$7,000 budget for tailgate!! Help!

[Bbqgoddess]

Wow, that's a fricken tailgate party

Mac n Cheese is a easy reheater (I would make the cheese sauce green)
you could do a dish like funeral potatoes, easy to toss together again easy to reheat. The make ahead reheat stuff I like the best for tailgating just cuz your busy already when your there.
big green salad, with goat cheese, or feta cheese and candied pecans with a raspberry vinaigrette is a nice different salad.
Or you could roll with like a "skyline" chili that you put over spaghetti for the stick to your ribs warm comfort food too....
The crab boil sounds like a good idea as well....
Whatever you do come up with, take lots of pix and let us know! I wish I was going!!! Go Fighting Irish!

[curious aardvark]

assuming you don't wnat to do it the easy way

How about pulled lamb ?
unusual for the states. best tasting meat you can bbq. And cooks as easy as pork shoulder.
That and a bathtub of lobster would be all I'd need to eat :-)

And a bunch of mini-sweet pepper abts for those who need veggies :-)

[douglaslizard]

Breakfast Fatties-Low Country Boil for lunch Strawberry Shortcake for Dessert. And crabcakes for appetizers

[Richtee]

Nope I'm saying go with catering
Chiilax, kick back, drink beer, shoot the breeze and let other people do the cooking :-)

If it were not for pride and accomplishment- I'd agree.

But hell no...she gonna rock this beetch

[shellbellc]

If it were not for pride and accomplishment- I'd agree.

But hell no...she gonna rock this beetch

Fo sho!!

[scotth]

Too bad they're not playing Florida, you could cook up some gator. How about some Hunky dusted and/or bacon wrapped "panther" loins.

[shellbellc]

I know, we're playing Pitt. I don't think there are any significant Indiana foods, and Pitt would be just the French fry sandwich thing. Still working on menu...have til Wednesday or maybe Tuesday to figure it out.

[shellbellc]

Made crab soup last night and create dried beef today...got three whole rib eyes...got Italian sausage fried up for sausage an pepper sammies




frying up chipped dried beef

Added milk

[Richtee]

Hey! Gimmie my camera back!

Man..to be in on this feed... Sigh...but I can't. Go Blue!

[shellbellc]

Haha! Richie I thought of that, the pic out of focus is from my husband, he has camera issues with his phone...

[curious aardvark]

curious about the dried beef dish.

I get the dried beef sliced and fried - I could eat a lot of that.
So what's with the milk ?
Do you eat it like soup/stew ?
Or reduce it down till it's really thick and stick it on a sandwich ?
Can't really see where it's going

crab soup looks amazing !

[Ryan]

curious about the dried beef dish.

I get the dried beef sliced and fried - I could eat a lot of that.
So what's with the milk ?
Do you eat it like soup/stew ?
Or reduce it down till it's really thick and stick it on a sandwich ?
Can't really see where it's going

crab soup looks amazing !

CA not sure want shell's plan is but we usually serve that dried beef over toast or biscuits.

[1Cavman]

CA not sure want shell's plan is but we usually serve that dried beef over toast or biscuits.

We called that stuff SOS

[shellbellc]

We reduce down and put over toast usually, for this trip we didn't have a toaster to cover toast for 48 people so we are frying potatoes and putting over that.

SOS is similar in the military, but it's made with hamburger, had a lot of that in my day! Down south it's sausage gravy. Dried beef is expensive!! $11.99 per pound, got 5 pounds.

[shellbellc]

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