{Honey Sriracha wings}
Huddle up, team. It’s two days until America’s biggest sporting event of the year, and you’ve got a pack of hungry fans about to takeover your living room. How will you sate their ravenous appetites? With a sad tray of dried-out veggies and a bag of frozen hot wings? Not in this house. You’re going to dig deep, pull out that slow cooker, fire up that grill and get to chopping, searing and melting until you have a buffet worthy of the Super Bowl.
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Need a little inspiration? We’ve got 18 recipes to feed every fan from carnivores to vegans. Check out our favorites for a football feast:
{Szechwan eggplant dip}
1. A fan cannot live on guac alone. Dish out other scoop-ables like this spicy Szechwan eggplant or smoky roasted red pepper and curry number.
2. Bowls of chips and salsa should always be within reach. But since this is the Super Bowl, that salsa’s gotta be homemade. Raise the salsa bar with black beans, jalepenos or tuna and anchovies (yes, really).
{Root beer pulled pork}
3. “Pass the pigskin” takes on new meaning with a dish like root beer pulled pork. Your vegan friends won’t left out; they can pass the jackfruit with vegan carnitas.
4. What’s football without chicken wings? Everyone has a recipe, and our two picks – spiked with harissa or with the ever-popular red rooster – both rely on honey to tone down the heat.
{Bill’s Burger Miester Burger}
5. It’s time to build a better burger. No sad frozen patties here. We turn to Bill Cardwell’s recipe for Burger Miester Burger, the definition of what a cheeseburger should be. Scale down your patties for mini-Miester sliders and serve them alongside falafel sliders for your veg-heads.
6. We all love a good squirt of Heinz, but go for the extra point with DIY ketchup, mustard and mayo.
{Salt and pepper}
7. Just when your guests think they’ve sampled the entire spread, bust out bowls of popable bar bites to get through the last quarter. We go for spice-roasted chickpeas, pad thai popcorn and a twist on salt and pepper.
-eggplant dip, burger, and salt and pepper photos by Carmen Troesser; pulled pork photo by Greg Rannells
This article appears in January 2014.