Happy National Tailgating Day! Fall and football are finally here and there is nothing I look forward to more than tailgates on Saturdays in the South! For those early kickoffs, brunch is the theme for our tailgate. This year, we are having biscuits and booze! Setting up a biscuit bar with your favorite boozy coffee drink is so easy to do. After the photos I am sharing my tips to making your tailgate a success!
1. Choose a theme and have everyone bring something to contribute.
If you tailgate with a group of people, create a sign up form and let your group know the theme for your tailgate each week. This helps people come up with fun food ideas to contribute to the tailgate. For the Biscuits and Booze theme, have people sign up to bring biscuits, jams, jellies, and flavored butters, meat toppings, fruit toppings, casseroles and drinks.
2. Set up a drink station
3. Create a biscuit bar
A biscuit bar is a great brunch tailgate idea. Biscuits with a variety of toppings, meats, jellies, homemade butters, fruit and more will allow your friends to create their own biscuits to their liking. We used buttermilk biscuits and baked them the morning of our tailgate. Wrapping them in cloth napkins in baskets will help keep them warm and moist.
For our toppings, we had pimento cheese, mustard, honey, yummy homemade jalapeño pepper jelly, peach jam, delicious homemade flavored butters (garlic butter, candy pecan butter, and honey butter), fresh berries compote, homemade whipped cream, sweet & spicy pickles, honey ham, and southern fried chicken fingers.
We also baked a hashbrown casserole and served it up in this personalized Fancy Panz casserole carrier. Love this! You can definitely feed a crowd with this spread!
4. Create a menu board.
Encourage your tailgate friends to enjoy the Biscuit Bar with a printable menu. Print out our menu board and attach it to a foam core board covered in the paper table runner for a creative way to suggest several “winning combinations” or to encourage your friends to create their own. Add our printable labels for an extra touch.
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