Great game food, shitty game

It's not even over, but we are getting our asses kicked, so I am putting up a game food post. The game food was much better than the game. We started with stuffed tater tots:

These are seriously goods. We also put out some dirty diapers, which are also excellent:

Finally, I did some bacon-wrapped donuts:

Oh my God, so good. And they all looked good together:

All in all, a culinary success, but a football failure. Next year.

We have some very sad-faced game food porn

We time-shifted yesterday, recording the game so Marrying Into Wolves could see it, so game food bled into dinner. Dinner was brats and other stuff, and I didn't bother with pictures of that. The game food, which was excellent, was much better than the game, which was not. Sloppy play by the Packers offense led to defeat at the hands of the Bills, who have a legitimate defense but no offense to speak of. But we will not speak of this. Next week, the march to the playoffs resumes. In the meantime, yesterday we started with something new -- apple slices and caramel dip:

Yeah, I cheated and bought caramel dip. You think I'm going to try and make that shit? We also had onion straws with dip, which I did make:

Of course we had skins -- we always have skins:

We topped it off with dirty diapers. Man, I love those things:

Later we had tear-soaked brats and sides. Well, my brat was tear-soaked. The rest were just boiled in beer and then grilled.

I got all the game food porn you can handle

Of course, we had french dip and dirty diapers, as they were the poll winners. We also had stuffed potato skins, because we always do. Thought about adding a fourth element, possibly even a new game food item, but really didn't have time, mostly because we are doing a triple-play food porn post. I was busy in the kitchen from about 9 am right up until game time at 1 pm. So there's that. I'm a day late on the actual posting, but yesterday was quite a day around here. Anyway, here we are. First, of course, we had stuffed potato skins, because that's how we start at Chez Wolves on NFL Sundays:

We featured this next item last week in a first-time game food porn post, with the step-by-step instructions. The dirty diapers were so good, despite the disgusting name, that they made the menu again this week, thanks to reader votes:

We also had mini-French dip sandwiches, the other game food poll winner:

Pretty good stuff, especially coupled with the serious ass-whipping the Packers laid on the Panthers. I have a buddy at work who is a big Panthers fan. He texted me a little smack talk after each of the first three plays of the game (Packers had the ball). The texts were "BS" after a good Eddie Lacey run, "BS" after another such run, then "Hah!" after an Aaron Rodgers sack. Oddly enough, that was it for the rest of the game. I think he was busy measuring rope and practicing his knot-tying.

I expect to get a game food poll up for this week once I work out what will be on the list for folks to vote on. In the meantime, stay tuned for the other two parts of the food porn triple play.

This game food recipe looks like a keeper

This is some serious game food porn here. Got it from allrecipes.com, and this one is fucking excellent. It's a Super Bowl contender, and it's really simple. They're called dirty diapers. All you need is a pound of ground beef, a small onion, a can of refrigerated crescent roll dough, some slices of cheddar cheese, and some slices of dill pickle (if you like -- I didn't use them this time).

Naturally, you will chop up the onion and sautee those bad boys, like so:

When the onions get soft, add the ground beef:

Cook those two together until the beef is done and crumbled, and the onions are nice and soft, almost getting crispy:

Now, get out your crescent rolls and separate the triangles. The recipe calls for cutting the triangles in half. I tried it both ways and found it easier to do with a whole triangle:

Put some ground beef in the middle of a roll:

Add some cheese. I used shredded cheese, as I had no cheddar slices, but you can use whatever you want. I did not put a pickle slice in, although I might next time and you certainly can:

I folded up the corners on the short axis first, then folded the long end over:

And it does look like a diaper when you do that:

Put those bad boys on a baking sheet and bake them for 10-12 minutes at 350. They should look like this:

They are seriously good. You can see that I did some with the crescent roll cut in half and some with the whole roll. The small ones are practically bite-sized, the whole-roll ones take two bites. Both are excellent. Enjoy.