Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Super Bowl

Sweet Potato Skins

Potato Skins

Nachos

Cocktail Weiners
The Super Bowl theme is the second theme for this weekend. It's one of my family's favorite because of the cocktail weiners and it's basically a junk food meal. I made the for mentioned cocktail weiners, potato skins and sweet potato skins (because I only had two potatoes left in the house), nachos and Hershey's Easy Pizza Brownie for dessert.

For the potato skins, I pre-baked the potatoes at 400 for an hour, cut them in quarters, coated them with olive oil, put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes, covered them with bacon and cheese and put them back in the oven to melt the cheese. With the sweet potatoes, I used butter, brown sugar, marshmallows.

The Cocktail Weiners are the very generic jar of grape jelly and bbq sauce with two packages of little smokies. I placed it all in the pot under medium heat for about a half hour.

Now the Nachos, I decided to try seasoning the ground beef from scratch instead of buying package seasoning. The Mexican seasoning that I used, was a little spicier than my wimpy taste buds are used to. It seemed a little dry (possibly because I used 96% fat free ground beef), so I added a can of diced tomatoes to the meet. I would have added some kidney beans to add some extra protein without the extra fat, but the fam isn't a fan of beans. The cheese sauce I made was also uninspired Valveeta cheese and salsa.

My favorite part of the meal is always dessert. I pulled one of my favorites, I think I pulled it from Hershey's web page years ago. I haven't been able to find it anywhere since.

Hershey's Easy Pizza Brownie

3/4 cup Butter or Margarine melted
1 1/2 cup Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
3 eggs
1/2 cup Hershey's Cocoa
3/4 cup All-Purpose Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt

Hershey's Pizza Brownie
1. Heat oven to 350 F. Grease 12" pizza pan or 13" x 9" baking pan. Make sure the pan has a lip or the dough ends up dripping all over the bottom of the oven (been there, done that).

2. Beat melted butter, sugar, vanilla, and eggs by hand. Add and mix in the dry ingredients. Spread into prepared pan.

3. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the top springs back at touch. You can serve plain or sprinkle the hot brownie with topping of your choice. Nuts, Carmel, mini marshmallow bits, chocolate chips, candy bar bits, and the options go on and on.

I used, marshmallow bits, chocolate chips, and chocolate frosting. Then I turned it into a Sundae with ice cream and chocolate topping. Yum!

So, if you're not watching the Super Bowl, but feel like you should do football movie at least here are some football movie options: Wildcats (with Goldie Hawn), Blindside, or Remember the Titans. I'm sure there are many more.

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