Hope everyone had a fun super bowl! Or at least ate some yummy food! I’m not too much of a sports fan but I am a fan of drinkin and eatin. So I made some snacks for the big game and noshed with Boy and a few friends. I made some traditional snacking food with a Middle Eastern twist. First off – baked chicken wings with ras-el-hanout. I dry rubbed these wings overnight and baked them off at 400 degrees for about an hour. When the wings came out of the oven I sprinkled a touch of smoked paprika over them. I ate these with sriracha which went remarkably well with it. It goes well with everything actually.
I redid the already cheeky 5-layer dip. Starting from the bottom – hummus, pickled turnips, baba ganoush, cucumber yogurt sauce, and lastly tabouli. These were served with baked pita chips. I served these in invidual servings using plastic cocktail cups.
Double dip to your heart’s content!
To replace the popular bagged chips I made oven fries. Once again in a super hot oven until they were browned and crispy on the edges. I seasoned these with za’atar and served it with homemade ketchup. It made the oven fries tasty.
All around a pretty healthy meal.
*Beer imbibed: Duvel, Victory Brewing Prima Pils, Alesmith IPA, Cantillon Vigneronne, Rodenbach Grand Cru
dang, that is healthy! and yet oh-so-deelish looking. okay, so what beer?
hi santos, i am so forgetful with important post (i mean beer) information. i added the list of beers to the post. it was my first time with cantillon vignerrone. gotta say it was frickin delicious!!! tart, fruity, yeasty. it’s a white grape-soaked lambic. brilliant i must say.
That was an amazing Superbowl feist (guiltfree)! I especially enjoyed your twist on the 5 layer dip and couldn’t stop eating the fries… Thank you!
hi hannah,
i could live on fresh-out-of-the-oven fries. ur welcome!
glad you came over and partook in the food.
Drinking and eating were the only things good about Superbowl Sunday.
The wings were my favorite. The Giants my least.
Wow – I wish I had been at your part, the one I attended didn’t look nearly as good. I’m always looking for new rubs for my wings, will have to try the ras-el-hanout!
hi justin,
the wings lessened the blow.
hi allen,
yeah ras-el-hanout is great! there’s a lot of variations of the mix too. can’t wait to use it on other stuff. i used it to season turkey meatloaf once and it turned out delicious too.
I made the ras-el-hanout last night and rubbed on chicken thighs — loved it! Thanks for the inspiration.
Just popped over from Allen’s blog and his reference to your wings…finger lickin’ good!
Being black and a genetic fan of chicken, I gotta say these are the best wings I’ve eaten in YEARS.
Stupid Giants.
everything was even tastier than it looks, which makes me very upset when i look at these entries cause i can only IMAGINE how delicious it really is…
whoever this “Boy” character is, he sure is one lucky dood!!
those chicken wings were seriously the best chicken wings i’ve ever eaten, the skin, meat, seasoning, and size of them were ridiculous! and i’m not sure what was in those cups but it was YUUMMMMY i ate like all the leftover ones on the sly piggy that i am!!
thanks to everyone for an awesome super bowl it was fun q.t.
xoxoxo
oh yeah, and…
stupid giants.
oh the potatoes, how could i forget the PO-TAY-TOOOES!
man, they were crispy and perfectly potatoey inside… just the way i like ‘em.
[...] about food, and the Ras-el-hanout Chicken I made last night. I found reference to ras-el-hanout on Immaeatchu’s blog the other day – she used the spice blend on chicken wings for a Super Bowl party. It looked [...]