Chapter whatever, in which I deliver on the promised home-opener game-food porn

Sometimes I'm late, but I deliver. A thrilling, comeback victory by the Packers yesterday. First quarter sucked, but by the end of the first half I knew we had those suckers. Always good to win the home opener. With a 4:30 game, the game food had to be kind of dinnerish, leading to the following menu:

We started off, naturally, with stuffed potato skins, the one constant of game food porn:

And its not dinner with no vegetable, so we also had a veggie tray:

As the game progressed toward dinner time, I brought out more items. For the main course, brats:

Yes, I boil them in beer before I grill them. You mean you don't? Then I brought out the cheeseburger macaroni and cheese, a favorite of Marrying Into Wolves:

Throw in some wings for the starving masses:

And top it off with roasted corn:

All in all, a pretty good feast. I was pleased, and I heard no complaints. That might be because I was screaming too loud to hear any complaints during this play.

Game food porn, served with a huge comeback win!

The Packers rallied from a dismal first half that left them 23 points down at halftime, scoring touchdowns on their first five possesions of the second half while pretty much stifling the Cowboys' offense. Tony Romo was Romo and threw two picks in the last two minutes to give the Packers the win. And it all happened to the tune of some truly magnificant game food. Without further ado, here's what we had:

Because we were the 4:30 game, this was going to be a dinner-ish game food night. Still, we had true game food, including onion straws, complete with dipping sauce:

A vegetable tray with spinach dip:

The ever-present potato skins:

And barbecue ribs, which were really fricking good:

Two other items on the menu, both of which will get step-by-step treatment, as one was brand new and the other, while featured repeatedly in game food porn posts, has never been given recipe-style treatment. So here we go.

Start with about a dozen wings. That's complete wings, people.

You will cut these wings up at each of the two joints, separating the drummie part from the  two-bone part, and the wingtip from the two-bone part:

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you need wing education. In any event, save those wing tips (two of which you can see on the lower right side of the cutting board above) and put them in the freezer to make chicken stock later. Or don't. See if I fucking care.

Now that you have chopped up your wings, gather your ingrediments. You will need an egg, about a cup of flour, a beer, some salt and pepper and the wings.

Dust the wing pieces with flour. It helps the batter stick to the wings:

Now, mix a cup of flour and one egg with some salt and pepper:

Slowly add the beer:

The batter should look like pancake batter when it is right. If it doesn't take the whole beer, drink the rest. That's why you use cold beer:

Batter up those wings:

 They should be nicely coated with batter, like so:

 

Drop those bad boys in the deep fryer (not all at once -- about six at a time):

Choose your sauce:

Sauce them up. Buffalo sauce:

 Or Asian teriyaki:

 We did both. There are a million sauces. Find the one that works for you and use it. Bon appetit. Got more food porn in the next post, but decided to break it up.

Thanksgiving game food porn

We will try not to speak of the alleged football game that occurred yesterday afternoon in Detroit. it was a disaster. Fortunately, the game food was not. It came in four parts, one of which was added late when Nephew to Wolves finally arrived and I made some wings, which I did not photograph. However, I did snap the skins:

We also had the bacon cheeseburger macaroni and cheese, the recipe for which is featured here

We also had butternut squash soup, for which I have not yet put up the recipe:

Like I said, we did wings, but you've seen wings. I haven't put up the recipe yet, but I will. In the meantime, you can look here if you need to see pictures of wings.

Game food porn, people!

Sure, Packers game is not until 8:30 and hasn't started yet, but the future Mrs. Wolves is a Saints fan, and they played at 1 today, so we did game food for that. No step-by-step on this stuff, because I think I've done so before (hey, search the blog and prove me wrong), so no links,  But here's our game food porn:

Naturally, we had stuffed potato skins:

Since the last game food poll called for wings last week, and I was unable to do wings last week because of domestic pressure, I did wings this week. First, we had the ultra-mild traditional wing sauce:

I also fixed some brown-sugar barbecue wings:

Finally, I threw in some onion straws with dipping sauce:

OK, gotta go watch the Packers. More food porn coming later. Hope your team did OK, and bon appetit.