Great eats for your tailgate or family room football party - adult beverages, poppers & fried pickles, pigs in a blanket, meat pies, hot corn dip, classic 7 layer dip, chicken salad, seafood bread, Italian Beef, sliders, po'boys, muffulettas, spicy, fried & BBQ wings, pasta salads, potato salads, hot dog sauce, Latin beef, shredded beef tacos, beans, gumbo, jambalaya, soups, stews, chili & more!

Football Tailgate and Party Foods

Looking for menu ideas for your tailgate or football party? Here's my personal collection of tried and true, all Deep South Dish, all in one spot, best of my best recipes perfect for football foods whether you're tailgating it, or watching the games on your own big screen televison. There's plenty to choose from so no matter who you're rooting for, you're sure to find something here for that menu and to please those those hungry fans.

Bookmark this and check back as I update and add to the collection regularly!

Click here for some Tailgating Food Safety tips.



Beverage

Southern Sweet Iced Tea
Pitcher Perfect Sweet Tea
Party Punch

Fried chicken, skillet cornbread, pimento cheese, collard greens and hoecakes, chicken fried steak, fried green tomatoes, deviled eggs, fried okra and much more. All your Southern Favorites and Classic Old Fashioned Southern Recipes from Deep South Dish.

Southern Favorites and Classic Southern Recipes

Click on the links or photos for the recipes.

Chicken Fried Chicken with Peppered Gravy

How to Make Southern Fried Chicken

Picnic Fried Chicken

Crunchy Saltine Chicken Tenders

Chicken and Gravy

Labor Day Recipes

 

Your favorite menu ideas, cookout and BBQ recipes from Deep South Dish for Labor Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July or for any day, all in one place!

Perfect for leftovers or just for a cool presentation,
try a Barbecue Sundae using your cookout ingredients!

Labor Day Cookout Recipes

Beverages

Southern Sweet Iced Tea

No Calorie (Milo's Copycat) Diet Iced Tea

Southern Fruit Iced Tea

Holiday & Events Cookbook

• Christmas
• Cookout Foods for 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day
• Easter
• Funeral Foods
• New Year's Day
• Football & Tailgate Party Foods
• Mardi Gras Brunch & Party Recipes
• Party Foods
• Pot Lucks, Reunions, Socials & Church Events
• St. Patrick's Day
• Super Bowl
• Thanksgiving

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Seafood Recipes

A collection of shrimp, crab, crawfish, fish, oyster and combination seafood recipes from the Deep South Dish website.

Seafood Recipes



Shrimp


Fried green tomatoes, topped with shrimp in a fresh tomato basil cream sauce.

Tex-Mex Style Shrimp Tacos
Shrimp Victoria
Spicy Orange Pecan Shrimp Stir Fry
Shrimp Salsa
Shrimp Poppers with Pepper Jelly Glaze
Firecracker Shrimp

Cookie Storage - Keeping Soft Cookies Soft

Oxo Storage Containers are great for keeping your cookies soft!

I love my Old Fashioned Sugar Cookie recipe because they are soft and tender and chewy just the way I like them. But, if you don't store them properly, they will lose some of their moisture and get dry - still good, but crisp and losing that softness we love about them. Here are a few cookie storage tips that might be helpful.

First things first.  Crisp cookies should always be stored covered loosely with plastic wrap or in a cookie jar with a loose fitting lid in order to retain their crispiness.  Airtight storage containers will make your crisp cookies soften.

Soft cookies, on the other hand, such as those old fashioned sugar cookies, must be stored in a very airtight container so that they retain their moisture. An Oxo POP container shown above is ideal because of it's easy one button sealer, but a Tupperware or Rubbermaid type of container that can be burped of the air will also work.

Store soft cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator if you're going to store them for a week.  If you're going to have them out longer than that - such as for a seasonal holiday tray - the ideal thing to do is to flash-freeze them individually on a baking sheet. Once frozen, stack them into a freezer bag or storage container, and take out only as many as you want or need for each day.

Try this trick. Add a slice or two of fresh bread in the container, either under the cookies or on top. The bread will not affect the flavor of the cookies, but the theory here is that the cookies will draw moisture from the bread. When the bread dries up, discard and replace with a fresh piece.  Add a piece of waxed paper to the cookie storage container, with enough hangover on the sides to fold over on top of the cookies. Add slices of fresh bread in the container, then stack the cookies on top. Fold the excess waxed paper over the top of the container, seal and burp.


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Condiments, Sauces, Marinades, Glazes and Gravy

A beautiful jar of oven baked dark roux!

Condiments, Sauces, Marinades, Glazes and Gravy

Sauce Piquant

Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce

Easy Marinara Dipping Sauce

Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce

Slow Roasted Tomatoes for Sauce

Southern Homestyle Tomato Gravy for Biscuits

Homemade Southern Sausage Gravy for Biscuits

Southern Style Peppered Milk Gravy

Chorizo Sausage Gravy

Cream Gravy

10-Minute All Purpose Microwave Roux

Easy Dark Oven Roux

How to Make Homemade Gravy

How to Make Homemade Shrimp Stock

How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock

Whiskey Sauce

Blender Hollandaise

Honey Pecan Glaze

Honey Mustard Meat Sauce

Spicy Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Ham Glazes {scroll to bottom}

Whipped Honey Butter

How to Make Compound Butter

Homemade Cream Soup Substitute

Slow Roasted Tomatoes

Sweet & Spicy Rotel Sauce

Burger and Meatball Sauce

Homemade Comeback Thousand Island Salad Dressing

Kickin' Rotel Restaurant Style Salsa

Easy Cocktail Sauce

Cajun Mayonnaise

Mississippi Comeback Sauce

Remoulade Sauce

Spicy White Remoulade Sauce

Lazy Man's KetMayo (Fry) Sauce

Cajun Steak Marinade

Spicy Sugar Steak Rub

Sweet & Spicy Meatloaf Glaze

Deep South Dish Signature Sweet and Spicy Barbecue Sauce

Dressed Up Commercial BBQ Sauce

Creole Tomato Sauce

Easy Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

Chicken Spaghetti Sauce

Old Fashioned Southern Boiled Dressing

Spicy Sour Cream Horseradish Dipping Sauce

Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce

Spicy Mustard Sauce

Creamy Jalapeno Sauce

Honey Wasabi Sauce

Spicy Orange Dipping Sauce & Jezebel Sauce

Cranberry Relish

Spicy Pomegranate Cranberry Sauce

Fruit Dip

Pickled Onions

Fire 'n Ice Sweet and Spicy Pickles

Million Dollar Relish

Giardiniera - Pickled Veggies

Icebox Bread and Butter Pickles

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Southern Mimosa

Enjoy these southern mimosas at your next breakfast brunch. You'll love them.

As always, drink responsibly!


Southern Mimosa
From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish

Grand Marnier
Granulated sugar
3 parts champagne
1 part orange juice

Pour Grand Marnier into a small flat dessert plate and granulated sugar in another. Dip the rim of the champagne flute into the Grand Marnier, and then into the sugar. Pour 3 parts champagne into each flute, top with the orange juice, and a splash of Grand Marnier, if desired.

Makes one drink.

Variation:  Make it a pomegranate mimosa by omitting the Grand Marnier, and subbing in half orange juice & half pomegranate juice.

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Main Dish Skillet, One Pot and Stovetop Meals

A collection of skillet and stove top main dish meals from Deep South Dish.

Recipe: Main Dish Skillet and Stovetop Meals

Beef

Homemade Cheeseburger Macaroni Skillet
Southwestern Beef Skillet
Meatballs and Marinara
Skillet Chili Mac
Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy

A cocktail of champagne and peach schnapps.

Easy Bellini