Yesterday was
This year we are trying to take TOSU tailgating to the next level. As I am from the South I’ve seem some extremely elaborate tailgates. Not that there aren’t some tricked out tailgates at Ohio State games but it appears to me that their money and time is spent on getting the latest and greatest toys and less on food and presentation. It’s really cool to have a 40” flat screen and a huge stereo but if you’re rockin out with a cheese tray from Kroger, a few bags of potato chips and setting it all out on a dirty table it kind of defeats the purpose.
So as you can see from the pictures we tried to dress things up a bit.
The menu laid out like this:
- Italian sausages: sweet and hot
- roasted vegetables: peppers, onions and asparagus
- buffalo chicken dip: always a standard
- blocks of cheese
- fresh salsa
- homemade cookies
I started cooking Thursday night when I grilled the chicken for the dip. Friday night my wife and I really started working, I prepared the chicken dip and cut up all the vegetables to marinate overnight while my wife baked the cookies. Saturday morning I was up at 6:00. I grilled the sausages while the chicken dip baked. I roasted the vegetables last. Normally I would roast a tray of veggies for close to an hour but this time I cut that in half. Since we would not eat for several hours I thought they would hold up better if they were cooked less. It turned out to be a good decision, even after the game they were still fairly crisp and never got mushy.
I think everyone enjoyed the food and we had more than a few comments on the candle sticks. I looked for nice chaffing dishes but they run around $300 each. My solution was to use the $4 wire chaffers and build decorative boxes to set them in. None of this took a tremendous amount or effort, just some planning and practice (I set up the table during the week to ensure I had space for everything.)
Next week is the OU game… stay tuned for more.
I’m going to try and figure out the focus of this blog as I go along so bare with me.
1 comments:
I really appreciated the bottle of hand sanitizer in the second pic. This proves to me that you, and not your doppelganger, attended the game.
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