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Feb 8 2023

30 MVP Game Day Dishes

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30 MVP Game Day Foods

A collection of 30 Game Day Recipes to make you the MVP of the food game. Cheer on your favorite team with a spread of delicious and easy championship recipes!

30 MVP Game Day Foods

Sports and great food go together like air and breathing. You just can’t have one without the other. I’m talking MVP-worthy dishes that almost make you forget about the game as your face is so wrapped up in devouring what’s on your plate.

Asparagus & Salami Puff Pastry Bundles

Cheesy Asparagus & Salami Puff Pastry Bundles

These Puff Pastry Bundles are filled with grilled asparagus, salami, smoked gouda, & garlic herb cheese spread and topped with Smoked Sea Salt Flakes. They are such an easy and elegant appetizer, brunch dish, or perfect for meal prep!

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Charred Corn Black Bean & Shrimp Salsa

Charred Corn Black Bean & Shrimp Salsa

This chunky salsa takes full advantage of summer-fresh vegetables, herbs, seasoned shrimp, and a honey lime drizzle in the most delicious and addictive way!

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Sriracha Spiced Bacon – Man Candy II

Sweet Heat basted on crispy, baked bacon

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This Farm-Fresh Salsa Fresca is the perfect mixture of chopped tomatoes, red onions, cilantro, garlic, avocado and jalapeno. Use it with chips, add it to burgers for a fiesta topping, spoon it over chicken or pork. Works great on crackers and in omelettes!

Salsa Fresca (pico de gallo)

This Farm-Fresh Salsa Fresca is the perfect mixture of chopped tomatoes, red onions, cilantro, garlic, avocado, jalapeno, and a kiss of lime!. Use it with chips, add it to burgers for a fiesta topping, or spoon it over chicken or pork. It works great on crackers and in omelets!

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Chipcuterie Grazing Board

Chips & Dips Chipcuterie Grazing Board

Whether it’s game day, movie night, games with friends, or when that snack attack hits, a “chipcuterie” grazing board of your favorite chips and dips is precisely what’s needed!

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Do you have a favorite sports food? For me, it’s wings and nachos. You only need one hand to eat them while the other hand is cheering on your team or shaking your fist at the tv.

Classic Grandma Pizza with Pepperoni Cups

Iconic Grandma-Style Pan Pizza with Pepperoni Cups

Iconic Grandma-style cheesy pan pizza topped with HORMEL® Pepperoni Cup N’ Crisp. The PERFECT RONI CUP pizza at home!

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Nashville Hot Chicken & Potato Bites

Grilled Nashville Hot Chicken & Potato Bites

Bringing a little bit of Nashville to your backyard bbq with these easy, hot, and delicious Nashville hot chicken and tater bites! Paired with a Bread & Butter Pickle dipping sauce, folks will be begging you to make these!

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Korean-Style Crispy Shrimp Burgers

Korean-Style Crispy Shrimp Burgers

These panko-crusted shrimp patties are jam-packed with flavor, air fried until crispy golden brown then topped with melted cheese, spicy pepper jam, and lettuce, and nestled in a sesame seed brioche bun. It’s truly one of the best bites you’ll ever have!

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Cheesy Dill Pickle Bacon Cheese Ball

Cheesy Dill Pickle Bacon Cheese Ball

Chopped dill pickles mixed with crispy bacon, cheddar cheese, cream cheese, and seasonings make this dish the life of any party!

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Korean Gochujang Sticky Chicken Wing

Korean Gochujang Sticky Chicken Wings (Instant Pot)

Kind of spicy, kind of sweet, and a whole lot of sticky in all the best ways are what these Instant Pot Korean Gochujang Sticky Chicken Wings are all about! They quickly became my FAVORITE wing flavor!

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Growing up I used to LOVE watching the commercials during the game. However these days, they seem to have lost their luster. I miss seeing the Budweiser horses in a new commercial or the little kid giving a soda to a football player.

Creamy Chicken & Salsa Rollups - these no bake easy peasy pinwheels are stuffed with shredded chicken, cheese, salsa and are perfect for any occasion!

Creamy Chicken & Salsa Pinwheels

These no-bake, easy-peasy, pinwheel rollups are the perfect addition to any get together!

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This is the ULTIMATE Bean Dip! Double beans, 3 types of cheese, picante sauce and spices! best bean dip, mexican bean dip, bean and cheese party dip,

Double Bean Cheeeeesy Bean Dip

2 types of beans mixed with 3 types of cheeses, some spices, and picante sauce make this dip truly out of this world!

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Chilled Shrimp Cucumber Cups with Creamy Herb Sauce

Crunchy cucumber cups are the base for chilled shrimp in a creamy lemon & fresh herb sauce! It’s the perfect summer and party appetizer!

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Garlic Butter Herbed Crispy Oven Fried Wings (with Instant Pot directions too!)

Crispy Garlic Butter Herbed wings that you and your family will go nuts over!  You can bake them or cook them in the pressure cooker! Either way, they are DELICIOUS!

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Elote Mexican Street Corn Dip

Elote – Mexican Street Corn Dip

This Elote (Mexican Street Corn) is truly the best dip ever. Grilled corn mixed with a luscious creamy spicy mixture, spices, fresh cilantro and Cotija cheese!

 

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If you make one of my recipes for the game, make sure to snap and pic and share it on social media! Tag me at @thekitchenwhisperer on Instagram as I’d love to see it! And as always, please leave a comment on the recipe post!

Pizza Stuffed Potato Skins

Pizza Stuffed Potato Skins

Crispy potato skins stuffed with zesty pizza sauce, Italian herbs, lots of cheese and pepperoni. It’s the perfect 5 ingredient dish!

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Instant Pot Mexican Shredded Chicken

Instant Pot Mexican Pulled Chicken

Seriously the most tender pulled chicken in a blend of spices that’s ready in under 30 minutes. It’s a Flavor Fiesta perfect for your favorite Mexican night meal. Plus it’s so easy for meal prep and freezer meals!

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BBQ Pulled Pork Nachos with Lip-Smackin' BBQ Sauce -

BBQ Pulled Pork Nachos

Sure we all have pulled pork sandwiches but elevate your nachos by adding pulled pork to those!

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Best Cold Veggie Pizza with Everything Cream Cheese

The Best Cold Veggie Pizza

Thin and chewy pizza dough topped with a creamy everything bagel cream cheese spread, minced fresh veggies, and shredded cheese. Skip the tubed stuff and make this from scratch for a pizza that’s perfect for any occasion!

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The BEST Homemade French Onion Dip

Yes, this really is THE BEST dip!

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So if you’re not playing in the big game, then strive to be the MVP of the food table with one of these recipes!

Honey Mustard Dressing and Dipping Sauce

Honey Mustard Dressing and Dipping Sauce

Truly the best honey mustard you’ll ever eat!

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Spicy Three Meat Banana Pepper Meatballs

These meatballs are seriously insane! Super juicy, super tender and loaded all kinds of deliciousness thanks to 3 meats and banana peppers!

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Pulled POrk, Pittsburgh Slaw and Crispy Tots Sandwich

Tots and Pulled Pork Sandwich

This Pittsburgh classic sandwich is a culmination of Tangy Pulled Pork, epic Pittsburgh slaw, and Crispy Tater Tots. It’s the perfect tailgating party food to cheer on your favorite team!

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Bacon Chicken Ranch Meatballs

Everything we all love about the flavors of bacon, chicken and ranch but in a mini meatball form

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Be a hosting guru with this Ultimate Charcuterie Board

Be a Hosting Guru with this Ultimate Charcuterie Board!

Be a hosting guru with this delicious, easy, crowd-pleasing Ultimate Charcuterie Board featuring meats, cheese, fruits, veggies and so much more!

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