Football season starts tonight with the draft in prime-time! With a 7:30 p.m. ET start time, it’s the perfect time to fire up the grill for the seasons first prime time tailgate.
Hopefully you’ve cleaned your grill from last year, better yet, I hope you’ve already clean it and grilled at some point this year. If not, do it now and then get your favorite tailgating cook book, or check out one of our videos (the Grilled Flatbreads would be a perfect for a quick meal) and enjoy the draft while getting your taste buds ready for a great football and tailgating season.
For the final game of the year, we give you some Dips, Chili and Sangria. You can always go back and check out all of our recipes and mix and match for your Super Bowl party.
Deep fried sandwich goodness! The Monte Cristo Sandwich isn’t for the healthy tailgater, so set yoru diet aside and indulge in this tasty fried sandwich,
Author: Adapted from allrecipes.com http://allrecipes.com/recipe/monte-cristo-sandwich—the-real-one/Detail.aspx
Ingredients
1 quart oil for frying, or as needed
2/3 cup water
1 egg
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 slices white bread
4 slices Swiss cheese
4 slices turkey
4 slices ham
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar for dusting
Instructions
Heat 5 inches of vegetable oil in a deep-fryer to 365 degrees F.
While oil is heating, make the batter: In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg and water. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and pepper; whisk into the egg mixture until smooth. Set aside in the refrigerator.
Assemble sandwiches by placing one slice of turkey on one slice of bread, a slice of ham on another, then sandwich them with the Swiss cheese in the middle. Cut sandwiches into quarters, and secure with toothpicks.
Dip each sandwich quarter in the batter so that all sides are coated. Deep fry in the hot oil until golden brown on all sides. Remove toothpicks and arrange on a serving tray. Dust with confectioners’ sugar just before serving.
Chop the onion, lettuce and tomato into bite-size pieces. Dice the meats and cheese.
Combine the chopped vegetables, meats and cheese in a large bowl. Add the mayonnaise, olive oil, oregano, basil and stir until everything is all mixed up.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Carve out the center of the bread loaf to make a bowl (don’t cut through the bottom) and cut the scraps into bite-size pieces. Serve the hoagie dip in the bread bowl, with the extra bread and hoagie rolls to scoop it up.
OK, so the Eagles got there hind feathers handed to them. Another season full of hope, down the drain. As depressing as that was, we still got to enjoy this great Hoagie Dip. A great dip to when you already have another sandwich at your tailgate.
To celebrate the Eagles making the playoffs we made a Non-Playoff Steak Sandwich in honor of the Giants not making the playoffs! Now let’s hope they beat the cowboys!
Since this is our last episode of 2009, and Christmas is around the corner, we thought we’d get festive with out tailgating and make some fun Christmas treats. When the holiday’s come around, one thing people can’t get enough of is Eggnog. We’ve given ours a caffeine kick with some ice cream coffee and a cup of fresh brewed coffee. The monkey bread is easy to make and will become a classic Christmas tradition for your holiday meals once you make it.
Just like our Grilled Flatbreads, we used pre-made dough to make our Stromboli which makes them fast to prepare and easy to cook. The cool thing about Stromboli is you can fill it with what ever you want. Leave us a comment letting us know that you like in your Stomboli.
