Super Bowls

I’m not much of a sports fan unless it involves low slung open top automobiles chasing each other around twisty, turning stretches of asphalt in exotic locales or the elegant ballet of lithely runners deftly using only feet to control a spheroid object into a rectangular catchment area. But today I can’t escape the fever of padded behemoths applying superhuman like strength in a violent manner to control a pointedly elliptical pigskin bladder. I mean, who can resist the Super Bowl?Ok, I know that by the time you all read this that it will be all over with some winners and of course the inevitable losers – but who says that super bowl food is just for the foot ball season?

We all know that large sporting events and a big screen television are classically paired with food – not little bits but big manly honking loads of foods.

Newfoundland with our winter climate limits the amount of traditional tail gate parties we can have and especially during the Super Bowl but who says that these good foods couldn’t be applied to any of the other of the big sporting events ones later in the year?

It is a known that crispy foods, hand held foods and hot and spicy foods, combined with adequate amounts of beer are a perfect mix of things hot, salty and bitter. Here is a favorite of mine

Baked Chicken Wings and Rusty Nail Dipping Sauce

Rusty Nail Dipping Sauce. 3 Tbs honey

½ oz Drambuie liqueur

2 oz of Whiskey (Crown Royal)

Dash of hot sauce

Salt and Pepper to taste

Combine Drambuie and Whiskey with the honey in a small saucepan over a medium high heat. Cook until sauce thickens. Season to taste. Set aside to cool. Serve with the Chicken wings. Also good withnChicken Strips also baked in the oven.

It must be better, it costs more

This article in the Globe and Mail which printed this piece about “it must be better, it costs more”.

The gist is summed up this way:

“Our results suggest that the brain might compute experienced pleasantness in a much more sophisticated manner that involves integrating the actual sensory properties of the substance being consumed with the expectations about how good it should be,”

In other words if you have  the expectation that a product like wine costs a lot, your brain will automatically choose that as the best.  Just some food fo thought.