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Whether watching Sunday’s big game or a classic film, accompany the evening’s entertainment with a fine cut. This meal will add sizzle to an exciting night.

By Phyllis Stein-Novack

Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Feb. 2, 2012

Today is Groundhog Day. Do you know what that means? It is time to watch Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell fall in love in one of the most original, funny, charming films ever made.

Several years ago TBS ran “Groundhog Day” over and over again for more than 24 hours. If you’ve seen the film, you know why. Murray plays an in-love-with-himself Pittsburgh-based weatherman who has covered Groundhog Day for four years. He detests this assignment, finding it degrading. MacDowell is his new producer who loves piano music and French poetry, especially the sensual poetic musings penned by Charles Baudelaire. He’s miserable, she’s having fun. I won’t give away the plot or details.

The New York Giants and the New England Patriots will clash in Sunday's Super Bowl.

I am cooking up recipes for those of you who want to see “Groundhog Day” and those who prefer the pigskin.

Music plays an integral part in the movie. Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe,” “The Pennsylvania Polka,” “Eighteenth Variation” from Rhapsodie on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Ray Charles’s marvelous rendition of “You Don’t Know Me” keep the storyline flowing. The national anthem is the musical star of the Super Bowl.

Back to football.

I looked to New York, the capital of the world. I am rooting for the Giants and think Eli Manning and his teammates will carry them to the win.

Football makes me think about steak. There’s the New York strip and the Delmonico, which is one of my favorite cuts. It is a boneless rib-eye introduced at Manhattan’s Delmonico Hotel in the 19th century.

If you’re going to see “Groundhog Day,” I offer you my very French Beef in Red Wine.

The cocktail of choice before the events? A manhattan, of course.