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Winning wings for your Big Game day party

Winning wings for your Big Game day partyWinning wings for the Big Game From Anna's Kitchen (www.fromannaskitchen.com)

When it comes to wings, they're a reigning snack choice for many during the Big Game. During last year's game, an estimated 1,420,000 million wings were consumed by Americans, enough to circle the Earth's circumference at least three times.

No matter who you're cheering for, most will agree that wings are a must at any Big Game party. This guide will have you cooking up wings in no time at all, whether you choose to fry or not fry.

Game Day: Must-try recipes for your Big Game watch party

Game Day: Must-try recipes for your Big Game watch party

Getting ready to watch the big game? Don't forget the snacks!

From chicken wings to dips, I've picked out a few that are a spin on classic recipes. They are quick and easy to make for your watch party, with a focus on snacks that are bite-sized and hand-held to make it easy to grab them between passes and touchdowns.

Settle in with your favorite beverage and a few things to much on. Continue reading for ideas and recipes!

Six steps to get started crafting a perfect cheeseboard

Six steps to get started crafting a perfect cheeseboardLearn how to build the perfect cheeseboard in this article From Anna's Kitchen (www.fromannaskitchen.com)

I am a sucker for a good cheese plate.

Cheese is one of the few foods that even after all of these years I still feel would stop me from going 100% vegan. Meat, I can take or leave. As some of you know, I didn't eat meat for a decade or longer and still don't eat a lot of it today. But cheese? Vegan cheese is ok, I happen to like nut-based cheese, but it's just different... #TrueStory

A cheese plate is, of course, excellent as an appetizer, but as I learned recently it can also be nice to have after dinner instead of a dessert. I was used to seeing after-dinner cheese courses here in the U.S. on fancy or trendy restaurant menus, but in France, cheese was on nearly all restaurant menus—talk about heaven! A cheese plate can also be a nice choice to have as a leisurely lunch or dinner, especially when there's little time to cook. No matter the course, a cheese plate is never a bad choice.

Not sure where to start in building the cheese plate of your dreams? Let's begin with a few of the basics. Here are six things that I like to keep in mind when crafting the perfect plate.

Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip CookiesBrowse recipes, menu ideas and more From Anna's Kitchen (www.fromannaskitchen.com)

Have you ever had a craving for baked goods in the middle of the summer, or any other time when you don't want to turn on the oven?

Me too. The struggle is real, isn't it?

It always opens up this debate in my mind:

Option A. Give in and turn on the oven, making the whole house hot and uncomfortable in the process, even worse for Dave and me since we don't have central air.

Option B. Forget about it, and "save" the calories.

Option C. Forget the calories, and go get ice cream.

Recently, the idea came to my mind to use my toaster oven to make a quick batch of cookies. I wouldn't call this a brilliant idea, since I should've thought of it much sooner: my toaster oven is, in fact, an oven. A convection oven, at that. One with a little fan in it to simulate faster cooking.

Then again, I suppose my girlish figure is glad that I didn't think of this sooner. A successful batch of chocolate peanut butter cookies later, I have now opened up Pandora's box of small-batch dessert-making in the toaster oven that I probably should have just left alone.

Since this was a small batch and I left the butter out overnight before cooking, I didn't bother with the mixer. It was super easy to make these cookies by hand in about 10 minutes or less. At the end of it, I had a plate of warm, fresh cookies, and only a few tools to clean up. Super win.