Saturday, August 6, 2011

422 - The Transcendental Tailgate


In my previous JSVB post, I offered what I feel is a pretty good easy-to-make homemade barbecue sauce recipe.  One of the best uses I can think of for barbecue sauce is to slather it on steaming hot pulled pork!  And one of the best places to be eating pulled pork is at the tailgate party before a football game! 

As long as there is a parking lot close to the stadium, and the owners don't mind a little rambunctiousness, and of course, if the weather holds,  then you have the ingredients for a tailgate.  Bring along a propane barbecue, a portable fire extinguisher, and a cooler full of food and drink.  Claim your parking spot, open up your truck bed (or raise the hatchback, or even pop your trunk), and that's a tailgate: an impromptu communal barbecue to celebrate your favourite team's pre-game event.

My wife was a very good sport allowing me to post this less-than-flattering portrait of her enjoying a pulled pork treat.  Her jersey is split down the middle with orange facing green, because she shares allegiance with both the orange Lions and the green Roughriders. 

The Lions won!  Hooray! 

For the barbecue sauce recipe, please click here.
For another take on pulled pork, please click to see JSVB Post #220 here, thank you very much.