Not a Super Bowler! No menu :o)

Just the two of us with my DD and her fiancé and my grandson - Grandpa will bar-b-que pork ribs and we'll have beans, garlic bread and my broccoli salad... Just saw Lupine for the first time this year which is the first sign of spring in my house - saw it on the way back from buying a '15 Dodge Grand Caravan as my birthday present - yippee! Son will be working a double at the prison - he has a tv so he can watch the game from there...

I'm with you, glenda. Football games have gotten to be longer and slower than baseball games. I usually avoid the Super Bowl and decline party invites, there's a limit to how long I want to nibble, drink beer and visit. 4-5 hours is past that limit.

I actually prefer watching the puppy bowl to the football game so I end up in the other room while he watches the game. Since we don't really have any devotion to the teams we might flip back and forth between the puppies. Just depends on how good thethe game is. My neighbor agrees with me about the puppy bowl. I think for a lot of people it's just a good excuse to gather together and have some fun in the middle of winter. Here we really have not had any winter to speak of. Beautiful weather lately just a chill in the air. Good time to have a little fun and fellowship.

I highly recommend the Spinach Dip Bites made with this recipe.

I don't watch football and he may or may not watch it. Nothing planned. I will probably go to my room and color.

Sue

I don't even know who is playing, and I don't care. But I do love buffalo wings (un-breaded) and also quacamole. There are plenty of other excuses to eat these!

Well my menu is cake, ice cream and punch! I'm having my daughters birthday party that afternoon. ;)

Luckily for us, no one in our circle of friends cares about football so no problems with having her party then.

Hi Raven! Just thought I would drop by...having some PC issues so while I was in the area, thought I would check and see what you are doing! How are you! You sound like me and my husband for Superbowl. I think the best part is the snacks and the commercials! I think we will go with Denver....just because! ha Those chips sound awesome! What is a puppy bowl?

Hey Lea! Great to see you around again. The puppy bowl is like a super bowl game with puppies lol. It's on the animal planet every year during the super bowl. So cute to watch them play. Hollar at me if you need my help with the pc.

Thanks!!!

Don't forget the Kitten Bowl on the Hallmark Channel, just in case the Puppy Bowl gets boring. ;-)

We may watch the game, who knows? They can be fun to watch. We're not into the junk food though. Ick.

I will be making a pot of jambalaya and crusty bread with a few appetizers.

I will be watching and cheering for Peyton Manning, and maybe finishing up the pot of soup.

Raven, I saw Jenna Bush Hager on Today this morning, explaining that Velveeta/Rotel/Beans dip to Hoda Kotb. I always enjoy that too.

We have to have popcorn - lots of popcorn and something to drink.

Well my menu has changed, he didn't want the Velveeta dip so I am not making it, he ate my avocados that were going to be the guacamole dip, he didn't know, so that's out lol. So we are down to our wings and the homemade salsa and chips, sounds perfect less fixing for me. My stomach is not feeling great today anyway.

Enjoy your day!

Our friend is making a classic spinach dip. Another is bringing dessert of some sort. I'm bringing the munchies: cheeses, bread, crackers, summer sausage and beef/turkey meatballs in mushroom sauce (no pork, as one person is Muslim).

All of us love cheeses but seldom get to indulge in an all-out cheese tasting so I sprang for some of our favs: Cypress Grove's honey chevre and Humboldt Fog; Marin French's triple creme brie, Cowgirl Creamery's Mt. Tam, Bellweather's Carmody and Jasper Hills Cabot Cheddar.

Bread is fresh-baked today from a good local bakery, smells wonderful. Crackers are from a little company some Midwesterners might be familiar with: Potters Crackers from Madison, WI. They recently established a Sacramento CA office and have been making inroads into the restaurant industry. We encountered their Caramelized Onion Crisps, which come in both a flatbread and baguette style, and liked them a lot.

A touch of sweetness from Blenheim Apricot jam from a wonderful little artisanal local company called WeLoveJam. It's a couple that fell into preserve-making when they bought a property that contained remnants of one of the last remaining Blenheim orchards left in Silicon Valley. That's right, Apple, Google, Facebook, Oracle, et.al. are all built on what used to be some of the most fertile fruit orchards in the U.S. They make the least-sweet jam we've ever tried, and offer several unusual varieties such as Elephant Ear Plum (tastes like cherries!) and feijoa (tasting like a stupendous cross between pear, apple, pineapple, and super-fragrant lime). I buy a mixed case from them every year, but we love the apricot best and have turned several people into big fans.

We're rooting for Denver, since our hostess is from there and loves Peyton Manning. Hard to see how they can beat Carolina, though. But at least we'll have a good time together, LOL.

We're not big football fans, either, but Super Bowl is an excuse for some fun.

Wes will watch parts of the game, and snooze through the rest. I will watch the commercials and half-time show and then play on the den computer the rest of the time. We are supporting Colorado.

I took a tri-tip roast, sliced it across the grain into 1 1/2" - 2" thick slices, put them in the crock pot with a chopped onion, 5 stalks of chopped celery (that's all I had) 3 cloves of pressed garlic, fresh ground black pepper, red pepper flakes, and nearly an entire bottle of Ken's barbecue sauce (has no high fructose corn syrup).

It's all simmering away in the crockpot. When it's finished I'll pull it apart with forks and serve it as pulled beef sandwiches. I forgot to get hard rolls so it will be served on whole grain bread with raw sliced onion and sliced jalapeños. I wish I could get a decent ripe tomato this time of year.

I'll add a mixed green salad with vinegar and olive oil, and maybe a can of baked beans.

We're having high winds and blowing snow right now. Two "local" quilt shops - one 40 miles away and the other about 70 miles - away are having Super Bowl quilt-ins until 9 p.m. I would normally attend one or the other, but I don't feel like facing the weather in impending winter storm watch.