Tailgating Appetizers

Guy Fieri makes artichoke dip on the grill and buffalo wings three ways.

Tailgate 101 basic menus. Got to have a dip of some sort everybody wants an appetizer. Artichokes, spinach, and red bell pepper dip with tortilla chips, corn chips and red points and going to be fantastic. Wings in 3 ways. Asian, Tequila lime and Carolina barbecue got to love it. What are my rules about tailgating is keeping it easy and simple but not feeling like to be just hamburgers and hotdogs. Now I never know what I’m going to have to cook on when I go to these tailgates so I try to make it something that will work on the barbecue. So what we’re going to make now is an artichoke spinach deep with a little roasted bell pepper. Now here’s how this is going to work. One you can go ahead and roast the peppers if you like me getting the jug ones so I can make it quick and easy as the way to go. So we bust out the red bell pepper, un-marinated artichokes hearts. Do some quick chopped, frozen prepared spinach and its juice pick the peppers; the artichokes combine them with the prepared spinach. A little bit of pesto sauce. Make your own if you want but again this is quick and easy. Some dice red onion, a little bit of mayonnaise, of course black pepper, a little salt, some parmesan cheese and just mix it up. You just do it right into this tin and you can prepare this at home, take it with you just keep it in the fridge the day before, bring this no matter who’s barbecue or who’s tailgate you’re at you just give it a walk in and throw this down or the number one tools you can have in tailgating. Some good heavy aluminum foil, seal that around the top. This is the vegetarian mode and how can you go to the tailgate gig and find any vegetarian. You could pour to fry that with some chicken or some crab, there’s all kinds of things you can go on for this. Before we go on here is we’ve got to move the coals out a little bit. Move the coals over to the side just to make sure that we have some indirect heat. We put any direct heat on top of that artichoke spinach dip it might burn alternative couple of times just to make sure that doesn’t just stay too close to the heat. Let’s get about 15 minutes starts and warm ready to go and I’ll serve this with some potato chips and tortilla chips. One of the things I love here in tailgating is chicken wings. I like all kinds of flavors. Today we’re going to we make a quick and easy Carolina Barbecue Sauce. We’re going to do Tequila and lime and we’re going to do a really dynamite agent. Now how do we make this easy. Well you take the frozen chicken wings that you get at the store. Pop them in the oven and cook them at home. Grill them down and then bring it when you come game town. Now what I’m going to need to do is throw this bad boys on the grill heat them up and when they’re done drop them into the sauce of choice. So I’ve got my wings ready time to make the sauce. The first one we’re going to work on is going to be the Asian, this resealed bags work perfect. I like to get the freezer version because they’re a lot sturdier. To start off put a little bit of soy sauce, get some honey, lime juice, pull that lime out and make sure you get all the juice from it. Some orange juice. First create a ginger, chili garlic sauce for a little bit of heat. Little sesame oil and we have to touch the oregano, a little cumin and the cayenne, a little granulated garlic. Last but not least some oyster sauce. Got to mix this all together, now it’s time to make the delicious Tequila lime. Fresh is better, some tequila, agaves nectar for a little sweetness, put some lime zest and the real lime flavor comes out of the zest. A little cumin, to pull my peppers smoked jalapeno peppers that’s put on a sauce called adobo, which is kind of a spicy tomato sauce. Put a touch of that. A little black pepper a touch of salt. Dynamite flavors. Put that Agaves syrup on there and got to be delicious. Now I’m going to make one of my favorites the Carolina barbecue sauce. A little bit of sweetness and a lot of vinegar. There at the sauce we have some ketchup, some red wine and vinegar, a little red chili flake, some sauce and the adobo. A little dried mustard, some granulated garlic and just a little bit of sugar. A little mix, made ahead of time Carolina barbecue sauce, the Tequila lime and the Asian. So these all made at home. In wings and hand all you need is a hot grill and you’re done. So check that out. Now reheat it and these are ready to go, good stuff. Now for those great sauces that we made ahead of time here’s the Asian about third of these wings you’re going to go in here. Take a look at that, look at all that flavor. The Tequila lime with a little bit of that. You should smell this and now the Carolina barbecue. So there we go, four dishes, quick and easy, made them at home, brought him to the tailgate, heat them up and tell me that’s not money. We’ll be back right there. All these recipes are available to you FoodNetwork.com. Go tailgating.