My Iowa State University Cyclones kicked off their football season last night and we rolled into our parking space as the FIRST non-RV just before one in the afternoon to set up our stuff and fire the grills. We caught the attention of BOTH the pork producers and cattleman's association and were featured between the third and fourth quarters on the big score board screen for our "Soul Food" Pork Loin Ends and Cajun Mushroom Potter House Steaks with local Iowa Sweet Corn from my neighbors fields as was the pork and steaks. I not only got my 2008 t-shirts (Tailgating ISU Style 2008 and 2008 Jack Trice Stadium Tailgating Team) but we were actually INTERVIEWED on video for it as well!!! Me talking to the interviewer and all of us eating away and drinking away all while the cameras rolled. Kind of surprised us seeing ourselves up on the big board like that!
Next Saturday we are doing my award winning Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches and Philly Style Steak and Cheese Sandwiches and the media guys have promised to come back yet again...then again the pork guys know what I am making from the 2007 Iowa Pork Producers Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin Competition that I won when we still had the restaurant open...I am thinking we will start at two and zero on the pork end and will give everyone else a run for the money on the beef side of things as we tailgate before hosting Kent State. We will really get it going in a few weeks when we start doing breakfast and lunch before afternoon games!!! Can't wait for "before and after" omelets!!!
Next Saturday we are doing my award winning Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches and Philly Style Steak and Cheese Sandwiches and the media guys have promised to come back yet again...then again the pork guys know what I am making from the 2007 Iowa Pork Producers Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin Competition that I won when we still had the restaurant open...I am thinking we will start at two and zero on the pork end and will give everyone else a run for the money on the beef side of things as we tailgate before hosting Kent State. We will really get it going in a few weeks when we start doing breakfast and lunch before afternoon games!!! Can't wait for "before and after" omelets!!!
"Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected, by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table."-Charles Pierre Monselet, French author(1825-1888)