Thursday, September 2, 2010

Suggestions Welcome!

Ok, so we have the first game of the season (well regular season) next week up here in Indy not to mention Alabama's first game I think this weekend. Football has become a very important fixture in the Loper household over the years and is really made up by three things for us. Fall (which will be here soon I hope), family time, and food. All things I love. So this year we have been talking about doing themed meals on game day(s). Now remember we are still talking about football food here, nothing that has to be watched and takes a lot of time and nothing that requires a knife and fork to eat, we are all sitting in recliners and sofas after all. That said we have come up with two menus so far but I am looking for more ideas within those menus as well as more themes in general.

OK, menu one...

Theme: Everything Fires!

We are looking at doing Chicken fries from burger king.
Funnel cake fries from Max and Erma's.
I am hoping to find skinny fish sticks and I am going to call them Fish Fries (ok that ones a bit of a stretch).
And of course french fires duh.
Another stretch would be the Carrot Fries (aka carrot sticks) but we got to get our veggies somewhere.
So that's it for that one, again, any suggestions would be great.

Next menu...

Theme: Sliders!

So this one is pretty straight forward. The menu will be made up mostly of stuff from white castle (like krystals for those that haven't heard of white castles).

They have burger sliders, chicken sliders, bbq pork sliders and while they might now all be as good as other places but they are all together and simple. Anyway this one could really use some development but I haven't come up with any other sliders yet, might make something cold like some chicken salad sliders or something but we will have to see.

So that's about it for now, with the season here I need to come up with more quickly. Football days are always fun, yes we end up with 4 times the food then we actually need but its fun and we have left overs for the first half of the following week with makes for quick easy lunches. So any suggestions would be great. I am trying to come up with a simple soup menu. I thought it would be fun to have a bunch of little bowls or cups with like a sample of each.

Anyway, thank in advance for help.
Can't wait for kick off!