With the official start to the football season today, I made some delish food to go along with the game. Both recipes are linked in my Recipe of the Week page.
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I love the month of September! The leaves start to change, the weather is perfect, I start back to work with my kids at school, I break out my sweaters but can still wear flip-flops, and Football season starts!! It's a great month to have birthday in! :) With the beginning of football season brings all the delicious football foods. So today, in honor of the start of football, I have a recipe that will be a huge hit for a party or just yourself and family! I got this recipe from an ex-coworker of mine, Melissa. She is a great cook as well!
Buffalo Chicken Dip
3 large cans of Chicken Breast, drained 2 - 8 oz. pkgs. Cream Cheese 1 cup Ranch Dressing 3/4 cup Frank's Red Hot Sauce or to taste (this brand of hot sauce is essential to the correct taste, most stores carry it). Shredded Cheese
Mix ingredients together. Bake is a 9x13 pan at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, stirring once. Remove and sprinkle with shredded cheese on top at once, so it will melt. Serve warm.
I am making this today for our football party so pictures to come this evening!
It is the first game of the season and I am so excited!! I love me a good football game! So today I broke out the scarlet and gray for the game!!
My buckeye necklace usually hangs in my car window, but I brought it in for tonight! :) We had leftover chili for supper and now sitting here watching the game! Good game so far too, we are up 14-0!! Go Bucks!!
The FIFA World Cup is the most eagerly anticipated sporting event on Planet Earth. The finals of the tournament take place once every four years, following an approximate two-year qualifying campaign, and last for one calendar month. Thirty-two nations from around the planet, all hoping for the glory of scooping the greatest sporting prize of all, the FIFA World Cup.
So what has the FIFA World Cup got to do with what any of us may intend having for dinner tonight, or indeed any night during the course of the tournament? Won't most people simply sit in front of their TV with some microwaved meal or some takeaway fast food? No doubt many will, but hopefully - with the indispensable assistance of some other food enthusiasts from around the world - I can encourage many of you to make a little bit of extra effort this time around and add a whole new dimension to your enjoyment of the FIFA World Cup.
In simple terms, what I intend to do - for the duration of the tournament - is feature a whole host of dinner suggestions from around the world, representative of one of the countries which happen to be playing a match that particular day. As World Cup tradition dictates that the first match of the tournament always features the host nation playing another country who happen to have been drawn in their group, Friday, 11th June, will feature something representative of South Africa. That was always my intention from the outset.
With regard to Saturday, 12th June, I initially appeared to have hit my first major snag. I am aware that the vast majority of readers of this blog are in either the UK or the USA. Although the UK does not compete as one team in the World Cup, England are featured and not only were England and the USA drawn in the same group (one in eight chance!) but they both play their first match on the same day...against each other! "Which to feature?" was my first thought...
Inspiration fortunately saved me in due course: why not feature both? Particularly as the day in question is a Saturday and a majority of people will have more free time than on a weekday, why not ask an American chef/cook to go up against an English chef/cook in advance of the match itself? Two very different dinner suggestions on the same day: two for the price of one! More details on that one to follow very soon...
I will update in advance on the blog which countries you can find represented on each day, throughout the tournament, as and when I can. I very much hope that whatever happens on the pitches around South Africa, the culinary diversities which we can and will explore here can be appreciated by all who view them.
As for the World Cup itself? At the time of writing, UK Bookmakers, Ladbrokes, make Spain the pre-tournament favourites, followed by Brazil, England, Argentina and Germany, in that order. Interestingly in this respect, no European team has ever won the World Cup when it has been hosted outwith the continent of Europe. Time will of course tell whether that is about to change...
Is your country one of the thirty-two who will contest the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Unsure? Click here for a list of the thirty-two nations involved.
"Waving Flag" - The Official Anthem of the FIFA World Cup, 2010
(Click on the arrow in the centre of the screen to play the video)
Can't wait to start planning your dishes? Maybe a different Gordon can help, via Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk...?
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