Super Bowl Sunnnndaayyyyy

As many of you know, yesterday was Superbowl Sunday. This is a day for
food, friends, and football. Most of the day we spent wondering what
food we could bring to the party our friends were hosting. There had
already been one request for pigs in a blanket so that was on the
menu, but what else could we make to diversify the food without
leaving the football “festivities.” As we surfed the web looking for
different recipes we finally came across one for homemade Mozzarella
Sticks. Check mark! That was the plan. A couple of weeks ago we also
made pepperoni dipsticks so we decided that was a must addition
because they were so good!
So onward to the recipe! It called for string cheese, eggs, milk,
flour, parsley flakes, canola oil, and Panko bread crumbs. It sounds
easy enough. The scariest part of the instructions was the “flash
freeze.” After rolling the string cheese in the flour, then in an
egg/milk mixture, and finally the bread crumbs and parsley, we had to
put the un-cooked mozzarella sticks in the freezer for 20-30 minutes.
Apparently, that is what a “flash freeze” is. While the cheese sticks
were in the oven we heated the oil and worked on the pigs in a
blanket.
For these all you need is croissant rolls and little sausages. You
take two triangle croissants and put them together by rolling them out
with a rolling pin or the side of hand. Chrissy seemed to fail at the
hand portion so she took to just rolling the little piggys up after
the dough was cut into thin strips. Once the oil was finished heating
up I (Chrissy) abandoned the pigs and went to frying the cheese
sticks. Now, make sure the oil is not turned up above medium heat
because you will burn the cheese sticks (and your hand as my thumb
found out.) They do not take longer than a minute or two to cook. They
should come out a nice brown color. Also, the cleaner the oil the
faster they cook. Once they were done I just put them on a napkin
lined tray and snapped a lid on.
The first batch of pigs in a blanket were done by now. Now please
remember, when you go to take something out of the oven, make sure you
are wearing an oven mitt or that your pot holder is covering you hand.
Rebecca, that means you :D So, as we are removing the pigs in a blanket
and putting them into a bowl, one of the pigs decided it wanted to be
a nudist. Various calls of “naked pig” and “pig down” were called and
we commenced to laugh hysterically with tears in our eyes. Most of our
cooking sessions end up with one of us (usually Chrissy) laughing in
the floor.
Those two recipes were done, but it was almost 5 o’clock, kick off
started soon, and we still had to make the pepperoni dipsticks. After
a couple of minutes deliberating we decided to prep them here and
finish cooking them at our friend’s house. So croissant rolls,
mozzarella string cheese, and pepperoni. 5 pepperonis and half a
string cheese per triangle and roll! That’s it. Cook at 375F for 11-13
minutes and done! In another blog we will play catch-up on previous
recipes we tried before starting the blog. These are stories you won’t
want to skip reading.
We rushed over to our friend’s house (where they had recorded the game
thanks to some nifty device that records television) popped the
dipsticks in the oven and went downstairs to wait on the food to
finish. Pause game, run up to get food (some did need a little
reheating, but everything came out wonderfully!) and run back down for
the game. (And what a game that was!) There was so much food there and
fewer people than we thought were going to show. Despite that, we
barely took anything home. And so ends out Superbowl Sunday menu.
There were a lot of laugh, and some tears (because we were laughing so
hard!) And we can’t wait until our next Sunday cooking adventure!