Super Bowl Food

If you're like most Americans, you'll be glued to the TV Sunday evening to watch the Super Bowl. Whether you're planning to watch for the game itself or for the crazy, glitchy, expensive commercials, you'll probably need/want lots of munchies during the game.

What to fix or grab from the grocery shelves? Sure, you could go for chips and dip, beer or soda, pizza (pepperoni or loaded up with veggies). But wouldn't it be nice to have a few other things to eat during the game? Here are some yummy things to fix for your Super Bowl Party.

CHERRY SHEET CAKE

This one is by Carroll Pellegrinelli from the desserts and baking section of about.com. Carroll also have loads of Super Bowl recipes! For this recipe, she writes, "Looking for a simple cake to serve for dessert or an afternoon coffee. It's up to you, which method plan to use to make this Cherry Sheet Cake, from-scratch or with a cake mix." I personally plan to bake this up for Super Bowl Sunday!

Prep Time: 25 minutes; Cook Time: 45 minutes; Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes; Yield: 24 servings

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter, room temperature

1-1/2 cups sugar

4 eggs

1 teaspoon almond extract

1 cake mix

One 4-servings box vanilla pudding mix

4 eggs

1/2 cup oil

1 cup cold water

21 ounce can cherry pie filling

Powdered sugar

Preparation:

From scratch cake:

In a large bowl with a wire whisk, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar. Add one egg at a time. Add almond extract. Mix thoroughly. Gradually, add the butter mixture until well combined.

From cake mix:

Combine cake mix ingredients. Mix on medium until slightly combined. Mix for 2 more minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease 9x13 pan. Pour batter into pan. With a spoon dollop cherry pie filling in an even pattern on top of cake batter.

Bake for 45- 50 minutes or until corners are lightly brown. Allow to cool slightly on wire rack before sprinkling with powdered sugar. Cool completely before serving.

Another about.com section/channel is the Low Fat Cooking section. Fiona Haynes, who writes low fat recipes, posted a recipe for low fat sloppy joes. Yum!

LOW FAT SLOPPY JOES

Fiona Haynes writes, "Turkey sloppy Joes make a great weeknight meal or a great game-day treat. For an extra nutritional punch, serve with whole-grain rolls instead of regular rolls, and offer baby carrots and grapes on the side."

Cook Time: 25 minutes; Total Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients:

2 tsp canola oil

1 cup finely chopped onion

1/2 green bell pepper, chopped

1/2 small yellow bell pepper, chopped

3/4 pound lean ground turkey

1 tbsp chili powder

1 tsp oregano

1 14.5 ounce can no-salt-added tomato sauce

1/4 cup ketchup

2 tbsp tomato paste

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

12 small Kaiser rolls

Preparation:

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Sauté onions and peppers until softened. Add ground turkey and cook until no longer pink. Stir in chili powder and oregano and cook for 1 minute. Add tomato sauce, ketchup, tomato paste and Worcestershire sauce. Cook for 15-20 minutes.

Spoon about 1/3 cup of the turkey mixture into the bottom half of a small roll. Add top of roll, then serve.

Makes 12 servings

Per Serving: Calories 167, Calories from Fat 41, total Fat 4.5g (sat 0.9g), Cholesterol 22mg, Sodium 438mg, Carbohydrate 22.5g, Fiber 2.1g, Protein 8.9g

Per Serving using extra-lean ground turkey: Calories 158, Calories from Fat 24, Total Fat 2.6g (sat 0.3g), Cholesterol 11mg, Sodium 427mg, Carbohydrate 22.5g, Fiber 2.1g, Protein 11g

Stay tuned...more tomorrow!