Okay, so most of us probably don't need an excuse to serve up a heaping bowl of melted cheese. But if you simply can't rationalize downing some queso by yourself on a Tuesday afternoon, we've got good news for you. It's NFL playoff season, and the Superbowl is just weeks away. Oh, you knew that? Well, get cooking then! The Huffington Post has you covered with a whole slideshow of melty, cheesy recipes to satisfy your football-watching, cheese-eating needs.

You know what we like? Cheese. You know how we like it? Melted. Well, fine, we like cheese every way we can get it, but melted cheese is a particularly intense passion of ours. Although none of us are particularly attached to what happens during the NFL postseason, we are quite attached to queso season -- and friends, queso season is upon us.

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