What are you making for the Super Bowl?

I avoid the Super Bowl religiously-- actually one of my best Super Bowl memories is being at an art movie at the Film Center during it, an usher sticking his head in at halftime to shout the score, and the audience actually booing the impertinence of the interruption-- so I take the opportunity of that evening to go to whatever constantly packed, impossible-to-get-into restaurant I've wanted to go to, on the theory it will be empty for once. Le Bouchon, Mia Francesca, here I come!

Slow-smoked baby backs with Arnold's Tennessee Red Sauce, steak fries, Lipitor.

Bill/SFNM

I'll be making a call to Lou Malnati's

For many years my parents would drag me to the Ann Arbor Folk Festival each year, which often coincided with superbowl weekend.

Thus, my superbowl sundays were usually in the club car of an amtrak train, eating fragels and zingerman's and playing gin rummy with my dad. Others would be listening to the superbowl on a radio sometimes, but by and large it was a much welcome refuge from "normal" superbowl sundays.

This super bowl sunday will be just like any other sunday for me..

-ed

I'm smoking a brisket.

I'm probably going to smoke a brisket, fry some buffalo wings, grill pork loin, poach a salmon, bake some cookies, and eat some raw vegetables.

Hi,

I follow MikeG's lead. I am taking my Mom and several friends to the Field Museum to see the Jackie Kennedy exhibit, then out for dinner wherever we feel like it.

It's a great day to hit museums because nobody is there.

This will be the third annual Fried Chicken Super Bowl tasting for us.

Last year it was Harold's and Popeyes. This year, we'll see. Definitely Harolds...

I'll be doing the Super Bowl with some friends out of town. But, I have volunteered to do a big pot of Sunday Gravy with meatballs, sausage, pork loin, braciole, and veal shanks. Over some al dented pasta.

eatchicago wrote:I'll be making a call to Lou Malnati's

We got Malnati's pizzas the other day. They're giving out flyers suggesting you get the pizzas for Superbowl frozen if you don't want to wait forever.

I know I'll be making some chicken drummettes with a hot and spicy sauce. What else, I'm not sure.

We are presently debating our food options. Customarily, we get takeaway from three different southside BBQ joints. As for which, well, that always depends on who is open and what is available. This year, though, we are considering jerk chicken from Tropic Island. I certainly wouldn't mind, as my visit to Uncle Joe's for jerk chicken, last night, has primed my pump.

At any rate, conscientious objection to the day's festivites is so played out.

Erik M.

Last year in Houston I had carnitas and guacamole on fresh tortillas. It struck me as the perfect Superbowl Sunday food. Simple custom assembly, good at room temp, portable, and easy to find on a Sunday.

Incidentally, my wife overheard one of the restaurant owners in Playa del Carmen bemoaning the fact that Super Bowl Sunday would be an election day in Mexico-- and thus he'll have a room full of gringos ready to drink, and by law he'll have to be dry!

Somehow, in Mexico I see this problem being gotten around in many locales.

Bill/SFNM wrote:

Slow-smoked baby backs with Arnold's Tennessee Red Sauce, steak fries, Lipitor.

I'm a big fan of Bill Arnold's Tennessee Red while my wife prefers his regular BBQ sauce. The Blues Hog rub is pretty tasty as well.
You've got me leaning toward some baby backs, and for a side, some
leftover pork butt mixed with baked beans, bacon and Blues Hog BBQ sauce.

Blues Hog

Spooky love.

Alas, in the absence of that, I'll be trying to reconcile the dilemma of Super Sunday during a BIG Mardi Gras day. I'm paraded out, not big into sports (even if I were, all my friends will be geeking it up along the sundry parade routes), and, inexplicably, my kitchen light won't accept any new lightbulbs.

So, it's looking like another malt liquor and Popeye's kinda day for me!

Personally, for the Super Bowl, I'm making a big honkin' bet on the home town team. The Dynasty Continues! (Good thing, too, since the Red Sox were a once-in-a-lifetime fluke...)

Bob S. wrote:Personally, for the Super Bowl, I'm making a big honkin' bet on the home town team. The Dynasty Continues! (Good thing, too, since the Red Sox were a once-in-a-lifetime fluke...)

I have made a few of them myself, with cocksure folks like yourself.

Erik M.

Bob, cool, I've never met anyone from Foxboro. I hope someone gave you a straight up bet; the "dynasty" is built on Vinatieri chips with four zeroes on the clock.

Now, Belichick is a semi-hometown guy to be proud of (Andover grad, Like Bill Veek).

Seriously, though, I think you're in good shape for Sunday, easy. How do Pinkston/Mitchell survive last years smack-talk followed by smack-down in the NFC chanmionship game, only to set up the same situation this year in the SB?

Oh, food: common wisdom (and some experience) has it that the best food in an NFL pressbox is Tampa (though Seattle and NO come up, as does New England), while the worst, for sure, is Chicago.

On the subject of eating during the SuperBowl, one element I know I'll include is chips and dip. The chips will be home-fried fresh tortillas and the dip will be spicy guacamole, but the real fun is the serving device: a plastic sombrero with room for chips around the periphery and a center that you open by pushing button; when you push the button, it plays the Mexican Hat Dance song just long enough to scoop out some guac. I'll probably whip up some tomatillo salsa, too.

Incidentally, my brothers and I are looking to buy a small salsa company in Seattle. It's called Juan de Fuca, and if you've ever had it (only available in Seattle area), I'd like to know what you thought of it.

Hammond

David Hammond wrote:
Incidentally, my brothers and I are looking to buy a small salsa company in Seattle. It's called Juan de Fuca, and if you've ever had it (only available in Seattle area), I'd like to know what you thought of it.

Hammond

Never had it, but the name is a great Seattle geography joke. I love it.