I working on my Super Bowl Party Menu and I am trying to shake it up a bit. This is last year's menu:
Hot: Red Pepper Brushcetta, Turkey Chili, Cider Braised Brisket, Glazed Chicken Wings
Cold: Antipasto Platter, Ceaser Salad
What are your favorites? What's on your Menu?
Go PATS!!

My brother makes a killer clam dip that I eat myself sick on if I'm not careful.
Cook With Passion!
Asian wings with pineapple juice, soy, sambal and sesame seeds.
Samosas with curried potato and pea filling and mint chutney.
Served in stages, not all at once!
Good Chefs don't follow recipes...Great Chefs do!
FOOT
BALL
p.s. Patriots are gonna take it
- Six stitches to go home early and you can't die until your shift is over.
Man, those chicken wings alone; I would pay a cover charge just to get in.
I'm taking the Patriots to win, but I'm rooting for the Giants. I would love Eli Manning to become Tom Brady's "kryptonite." Not that I have anything against Brady, except for the fact that he's blessed with super human ability, devilishly good looking, amazingly rich...you know, the usual.
Brady...not to mention Gisele Bundchen...no Claudia Schiffer, but close!
Gotta go with the Giants, give the homely guy some cred.
@Zalbar.....SOCCER! (We are A Murkins!)
I think MEAT and lot's of it is the key to a successful Football fest.
If the Gronk is healthy, the Pats are going to be tough to beat!
BTW I was at the Denver/Pats AFC Divisional Playoff game a few weeks ago and I can't believe the large number of BBQ Smokers that were fired up in the parking lot. Since then I can't stop thinking about making or buying one!
If you are going to get a smoker I would not recommend getting one from a Lowes or Home Depot, those things are barely more than sheet metal. You want a good thick metal wall for both your fire box and you smoke chamber so that you retain your heat. This is assuming that you are looking at getting an offset smoker where the firebox is on the side of the chamber. Also I would look at either getting one with a heat diffuser plate or making one yourself so you get a nice even heat all through out your smoker. I would make sure that your chimney intake is at or slightly below your meat otherwise you will lose a fair amount of heat and smoke. And last, I would look for one that has a double flanged door, and/or some sort of seal around the door to the smoke chamber.
I have an old Home Depot smoker that I bought almost 10 years ago back when they were made from real metal, and have made several modifications to it to improve its efficiency. I'm now looking at either making one, or buying a larger one on a trailer. It seems that I have outgrown the one I have once I started doing 18# - 20# briskets and multiple chickens.
Eager to learn, eager to eat.
Bill Hatcher
I have nothing but good things to say about my smoker, the bullet: Weber Smoky Mountain Cooker It can cook 40Lbs of pork shoulder and is pretty much set it and forget it for 14 hrs.
http://virtualweberbullet.com/
Not knocking the bullets, I have heard good things from people who have them. :)
Thanks for the suggestions. Smoking BBQ/Meats is a place in the culinary world I have never traveled. I like the Weber idea to start but if I get the smoking fever, I could see my self going BIG. Maybe Pork Butt will be on next year's menu!
Didn't mean to imply you were bashing the WSM, not at all. Just saying I really like mine.
@kmmore
A couple summers ago I cooked for 50 in my backyard, pulled pork and ribs, to celebrate my son's college graduation. I have the smaller 18.5" WSM and it was big enough. I don't know that you would need to go much bigger!
All I can say to that is "Wow!!" You must have had that thing packed with meat. I would have loved to have seen that. :)