Sensational Super Bowl Snack!

Going to a Super Bowl party?

Expected to bring something?

Admit it, you were going to bring that bean dip that you've been dragging around for generations, weren't you? Forget that!

Wow your fellow boob tube watching buddies with these ...


BACON WRAPPED WATER CHESTNUTS

So easy...so tasty...so sophisticated yet guest friendly and no utensils required!

Here's all you need ...

16 water chestnuts
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup brown sugar, or as needed
8 slices raw bacon, cut in half
16 toothpicks

Rinse and drain the water chestnuts then soak them in the soy sauce for 2 1/2 hours. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Remove the water chestnuts from the soy sauce and roll in the brown sugar. Wrap a piece of cut bacon around the water chestnut and secure with a toothpick.Place the water chestnuts in a shallow pan and bake for 30 minutes, turning them over once (You can also broil them for 5 to 6 minutes).

Mmmmmmm.

TOUCHDOWN!

In the News Today...

Blago won't attend his own impeachment trial and instead appeared on "Oprah" and "The View." He admitted to Diane Sawyer that he almost appointed Oprah to fill Obama's senate seat.

Meanwhile, the ousted CEO of Merrill Lynch, John Thain, spent $1,200 on a wastebasket as part of the 1 million dollar makeover of his office last year. Now he says he'll pay it back. Whoop-dee-doo. He also spent $87,000 on an area rug and another $28,000 on office curtains. Now it's curtains for him. Too bad, so sad, don't let the $1,200 wastebasket hit you in the head on your way out you greedy bastard.

Today alone, Pfizer Inc., which is buying out another drugmaker Wyeth, is slashing 8,000 jobs. So is wireless provider Sprint Nextel Corp. Yes, another 8,000 jobs gone! Home Depot is dumping 7,000 employees. Caterpillar just cut 5,000 more positions and GM just announced it's laying off 2,000 workers and will cut production for two weeks. We're three weeks into 2009 and already tens of thousands of jobs have gone bye bye.

But among the most shocking revelations of this new age in which we live comes from the Girl Scouts of America. It's cookie time and in the spirit of full disclosure the Girl Scouts have admitted that rising production costs have forced them to reduce the size of each cookie box by 1 centimeter! This, of course, means less Thin Mints, fewer Do-Si-Dos and too too few Tagalongs to suit my taste.

OH, THE HUMANITY!