New Feature: WouldIBuyItAgain.com Tailgate Tour #1
Author: indianapoliseater | Filed under: Tailgate TourAs we teased about a week ago, we have a new feature at WIBIA called “Tailgate Tour.” In this feature, I’ll be taking you to my (along with EatHSE and/or WIBIA) tailgates that we have a planned six times during the fall at Indiana University football games. This feature will include things such as pictures, recipes and videos of the food and activities that we are participating in. For better or worse, I will be your guide into the exciting world of tailgating.
In this week’s episode, EatHSE and I started out the football season on a Thursday night as the mighty (I use that word VERY loosely) Hoosiers took on the Eastern Kentucky Colonels. It was a crappy game where IU emerged with a 19-13 victory, but despite the crappy game, we had a great tailgate.
In this tailgate, we had a menu consisting of smoked pork ribs, a smoked whole chicken, “baked” macaroni and cheese and also calico beans. Our main focus at this tailgate was coming up with creative ways of improvising a makeshift smoker grill and oven so that we could make the kind of classics that you would enjoy at home if you had the kind of equipment required to make those foods.
For pictures and also recipes of the food that we were eating at our tailgate, our makeshift kitchen equipment and some other random items seen out at the tailgate, check out the linked photo album of our adventures.
If you want to see an “exciting” live action feature of how we cooked everything and my impeccable skills as a television host, check out the embedded video below. Depending on the success of our video entries (and my sobriety…no good tailgate is complete without a few ice cold beers), this may become a staple of this feature, so let us know what you think!
-IndianapolisEater
Tags: Calico Beans, Chicken, Food, Macaroni and Cheese, Ribs, Tailgating
Awesome idea – my vote would be please post them. The pictures are great [and drool inducing, thanks!] but you are kidding about the donkey – surreal
[Is he a mascot?]
Very cool feature…I feel like playing some bags now. Keep these coming!
I have no idea how or why the donkey was there, that is what made it so bizarre. I was just standing there and then all of a sudden a donkey runs by. So weird.
Very nice. I was there Thursday as well. We left at halftime because my friends had an early flight to catch the next day. Turns out I missed some awful football. So it worked out ok.
Yeah, you didn’t miss much. It’s going to be a long year, but at least we’ll have some tailgates to keep us busy.
You should do one week like we used to … just hot dogs, frozen burgers and a billion beers.
Ha, ha. I’ve done that one a million times. Probably not going to do it this year though as I always try and keep the tailgate food “creative” and try to stay away from the easy stand-bys like that.
Daily visitor to your blog.
Look forward to more tailgating tour stops and any advice on feeding large groups (40-60 people) at games. My wife and I used to have quaint get togethers where we could experiment on our friends. But as the group has grown, creativity has been tossed for convenience! (Hot dogs, frozen hamburgers and a billion beers.)
Here are some pictures of our Ball State set up from a few years ago:
http://www.bsufans.com/images/football/other/sled1.jpg
http://www.bsufans.com/images/football/other/sled2.jpg
http://www.bsufans.com/images/football/other/sled3.jpg
http://www.bsufans.com/images/football/other/sled4.jpg
Wow, that’s a great setup! I’m hoping some day that I can get some sort of trailer/RV similar to yours, but for now, we just set up out of the back of a Ford Explorer.
As for feeding large groups, I’ve only really done it a few times and my “large” groups have only consisted of about a dozen people or so. In those instances though, I believe the best types of foods are things like big vats of chili/stew (my “award winning” chili recipe will be coming up later this season) or other stuff like pulled meat sandwiches.
When you do pulled meats, you can just buy big chunks of meat, cook it in the crock pot(s) at home to a recipe specification of your choice (I’ve done barbecue pulled pork and Italian beef in the past) and then re-heat it in one of those disposable aluminum containers at the tailgate. I’ve found that it’s both easy and a perfect fix for a large group.
Can we come party with you Ed? Now THAT is a sweet tailgate setup.
That is not fair. Tell the people where you were standing.