Superbowl Saturday!

Hello my friends!

So we have a tradition me and my friends where we watch the Superbowl, but the week after on Saturday since it's broadcast on Sunday evening, it would mean that we would be going to bed at 6 o'clock in the morning on Monday.

So we try and go the entire week without spoiling the result, and I actually managed this year! I thought I had it spoiled for me, but was wrong! :D

So I volunteered to host it, and a good Superbowl demands a good Superbowl spread!

So I went all out to make my friends drunk and super full of food and snacks!

I will try and keep this in a chronological order.

First get your beer! A Superbowl Saturday party needs American Macro brewed beer!

And 4 guys drink a lot of beer!

Chili time!

Then we need to get our chili on!

Take your beef and trim it and cut into smaller pieces and brown it off in the pan with finely chopped garlic. 1.5 kgs of beef and 1 whole garlic.

Deseed and remove the stem of 1-2 dried ancho chilies and 1 dried chipotle.

Then boil them in water for 15 minutes and then put em through the blender!

Add some water, the beef, blended chili, beer, kumin, koriander, ox broth, 1 chopped and deseeded fresh chili, chili-flakes, some flour and 1 can of lager.

I don't have any exact measurements for this recipe and no exact time, I make it a bit different each time and go a lot on feel.

Anyway, let it simmer for 3-6 hours depending on what texture you want. I also add water continuously through the cook and this time I also added 1 bottle of porter while it was simmering.

After 5 hours my chili looked like this and was ready to be served. All the meat melted and "stringy" damn! So good!

Chili Cheese Dip!

All Superbowl parties needs a hot melty, gooey cheese dip!

So take about 2 tablespoons of butter, melt it and add 1 tablespoon of flour and mix around, then add some milk about 3-4 table spoons and then mix in about 6-7 cheese singles (Only thing available here, I used some hamburger cheese with the text "Ched-up" on em, worked fine).

Mix until melted and then add as many pickled Jalapeños as you want. I took about 2 tablespoons and the heat and taste was just right!

Add more cheese/flour if you want the mixture thicker or more milk if you want it more runny!

Look att that cheesy ooey gooey loveliness!

I made this about 3-4 hours before the party and then just heated it up on the stove when it was time to eat! Worked perfectly!

 Pretzels!

For pretzels I used Alton browns recipe:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/homemade-soft-pretzels-recipe.html

I made about 50% more though.

Made my lovely pretzels with Saras help, quite fun to make!

Boil them with baking soda, about 10 seconds per side.

Egg wash and sprinkled with salt, should have used more salt though...

After being in the oven, came out crispy on the outside and perfectly moist and soft on the inside!

Ready to serve with my horseradish and dijon mustard dip!

2 tablespoon grated horseradish

1 tablespoon dijon

1 dl creme fraish

1 dl sour cream

1 dash of white wine vinegar

salt and pepper to taste.

(Also took some Colemans mustard to get some kick in there)

Cornbread!

Used this recipe:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/skillet-corn-bread-3/

But I added some grated cheese in the batter as well.. because fuck it!

Was really fun and easy finally making and tasting cornbread!

I really liked the flavor and texture and with the chili it was perfect!

Moonshine!

Every Superbowl Saturday party needs a before dinner drink in the form of Moonshine.

Tasted the peach one for the first time, really refreshing and not that strong tasting... Dangerous!

 The spread!

First we ate chili and cornbread and then I brought out the snacks!

So we have:

Homemade pretzels,

Store bought Nachos,

Homemade horseradish dip

Homemade chili cheese dip

Homemade cherry jello shots!

And puff pastry filled with nutella and marshmallows...

mmmm we where so stuffed, but everything was gone except the pretzels!

Also saving pretzels make them less hard on the outside and quite stale. They lose their "pretzeliness" but still tasty just not as tasty as fresh!

Breakfast!

One friend stayed over... Nutella, peanut butter pancakes anyone?

Making all this took most of my Saturday, maybe 3 hours active time and a total of 6 hours just waiting... But well worth it!

//Stay full my friends!