Tailgate Jerry Jones Style

Since we were going to be at Jerry Jones Stadium for the Cotton Bowl, we decided we needed to have really good food at the tailgate. And since we were playing the Razorbacks, pig seemed appropriate. Ribs were a must. What is a topnotch tailgate without ribs? And then we had to have our pulled pork with mango salsa. That is probably my favorite recipe ever . . . hot and spicy with a sweet mango sauce. The recipe came from the Wall Street Journal several years ago . . . seems fitting for Jerry Jones Stadium, doesn't it?

To go with it we had baked beans, potato casserole, green salad, wonderful cheese balls, freshly Diana-made Guacamole, white Texas sheet cake, brownies, and lots of cookies. It was quite the feast.

We also needed to have a lot of people to eat all of the food. My brother and his family/friends joined us (5), the Willis family (7), our family (6), fellow season-ticket holders Gaskill, Thompson, Berryman, Scott and Strube (8), Fr. Jim and Ann Davis and the Ericksons (4), Lauren Luhrs and Mark (2), many KSU students, and even the Morgans came by. By our count we had well over 40 . . .

It was great fun . . . especially when we were all gloved up and ready to eat ribs, grilled by Don and Rick.

With picture-perfect weather and good friends, we had a great warm-up for the game.