I’ve expanded my menu. Not only am I making chili con queso dip (with Velveeta and Hormel chili), but I’m also making:
Spinach dip (Alton Brown’s recipe from http://www.foodtv.com)
Barbecue baked beans
Pasta salad (rotini with diced grape tomatoes, onions, and celery, balsamic vinegar and EVOO, parmesan cheese, and plenty of herbs and spices)
Nacho nacho man…
Although I’ll chew on as many veggies as I can between chips. Sounds like I’ll just watch the game from home this year, so that may reduce the odds I’ll be pigging out.
We’re limiting our list to 6 folks so that we can actually pay attention to the game, as it should be a good 'un. We’ll have for them:
St. Louis style BBQ ribs w/ onion rings
7 layer dip with 3 kinds of chips
Queso, Velveeta w/ Desert Pepper sauza mixed in and lotsa crackers
Several varieties of deli meats and cheeses
Sodas, margaritas, wine coolers and I’ll put a half dozen bottles of some top shelf tequilas out if anyone wants to try some (our guests, neighbors, will be walking over, not driving)
They’re to bring beer and dessert, so we should all be plesantly satiated throughout the event.
Especially when the ads are sometimes the best part!
If the Seahawks lose … crow. With guac on the side.
“Manloaf” (meatloaf with hardboiled eggs in the middle and wrapped in bacon). Thinking about using a bundt pan and glazing it with hollandaise and calling it Man-Cake.
And chips and guac and onion dip and spam musubi and cheese and crackers-- a multiethnic extravaganza. Have invited some people from Japan over “for our people’s most sacred holiday”.
Damn. If the Seahawks lose, I have to eat hawk.
But they won’t.
So I’m filling up on nachos. 
Actually, I came here to recommend the same chili mix with Velveeta dealie that was already mentioned by** samm**. I actually can’t eat most of this crap, unfortunately, but I will be making it for the rest of my family. If I had my way, though… I’d probably get some of those honey barbeque boneless wangs from the colonel, plus those little cupcakes you can get from Safeway or QFC with the mile-high frosting on them, dyed in Seahawk colours, and all kinds of plain chips - regular, ruffled, pringled - with a huge array of dips, and some cut up sub sandwiches.
I’ll be hanging out with Aguecheek and his brother-in-law. We’re assembling subs and drinking microbrews.
Carroll Shelby chili and cornbread. No party for us though, just the three of us (and I’m the only one who is terribly interested in the game).
And beer.
I’m not watching the game, but damn, I’m hungry now…
My husband and I made the most highly awesme tortilla soup.
Chicken breast, chorizo, garlic, onion, bell pepper, chipotles in adobo sauce, fire roasted tomatoes, dark red kidney beans, chicken stock, corn tortilla strips. Topped it with sharp cheddar cheese.
For dessert I made a layered custard thing: egg custard, bananas browned in butter and brown sugar with a tiny pinch of cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg, whipped cream. Alternating layers custard, banana, whipped cream, custard, banana, whipped cream and then topped wth raspberries and more whipped cream. It’s quite decadent.
We had some Yuengling with the soup and then Port after dessert.
Two courses - one during the game started at the beginning of the game, and one after the game.
Snack Course: Deep Fried Coconut Shrip with wasabi mayonaise dip, Hummus & pita bread, and chips
Meal Course: Slow-baked Ribs with a Grand Marnier BBQ Sauce, Potato salad, and corn on the cob.
We just finished dinner…early, for us.
A pork loin rubbed with olive oil and caked with chopped rosemary, sage, and fennel seed, salt and pepper, and roasted slow.
Served with roasted Yukon Golds and Garnet sweet potatoes cut in fingers, rubbed with olive oil and oregano.
And broccoli, chard stalks, and butternut squash steamed and sprinkled with fresh lemon juice.
This was all taken at the dinner table before kickoff.
Banjo and the Ukulele Lady are upstairs watching the game now, and Pianola is due home with her boyfriend any minute. They’re bringing a pizza to split while they watch.
Menu at the Big Gay Football Party (hosted by my cousin and his partner):
Wings, Annie’s Shells and Cheddar, Ikea Swedish Meatballs, Italian Meatballs, Brats ‘n’ Kraut, Ceasar Salad with Pesto Chicken, 3 kinds of salami, Brie, some kind of stinky bleu cheese that leaked whey all over the table, many many varieties of beer.
Very yummy.