Game food porn!

Whoo-hoo! Time for game food porn! Never hurts when we win, and it really never hurts when we spend the entire game shoving foreign objects into unnatural places in the other team. Yes, the Packers abused the Redskins today. I was forced to avoid going over to The Farm today, because my farming friend's wife is a 'Skins fan. Couldn't rub it in. Except on line, of course.

In any event, we have game food porn for you. For your step-by-step game food porn, we have onion straws. Start with the basics: a couple cups of flour, some salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

You will also need a red onion and some buttermilk. Slice the red onion as thin as you can.

Obviously, the first slices are thinner than the last. In any event, in small batches, dunk the sliced onion into the buttermilk.

Make sure you coat the onion slices nicely.

Good. Take some of the buttermilk-coated onion slices and plop them into some seasoned flour. What seasoned flour, you ask? Take about two cups of flour, add garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste (I like more, you might like less. If you have no garlic powder, use garlic salt and forgo the salt. You also can add cayenne. Whatever you want to season these bad boys with.)

Coat them nicely with the seasoned flour, and keep up the process until you run out of onion, at which point you should have a plate full of floured onion slices that looks like this:

A few at a time, drop those suckers into a deep fryer. (If you don't have a deep fryer, a) get one, or b) use a frying pan with heated oil at least 3/4 inches deep.)

Fry those suckers about 3-4 minutes per batch, until golden brown.  When the onions are all ready, throw in some magic sauce and enjoy.

I confess, I did not include a step-by-step for the dipping sauce. That's because I also served onion straws and dipping sauce last week and did not document the creation of the sauce, but used the leftover dipping sauce this week, as it keeps nicely.  Just mix a half-cup of mayonnaise with about a tablespoon of catsup (some folks call it ketchup) and two tablespoons of horseradish sauce. Toss in some salt and pepper if you like. Chow down, kids.

For the rest of the game food, we had, of course, some stuffed potato skins:

We also had steak sandwiches and grilled corn. Step-by-step on those will wait for another day, but they were excellent:

Hope your game day was as good as mine. No way was your game food as good as mine, but keep trying.