Going to have a few friends over for Superbowl party. Trying to find suggestions for good snacks, not too messy, but yummy.
If there will be drinking how bout a starter cheese plate or other cheese related food to coat the stomach.
Team specific snacks. Maybe KC barbeque and SF seafood plate and sourdough bread.
For a dessert option maybe some cookies or cupcakes decorated with the teams logo.
Sorry, thats all I got.
Good ideas though! I am rooting for the Cheifs
Lil smokies swimming in BBQ sauce.
Block of cream cheese, pour over a jar of sweet relsih. Serve with crackers (Tricuits are the best). You can also replace pickled jalapenos for the relish if you have some spicy food lovers attending.
Do you have a GFS (Gordon Food Services) store near you? I like to go there and cruise their frozen appetizer aisle when I have a party. They have interesting and fancier things than you’d find at the regular grocery store, and for reasonable prices.
No food is bad food! So no suggestions there, but my big suggestion is that the event will be 4+ hours long… don’t have all of the food ready at the start. Put something in the oven mid-2nd quarter so you have some fresh food for halftime. Also fresh things are always good- like a bowl of the little oranges, the bag of mini carrots, etc.
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Wings are always a great football good. I like to serve them un-tossed in with the sauces on the side for dipping. Keeps the messy down.
Definitely the first, but instead of relish on the cream cheese try Pickapeppa Sauce. Serve with Wheat Thins.
mmmm baked kale chips
Big pot of Kraft Dinner and everyone gets their own spoon.
While power-chugging straight Bacardi.
Hot pepper jelly poured over cream cheese is delicious with crackers, too.
Buffalo chicken dip
Ro-tel dip
Chili, then you can have available your favorite toppings plus hot dogs. Your guests can have a bowl of chili, or a chili dog, or chili cheese nachos (tortilla chips, chili, Ro-tel dip)
Hawaiian ham sliders - delicious - Hawaiian Ham & Swiss Slider
Guacamole and corn chips. I use just avocado, onion and salt.
Spear anchovies, olives and pickled peppers on sturdy toothpicks. You can work cheese in there, too, and now’s the time for potato chips.
Potato salad. I make a batch and add store-bought mayo and chives to each serving. Very convenient as it lasts up to 10 days in the fridge. Goes well with bite-sized hardtack.
Slices of your favorite bread, with some kind of spread (butter, cream cheese) and salmon.
If you don’t mind the shells, pistachios with mixed drinks, peanuts with beer.
One of my favorite non-messy appetizers is something like this.
Antipasto on a Stick
Cooked and rinsed cheese tortellini marinated in Italian salad dressing for up to 4 hours
Kalamata olives (though any will do)
grape tomatoes
slices of Genoa salami
baby mozzarella balls
basil leaves
artichoke hearts cut in half
Drain salad dressing well from tortellini.
Starting with an olive, alternate ingredients on long wooden skewers. Fold salami slices in halves or quarters. Make sure to include basil leaves frequently. End with another olive to keep everything tidy.
Get some of those little frozen filo cups, Brie, yellow onions, and cherry preserves. A day or two ahead of time, make caramelized onions (basically cook thinly sliced onions in butter over low heat until deep golden brown - add a little brown sugar to help it along if you like, just a tablespoon or so). Add some chopped walnuts if that sounds good (if using, add right before baking). To prepare, cut the Brie into chunks, and put a chunk into each filo cup. Top some with the onions, some with the cherry preserves. Heat at 350 or so until the Brie melts. So good! Use apricot or any other kind of preserves, whatever you like.
You can never go wrong with deviled eggs.
That’s the exact recipe I use! :eek:
I’ve always loved stuffed potato skins, which seem to be passé now.
Steam or bake little red potatoes, and halve them. Scoop out some of their insides, enough to make a little bowl. Paint them with melted butter and run them under a broiler for a few minutes. Take them out and fill them with grated cheese of your choice and broil them again until the cheese is melted. Serve them garnished with little dollops of sour cream, chopped green onions and bacon bits. Jalapeño slices are a good addition, too.
Thanks to all the great ideas; I’m actually going with this one!
The weather is looking mild this weekend so I might make a batch of cheese-stuffed, bacon-wrapped jalapenos on the smoker. Sometimes, I put a little chorizo or a wedge of smoked sausage in with the cream cheese. Sprinkle with BBQ rub before smoking about 2 hours. Use a drip tray!
These all sound really good. Around these parts, though, it’s pizza and wings, pizza and wings, forever and ever, amen. Chips and onion dip, beer. That’s what the men like. Anything else is ‘iffy’, they like to go with what they know.
Hillshire Farms cocktail franks + 1 tube crescent dough (each triangle cut into 5 strips) works out mathmatically perfectly. You get 40 franks in a package, wrap each in a bit of dough, bake, and they will disappear. Very salty, though.