Football and Food, a Great Combination! by Desiree Holt and Liz Crowe #recipe #WickedWednesday

WICKED WEDNESDAY

What a wicked treat it is to have two great authors as my guests today on Wicked Wednesday, Discover...  Let's hear from Liz Crowe and Desiree Holt. Enjoy!

We love football (actually, I am obsessed with it!...Des) so it’s natural that we’d love tailgate foods. What is a tailgate, you say?

A tailgate party is a social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle. Tailgating, which primarily takes place in the United States and Canada, often involves consuming alcoholic beverages and grilling food. Tailgate parties occur in the parking lots at stadiums and arenas, before and occasionally after games and concerts. People attending such a party are said to be 'tailgating'. Many people participate even if their vehicles do not have tailgates. Tailgate parties also involve people bringing their own alcoholic beverages, barbecues, food etc. which is sampled and shared among fans attending the tailgate. Tailgates are intended to be non-commercial events, so selling items to the fans is frowned upon. Tailgating is often seen as a critical part of the sports experience in the United States. Because many American sports venues are surrounded by large parking lots, tailgating often takes place right outside stadium and arena entrances.

You want dishes that work well hot or cold and this one, Chipotle and Lime Roasted Potatoes, really appeals. It’s great hot or warm or room temperature and the dressing is addictive.

A WICKEDLY GOOD RECIPE

Cut up small potatoes, season with salt and toss them about with a spoon some more. Place them

in an oven to roast while you prepare your dressing. To prepare the dressing, chop up some chipotle peppers and add some garlic. Place them, in a small bowl and stir. Next zest your lime and add that to the small bowl. Then squeeze in the juice. Drizzle in some olive oil last and mix it all together. Let it sit and macerate while your potatoes finish roasting. Your potatoes will be golden brown and tender when they’re ready. Let them cool slightly so that they don’t cook the dressing. Then pour the dressing over it generously and stir it all together well. Sprinkle in the freshly chopped cilantro last for some extra flavor and freshness.  Wickedly hot and wickedly good!

A little background:

From Des: 

It’s funny how life makes things happen. Liz Crowe and I bonded over two things: we’re both authors and she lived at the time in Ann Arbor, Michigan, home of the University of Michigan, my alma mater. I bleed maize and blue. Not only that I am a football fanatic. That should be in capital letters by the way (grin). We had batted back and forth the idea of writing a book together, but when she presented me with a football signed by both Jim and Jon Harbaugh, how could I say no!

From Liz:

Re: tailgating, I was the founder and owner /marketing director for a brewery that was located exactly one mile down Stadium Blvd. from The Stadium (a.k.a he Big House) where Michigan plays football. On 12 noon kickoff Saturdays, I’d be at the brewery early, for people to pick up their pre-ordered kegs or cases of or beer. And when I say early I mean six or six-thirty a.m.  because these folks took their tailgating seriously. I would then try and visit the various tents and parties where our beer was being served. A lot of tailgating in Ann Arbor occurs on the lawn of Pioneer High School, which is across the street from the Big House, which is John Harbaugh’s alma mater (he’s head coach of the Baltimore Ravens). My kids all attended there and played sports so I helped organize and run an athletic fundraising event honoring John and his brother Jim who’d just been hired as Michigan’s each coach. I made sure to get Desiree a signed football—a little bribe so she’d write with me!

NUMBERS GAME is the story of second chances. Duncan “Hatch” Hatcher needs to resurrect himself after nearly destroying himself with an addiction and Olivia Grant is trying to keep her ex-husband from tanking her career for the second time. They each consider the possibility of redemption but they have a lot of obstacles to overcome.

Buy it here!

https://books2read.com/NumbersGame