Game Day Party Recipes

Easy and delicious Game Recipes for your watch party. Check out these options for the Big Game party without working all day.

Even if you are not a football fan, the Puppy Bowl and the ads are worth checking out. It is time for Americans to celebrate with a big food "pig out" party. Here are some easy and delicious recommendations.

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🖐️Finger Food Recipes
🥣Top Chili Recipes
🥘Main Course Recipes
🍬Sweets/Snacks Recipes
Don't forget food safety and the dog treats

After Thanksgiving, big game day is considered the second most important "food holiday." Food is an essential part of any watch party—big or small.

I almost always enjoy the game—but is 7 hours of pregame programming needed? We will be enjoying the puppy bowl part of that time.

🖐️Finger Food Recipes

If you are hosting a party, finger foods are great for watching the game and munching. Here are some of my best.

Extra Crispy Baked Chicken Wings

The perfect Oven Baked Wings recipe for all wing events. The crispiest chicken wings are baked, not fried—no greasy frying mess, and it is so easy to make at home.

Crispy Baked Chicken Wings

Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce for Chicken Wings

This Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce for Chicken Wings is the perfect complement to buffalo wings and veggies. A 5 minutes dipping sauce recipe that's creamy and irresistible.

Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce for Chicken Wings

Quick and Easy French Bread Pizza in 20 Minutes

Delicious Quick and Easy French Bread Pizza is the perfect 20 minute evening meal or a party. Full of your favorite toppings, browned melted cheese, and crispy crust.

French Bread Pizza Recipe

Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites—Sweet & Spicy

Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites are the perfect party dish. It's easy to make with bacon-wrapped chicken, coated with brown sugar and spices, and baked to golden brown.

Bacon Chicken Wraps

Pineapple Mango Salsa Recipe

Sweet and savory with a touch of spice, this easy Pineapple Mango Salsa Recipe is a perfect fresh fruit salsa to serve as an appetizer or party dish. Or as a complement to tacos, fish, or other entree.

Pineapple Mango Salsa Recipe

Easy Guacamole Recipe

This Easy Guacamole Recipe is a basic recipe using only 4 ingredients and has many options to make it your own special homemade guacamole for parties or dinners.

Easy Guacamole Recipe

🥣Top Chili Recipes

To me, the watch party must have chili. You can check all my chili recipes in my chili category, but here are some of my favorites. All can be cooked in a 3-4 quart crock pot. Most are adaptable to 2-quart mini-crock pots and can quickly scale up to larger needs.

Small Crock Pot Chili

Easy to make and one of the best homemade chilies, this small-batch crock pot chili recipe is versatile—you can make chili for two in a mini crock pot or larger for a crowd. It's a classic recipe with ground beef, a mildly spicy tomato-based sauce, and tender beans.

Small Chili Recipe

Small Crock Pot White Chicken Chili

This easy-to-make homemade chicken chili is my best chicken chili. Only 5 ingredients are needed: shredded chicken, white beans, salsa, cheese, and cumin to make this dump-and-go small-batch white chicken chili recipe, which can win the office chili cookoff.

5-Ingredient White Chicken Chili

Stew Meat Chili (Chili Con Carne)

This easy Texas-style Stew Meat Chili recipe, also known as chili con carne, has tender chunks of beef and beans in a delicious tomato sauce with multiple peppers and a touch of heat I love. It's a simple small-batch recipe made on the stovetop or in any size crock pot, from a 2-quart mini to a full-size one.

Stew Meat Chili (Chili Con Carne)

Stew Meat Chili in a spoon over a blue bowl

Salsa Verde Chicken Chili

You will love Salsa Verde Chicken Chili, a mildly spicy white chicken chili made with chicken, white beans, green salsa verde, and a few pantry ingredients: a simple dump-and-go crock pot or fast stovetop recipe.

Salsa Verde Chicken Chili

spoonful of salsa verde chili over a bowl.

Crock Pot Taco Soup

This easy crock pot taco soup recipe features seasoned ground beef, beans, and thick, spicy tomato broth. You can make it spicy, thick, or thin, or make a small batch for two. But you will never make a more delicious taco soup. It's spicy tacos in a bowl, perfect for Taco Tuesday.

Spicy Taco Chili Recipe

🥘Main Course Recipes

Maybe you are having more of a dinner. Here are some classics in all four food groups: beef, pork, chicken, and pizza.

Oven Pulled Pork Butt—Low and Slow

Oven Pulled Pork from pork butt is cooked in the oven low and slow. Our best-pulled pork recipe is tender and moist with delicious bark. Super easy, with almost no work—you rub, bake at 250° for 8 to 9 hours, shred, and eat.

Oven Pulled Pork

The Best Taco Meat

The best Taco Meat recipe only needs 25 minutes, ground beef, and an easy homemade taco seasoning. Make it spicy or make it mild; you're in control. You will never use packaged taco seasoning again.

Spicy Taco Meat Recipe

Ground beef nachos with cheese, tomatoes ,and onion.

Crock Pot Pulled Pork

This incredibly easy Crock Pot Pulled Pork recipe is made with pork butt (a.k.a. Boston butt). My method uses no liquid or searing—just a pork butt and a simple BBQ dry rub—add some liquid smoke if you want. A few minutes of prep time, then cook low and slow in your slow cooker for wonderfully moist and tender pulled pork.

Crock Pot Pulled Pork

Pulled pork with sauce in a bun on a blue plate

Crock Pot French Dip

Crock Pot French Dip sandwiches have tender beef and caramelized onions topped with melted cheese. Serve on a toasted roll with au jus for dipping.

Crock Pot French Dip

Easiest Oven Baked BBQ Beef Brisket

Learn how simple it is to make smoky and tender Oven Baked BBQ Beef Brisket with this never fail brisket recipe—just two ingredients and 5 minutes of prep time—everybody deserves great BBQ.

Oven Baked BBQ Brisket

Make it a pizza party with homemade pizza dough and toppings. It's easy to scale down or scale up for a huge party.

Easy Homemade Pizza Dough

Make this fast and easy Homemade Pizza Dough recipe with only 5 ingredients—perfect for a 13X9 sheet pan or a thinner crust 16-inch round pizza.

Easiest Homemade Pizza Dough

🍬Sweets/Snacks Recipes

No party or dinner is complete without something sweet. Give them something to talk about that you can make ahead.

Easy Cheesecake Bars

These Easy Cheesecake Bars are creamy and delicious with a Graham cracker crust and lemon—the quick small-batch recipe you need with great tasting cheesecake bars.

Cheesecake Bar Recipe

Easy Old Fashioned Apple Crisp

This easy Old Fashioned Apple Crisp is a small-batch recipe requiring only three apples and a few pantry ingredients. It's easy to make for two or a crowd. I love this delicious apple dessert, with cinnamon apples and a delicious crumble topping, just like Grandma would make.

Old Fashioned Apple Crisp

Easy Lemon Bars

Easy lemon bars are delicious and simple to make in under an hour. These homemade lemon squares are a perfect dessert treat with a crispy, buttery shortbread crust and tangy and sweet lemon filling—a small batch 8X8 recipe you can scale to your needs.

Lemon Bar Recipe

Crock Pot Chocolate Peanut Clusters

Chocolate Peanut Clusters are easy to make in your crock pot, microwave, or stovetop. Use four ingredients for the best nut clusters—nuts, chocolate chips, almond bark, and Bakers chocolate to boost the quality. Nothing says love like a gift of delicious homemade candy, so give them your best.

Chocolate Peanut Cluster Recipe

Chocolate peanut cluster being held in a hand.

Candied Almonds

Candied almonds are easy to make at home. Sugar-coated with lots of cinnamon and vanilla, this simple roasted almond recipe can also be adapted to make candied cashews, peanuts, walnuts, or any mixture of these or other nuts. With six ingredients and 10 minutes of prep time, they are ready to roast to perfection.

Recipe for Candied Almonds

Roasted candied almonds fresh out of the oven.

Don't forget food safety and the dog treats

These gatherings are ready-made for food safety issues and leftovers at the party. Let's plan for food safety and get it right. Check out the USDA Food Safety recommendations.

Low-Fat Homemade Dog Treats—Healthy & Delicious

Low Fat Homemade Dog Treats are the perfect low-calorie treat for your dog. With only five ingredients, your dog will love the peanut butter and pumpkin taste. Much healthier than commercial treats—any veterinarian would approve.

Recipe for Low Fat Dog Treats