hallo huebsch things are continuing to go well - i had a lovely friday-saturday-sunday visiting my parents with my boyfriend. we had a little super bowl party and feasted on texmex abominations that would have made mr. bl00 cry - anyway it was the first time they had met and it went well: my mom said he was sweet and welcome back anytime, my dad said he seemed like a good guy (but quiet) - it'll take some time but i have every reason to be optimistic :) anyway, hope you all had another good week
Superbowl watching parties are without a doubt the best place to express Tex-Mex. My beef is when people get all boujie about it and pretend it's some sort of "regional cuisine" rather than the kids' menu version of what the guy cutting the grass eats. Seven layer dip? Should absolutely be eaten with Tostitos and Michelob. That said, I put out iberico, brie, apples, grilled kielbasa and TJ's finest yogurt spinach and kale dip to go with our Amstel. We ate lamb stew and homemade biscuits.
sounds fantastic, brie and apples is a deadly combo - normally for the super bowl we either make a big pot of beef stew, chicken ala king on mounds of tea biscuits, or make endless bacon-cheese melts but this year my dad wanted to mix things up a bit the super bowl is at the perfect time of the year to have something rich so it's a time where getting bougie seems against the point - there's all year to be a fancy daniel, there should be a time to break out the pabst and go full kids' meal once in a while
No, no. Superbowl is where I go bougie AF. I enjoy the irony. Brie and pears is even better but I didn't plan ahead (because I enjoy not planning ahead) and your pears need to be four or five days ripe. Often I'll go champagne as well - but the wife and mother-in-law were busy so it was me and the father-in-law and he barely tolerates Amstel. The kid, meanwhile, pretty much had brie and apples from 3pm until bedtime. I'm obnoxiously proud of the fact that my daughter knew five different kinds of cheese before she was four. Her upbringing has been nothing like mine.
minibl00 is a lucky girl :) i was probably half made of cheese as a kid too, my parents kept me supplied with goat cheese and other soft stuff to spread on sandwiches n all that if a kid's gonna be spoiled with anything it should be tasty food in my opinion, starting out with a wide diet makes cooking hecka more interesting to kids - i loved cooking stuff with my mom and i think that's why i like to cook so much now i like the idea of a fancy-dress-and-wine super bowl party - i'll keep that in my head for next year.
My friends started their own Super Bowl about a decade ago, I guess. The premise is that, because everyone - even the Bad Guys - are watching the Superbowl, superheroes can take the day off ... and go bowling. The Super. Bowl. So everyone shows up as their own made-up superhero, in their own superhero costumes, and they spend the day bowling. The photos are worth it: https://www.espressobuzz.net/Events/2020/02-02-Supers-Bowl/