Week 3 of the NFL is just about to kick off and I don’t know about ya’ll, but I am ready for some really awesome football food!
I wanted to give you a sneak peek into my Football Recipe Guide by giving you signature cocktails and burger recipes for some of today’s key matchups. If your Game of the Week is not listed today, leave me a comment or shoot me an email and I’ll send you the recipe for your team! Enjoy!
- Detroit v. Chicago
- Baltimore v. New England
- Buffalo v. Miami
- Dallas v. Denver
- San Diego v. Pittsburgh
- Monday Night: Green Bay v. Minnesota
Stay tuned for more recipe guides and the fabulous Football Season Survival Guide, coming soon!
1:00 Matchups
My Pick: Chicago. Only because my friend Mike would disown me if I picked against his team. But since Detroit has finally won a game, I’m secretly rooting for them to make it to the Super Bowl.
Detroit Lions
The Drink:
The Lions Paw
* 1 fluid ounce Southern Comfort liqueur
* 1 fluid ounce pineapple juice
* 1 fluid ounce raspberry wine
DIRECTIONS
1. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake the Southern Comfort liqueur, pineapple juice, and raspberry wine until well blended. Strain into a martini glass, and garnish with a slice of fruit.
The Guiness Sangria
One of the many unique drink items available at the Detroit Pub is Guinness Sangria. This drink mixes the dark brewed beer with a ruby port wine and is topped with a sprinkle of nutmeg. It has a sweet, rich, almost coffee-like taste to it.
The Burger:
Motor City Black & Blue BBQ Burgers
The Coney Burgers
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Chicago Bears
The Drink:
Da Bear-tini
2 parts Kahlúa
1 part Tequila Tezón
Shake in a shaker with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with an
orange twist.
The Burger:
Da Bears Deep Dish PizzaBurger:
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Baltimore Ravens vs. New England Patriots
Baltimore Ravens
My Pick: Patriots. Tough call for me since I actually like the Ravens a little but being considering I have a sign in my kitchen that says “I Love New England” (the place, not the team), I suppose I better stick to it!
The Drink:
THE RAVENS
The Raven is a dark and mysterious cocktail that I’ve adapted from other recipes. I like this one because it contains ingredients that are more common in bars than those found in other Ravens. The key to this drink is the layer which is rather easy to obtain in this mix as the blue shaken mix is much lighter than the Chambord and they rarely break the layers unless stirred.
Ingredients:
* 1 oz vodka
* 1 oz rum
* 1 oz blue curacao
* 1/2 oz Chambord
Preparation:
1. Pour the vodka, rum and blue curacao into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice.
3. Slowly pour the Chambord over the back of a bar spoon so it floats on top.
The Burger:
Charm City Crab Burger: **I don’t have an actual recipe for this. I say, either buy some yummy crab cakes or whip up your own batch. Then stick them in between some gourmet bread with some spicy aioli sauce and voila!
New England Patriots
The Drink:
Cranberry Almond Kicker
2 cups cranberry juice cocktail
1 cup vodka
1/2 cup amaretto
3 tablespoons fresh orange juice*
Ice cubes
Clementines, peeled, separated into segments (optional)
1. Mix cranberry juice, vodka, amaretto, and orange juice in pitcher.
2. Cover and chill until ready to serve. It can be prepared 1 day ahead. Keep refrigerated.
3. To make 2 drinks, fill cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Pour in scant 1 cup vodka mixture.
4. Cover and shake vigorously. Strain into 2 Martini glasses. Garnish each with clementine segment, if desired. Repeat 3 times with ice cubes, remaining vodka mixture, and clementine segments.
Makes 8 cocktails.
*I used 1/4 cup fresh squeezed orange juice because I liked the tartness it added to the cocktail.
The Burger:
The Best Burger Ever (Sam Adams Edition)
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4:00 Matchups
Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins
My Pick: I know I’m going to regret this, but let’s go with Miami.
Buffalo Bills
The Drink:
The Buffalo Wild Wings (BDubbz) Cure
* 2 cups ice cubes
* 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
* 10 tablespoons (5 ounces) light lager, such as Miller High Life
* 1 tablespoon (1/2 ounce) fresh lemon juice
* 5 (1-inch) pieces peeled fresh ginger cut into thin matchsticks
The Burger:
Buffalo Burgers with Smokey Red Pepper Sauce
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Miami Dolphins
The Drink:
The Miami Mojito
1.25 oz Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
12 mint leaves
1 tbsp sugar
0.5 oz lime juice
2 oz soda
Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum, sugar, and lime juice, and muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves.
The Burger:
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Dallas Cowboys vs. Denver Broncos
My Pick: Dallas.
The Drink:
Bring in on 6: Don’t Mess With The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders (also known as: All my Ex’s live in Texas Kool-Aid by Miss Charming)
• Half pony the Brandy
• Half pony the Sherry
• Pony the Tequila Rose
• Pony the Strawberry Flavored Vodka
• Fill with sweet-n-sour & cranberry juice
• Strawberry garnish
• Texas size tall cool glass
** pony = an ounce, so half a pony is half an ounce.
Find the biggest glass you can find (remember, this is a Texas themed drink!) Pour in the Brandy, Sherry, and Tequila Rose. Then add the Strawberry Vodka, sweet-n-sour and cranberry juice and shake it like a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader!
The Burger:
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Denver Broncos
The Drink:
The Mile High
INGREDIENTS
* 1 part Lychee liqueur
* 1 part Midori® melon liqueur
* 2 Lime wedge
* 2 Sugar
Muddle the lime wedges and sugar, add ice, and the liquer. Shake and serve on ice.
The Burger:
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The Late Game: San Diego Chargers & Pittsburgh Steelers
My Pick: Chargers. Still angry at the Steelers for the whole Super Bowl thing last season.
San Diego Chargers
The Drink:
san diego sea breeze
use: 1.0 tsp Blackberry Liqueur
0.5 part Orange juice
0.5 part Pineapple Juice
1.0 oz Vodka
0.5 oz Blueberry Schnapps
0.5 oz Raspberry Schnapps
The Burger:
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Pittsburgh Steelers
The Drink:
The Black & Gold
* 2 oz Blavod vodka (aka black vodka.)
* 1 oz Goldschlager (cinnamon liquor with gold flakes!)
1. Pour the Blavod into ice filled shaker and shake it good.
2. Strain into a chilled glass
3. Top with Goldschlager so the flakes float all around! Sparkly!
Pittsburgh Sunrise
- 4 oz vodka
- 8 oz Sprite soda
- 4 oz peach & papaya juice
The Burger
The Pittsburgh Panini
The Roethlis-burger:
Monday Night Football:
My Pick: Tough, tough call. Brett Favre against the team who scorned him. Except I’m kinda tired of the whole Favre madness. Leave already or don’t. You are good, but you ain’t the Michael Jordan of football. But, I shall go with the Vikings.
Green Bay Packers
The Drink:
old fashioned brandy wisconsin
* 3 oz brandy
* 2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
* 1 tsp sugar
* dash of water
* lemon peel for garnish
Preparation:
1. Place the sugar cube at the bottom of an old-fashioned glass.
2. Saturate the cube with the water and bitters.
3. Muddle these ingredients.
4. Fill the glass with ice cubes.
5. Add the brandy.
6. Stir well.
7. Garnish with a lemon peel.
The Burger:
Green Bay Beer Cheese Brat Burgers:
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Minnesota Vikings
The Drink:
Purple Viking
1 oz Southern Comfort® peach liqueur
1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz blueberry liqueur
1 oz sloe gin
1 splash lime juice
1 splash sweet and sour mix
1 splash 7-Up® soda
screaming viking:
2 oz vodka
- 1 oz dry vermouth
- 1 oz lime juice
- 1 celery stalk
- 1 spear cucumber
The Burger
The Viking Burger: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1725,144168-255197,00.html
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