ANOTHER FABULOUS TAILGATE WEEKEND

I ask myself what would I like to do best.  Fine dining?  Yes, but this can get expensive.  Travel?  I've done my share and just getting around is stressful.  Hiking?  My knees hurt.  Same for golf.  Swimming?  I can drown.  Entertaining?  No talent.

What I like to do most these days is just stay home and watch various sport events on television.  I'm in air-conditioned comfort with the best tailgate meals served on Planet Earth.  This is week 10 of the Fall season and the fare was both gastronomic and simple.

During TG #8 I dabbled with Matsutake Mushroom, an expensive delicacy best appreciated in Japan, again.  I indicated I was previously disappointed.  

So earlier this past week I was in Marukai and again saw this supposed delicacy, so thought I'd give it another try.  I stopped by Foodland Farms and got a chunk of fresh foie gras, plus some sea asparagus.  I had a bit of leftover King Trumpet Mushroom from last week.

I started by frying some foie gras in a pan, and added the mushrooms.  Large splashes of soy sauce and sake.

Toasted some bread in butter and had a piece of Castello Blue Cheese with the Sea Asparagus.  The Beer was Kirin and the wine a Stanford Classic Chardonnay:

Wow?  This was one of my more spectacular creations.  I went to the opposite end of the cuisine spectrum for the next three tailgates, mostly take out food from the 15 Craigside dining room, starting with a Subway Italian accompanied by a Stanford Classic Chardonnay and beer, with a  bowl of chicken soup:

The Astros beat the Nationals, now behind 1-2.  

The next was spaghetti with meat sauce, which I enhanced by frying it in wagyu fat:

The Caesar salad was topped with some avocado and the wine was a Stanford Classic Merlot.  The Astros won again, tying the series at 2-2.

The third TG was just an egg salad and tuna sandwich with split pea soup, to which some corn was added.  The wine was the leftover from the above Merlot:

Astros now ahead of the Nationals 3-2.  All my teams won this weekend.  My CDM baseball playoff entry rose to third place.  I feel confident that I will at least double the $50 I placed to join the competition.

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