Super Bowl

This being Super Bowl weekend I decided to pack away the passport and do a home version.

In keeping with Super Bowl party traditions I’m having finger food for dinner and a suitable half-time snack and either a drink for a celebratory Falcons victory toast or one to drown my sorrows at a Pats win.  We’ll see at the end which it was.

For Super dinner the entrée is whole wings marinated in Hunter’s Caribbean mustard sauce from Kingoffoods.com that I picked up at the Charlotte Farmer’s Market just yesterday.  Popped them on the grill and enjoyed the last of a beautiful sunny day while they cooked.  End result was pretty good accompanied by the requisite vegetables and some dipping sauce.

Of course you have to have a little beverage to wash it down and the choice for that was a localish brew from the Catawba Brewing company.  It was their King Winterbolt Winter Ale and as you can see it was a nice dark ale.  It’s a higher than average alcohol beer at 7% and it’s also reasonably smooth and paired nicely with the tangy mustard sauce of the wings.

Half time and beyond snacks were corn chip, cheese & sausage nachos.  The cheese medley included Carolina Hoop Cheese from Ashe County Cheese and the sausage was hot sausage from Wadesboro, NC based Rayfield’s Meat Center, also picked up at the farmer’s market.  I love the ingredient list for the sausage was only four items long; pork, sage, salt & red pepper.  Mighty tasty.

And to finish off the evening since my team didn’t get crowned I had to have a consolation Crown.

And congratulations to Jay Verellen for winning the Blogaversary contest.