Update: The Super Bowl Needs Super Food

Super Bowl Sunday is a special day for football fans and food is an integral part of the celebration.

When the Green Bay Packers (GO PACK!) play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sun., Feb. 6, fans from both cities will most likely have a special menu planned.

Chili cheese dip is the perfect start to the Super Bowl meal. Dip as a Super Bowl super food might not seem like it's all that, but it is ... and a bag of chips. 

Literally.

This dip is easy and fast, and it's almost disturbingly addictive. Prepare, eat, and enjoy!

Chili Cheese Dip

1 8-oz. package of softened cream cheese
1 10-14 oz. can of Hormel chili (no beans, & really, any brand will work)
2 Cups shredded cheddar cheese

In an 8" x 11" glass dish, spread the cream cheese in the bottom of the dish. Pour/spread the chili over the cream cheese and sprinkle the cheese over the top of the chili.

Microwave or heat in 350-degree oven until cheese is melted.

Serve the dip with corn chips or tortilla chips. 

Here is the recipe from Mike Jones of the Chartiers Valley Patch in Pennsylvania: 

Is it cliché that a state known for its cheese would produce a chili cheese dip for a fan’s favorite recipe? Absolutely. But it also shouldn’t come as a surprise that I picked a pierogi casserole considering we have life-sized cheese and potato dumplings running around a baseball diamond between innings at PNC Park. Oh, Potato Pete and friends would be so proud.

To make the pierogi casserole – also known around these parts as the Lazy Man’s Pierogies – take a 12-oz package of Muellers light and fluffy medium noodles, cooked al dente, 10 potatoes, 8 ounces of grated Velveta cheese, 3 chopped onions and 2-1/2 sticks of margarine.

Boil potatoes until fork tender, then drain and mash with milk. Beat the potatoes with cheese and one stick of margarine. Sauté onions in 1-1/2 stick margarine until wilted. Then grease a 9-by-13 inch pan and layer as follows: onions, noodles, potatoes, noodles, potatoes, onions. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until steamy.

What does Muskego Patch's think? 

Editor Mike Jones is highlighting homemade pierogi casserole because giant cheese dumplings apparently compete in races and have a fan club out there.

Seriously? Casserole for the Super Bowl?!

Just proves the Steelers are going to lose.