This is an all time favorite of mine. Originally posted February 2016. Thus begins the final course of apps for supper. The entire menu is below the fold. This was my contribution to Mr. Big Food’s famous appetizer onslaught. It’s very easy. BAKED GOUDA Gouda cheese Pillsbury crescent rolls Lay crescent dough out as a
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More from February 2019. Football food! Recipes coming along soon. Obviously, the best part of the game– and it wouldn’t have taken much– was the football food. It was fantastic! I especially liked the Rissole, but the wings were pretty damned good, too. It was nice of Mr. Big Food to spare me barbecued wings.
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And in keeping with the theme from the last post… Powerline’s The Week in Pictures
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Welcome new followers! As you may have guessed, we’re fans of college football. Though our interest waxes and wanes given the state of affairs, one thing that doesn’t change is our love of football food. Originally published pretty much every year since Big Food got started in 2013, with lots of additions and re-posts over
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Going way back in the vault today. If you’re a college football fan, this is just amazing. These photographs and descriptions are from a book published in 1914. As I thought about how it’s not even the same game at all really, I also realized that it’s only barely the same game it was just
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I have posted this before from time to time. Here it is again! 260 pieces of chicken! Published on September 23, 2011 by Marica | Edit This is big BIG food! Let me walk you through the photo. The guy in the white shirt is Mr. Big Food, and the very proud owner of all three grills. Two of the
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As I begin going through the tailgating posts, I’ll serve this up to get started. Unfortunately, and unbelievably, I cannot find the recipe. [Insert short walk to the Bunkhouse where Mr. Big Food is working. Questions. Indignity. “I would never cook anything but my own recipe for a chili cook off! John’s chili.” With chorizo?”
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Mr. Big Food and I were the Big Winners last evening as we enjoyed yet another one of Mr. Big Food’s Football Food appetizer extraordinaire! The photo is funny. That’s a lazy Susan in the center. You can see by the two plates and maybe the wooden handled app forks, and the tablecloth, I was
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Mr. Big Food has planned a marvelous spread of appetizers for our supper tonight. I imagine he’ll be puttering in the kitchen most of the afternoon. I do not care about the NFL, but it is Cincinnati. Not that my hopes are up because… well… it is Cincinnati. Stay tuned!
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This is a compilation of several years’ worth of Football Food Recipes. It’s a fun thing to do, just having appetizers throughout the day of a big game. Give some of them a try. They’re all really good. Recipes for Football Food! Originally published on January 29, 2019 As has been our habit for many years,
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Conference play begins in the SEC in baseball! This may not sound like a big deal but let me tell you Starkvegas was absolutely packed and hopping today. There was a line at the drive-thru frozen yogurt shop! I had to sit through three light cycles at one intersection. Were it not for the fact
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Originally published on January 29, 2019. Mr. Big Food tells me there are games coming up this weekend. Yippee. When is Jesus, I mean, Nick going to retire? As has been our habit for many years, we eat Football Food on BIG GAME days. And as The New England Invitational is this coming up Sunday, we will be
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Sigh. This is not college football as God intended.
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Just want to make sure everyone’s in the spirit and no one misses a second. The only television that is not tuned to SEC football is the one in the Apartment. There’s a new tenant. John’s post-doc who is a young Italian woman. She does not share our enthusiasm for SEC football, though she has
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Perhaps the only actual parallel to Montaigne in literature is Lamb. A. As I type this SEC football will begin in 10 minutes. That’s enough to make this an outstanding day. 2. I am looking for something and find myself in The Encyclopedia Britannica (1962) reading that sentence. How could it possibly get any better?
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This post, from just one year ago, is the essence of Blast from the Past. Laid out on the bar in the Bunkhouse are all of the nonperishable things we needed to do the Cold Salad Tailgate for the Kentucky game. (Menu at bottom. It was great!) In a couple of weeks, Mr. Big Food
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Eight-five (85) flavors of popcorn. Sweets, too! There’re new signs on Main Street: “10 minute curbside pickup.” And a cop on his scooter thing tagging rear tires with some magic fairy dust to apprehend offeners. Also new in Starkvegas– increased sales tax. I don’t like the idea but am sympathetic– sort of. I don’t know
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how wonderful it is to have a college football game playing on the TV back here in the Den. To hear the announcers, the analysts. No One cares about Southern Miss vs. Whoever Alabama. We just want to hear the cadence of the broadcasters. We just want to see the gawd-awful plays. We don’t care.
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So here I am minding my own business and having a nice little rant about The Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading and it inclusion of an Adiston poem, rather than a few lines of Cato, when Mr. Big Food comes into the Den and asks if I know what OANN or something is and
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all you dang foreigners from other nations! It’s a Foxworthy joke.
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