When I dip, you dip

Ah the glorious, glorious Super Bowl. That beautiful day of the year filled to the brim with dips and football and friends and more dips. We dipped to such a magnitude that I went to bed curled into a tight fetal position, so full and moaning so loudly. And yet... smiling in painful contentment.

(Steelers vs. Packers potato skins via Noble Pig. No, I didn't make them because I'm not completely disgusting but oh.my.god. this woman is ballsy.)

This year's Sunday o' Glory seemed to be better than normal. Maybe it was the actually good football game? Maybe it was the amazing food? Or maybe it was because I didn't have to leave my apartment or get out of my pajamas. (I didn't really mean for that to happen. About an hour into the party I realized I hadn't looked in the mirror all day...or put on a bra. WHOOPS.)

THE FOOD: because I know you're dying to know... the winning house guest of the night brought an out of this world homemade artichoke dip AND buffalo chicken/cheddar/blue cheese dip while the formidable contender brought the always classic and delicious Velveeta/Rotel crock pot sensation dip. At halftime we ushered in the "real food"- my buffalo chicken meatballs (SOOO good, snag the recipe HERE) and a fresh from the freezer batch of tater tots. We ended the meal of meals with chocolate chip cookies with an oreo center.

Moving on.

THE COMMERCIALS: At Casa de Wilinsky, we like to keep things entertaining so we made commercial score cards. Highly recommended fun for all. My favsies of the night:

Everyone's favorite, I love it too:

Phenomenal:

It's not very high on any best commercial list but I think it's hysterical. ECO ECO ECO.

Obvi loved it:

And my winner... someone please give the person who thought of this campaign an award. And I love the song.

THE PERFORMANCES:

Can we just talk about Christina for a minute? I hate her normally. Ever since she stopped wearing chaps and bad extensions, she's really lost her appeal but I was handing it to the sister on Sunday night. Her face seemed to be less puffy, her outfit looked nice and boy oh boy can that girl belt a tune. I was basically saying amen by the end of the song. Then Lyricpocolypse happened and that was that. It's the most watched game in the history of television, can't we all back off if she was a little nervous!? I never know the lyrics to songs! So what! Blah blah blah. And now there's a whole smear campaign about how she's spiraling out of control and she's a drunk. Come on people! She sounded great! Can't we please move on? Don't worry Christina, I got your back.

Besides the horrible, horrible quality of audio...I was very pleasantly surprised with the halftime show. Good use of space, great cameo's, great song selection. I stayed entertained, I danced, I sang. And while I still pine for the days of MTV-produced Britney Spears dance numbers and nipple slips, this felt like the good ole days were back and I was sincerely happy about it.

But let's be honest, it was probably just Fergie's diamond encrusted football pad costume that got me all excited- if I got to wear sparkles, I'd totally play more sports.

Braless host+ tater tots = IS THIS WHY I'M SO POPULAR?

Go Saints

Saints won! I'm really just happy because my friends are happy, because New Orleans deserves it, and because of the picture above. Holyyy moly. God bless Reggie Bush.

I definitely missed a lot of commercials due to all of the mini weenie eating but these are the ones I liked that I saw.

Favorite commercial of the night...I cried...

Stacy just told me this is Google's first commercial ever. Cool.

Other favs (and by the way- how crazy is it these are already up on youtube?)

Not even that great..I just like the homage to the Simpsons.

I can't find the Flo TV commercial that I liked and I can't think of anymore. Someone leave a comment on here and tell me the good ones.

PS. The weenies were AWESOME- as if french bread could stop me from eating mini-weenies.

I also made the dip, it looks so gross in the picture but tastes soo good going into my tummy.

[Previously posted photo removed because my mom thought it looked too disgusting]

Ugh I can't breathe.

For those who think young *wink*

Superbowllllll. There's a lot of dip eating going on over here. I made the Best Dip In The World and have attempted to make little cocktail weannies HOWEVER they were out of croissant rolls all over town so we're using crusty french bread. I know, I gagged too. We'll see how this goes, photographs to come later...obviously.

So far my favorite commercial has been the Flo TV "where will you be?" commercial. Yay Qualcomm!!

My favorite Superbowl commercial EVER:

God Britney is so perfect.

Saints just took the lead- WHO DAT.

The happiest time of year

The happiest time of the year...FOR FOOD!!!! Ok the real happiest time of the year for food is Thanksgiving (and all of those yummy holiday parties in December) but ohhh goodness, Super Bowl Sunday is rapidly approaching and I can taste the dips already.

I love everything about Super Bowl Sunday. I love the friends, the football, THE COMMERCIALS, and all of that glorious food. Chicken wings, pizza, the dips, my friend Paulina is making a football shaped cake. It's just too much, really. And it seems that I have no self control to eat terribly when there is any sort of holiday being celebrated. (Oh it's your dog's birthday? Why yes, I'd love a cupcake). Saints vs. Colts? BRING ON THE DIPS.

The best dips of all time:

Ok I don't have a name for this and I really should name it because it seems to diminish the importance of this dip. People, this is the best dip in the world. The first time I had it was tailgating for a KU football game and my friends mom made it. The ENTIRE party of people abandoned the two full kegs and were standing around the table attacking this dip. I also credit it for making me love black beans and cumin.

I don't have a picture of it because the last time I made this I was not Super Blogger Lara (aka one who now photographs all of her food). I don't care if you don't like some of the ingredients in it. MAKE THIS DIP. Your mouth will thank me later.

Black Bean and Corn Dip

1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained

1 1/2 cups corn

1 cup finely chopped sweet red pepper

3/4 cup chopped green pepper

1/2 cup finely chopped red onion

1/2 cup sour cream

1/4 cup mayonnaise

2 tbs red wine vinegar

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp garlic powder

1/8 tsp pepper

Tortilla chips

In a large bowl, combine the beans, corn, peppers and onion. Combine the sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar and seasonings; pour over corn mixture and toss gently to coat. Serve with tortilla chips. Refrigerate leftovers. Yields 4 cups.

This kid loves the dip.

Ok this next dip sounds really gross because it kind of is. IF YOU LIKE DELICIOUS, AMAZING GROSS FOOD. My aunt made this for a hotel hospitality suite at one of my cousin's bar mitzvah's... I think...I don't know but for like 15 years this bad boy has been my favorite thing to eat for the Super Bowl. I bought a mini-crock pot in college just so I could make this- is that weird? If I were Oprah I'd totally pass this out to the whole audience and scream VELVEEEEETAAA DIPPPPPP.

These ingredients can be found grouped together in every grocery store right now because it's a very famous and fabulous recipe. It can also be found on the Rotel and Velveeta boxes.

Velveeta/ Rotel Dip:

1/2 to 1 whole block of Velveeta cheese (I usually start with a half and then add a little more as I go along)

1 lb ground beef

1 can (maybe 2? I don't remember, read the can it will tell you) Rotel tomatoes WITH the green chilis

Crock pot

Brown the ground beef. While you're doing that cut the Velveeta up into 1 inch cubes so that they will melt faster. Add to the crock pot. Add ground beef and Rotel tomatoes and turn the crock pot to low. Stir occasionally. The amount of cheese and beef can be adjusted to taste. I like mine beefier :) Serve in the crock pot with a ladle and a basket of tortilla chips. YUM.

I totally just stole this picture off google images search: velveeta dip

Other recipes and pictures I just gently borrowed with love from the Noble Pig site, she just did an entire Super Bowl post and I died a little bit.

Buffalo Chicken Dip

I had this at a party a while ago, it was incredible.

Recipe HERE

Kahlua- Pecan- Brown Sugar Baked Brie

Umm ya...recipe HERE

Pull Apart Bacon Bread

The newest contender for the website: This Is Why You're Fat

Recipe HERE because you know you're curious

Go Saints.