Finding new recipes and serving ideas for guacamole, my family’s favorite, and other recipes to serve, like the chocolate covered strawberries above [recipe, here ] for the guests we’re entertaining on Super Bowl Sunday, was high on my list of priorities this weekend. If you live in Texas like we do, you know that the Super Bowl, and football in general, is hallowed ground.
By sharing with you what I found, all of which can be made and assembled ahead of time, I hope you can relax, have fun and enjoy yourself while entertaining your own families and friends at your Super Bowl parties this coming weekend.
GUACAMOLE: A Super Bowl Entertaining Essential:
The key to delicious guacamole is buying the freshest ingredients you can find, starting with your avocados.
Here’s a top tip on how to tell if an avocado is ripe: discreetly flick off the stem on the end of the avocado at your local grocery store. If the little button underneath the small stem is brown, your avocado is rotten. However, if it’s a bright yellow green, like this one pictured below, you’ll have a perfect avocado for your guacamole recipe!
The ingredients for guacamole look like this. Again, buy fresh limes, fresh cilantro and fresh tomatoes and use sea salt vs. regular salt. What’s the difference between sea salt and regular salt? They both have the same amount of sodium { about 40% }, but many gourmet chefs prefer sea salt for it’s coarser, grainier texture and its stronger flavor. They also like it since it’s minimally processed, unlike regular table salt.
Tip: If one or more of your guests has a trained palate and/or is a foodie, and you can find it easily, look specifically to buy any of the brands of *flake* sea salt available. A little goes a long way, will impress your guest [s] and will be a great point of conversation when they ask you what makes your guacamole taste so good!
With these ingredients, you can make guacamole for Super Bowl Sunday 2014 using Beyonce’s favorite recipe, here, or the one from Bon Appetit, here, or this one found on All Recipes, here , which also includes a video on how to prepare it along with hundreds of comments from others who have made it, too.
Another tip? To keep your avocado from turning brown during the preparation process, squeeze a little fresh lime juice on it.
Now that you know how to make guacamole…
You can serve it for a more formal buffet, bite size, and with a charming touch of cilantro garnish, like this:
At game time, more casually, to your friends like this:
Or to your children and their friends, like this…and invite them to help themselves.
Whichever way you serve it, my last tip: to keep the guacamole from turning brown when you make it ahead of time, use plastic wrap that is set right down on top of the guacamole and that will do the trick.
To end this post, what do you think of this dining table or buffet table centerpiece, perhaps surrounded by the colorful guacamole and chips you’ll be serving?
The video directions to make this beautiful fruit filled watermelon football helmet centerpiece are here.
Enjoy your Super Bowl parties and please let me know in the comments if you try any of these recipes, or have some of your own you’d like to share with Hadley Court readers!
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