Baking powder wings, from an earlier Super Bowl potluck.
What to eat during the Super Bowl? We are torn between rooting for the Patriots, a semi-local team with a quarterback whose wife is a TikTok baker, and the Seahawks which are owned by the daughter of the late molecular gastronomy maven Paul Allen. But the dastardly gulls booted our beloved 49ers from the playoffs in an earlier round, so New England it is! We’ll have baked beans made with this recipe for folks to enjoy between commercials.
Or, maybe not. At the tail end of COVID in 2021 we published this clips post describing the various ways we had cooked wings. (Which BTW have climbed in price to a level that makes no sense; consider substituting skin-on chicken thighs for any of these preps.) In 2021 gochujang was a novelty; now you can find it at your local 7-11 but we still like this KFC hack by which you can make some pretty good Korean style wings with ingredients that are already in your pantry.
The finished product: Chicago Style hot dog, made at home.
Another year we did our Chicago Style hot dog taste test with ingredients that had been imported from Vienna Beef in the Windy City expressly for this purpose. Fun, but it requires a very boring game which this one probably won’t be. Also, this year the boozy local Chowderfest falls the day before and after two days of carousing our culinary and hosting ambitions may be dulled.
We do have our eye on this shrimp toast recipe from our friends at Woks for Life. It’s a true fusion snack that shows up on puupuu menus even here in the emerging permafrost, and might be just the thing to serve during halftime as we’re toggling between Bad Bunny and the patriotic option.
What’s on your big game platter?
we bought wings from our local favorite haunt, but I also made roasted shrimp with a combo of old bay, cajun spices blend and roasted garlic powder….easy peasy just coat the raw shellled/deveined shrimp with some olive oil, sprinkle the spice blend and mix thoroughly…and bake in a 350 degree oven until shrimp are just cooked…remove and cover… served at room temp….love this as an alternative to shrimp cocktail. Was able to find frozen American shrimp that did not have salt added at Hannaford…for a good price and they were decent size.
Sounds good. I am glad to see non-farmed shrimp showing up in our supermarkets at reasonable prices.