Audra Lowe: Are you ready for some football? Well, if you're planning a Super Bowl party at your house this year, it's time to start thinking about what are you're going to serve the guest? We met up of the editor and chief of epicurious.com to give some ideas for the big game.
Tanya Steel: I'm here today to show you how to make a great Super Bowl party. Chili is part of the ultimate Super Bowl dish, because it's something that you can plan ahead and make ahead and it make ahead and it gets better and better in between, when you make it in Super Bowl.
The great thing about making a chili is that you can really decide what to throw into it, almost anything into it. This one is called a Ding Dong Eight-Alarm Chili, but you don’t need to do make it Eight-Alarm. You can use any of these kinds of chili peppers. We used in this recipe, ancho chiles, which is actually dried pablanos and serranos. But you can actually make it much milder and use Anaheim or you can take it up 20 notches, make it 50 alarm chili and use hot bonneras or scotch bonnet, which is by far the most intense heat.
In this chili, we actually used a logger, a light logger. Now, light loggers just give chili a kind of enough of essence and a real sulky lightness. But if you want to use a darker logger, that’s fine, it’ll just give it more of a heavier robust flavor.
When you have people over for Super Bowl party, you want to have the chili bubbling away and let them serve themselves. Keep all the utensils right there for people to grab. And then you have some accompaniments that people can choose what they want. For instance, you got cheddar cheese, fresh avocadoes, sour cream, you can also use Kun fresh, we’ve got some cilantro and some onions. I made this pot two days ago and the flavors really developed over the day.
Oh my gosh! That chili was so delicious, but a little bit spicy and there's nothing better to cool it down that these beer margaritas. It's great to have a signature drink when you're hosting a party, particularly Super Bowl party. And a great thing to do is combine beer with something kind of fun, like a margarita. You can buy a lime, you may concentrate in your freezer in the supermarket. And you just mix up some beer, usually a light logger is better than dark, because the dark overpowers the tequila. You add a little bit of tequila, you add a little bit of coarse salt, and some fresh lime and it’ll really, really kill any heat from that chili. Let me see.
Oh my gosh! This is just sun in a glass, it's beautiful! This is the perfect drink for your Super Bowl party
Audra Lowe: But wait, Tanya is not done to complete your Super Bowl meal you definitely need a super desert. I say you definitely do. Go to our website, where Tanya showed how to make a delicious cream cheese brownie.
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