When planning for a Super Bowl gathering, it is so easy to overdo and overthink things. What happens is that there is much too much food, with an overabundance of protein and salty foods.
For the next eating frenzy, consider beginning with something really delicious like a moist and tender roast, and set forth to embellish it. The embellishment can be in the form of a variety of sauces, or a complement of different forms of carbohydrates, or vegetable or fruit to add texture or taste contrast.
Here is one approach. Begin with a pork roast, seasoned, and cooked with a layer of onions, garlic, bay leaves, and some broth in a slow cooker. Cook until the meat is easily shredded. Serve the pulled pork with some coleslaw of cabbage, carrots, and leafy greens seasoned with Best Foods mayonnaise, red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, and dill weed. Make several sauces to kick up the flavors of the pulled pork without drowning it. Consider a fruit-ketchup barbeque sauce, a mustard and balsamic vinegar sauce with a kick of cayenne pepper, and finally, a sweet chili-mayonnaise mix with garlic galore. Have some buns ready for guests to "make their own" sliders.
Here is another fun idea for an interactive supper where people will have to talk to each other. Begin with a store bought rotisserie chicken. Shred the chicken and put it on a large platter. Surround the chicken with thin sticks of crispy cucumber, green onion curls, radish sprouts, and thin slivers of carrots. Have flour tortillas ready to be filled. Show the guests how to do the wrap. Navigate them around various sauces they can use to flavor their wraps: hoisin sauce, plum sauce, chili garlic sauce, black bean and chili sauce, a kochujan mix with Korean ko chu jan with sugar and vinegar. Easy meal with tasty results.
