There are few things that I enjoy
more than getting together with a bunch of buddies and watching the fights. A
bunch of grown men beating the crap out of one another and drinking some beer
seems like the perfect excuse to put together some kick ass bar food. Yep we
are dealing with fried stuff that every once and a while you need to indulge in.
Here are a couple of favorites that always seem to please the dudes when they
hit the coffee table. They are also really easy to put together and all your
buddies will be begging for you to do it again for the next big card of fights.
So here are two faves, Chicken wings and perhaps the biggest order of nachos
you are likely to see until you decide to try and one up me. So in the immortal
words of Bruce Buffer... “It’s Time.”
A Mountain
of Nachos to the tune of Black Out Tonight by The Dropkick Murphies
1 bag of
tortilla chips
1 onion
diced
2 bell
peppers diced
Chopped tomatoes
1 small can
of sliced black olives
3 jalapenos
sliced
1 lb of
flank steak diced
4 thick cut
slices of bacon diced
2 tbsp
chilli powder
1 tbsp
ground cumin
A ton of
grated cheese
¼ cup
vinegar
Salt
½ a can of
beer
-Here is
the only real work that you will need to do and you do the day before so you
are pretty much set the day of. Toss your jalapenos in a small sealable
container with a good pinch of salt and the vinegar. Shake it around until the
salt dissolves and toss it into the fridge over night. This pickles the chilli
peppers and takes some of the up-front heat out of them.
-Heat up a
pan over medium high heat then add a little oil and then your meats sear the
meat off. Add your spices and fry until your kitchen smells like Mexican food.
Add your beer and let it reduce until your meat has a good coating of saucy
goodness let cool and stick it in the fridge until you are ready to assemble
like the avengers.
-All you
have left to do is put it all together and bake them at 350 degrees until all
that cheese is melty and good. I will take it on faith that you all have had
nachos and can figure out how to put it together. Rock and Roll, you know have
killer nachos. Enjoy.
Sweet Chilli
wings to the tune of Hell’s Bells by ACDC
Sauce:
¼ cup honey
¼ cup catsup
A good squeeze
of Saracha, more if you like hotter foods
1 tbsp
sugar
¼ cup
vinegar
4 cloves of
minced garlic
-In a small
sauce pan, over medium high heat, fry your garlic and then add all of the other
ingredients. Stir and let it reduce until it thickens up. This is the toughest
part of the entire recipe. Remove from the heat and let cool and refrigerate it
if you are making it a head of time.
The wings:
2 lbs of
chicken wings
1 cup of
flour
1 tbsp of
salt
Pepper
1 cup of
oil, I use vegetable oil but whatever you like.
-Mix all of
the salt pepper and flour together in a large mixing bowl. Dredge your wings in
the mixture until they are fully coated in the flour.
-Add you
oil to a large frying pan, over medium high heat, add your wings and fry them
until the skin gets golden, crispy and awesome looking. Pull them out of the
oil and fire them onto some paper towel to drain off some of the excess oil.
-Dump your
sauce into a large mixing bowl and then add your wings. Toss to coat the wings
with the sauce and put them on a plate. Done baby.
-If you are
not a fan of the spicy Sweet chili thing you can always substitute BBQ sauce
for the chili one. There is a killer one of my own devising in the cooking for
Yukon Blonde post.
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| With BBQ Sauce |
Whether it
is for the fights, a Hockey game or a Sex and the City marathon this bar food
should bring a smile to your face. At least I hope it does. Cheers.
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