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| We made a cake to celebrate Ed's 21st at a tailgate. |
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| Box-o-chili |
When Lad played football his freshman year at St. Ambrose, tailgating wasn't really a thing there (small school?), but we enjoyed chowing down in the parking lot after one of his games.
We skipped football games at IU, where Ed went, his freshman year ('19). Instead, we attended Lad's senior year water polo games. Not in possession of a crystal ball, we never could've dreamt covid would interfere with everything, so our IU tailgating didn't kick in until Ed's senior year.
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| I don't know this kid, but that's the shot luge. |
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The Shenanigans are much more food focused.
1. cold weather: I don't like hanging outside, but chili pairs well with freezing temps. I make several crockpots of chili, plug them in in the airbnb overnight, load them into boxes at like 4:00 am, so they're in the car when I get in line/drive into the lot. I stuff towels around to insulate them. Big hit!
2. Warm weather: Taco salad. Another mom told me in October that my taco salad was the best thing she's ever eaten. I looked at her and said, I think you just told me you don't get out much.
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| Marked H for hot sausage. |
3. An early game: Breakfast burritos -
served at our IU tailgate -made in advance at home, packed them into the cooler, cooked them the morning of at the airbnb, and stored them in giant thermoses. I co-hosted this one with Ed's gf's mom. She was crazy about them and has since served them at other tailgates.
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| Breakfast burritos prepping. |
4. Appetizers/snacks: 7 layer taco dip, cowboy caviar, spinach dip, plain old potato chips and chip dip, trail mix, etc.
5. Desserts: rocky road fudge bars, chocolate chip cookies, cherry dessert, pumpkin bread, gf lemon sugar cookies, and maybe shamrock cookies iced.
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| rocky road fudge bars |
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| Taking Gumby off his perch |
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| Fun fact: Gumby also owns an IU shirt |
Have you ever tailgated? What menu item would you be most excited for?
You are such an amazing hostess! Your tailgates have great food and good company- beats a luge for shots any day. ( Is that even legal? And why would soneone put themselves at risk where an underage drinker could use it and then blame them for their trouble? I am definitely not meant for tailgating- I can only forsee problems and not fun!)
ReplyDeleteI have never tailgated but I do love taco salad, I cowboy caviar, and desserts! My alma mater was only known for soccer.I did witness tailgating when I attended an OSU game a few years ago and it was shocking to me 🤣
ReplyDeleteI have never tailgated, but now I am craving taco salad. Adding that to my meal plan for December.
ReplyDeleteAnd chili. I used to make chili ALL the time, but we have some sensitive tummies that get upset with the beans, but I'm going to make some anyway because it screams COZY winter vibes.
Everything looks fantastic, and it all sounds like so much fun! Happy Thanksgiving! :)
ReplyDeleteThose are some well executed tailgate menus! The tailgate that we used to attend was similarly well done. Many times the menu was based on the game, like we'd have duck tacos when we played Oregon. ;) It was a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteThis is Noemi. Sigh.
DeleteYour tailgates always sound amazing!! Tailgating is not a thing at all in Canada, so I haven’t had the experience. My husband always talks about how much fun it would be; I told him you have invited us so who knows, maybe some day we will get there!!
ReplyDeleteI haven't made taco salad in years. That sounds yummy.
ReplyDeleteI've never tailgated before. It looks like a lot of fun. 💜
Listen, I'm happy to sample anything that I don't have to cook myself. All of that sounds awesome. And I still think your enormous Gumby was a stroke of genius.
ReplyDeleteyou are a tailgate master!
ReplyDeleteTHis all sounds amazing! I love a great brekfast burrito- and the chili on a cold day sounds perfect. I'm realizing you need a lot of equipment for this- like giant thermoses? Anyway- every time you talk about tailgating I think "they really know how to have fun!" This post just clinches it.
ReplyDeleteI have never tailgated. Can you believe it? You definitely have things nailed down - rather impressive! :)
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