Serving Up Super Bowl Sunday!

Alright it's arrived, we're now in the wee hours of Super Bowl Sunday!  Picture me in Seahawks colors, picture Brad in his Broncos jersey with his orange and white sneakers!  His orange and white sneakers he bought with the Texas Longhorns colors in his mind. However, for tomorrow they'll help him represent his preferred Super Bowl team. Oh yeah, and picture Cody in his lime green collar and Seahawks football sweater.  Simon doesn't know this yet but he'll be dressed in a Seahawks football sweater too.  His ORANGE shirt that he wears to represent Texas Longhorns but could double as his Broncos gear tomorrow will not be placed on him.  I'm mommie...hear me roar....I choose the pugs gear for them!  LOL! Piper-Pipe will not wear clothes! She prefers to run around with nothing on.  She's undecided anyway!  No clue what football is! LOL!  On a side note....Just the other night while walking the boys Brad said to me that we need to get the boys more "intimidating" attire!  I laughed then came back with, "what's wrong with their clothes?"  A snowman and penguin sweater is not intimidating?  Since when?  Shirts with a floppy eared dog depiction does not evoke terror in the minds of other dogs outside?  The boys football sweaters and Cowboys shirts make them look tough!  I think! Perhaps I'm ruining Simon's street credit a little at a time every time I make him go outside in a snowman or penguin sweater. Poor Simmie!

Enough of that, back to the Super Bowl talk!  Two weeks ago when the Championship games were on I organized a game day menu to reflect the teams playing.  I had appetizers representing the two NFC teams.  Plus I had 2 types of cupcakes to represent the AFC teams.  For the NFC appetizers I had Seattle Seahawks Trail Mix.  I remember all the many walking trails throughout the city, a trail mix represents Seattle well.  I just did my own thing with the mix, using flavors I felt accurately represented the Emerald City.  As for San Francisco I tossed some more stuff together using Chex cereal and some candies then called that mix 49ers Gold Rush Chex mix.  Ha-Ha!  For dessert we had Mile High Peanut Butter cupcakes and Boston Cream Pie cupcakes to choose from.  I made the same cream filling that goes in Boston cream pie then dug a hole in each cupcake and spooned it in. I frosted them with a glossy ganache.  The Mile High cupcakes where almost too high, I made a super thick peanut butter frosting that I swirled on top then I made a chocolate dip, tipped the cupcakes upside down and dipped them in the chocolate dip I made.  They were a sight!  And yes they were high...mile high!

So what about tomorrow's menu?  My husband knew I would have something unique in mind for the menu as he coyly asked earlier this evening what the official Super Bowl menu is in our household?  Ah yes, I did my research before formulating my menu!  Yes, I'm crazy!  But according to my husband I'm the good kind of crazy, the fun kind of crazy. ;) What a relief!  Okay, so I knew a lot about Seattle already, food items paying tribute to the Emerald city is a piece of cake to think of!  Denver I had to do more research for.  Here's the menu I came up with for our Super Bowl get-together!

Appetizers:
Denver's Mile High Layered dip....this dish features a lot of flavors that are apparently popular in Denver. And it's layered and has some height or depth to it so the name works!

Blitz the Seahawk Munch Mix....Blitz is of course the name of the Seahawks mascot.  I looked in my cupboard and saw some goldfish crackers I was forced to buy when the last snowstorm hit and the stores ran out of Cheez-its.  I then asked myself what can I do with these goldfish crackers that we still haven't eaten.....Ah, yes, make Blitz the Seahawk proud!  I made a caramel sauce from scratch on the stove. Next I dumped in goldfish crackers and some nuts then I transferred it to a cookie sheet and baked it...viola, Blitz has his own munch mix named for him in this household! LOL!  It's similar to a caramel corn mix minus the popcorn, the goldfish crackers are the star!  A seahawk eats fish!  Get the simulation? Yes, I know I'm crazy!  But the good kind of crazy!

Meal:
Broncos Pulled Beef and Pork BBQ.....Yum!  I love this recipe!  It's not really called that, for the purpose of tomorrow it will be! Ol' West and barbecue beef in particular is popular in Denver. I have an assortment of rolls to put the beef/pork mix on plus an assortment of cheeses.

Emerald City's Chicken Teriyaki Wings.....the most surprising thing to me about Seattle food when I moved there was the obsession with teriyaki chicken and sriracha sauce.  I never knew of sriracha sauce until Seattle.  Just recently I'm noticing a rising popularity of the extra spicy chile sauce. Subway recently unveiled a sandwich featuring sriracha sauce. So I have the wings plus the sriracha sauce for dipping.  I'm going to do my best to recreate Seattle's most popular dish!

Sides:
Nothing too unique here, my creativity has it's limits!....just your typical coleslaw along with an assortment of chips. If I have time tomorrow I'll add in some green chile cornbread to represent Denver and another dip to represent Seattle. Onion dip is hugely popular in the Pacific Northwest as they produce lots of onions...hence the Walla Walla onion!

Dessert:
I had an idea for an apple pie since Washington is the apple state. They're university rivalry game is called the "Apple Cup", a trophy with a giant apple atop a cup is awarded to the winning team each year.  Apple pie goes perfect!  Then in my research I noticed the state of Colorado's top producing fruit is.....APPLES!  Well there you go one pie and I've got both teams represented!  Starbuck's coffee will likely be served up too! I'm not a coffee drinker but I'll have a pot of coffee going for sure when dessert time rolls around


So there it is....our Super Bowl Sunday menu....appropriately representing the teams that will do battle!  Hopefully its a great game!  A close game!  Should be fun!