With the big game this weekend, I tried to think of how my dad and my uncles would have celebrated the event at a Super Bowl Party if they were alive today! With that thought in mind, aside from the washtub full of ice and beer, consider celebrating what we hope will be a decisive STEELER victory this Sunday. The recipes are simple and are just the type of food our dads would enjoy while watching!! Be sure to check out the video at the end of this post. God love HUNKYS!

Easy Cabbage Roll Casserole

• 1 ½   lbs lean ground beef or ground turkey
• 2 onions finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 tsp salt
• ¼ t. freshly ground black pepper
• 7 ½ oz can of tomato sauce
• 1 cup water
• 10 oz can condensed tomato soup undiluted
• ½ cup long grain rice, uncooked
• 4 cups shredded cabbage
• 1/3 cup tomato juice or water
• Sour cream

Cook ground meat onions, salt and pepper until browned. Drain. Return to heat adding tomato sauce, water and ½ can of the tomato soup; mix well. Stir in the rice until combined.

Place half of the meat mixture in a lightly greased slow cooker, then half of the cabbage. Top with the remaining meat mixture and remaining cabbage. Stir together the remaining tomato soup and tomato juice. Pour over the meat and cabbage. Cover and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours or on high from 4 to 6 hours, until bubbling and heated through. Serve with sour cream.

Kielbasa Appetizers

Ingredients – try using the turkey kielbasa, no fat and great tasting

• 18 fluid ounces beer
• 1 (18 ounce) bottle barbecue sauce
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
• 2 pounds kielbasa (Polish) sausage, cut into 1/2 inch pieces Directions

Combine the beer, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, and Dijon mustard in a large skillet over medium heat. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally; reduce heat to low and add the kielbasa. Simmer until kielbasa is browned and glazed, about 1 hour.

Ham Roll Up Recipe

As long as I can remember “occasions” where we would gather to eat, there was always ham roll ups. Always a favorite for the men, women, and children alike, this ham roll up recipe is a sure winner!

You need:

• 1 lb of sliced ham (you can use inexpensive packaged ham, like we do, or get the deli to thin slice it for you.),
• 1–8 oz package of cream cheese
• finely chopped green onions to taste
• 1 Tbsp of Garlic powder

Instructions

1. Soften your cream cheese and add your green onions, garlic powder and Accent.
2. Spread a thin layer of the cream cheese mixture on a piece of ham, then roll it, and cut into bite sized pieces. Usually one roll = 3 bite size pieces.

**Tip** If you’re using pre-packaged ham, dry each piece of ham between paper towels before spreading cream cheese mixture on them.

Horseradish Cheese Ball

2 – 8 ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon horseradish
1 teaspoon celery salt
1/2 teaspoon onion salt
1 cup dried beef  ( I just use all the beef that comes in the jar or bag)

It does say make day before:

In a small bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in horseradish, celery salt and onion salt; mix in dried beef. With hands shape mixture into ball; wrap and refrigerate until firm.

Chipped Ham Barbeque

The most difficult part of this recipe is trying to make any Deli Counter or Butcher outside of the Pittsburgh area understand what you mean by chipped ham. Chipped ham can be described a processed ham luncheon meat, chopped ham that is sliced razor thin through “chipping” the meat loaf against a commercial meat slicer blade, setting the slicer to “0, ” the finest setting. You will need to instruct the person behind the counter to do this. YES, they WILL look at you as if you are crazy, but the fact that you have face painted yourself with Steelers black and gold designs, they really have a point!

Ingredients

• 1 pound of chipped ham (aka chipped chopped ham)
• ½ – 1 cup ketchup (any will do, HOWEVER, to be a true  Duquesne hunky,   Heinz is the definitive choice!)
• 2 Tbsp jelly (any flavor will do) 
• 3 Tbsp margarine or EVVO

 Sautee chipped ham in a skillet until slightly browned. Add jelly and stir until dissolved. Add ketchup until the ham is coated and saucy. Simple, quick and great!

BE SURE TO CLICK THE ARROW IN THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN AND LISTEN TO THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS POLKA!!!