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Hoffapenos, Great Superbowl Snack

Hoffapenos, Great Superbowl Snack
Photo-A-Day #1395

I have said it before but I love Average Betty. I have finally made one of her recipes. I made the hot and delicious Hoffapenos! They are so delicious. Bacon goodness, cream cheese and the hotness of Jalapenos!

Prepping Hoffapenos

I made sure I had some rubber gloves while working with the jalapenos. I have cream cheese, jalapenos and bacon. Everything is great with bacon.

Adding my touches

I added my own touches to the recipe including adding Velveeta cheese and Red Robin seasoning.

Spliting the Jalapenos.

I split all the jalapenos and and removed the seeds. If you leave some seeds the hoffapeno is harder. I left some of them in a few of the jalapenos.

Sliced Jalapenos.

I cut up 5 jalapenos to get them ready to stuff with cream cheese and Velveeta.

Hoffapenos ready to go.

All the Hoffapenos ready to be put into the oven.

Hoffapenos prepped.

12 Hoffapenos ready and waiting for the oven.

But Hoffapenos weren’t the only things that we made for the Superbowl. I made some chicken wings. Now I don’t always remember what I put in those but here is some idea of what was in the marinade. One set just had a mixture of REd Robin seasoning and cajun seasonings. It was marinated in Olive Oil and Apple Cider Vinegar. I also threw a shot of Jose Curevo. The wings were in the marinade overnight and turned a few times. Then before I put the wings in the oven I put some brown sugar on them. The second set of wings had a ton of different spices, the vinegar, olive oil and cuervo plus Franks Red Hot Buffalo wind sauce.

Chicken Wings

Also Allison made some delicious Turkey Chili. It was so good and had tons of beans and tomatos. 3lbs of Turkey too. So awesome.

Turkey Chilli.

Eva was with us till a little before the halftime show. She finally got tired enough to go down for the night. She loved all the action, food and attenion from Memere.

I gotta go to bed?

I’m loving the commercials for the superbowl and cannot wait to see G.I. Joe and the Transformers. This summer is going to be so much fun for me. I’m a child of the 80’s and that child inside me never left those 80s. I hope everyone had a great Superbowl Sunday and spent much time with friends and family and had great fun and food.

If someone talked over the good ads you can see them all on Hulu.com.

Slightly More Refined

Slightly More Refined
Photo-A-Day #1275

First off, a Very Happy Anniversary to my sister Tara and her husband Erik. 5 years! Congratulations. So because of that here some bonus Photo-A-Day Images.

Interesting foliage Another look

Today was a day to accomplish things. With Allison and I both attacking the back room we were able to consolidate quite a bit. It doesn’t look it right now but we are making progress on clearing out some junk and making this a room that is both a guest room as well as an art room for Allison so that she can work on her projects and get her Etsy store up and running.

This morning I looked at all the things I have hanging around, stuff I just don’t need anymore but maybe someone else might want it. So I am going to be posting quite a bit to eBay soon. I have the 1st 27 issues of Nintendo Power Magazine to sell, some Transformers from Botcon 2003 or rather The Official Transformers Collectors Convention 2003. I have the 4 exclusives in their boxes and I also have Binatech Sideswipe because I have two of that one. I also have some technical items to sell as well. Time to get rid of some stuff.

We also put the new stove through its paces.

The new stove.

Allison made a delicious chili for dinner and also some tasty chocolate chip cookies. She even put in a few white chocolate chips for me. She used the Smart Balance 50% butter 50% Smart Balance butter and I couldn’t even tell the difference. That is saying something and it is saying something good. Believe me I had my doubts about that stuff.

This morning I decided to tell the world the origins of my loathing of that peel and eat fiend, the banana. Now that we have the DVR and HD cable and all those channels I was able to watch 80’s videos. I guess I got nostalgic for 1986.

We went for a walk tonight and saw this car with this bumper sticker.

... Film at Eleven!

It immediately made me think of The Kentucky Fried Movie. Thanks to Neil and Derek. Seeing them earlier this week for lunch was a real treat.