Practice Round: Bite-Sized Foods For Your Super Bowl Party

Here are two game day scenarios. 1. You're eating a piece of pizza, burrito or hunk of 6-foot sub with both hands. There's a helmet-to-helmet hit, and your fist-pumping hand rises up involuntarily. Your food falls to the ground, and the five-second rule quickly expires. Also the 10-second rule. Sailor down. We've all seen this happen. 2. You were eating more logically bite-sized food (considering the occasion) and managed to hang onto your jalapeño popper while still reacting appropriately. 

If you prefer scenario two, which takes less time to clean up and is less of a buzzkill, we have 10 recipes for flightless foods that you're going to love.

Practice Round: Bite-Sized Foods For Your Super Bowl Party

Pork Belly Onigiri Recipe

Try this crispy, fatty, flavorful Japanese snack

We're big fans of Uchi, well worth a trip to Austin by itself. But, you know, get tacos and stuff too. Should you have any leftover pork belly on hand, Uchi's onigiri, Japanese rice balls, are definitely the way to go. And these folks cook methodically (for good reason), so break out that scale and this recipe for sushi rice and get stuffing.

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Baltimore Crab Pretzel Sticks Recipe

A recipe for crab pretzels, appetizer-style

Here's how proud the Baltimore area is of its crabmeat. Go ahead, look at the photo. Actually, mine don't do them justice — the real Baltimore crab pretzels are legit twisted stadium pretzels roughly the size of a dinner plate and positively coated with thick crab salad and shredded cheese. I use pre-made pizza dough to achieve very nearly the same results in an hour or less.

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Soba Sushi Rolls Recipe

Substitute noodles for rice in this sushi recipe

This fun roll is for those who have graduated from inside-out roll preparation and want to extend their sushi repertoire.

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Smashed Shrimp Shumai Recipe

Shumai get "smashed" for your next cocktail party

This dish began with a near-disaster. As guests were arriving at a party in Denver, I realized that the water I was going to cook the dumplings in wasn’t going to boil at our high altitude. What to do? I grabbed a paella pan, put it on the grill and added oil. I smashed – flattened – the shumai with a wet palm, then sautéed them until golden and crisp.

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Chocolate Caramel Peanut Bars Recipe

Just like a Snickers bar recipe. Except better.

My assistant has been working on perfecting the classic Snickers bar. Her latest version actually transcends the store-bought ones. I make a double batch of them and store one in the freezer. I think they might even be better when served frozen. You decide.

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Philly Cheesesteak Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

The iconic Philly sandwich, now packing heat!

Combine classic Philadelphia cream cheese with shredded provolone for that authentic Philly cheesesteak taste with a melty-stretchy hit, all packed into one hot jalapeño popper. Not enough brotherly love for you? Fine, dip 'em in Cheez-Whiz. But you'd better Instagram it.

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Chorizo Potato Bites Recipe

Our favorite taco recipe in bite-sized party format

This party snack pays homage to three of my favorite other small bites — deviled eggs, chorizo potato tacos and potato skins. Frying the onions and garlic in some of the fat left over from browning the sausage adds an extra layer of flavor, plus frying onions in fat is one of the sacred pillars of tailgating.

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Chipotle Popcorn Chicken Recipe

A recipe for popcorn chicken that'll make you hot

We thought we'd kick off tailgating season with the least intimidating and most user-friendly food, easy to make in massive batches: popcorn chicken. Ready for the easiest use of canned chipotles you've ever seen? 

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Paprika Lamb Meatballs Recipe

A recipe for lamb meatballs with smoked paprika

Edigio Donagrandi writes, "This is a recipe that I have known since I was a kid. I got it from my mother, who to this day makes the meatballs the same way. As a kid I also loved the leftover meatballs on a toasted roll, it was probably my first attempt to put flavors together. They do make a great sandwich (if you have any leftover)."

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Skirt Steak Skewers With Blue Cheese Dip

Meat on a stick with a tangy blue cheese twist

Don't use a creamy expensive blue cheese here; American versions like Wisconsin's buttermilk blue are really great in applications where you want a ton of flavor. The secret to delicious skirt steak skewers is all in your slicing technique.

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