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Super Bowl Snacks: Chicken Wings & Vegan Junk Food Recipes

Deep-frying at home is a messy, smelly pain in the ass. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy classic Super Bowl junk food like Buffalo Wings - which are actually even tastier steamed and roasted than fried. We’ve also got some great recipes for vegan junk food to satisfy every appetite on game day. Go Giants!

Also, basset hounds make terrible wide receivers.

I am such a trooper, you guys. The day we shot this video, it was 18ºF out in the sun. Humphrey got to wear a sweater, but all I had was jogging pants and a fake thermal shirt. Even a Nerf football is hard to throw when your fingers don’t want to bend.

But then I got to go back inside and make the most goddamn amazing chicken wings I’ve ever had. Except for when I made them again, for last year’s Super Bowl, when they were at least as equally as amazing as the first time. Let me put it this way: we bought 10 pounds of wings for that Super Bowl party. We had maybe 35 people come through our house. They all brought food and/or booze to share. Some of the guests were professional chefs. We were out of wings before the halftime show started.

So you should probably make these wings this weekend, is what I’m saying.

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Moroccan-spiced lamb meatballs

For me, the perfumey earthiness of lamb was meant for winter and winter alone. It’s the kind of meat you want to cozy up to, and lamb dishes are generally oversized-sweater-and-cushy-slippers food. These meatballs are no exception, and making them is a great way to spend a cold, wintry Sunday afternoon.

But who makes a giant pan of meatballs just for themselves? These would be such a perfect dish for a New Year’s Eve party, especially one where you maybe want people to fawn all over you (yes) and reaffirm how amazing you are (true) and introduce you to their cute, single friends (obviously).

Just pour the meatballs and the sauce into a chafing dish or pop your dutch oven onto that old electric heating tray…thing…that your weird aunt gave you a few Christmases ago - this will obviously keep the meatballs warm, but it will also keep them from drying out. Stick a toothpick in each meatball for easy consumption, and bam - New Year’s Eve is yours for the taking.

Happy New Year, everyone!

This honestly is my go-to party dish. Except that once you’ve made three batches of lamb meatballs over the course of two weeks in your tiny, airless Brooklyn kitchen, you basically never want to smell lamb again (the big, airy kitchen in this video is Brendan’s, not mine).

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Sparkling Champagne Punch

This week I was joined by Justin and Marissa again so Marissa could show me how to make this easy, pretty, and super festive pomegranate champagne punch. This is a seriously delicious punch: not to sweet, not too strong, and perfect for the holidays. Marissa even served it at their wedding - you all remember Justin’s amazing Tumblr wedding proposal, right?

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It’s almost the weekend and it’s almost Hanukkah which means it’s potato latke time. And if you’re not using our recipe, you’re not really doing it right. Just sayin’.

Hanukkah starts tonight! Get yer taters frying.

Really love latkes? Buy the recipe as a tshirt in the new WCFoodies store.

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Homemade Eggnog

This week for Next Chef, the assignment was to let the fans pick the recipe. We got a lot of great suggestions in the comments over on our YouTube page, but the clear favorite was eggnog. Marissa helped me come up with the recipe and Justin shot it. Mark Douglas from the Key of Awesome stopped by and had some, making a very gracious cameo.

I’m not normally an eggnog kind of person (I’ve only had it once before) but this was a lot of fun to make. It’s a very festive drink and would really liven up a holiday party. As far as cocktails go (is eggnog a cocktail?) it’s great because it can be largely made ahead, it’s affordable, and it doesn’t require a lot of specialty liquors or finishing liqueurs.

Happy holidays!

So many awesome faces in this week’s episode, you guys.

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What’s your favorite holiday party recipe?

Click on over to YouTube and let us know in the comments and we’ll cook the dish with the most thumbs-up.

How much do you want to bet the highest-rated comment is going to be something like, “a bag of dicks?”

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