetop, slow-cooker, or pressure cooker is a food prep dream-come-true, and it's even vegan if you skip that dollop of sour cream or sprinkle of cheese on top. Cold snap, we are ready for you.

feta salsa

Feta salsa is a terrible name (sorry, 2008 Deb) for something with the best possible taste (all sorts of punchy marinated things) that is as good as a dip as it is heaped on toast, layered in a grilled vegetable sandwich, or piled in the center of a plain salad.

garlicky party bread with cheese and herbs

A sourdough boule that's been drenched with sizzling garlic butter, three types of cheese, and herbs before being baked until crisp, melty, and well, rather football-shaped, as if it had a mind of its own as to when it should be served.

hummus heaped with tomatoes and cucumbers

A small-diced salad heaped on a great swirl of hummus to be scooped with grilled pita wedges is my favorite kind of snack plate.

popcorn party mix

Chex, who? Cereal is swapped with popcorn, the paprika is smoked, the butter is browned, there's a little powdered mustard and dark brown sugar too. It follows the core rule of snack mixes, which is that the stranger it sounds, the more delicious it tastes.

martha’s macaroni-and-cheese

There's macaroni and cheese, and then there's Martha's Macaroni and Cheese, legendary for having the the meltiest, gloriously balanced three-cheese base and the best buttery crunched lid.

meatball subs with caramelized onions

Starring pillowy, fork tender, flavorful meatballs, buttery caramelized onions, melted gruyere on a toasted bun, I bet you can't remember when you last had a meatball sub this good.

Game Day Sweets

chocolate peanut butter icebox cake

The icebox cake to end all icebox cakes, these cookies are one-bowl, dead simple and cake sized. They're sandwiched with an unforgettable peanut butter whipped cream. Together, this is one of the most distractingly delicious things I've made.

salted caramel pretzel blondies

The wildly decadent salted caramel crushed pretzel chocolate chunk blondies I never know I needed but replaced my original favorites immediately, possibly forever.