Football Food Munchies

Are you ready for some football?

Sunday is traditionally NFL Football Day, generations of Americans have made this a past time at their houses for decades and today is that big day. Lots of folks fire up the grill, bust out the beers and chow down on munchies of all types, from chips to hot dogs to tacos.

In our household, we usually crank up the big screen and start with the football talk shows and we let those shows run while we work around the house and get a few things done. Then its game time.

To make this a nice easy relaxing day, we get lazy on the food prep and do what I call "cheating". We pick up a few frozen appetizers and we'll make those through out the day, just snacking here and there as we're watching the games. This is kind of a brunch of sorts for us.

Personally I don't recommend buying pre-packaged stuff like this often because there's usually a ton of calories in these things. Home made food is always the best and most times more nutritious. However, once in a while is not bad and there's something really nice about not having to spend time prepping food and cooking for at least one day a week.

Today's cooking chores will be easy... I just unwrap the appetizer, pop it in the oven (microwaving just isn't the as good as baking) and in about 15-20 minutes we have our food with easy clean up being a simple toss of the wrapper into the recycle can.

We've tried many different frozen appetizers over the years and I can tell you, we've had some bad ones, but once in a while we've had some really good ones.

We've found some really good appetizer selections at our local Trader Joe's Grocery store, they're one of our favorite places to shop for groceries in Folsom (in addition to WinCo, Raley's and The Nugget).

Our menu today is Mini Beef Tacos, Chicken Empanaditas, Pizza Rolls, Arancini and of course some ice cold beer to wash it all down .. a junk food junkies delight. (stay tuned for more later, I'm going to be making a salmon pizza).

We made an interesting find the other day at Grocery Outlet - some Wolfgang Puck appetizers, figured it can't be that bad if Wolfgang put his name on it.

Here's the description: Arancini, Italian risotto balls blended with shiitake
mushrooms and three cheeses. Included tomato-basil-garlic sauce. As I was hoping, this was really good. In fact everything we're having is pretty decent.

I'm surprised that "tv dinners" have evolved so well. They're nice for a good quick meal.

Have a great Sunday everyone and I hope your favorite teams win today!

Go 49er's!