Super Bowl XLVII

Niner's Cucpakes: Strawberry flavor with Butter Cream frosting, decorated with SF tags, Footballs, and Red & Gold sprinkles

It's the Super Bowl!! Well, this year is dubbed the "Harbowl" with the Harbough brothers coaching the NFC and AFC championship team.

What are your traditions for this event? Do you host or attend? Do you only care for the halftime shows? How about commercials? What foods do you eat?

OR do you go snowboarding instead?

For those who participate in the Super Bowl activities, here's some interesting facts about how much food is consumed--this is America's second biggest food fest, after Thanksgiving!


Chicken Wings
There may be concerns of a chicken wing shortage, but expect more than 1.23 billion wing portions to be consumed during Super Bowl weekend.  If those chicken wings were laid end to end, they would stretch between the San Francisco 49ers Candlestick Park and the Baltimore Ravens M&T Bank Stadium 27 times.

Ranch Dressing
Move over bleu cheese.  Almost 57 percent of Americans who eat chicken wings say they like to dip their wings ranch dressing, according to a new National Chicken Council poll.  Only about 35 percent go for the bleu cheese dressing –unless you live in Northeast, where it’s nearly 50 percent.

Pizza
Super Bowl Sunday is the busiest day of the year for pizza restaurants, according to the National Restaurant Association.  In fact, chains Papa John’s, Pizza Hut and Domino’s will sell twice as many pies as they do on any other day.

Potato Chips
Wings and pizza are the two most popular Super Bowl snacks, but potato chips are close behind. Some 11 million pounds of chips are expected to be consumed on Sunday, as well as an estimated 4 million pounds of pretzels and 2.5 million pounds of nuts.

Avocado
Luckily avocado is a Super Food, because 69.6 million pounds of avocados are consumed on Super Bowl, according to the Hass Avocado Board.  Now, if you could avoid eating all those chips --but they go sooo good together.

Popcorn
Get popping.  Americans will eat about 3.8 million pounds of popcorn while watching the big game, according to the Calorie Control Council. If you skip the butter, it could be one of the day's healthiest snacks.

Hamburgers
The Super Bowl is second-biggest grilling weekend of the year --the 4th of July is first.  Some 14 billion hamburgers will be served up at parties across the country.

Source: Shocking Super Bowl Food Facts
 
Happy eating! And Go Niners!!

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October, Baseball, and Breast Cancer Awareness!

Pink Baseball  Beer Cupcakes to celebrate this month's events!

Oops, September sure flew by!  Let's see, what October's got in store for us...

• October's namesake: Oktoberfest, one of the most famous and the world's largest fair to celebrate, none other than BEER, its consumption of, and all in merrymaking!, begins in late September and goes through this first week of October.  I might need an Oktoberfest dictionary in order to keep up!
• Sports, sports, sports!! <3, <3, <3!!
• MLB regular season wraps up and is gearing up for the post-season.  Congrats SF Giants for already clinching the NL West Title and the Oakland A's could very well be ONLY 1 game behind the Texas Rangers. (The score is 4-3, A's, top of the 9th, at home, as I type.)
• The NFL season is well on its way into the 4th week.  And one of my Fantasy League Teams has a whopping 146 points...but too bad it's my bye week! >=T
• If you are an NBA fan, as I've just received my Warriors Season tickets in hand with pre-season beginning soon, I *cross my fingers* for a good season for us.  Maybe they'll join the bay area sport team craze playoff contentions?  Highly wishful thinking, I know.
• NHL typically starts fairly soon, but we are in the 2012 edition of the lockout.    They seem to have a lockout almost every year, huh?  Just maybe, the SJ Sharks will get further into the playoffs this year, baby steps, baby steps.  Wait, forget baby steps, just bring the Stanley home!
• I can boast to have attend three, including my very first, MLS games this year, rooting for the hometown team, SJ Earthquakes.  So far, I'm 3-0 at our games!  Right now the Earthquakes are 3 points ahead for the Supporters' Shield and in first for the Western Conference for the MLS Cup in December!  We still have all of this month until the playoffs begin.  Since, the MLS season feels so long, doesn't it seem like a year round sport?  Also, the Quakes' new stadium construction breaks ground (largest ever ground breaking!) this month!!  Almost all of the bay area team home locations are getting a change during these few years!
• Oh, and there's lots of Bay Area festivities like this FREE Music Festival at Golden Gate Park: The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Concert, the Blue Angels make a visit to SF for an awesome airshow at Fleet Week, and the America's Cup World Series starts tomorrow!  That's just the tip of the month's events!
• But of course, this is a food blog so here's a teaser for Oktober:
• Off the Grid, "a roaming mobile food extravaganza that travels to different locations daily to serve delicious food, with a free side of amazing music, craft and soul," has a weekly residency at Fort Mason on Fridays, but check out their stops for all other days and times before the winter months roll in and they are on operation hiatus.
• For the South Bay-ers, we have SJ Eats, to cover the southern cities of the Bay Area.
• If Beer is your middle name, and as this month's celebration entails (yes we should be celebrating Oktoberfest all of October!), SF Beer Olympics occur every Friday at Impala!  Play your favorite Beer games like Beer Pong, Flip Cup and Relays to win prizes!  "Like" them on Facebook and RSVP for attendance to get your first beer for $1!
• Almost lastly, BART celebrates 40 years of service with a number of giveaways, including FREE ice cream on specific dates at select stations:
• September 29, 1 pm - 4 pm
• Rockridge & Powell Street
• October 13, 1 pm - 4 pm
• Castro Valley & Fremont
• October 27, 1 pm - 4 pm
• El Cerrito Plaza & Pittsburg/Bay Point
• All Hallow's Eve is on Wednesday, the 31st, of course.  There'll be lots of pumpkin patching, trick-or-treating, and with the month's namesake celebration and Halloween, lots of drinking!  Here's a tip to being safe and not driving under the influence on Halloween night: Call AAA Tipsy Tow at (800) 222-4357 (AAA-HELP) anytime from 6pm to 6am the next day.  Anyone may call, even if you do not have AAA service.
 Yikes! This list only scrapes the surface of October and I've only survived the first of the month!  Anyway, I'd like to leave you with a final mark of this month, the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Hence, all those pinks and pink ribbons you see.  Let us be aware of this disease, support those fighting it, help research, and remember to be aware for early detection.  Happy SpooOktober!

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