Superbowl Sunday Pins

Ah, Superbowl Sunday.  Normally I would find some excitement in this, but this year I can’t say I care that much.  After last summer’s nonsense with the potential lock-out and the constant stream of unimportant football updates, I went into this season already annoyed at all of it. And as usual, my poor Redskins are the most disappointing team in the league.  Maybe the world. I gave up in the end and just stopped watching.  It was ruining my Sundays. This year I’m taking Ava over to watch the game with some girlfriends.  I think maybe one girl in the group might actually care about football, so it will be a different vibe this year anyway.  Hopefully it will be better than last year’s circus, but with Madonna as the halftime performance, its really hard to say.  I guess I wouldn’t mind seeing old muppetface Manning lose.  “Must hate the Giants” was placed into my subconscious as early as the womb, so I am always happy to see them lose.  So, go Patriots I guess.

But besides football, bad music, 1000 commercials, and general nonsense, what’s the most important thing about today?  Food of course.  So after all my blathering, here are my pins for the week.  All about party snacks. Maybe I’ll actually try to make something today when I’m finished.

Let’s start with an easy one:

What’s easier and more delicious than 7-layer dip?  These are more time-consuming than just making one tray of it, because you have to fill individual cups, but the result is super cute.

Yummmmmm.  Homemade mozzarella sticks.  I want one right now.  I don’t have a deep fryer and lord knows I am not going there, so I would try to bake these instead.  Instructions:

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Mozzarella-Sticks-2?pmcode=IKLDC05S&_mid=838832&_rid=838832.650200.781355

Pizza bites. Easy, delicious and cheap. My husband would go nuts over these. Instructions are here:

http://penniesonaplatter.com/2010/02/15/pizza-bites/

My aunt makes an antipasto platter for every occasion. Birthdays, Thanksgiving, whatever.  So that’s pretty much a given for me.  I thought these kabobs were a cute update on that. These are a no-brainer for me. But for those  of you without relatives that think they are italian, can find instructions here:

http://www.thehungryhousewife.com/2011/02/antipasto-kabobs.html

I’ve made this a couple of times now and it’s always a hit.  And actually pretty healthy.  It’s not always easy to find fresh corn on the cob this time of year, but it’s actually a must.  I tried to make it with frozen corn once despite the instructions not to, because it was all I could find, but it just wasn’t the same.  Instructions:

http://www.onceuponachef.com/2010/08/black-bean-salad-with-corn-red-peppers-avocado-lime-cilantro-vinaigrette.html

These are cute and super easy.  And a great sweet treat for kids.  Ava would love these.  Just chocolate chips and rasberries. Clearly my theme for today is easy.

I just had breakfast and now I’m hungry again.  Great.

Dos gyros?

There’s this greek place up the street from my office and it’s beyond delicious.  But the place is literally a walkway, so the line is always out of the building.  They move pretty quickly fortunately, but you still have to wait a few minutes inside and there’s always accidental butt grazing or something equally awkward as you smoosh yourself against the wall to let people by while you wait for your food.  But it’s so delicious that it’s still totally worth it.  Which is why there are still lines outside of the building I suppose.

But my real issue, which is why I have only been there a few times, is that I am actually a little afraid of the man taking orders.  He’s the D.C. soup nazi.  Anywhere else and I would walk in and just order a gyro and be done with it.  But you have to pronounce it the proper way, or he chews you out in front of everyone.  I decided to make the trip today and a guy a few people ahead of me in line ordered his Youvetsi  wrong and: “You want a what?!  NO.  YOU WANT THE YOUVETSI.”  I was so nervous when it was my turn that I didn’t even get what I wanted.

Someone buy me this book.

Not really.  I gained five pounds just looking at this amazingness:

No one in the world loves a cheeseburger more than this girl, but wow.  Just wow.  I love this site.  Check it out.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/