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Super Bowl

The whole point of the super bowl is a good excuse to get together, right?  I don't think I would even watch the game if it wasn't for a gathering. 

 For the past many many years I've gone to my friend's super bowl party in Chicago.  Since this is the first year we're not there, we decided to host one.  It went a little something like this.  Mike & I chatted of maybe having people over but our TV room was still a disaster.  Tuesday of last week I asked if we actually wanted to do it.  He responded that he already invited people, so that answers that question. 

 The weekend entailed hosting a social for his masters program Saturday, attending a 1 year old birthday party Sunday, and trying to figure out how to space out preparing food!

 I made what I could Saturday (cookies and the base for the vegan cheese dip).  Sunday morning we made the chili before the birthday party.  And as soon as we got back we ran around like crazy to pull it together.

 Here's what we made:
Vegetarian Chipotle Chili
Vegan Mexican Cheese (we made the dip)
Garlic Bread
My go to chocolate chip cookies
I was going to make pretzels, but Mike thoughtfully picked some up from Gus's on Friday, we put them out for the Saturday gathering and we still had a couple left.  With all the other food around, we decided I didn't need to make more.

 And we did it!
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