Superbowl Sunday

Last year we had a Superbowl party. I served crab legs with drawn butter, cheese and crackers and fettucini alfredo with chicken, bacon and peas. We drank white wine.

This was fun too. Seriously, it was fun.

Eating chicken wings out of a tailgate with a dead Christmas tree

Frying chicken wings in an ally

Serving chicken wings on an 80s tv tray

Watching Bruce in 3D

A patriotic garage

in my kitchen

I marinated some tri-tip in my staple kick ass marinade (balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, rosemary sprigs & honey) and then Joseph grilled it. Always delicious.


The next night I made:
fried rice (shrimp, leftover tri-tip, ham, onion, carrot, celery, green pepper, garlic, ginger, broccoli, almond)



We had a guest for dinner. Joseph brought his buddy Clay home after a long day of disc golfing at TPDGCC (that's Twin Parks Disc Golf Country Club) in Dripping Springs. They were very hungry and Clay was a VERY ENTHUSIASTIC fan of my cooking, which was nice. At one point Clay said, "I'm impressed, I'm blown away" and Joseph said, "That means she's happy, she loves to impress." He was the best kind of dinner guest too, the kind who takes the dish you're drying and the rag out of your hand to do it for you and gets a paper towel to clean up the mess you made on the floor and were planning to ignore. We drank some nice wine and started out the night with panko fried shrimp and veggy eggrolls with apricot hoisin sauce and some incredible seared rare tuna (thanks, 909). I didn't get pictures of any of that, but I wish I did because the tuna was so crazy bright reddish purple.

Clay after eating so much he "could only think about taking a nap"

in my kitchen

I made :

3 meat lasagna (italian sausage, pepperoni, ground beef)


I froze most of this lasagna, in individual portions for Joseph to eat after work.

chocolate almond oatmeal bars



bark:
white chocolate peppermint / white chocolate cookie crumble


and mixed berry coffee cake


Monday I traded Susan a pile of holiday baked goods for a haircut. And then we had lunch. A lovely Horseshoe Bay day.