Top 10 Game Day Recipes

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It’s that time again, FOOTBALL SEASON!

While I love to watch a good game, I think visiting with friends and eating some great food is my favorite part! Some of my favorite memories growing up was inviting friends and family over to watch a big game. Everyone gathered around the tv, cheering, eating yummy finger foods, and having a great time together. My husband is especially excited for football season! We are big Razorback fans, and our first game is this Saturday! He has started a countdown and is sure to remind me daily that game day is almost here!
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Below is my top 10 favorite football party foods, with ingredients and instructions, to make your football party a hit!

1. Sweet and Spicy Buffalo Wings

Sweet and Spicy Buffalo Wings

Ingredients:

4 lbs chicken wings
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Sauce
1/2 stick of butter
1 cup AP flour
2 TBSP garlic powder
1 tsp salt

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray metal baking sheet with cooking spray.
Coat each chicken wing in flour and place onto baking sheet. Make sure chicken is not touching. Cook for about 25-30 minutes, or until chicken is crispy and cooked thoroughly.
While chicken is cooking, start making the sauce by combining hot sauce, butter, and brown sugar into medium sauce pan. Stove should be set at low to medium heat. After butter has melted and ingredients are mixed well, add garlic powder and salt. Be sure to stir the sauce well, then remove from heat.
Once chicken has been cooked, carefully toss with sweet buffalo sauce, in a mixing bowl. Serve with ranch dressing.

2. Ham and Cream Cheese Pinwheels

Ham and Cream Cheese Pinwheels

Ingredients:

8 large flour tortillas
16 oz honey ham deli meat (chopped)
16 oz softened cream cheese
2 cups shredded cheddar
1 cup chopped green onion
1 TBSP garlic powder

Instructions:
Start by combining cream cheese, ham, cheddar, green onion, and garlic powder, into a large mixing bowl. Stir until all ingredients are mixed well.
Cover one side of tortilla with mixture, about 1/2-3/4 cup of mixture per tortilla. Spread evenly, then roll tortilla. Repeat process with all 8 tortillas.
Chill rolled tortillas in fridge for about 30 minutes- it’s easier to cut when chilled. Once chilled and firm, cut tortillas into 1 inch pieces, creating pinwheels.

3. Sausage Queso Dip

Ingredients:

1 lb ground sausage

32 oz Velveeta Cheese
28 oz can Rotel (drained)
1 cup of milk
Instructions:
Start by browning the sausage in a skillet. Add Velveeta Cheese and Rotel to crock-pot, and cook on medium. Once sausage is thoroughly cooked, add sausage to crock pot.
Be sure to stir occasionally as the cheese melts. Once cheese has melted, add milk and mix ingredients together. Serve warm with tortilla chips.


4. Lemon Garlic Shrimp Skewers

Ingredients:
12 oz raw medium shrimp
1/2 stick of butter
2 TBSP minced garlic
2 TBSP of parsley
1 lemon (cut in half)
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Melt butter in microwave, then carefully stir in garlic and parsley.
Next, you’ll start putting the shrimp onto the skewers (about 4 or 5 per skewer). Then place shrimp onto a metal baking sheet. Brush shrimp with garlic butter, then bake for about 12-15 minutes (until shrimp is pink and thoroughly cooked).
 Carefully remove from oven, then squeeze lemon juice onto shrimp. Serve warm and enjoy!

5. Smoked Chipotle Guacamole

Ingredients:
4 large avocados
10 oz can of Rotel (drained)
1/2 cup of sliced scallions
1 TBSP Frontier Smoked Chipotle Powder
2 TBSP lime juice
1/4 cup finely chopped cilantro
1 tsp garlic powder
Instructions:
Start by peeling and pitting avacados, then slice. Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl, then mash together, leaving some chunks of avocado. This will give your guacamole some texture. Serve chilled with tortilla chips.

6. Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Dip

Ingredients:

2 large cans of chicken (12.5 oz)
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup shredded cheddar
3/4 cups of buffalo sauce
2 TBSP onion powder
Instructions:
Start by draining the canned chicken and adding it to a small crock pot. Then add the cream cheese, buffalo sauce, and onion powder. Set temp on medium
Once cream cheese has melted completely, stir ingredients together, the mix in shredded cheese. Serve warm with tortilla chips or Nacho Cheese Doritos.

7. Bacon Wrapped Lil' Smokies

Ingredients:
28 oz Hillshire Farms lil smokies
12 oz of Bacon
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 TBSP garlic powder
Toothpicks
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. While oven is preheating, cut each strip of bacon into thirds. Then wrap a piece of bacon around one sausage and stick toothpick through. Repeat process until all sausages have been wrapped with bacon.
Place each bundle onto a metal baking sheet, then season with garlic powder. Cook for 15 minutes, then carefully remove from oven.
Sprinkle brown sugar onto each bundle, then bake for another 10 minutes, or until bacon is thoroughly cooked. Serve warm.


8. Oreo Balls

Ingredients:
1 package of oreos (crushed)
8 oz of cream cheese
11 oz white chocolate chips
Instructions:
After oreos have been crushed, combine with softened cream cheese, in a medium mixing bowl. Once thoroughly mixed, start making small oreo balls and chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Melt the white chocolate by placing glass pyrex bowl over a pot of boiling water. Stir constantly until all chocolate has melted.
Carefully coat oreo balls by submerging into melted white chocolate, you can remove oreo balls from the chocolate with a spoon or fork. Place each oreo ball onto parchment paper while chocolate hardens. Enjoy!

9. Jalapeno Popper Crescent Rolls

Ingredients:
4 jalapenos (seeded and sliced longways while wearing gloves)
8 oz of cream cheese
2.5 oz of real bacon bits
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
8 ct crescent rolls
Instructions:
After carefully seeding the Jalapeno and removing the ribs, make the filling by combining softened cream cheese, bacon bits, and shredded cheese.
After mixing, fill each Jalapeno with about two tablespoons of the cheese mixture. Repeat process until all peppera have been filled.
Next, wrap each pepper inside it’s own crescent roll and place on a nonstick baking sheet, at least 1 inch apart. Bake at 380 degrees for about 15-18 minutes, or until crescent rolls are golden brown. Serve warm and enjoy!


10. Sweet Mandarin Sausage Bites

Ingredients:
28 oz of smoked sausage
1/2 bottle of Panda Express Mandarin Sauce (about 10 oz)
2 tsp soy sauce
Instructions:
Start by slicing the smoked sausage into 1-inch pieces, then place into crock pot on low temp. Add Mandarin sauce and soy sauce, and mix together. Serve warm! Easy peasy and so dang good!
That’s a wrap! What are your favorite party foods?

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