It’s that day of the year again! The annual gorge fest of all things fried, sauced, cheesed and washed down with beer or worse yet sugary soda!
This is the one Sunday in the year when all Pfiizer executives gather in the company head quarter’s conference room around a giant TV screen gleefully counting their shares of stock. Just think what this day means to Lipitor sales!!!!
We start out on the wrong nutrition-health-wise foot early in the day with pre-game munchies: Cheese Nachos are a favorite – Just open up a bag of Tostados or other fried corn chip laden with sodium and cholesterol and melt American cheese (the high fat content kind) on top with a little melted butter and there you have them – Quick Cheese Nachos. Put out a few bowls of Honey-roasted peanuts (certainly not almonds!), and some bowls of buttered popcorn. I especially like making a 7 Layer Dip which has at least a couple of ingredients from the food pyramid such as sour cream and cheese (dairy), salsa, onions and olives (vegetables) and refried beans (fiber). Also popular is the thick and creamy spinach and artichoke dip which affords you the opportunity to use pita bread, chunks of pumpernickel, Fritos, potato chips or corn Bugles for dipping.
Pizza Bagel Bites
Once the empty beer bottles start lining up on the counter, you know it’s time to bring out round two of the food! Hey-did the game begin yet? Favorites include pizza in almost any form. You can buy pizza rolls, pizza bagel bites or make your own pizza bites by spreading Ragu tomato sauce on a toasted English muffin, sprinkled with Kraft Parmesan cheese (the kind in the green cylinder container). Oooh yummy!
Probably the best-loved dish of the day is Buffalo Wings! Really, what would any Super Bowl party be without some hot and spicy wings? You can buy them in most grocery stores this weekend, sometimes fresh but certainly frozen. OR you can make them; You start with (skin-on) chicken wings and after coating them with butter and flour,you fry them AND then sauce them with a mixture of Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper and garlic powder. Some people bake them but that really eliminates a lot of the fat content, and who wants to do that?
By Halftime, the crowd, now a bit fuzzy from carb-overload and alcohol, gets up and stumbles around to grab a bowl of chilli. There are SO many chilli recipes with the bean-n0 bean rivalry, it’s hard to pick one that pleases everyone. Fortunately at this point in the evening, no one really cares or wonders if the chilli is made with beef or turkey or with or without beans as long as the side dishes of sour cream, sliced jalapenos, sliced black olives and guacamole are out
Do we have more beer in the refrigerator?
Monday Morning Quarterbacking begins early tomorrow, so make sure to call your cardiologist early in the morning for an appointment!
Bill Ding and his band of clowns are the security patrol for this blog site. He is a favorite toy from the 50*s. By the way sometimes a blog is just an ego-maniacal stream of conscience.
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SAFE HOUSE! Are You Kidding Me?
February 8, 2012 by pbenjay
SAFE HOUSE
There was NOTHING safe about being in that house!
SAFE HOUSE, a spy-thriller-action-packed film starring Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga, Sam Shepherd and Ryan Reynolds is scheduled to be released this coming weekend.
If you like espionage, especially on the international level, this movie is for you.
If you like unlikely heroes rising to the occasion and beyond (not exactly a foreign concept), this movie is for you.
If you like conspiracy theories (I do), this movie is for you.
If you like fast and furious editing that heightens the drama, this movie is for you.
The acting is fine, not Academy Award winning, but the characters were portrayed as believable and Ryan Reynolds is great.
Action-packed is a word often carelessly tossed around by studio public relations and marketing personnel; However in this case it seemed as if the action never stopped. Between the frequent, almost constant car chases and the shoot-outs every 10 minutes or so, I found myself cringing in my seat and gripping the arm rests for the entire 115 minutes of the movie. The bombing of the safe house was particularly intense and loud -ACTION galore!
Trust no one. Suspect everyone. Believe no one. Enemies make strange bedfellows. Watch your back.
SAG showed Act of Valor last night; A movie full of heroic acts, team work and a lot of “I’ve got your back”. Tonight’s movie had a lot “I’ve got your back” too except there was always a knife in it.
Like the movie poster says, NO ONE IS SAFE
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