The First Ever SAI Recipe Post

As the lone female contributor on SAI, I feel the need to appeal to our female audience (I’m looking at you, Kelly Jones). So, what do girls love? Pinterest. As someone who has mastered several Pinterest recipes (In fact, I just made a glorious pot of creamy tortellini soup), I wanted to share some of my favorite Super Bowl recipes with SAI nation. I’m hoping this will be the first of three-part series of posts. Part II will be my favorite recipes that involve beer (Beer is pretty sports-related, right?) and Part III will likely be a collection of March Madness recipes.

While this post may appeal to any female readers we may have, it’s really more for the males. Men, I am going to let you in on something. Women are impressed when you bring a dish to a party. I have been to potlucks before where there wasn’t enough food to go around because none of the guys brought anything, yet they gladly ate what all the girls brought. Also, I am not impressed by your store-bought Kroger cookies. But then, this other time, Robert brought homemade mashed potatoes to a Thanksgiving potluck, and it was awesome, and I’m sure at least a few girls swooned, or something like that.

I am here to help you, men. I am sharing a few of my favorite SUPER EASY and foolproof Super Bowl foods.

First, pizza. Pizza is one of the best game-watching foods, but I have grown quite tired of Papa John’s (thanks, law school and CBC). Homemade pizza is where it’s at, and I am going to share Casablanca’s signature pizza with you (Casablanca being the house of girls I lived with in undergrad).

The Valentine’s Day version of Casablanca pizza

Casablanca Pizza

Any kind of pizza dough (We usually bought Trader Joe’s pizza dough or the package mixes)

1 Green Pepper

Butter, garlic powder, Italian seasoning

Pepperoni

Several Slices of bacon

Pizza Sauce

Mozzarella cheese

Instructions: Preheat oven based on what your pizza crust recipe says. Prepare crust as instructed (some package mixes have you bake it for a few minutes before you put toppings). Cut the bacon into small pieces with scissors, and fry in a pan until it is halfway done (This is the key to the recipe because it ensures crispy bacon on your pizza). Dice the green pepper super super small. Spread sauce on your crust, and sprinkle a light layer of cheese. Add green peppers, bacon, and pepperoni and cover with another layer of cheese. Melt butter in the microwave and mix in some garlic powder and Italian seasoning and brush on the crust. Bake until cheese is melted and crust is starting to brown. 

If this is too much work, I have an even EASIER version of pizza for you.

Pizza Crescent Rolls

You just need some string cheese, a tube of crescent rolls, and pepperonis. Cut string cheese in half and cut pepperonis in half with scissors. Lay about six pepperoni halves and the half string cheeses on each laid-out crescent roll, and roll up. I brush melted butter and oregano on top. Bake at 350 for 9ish minutes. 

Moving on from pizza, Super Bowl partiers also loves crackers and dips. My dip recipes are my signatures, so I am not going to give those away, but here’s the recipe for Crack Crackers, which are easy and awesome and spicy and addicting.

Crack Crackers from Tasty Kitchen

1 box saltines

1-1 1/4 cups of canola oil

1 packet of ranch dressing mix

3 tbs crushed red pepper flakes

Preheat oven to 250ºF.

Add the crackers into a large mixing bowl. Add oil, powdered Ranch mix and red pepper flakes and stir. Let sit for 5 minutes to soak up the oil.  Lay them out on an aluminum foil lined cookie sheet and drizzle the additional oil mixture over the crackers.Bake for 10 minutes. Easy as pie. 

I know that Super Bowl is mostly about appetizer foods, but I still want dessert at my Super Bowl parties. This M&M cookie pie is great for sporting events because you can use team colors with your M&Ms.

M&M Cookie Pie from The Foodette
1cup + 1 tbs  AP Flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup butter softened 
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract 
1 cup of M&Ms (Feel free to only use the blue and orange to support the Broncos) 

Preheat oven to 325. Cream butter and sugar. Add in egg and vanilla and blend. The combine flour and baking soda- mix until completely incorporated. Fold in the M&M’s. Dump into a greased 9.5″ pie pan and bake for 25-30 mins.

Last but not least, wings. Super Bowl is about delicious chicken wings. If you’re in Louisville, I suggest calling Bootleg BBQ and ordering some right now. If not, here’s a recipe for sriracha honey wings that I keep meaning to try.

Sriracha Honey Baked Chicken Wings from The Slow Roasted Italian

12 ounces Sriracha Sauce 
½ cup honey
1 lime juiced and zested
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 pounds chicken wing drumettes

Combine sriracha, honey, lime juice and zest in a medium pot over medium-high heat.  Whisk to combine and bring to a boil.  Add in the butter, and boil for 3-5 minutes.  Allow the sauce to cool.

Put chicken drumettes in a gallon size resealable container.  Pour about ½ of sauce over top of drumettes.  Reserve remaining sauce. Seal bag and massage to combine sauce and wings.   Marinate 30 minutes on counter top.  

Preheat oven to 350°F.  Line a baking sheet with foil.  Remove chicken wings from bag with tongs.  Place on baking sheet.  Bake for 20 minutes, brush with reserved sauce halfway through cook time.  Increase temperature to 425°F, generously brush with remaining sauce again and bake for 20 minutes until sauce is caramelized.

Ta-dah. Happy Super Bowl. Go Broncos.