Our family's rendition of the Super Bowl party
Deme and I are happy to be included in the Kingsley family's annual Super Bowl get-together and chili cook-off. 
Now, a chili cook-off may sound like a simple thing during a Super Bowl game, but this family owns the Coney Island restaurants around Tulsa and they all make excellent chili every day. So, it's slightly intimidating to enter their contest for the best chili.
Tonight, chili entries were submitted by Chuck and Pope; Michael Kingsley; Deme; Alex; and Barbra. First time contestant and fiancé to Barbra, Alex came out the winner and took home the trophy. Congrats Alex!!
Best thing about Super Bowl evening with the Kingsleys is that the guys watch the game in the den and the ladies visit in the kitchen. Tonight's kitchen entertainment was Cranium, a fun and interactive game guaranteed to make you do silly things.
Sophia and Allison teamed up; Barbra and Kate teamed up. I was on a team with Evonne and Pope. If you've never played Cranium, you should try it. It's a combination of trivia, cherades, drawing, humming, sculpting and more.
Sometimes the artist has to close her eyes while drawing. Sometimes everyone playing gets to guess the answer. The humming was definitely fun, as well as acting out a person your team-mate has to try to guess.
Barbra did an excellent impression of Clint Eastwood. Pope stumbled a bit over humming "Stop in the name of love," and Evonne drew an awesome King Kong that I couldn't guess. We invented a few dances tonight and Barbra got her aerobics in.
Sophia and Evonne are the natural artists, although Kate sculpted an excellent burger. Pope is the wordsmith and Allison is the dictionary. Most amazing win was Barbra and Kate's drawing of the toucan, guessed in less than ten seconds.
Eventual winners of the Cranium game were Pope, Evonne and myself.
Oh, and we heard that the "Saints" won as well. Coincidence?
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Sounds like loads of fun?
Did anyone do a vegetarian chili?
Actually, my husband has done a vegetarian chili several years in a row, and it gets no where. He even had cactus in his entry last year. Next year, I think it's his TURN to win! :-)
Looks like a fun evening --- nothing like spending an evening with good friends and food!
Lori,
Looks like you guys had a lot of fun. I make a pretty mean chili as well.
Lori...A chili cook-off is always so much fun and to couple it with the Super Bowl is double the fun!
My poor husband NEVER wins. He puts mushrooms, celery, onions, etc. in his chili and God-only-knows what spices. But this year, he added olives. OLIVES? I don't think anyone voted for his chili. :-)
Lori, that game sounds like a riot! And as for the chili cook off...well, my hats off to all that compete.
Jane C - gotta try that game with a group of goofy friends some time. No alcohol needed. :-) And, I tasted ALL the chilis!
Looks like you had a fun time. I love games. Now I have to get off and finish my game of solitaire.
I have a cookbook called Chilli Madness. It includes a recipe from Hersheys that uses chocolate in the mix. I haven't been daring enough to do that, and I eat very little red meat. I love "white chilli" that uses navy beans though.
Jane - like you have time to play solitaire!
Joe - actually, chocolate in chili is very traditional. The winning chili, however, was indeed a "white chili" with chicken and navy beans. He added yellow corn - have no clue why he didn't use white corn.
Lori, I didn't add olives to my chili this year, perhaps I should have. It was the worse I've ever made... no idea what I did wrong but sure am glad it wasn't being voted on. Sounds like you are had a fun day. Sweet.
Sounds like you had a really fun and yummy time. I have a pot of chilli on the stove now! Smelling good!
Trust me, the olives were NOT a good idea! :)
Dixie - yum, chili - can't ever have too much!