If you’re looking for some creative football food ideas for your next game day gathering, I’ve compiled our favorite 29+ recipes. All of these game day favorites are easy to make and guaranteed to win over your audience.
Blackened chicken is pan grilled to tender juicy perfection then piled high with crisp, smoky bacon, lettuce, tomato and red onion all drizzled in ranch dressing and sandwiched between sweet King’s Hawaiian slider buns smothered in garlic parmesan butter. These chicken bacon ranch sliders are a must for your next game day gathering!
Football season is officially here and from now until February it’s like one long Christmas season for me. I adore the excuse every Sunday to make some fun food, gather with family or friends and enjoy the camaraderie that football brings.
Some of my favorite football foods (aside from these incredible Blackened Chicken Bacon Ranch Sliders) I’ve made this year have been my Honey Mustard BLT Sliders, Beef Birria Sliders, Alabama White BBQ Sliders, and Popeye’s Spicy Sandwich Sliders. But not just sliders, I also have made some incredible dips that are absolute crowd favorites – Jalapeño Popper Hot Corn Dip, Caramelized Onion & Bacon Dip, and my Spicy Italian Sausage Dip.
We are combining two beloved foods together in this delectable Street Corn Elote Mac and Cheese Casserole. Incredibly flavorful street corn has pops of sweet corn, fresh lime juice and zest, garlic, green onions, and jalapeño. It’s all folded into a velvety smooth white cheese sauce with al dente pasta, then topped with more cheese and baked in the oven until bubbly.
This elote pasta is a dish you can’t pass up. It’s perfect for this end of summer/fall season where the fresh corn is at it’s peak. But, this also works really well with frozen and thawed corn as well.
You’ll love how easy this recipe is for a weekday dinner! Add rotisserie chicken for the protein and you’ll have one easy meal the whole family will adore. Continue Reading…
Here is a super easy and nostalgic recipe that only needs three ingredients, Blueberry Pancake Sausage Muffins.
These little breakfast pancake muffins combine soft and fluffy blueberry pancakes and breakfast sausage, baked together into little bite sized pieces. Perfect for meal prep and breakfast on the go.
These pancake sausage muffins tastes just like Mcgriddles! They are great for breakfast on the go and makes eating in the car a synch. We also love to keep them in the freezer to just pop in the microwave for a last minute instant breakfast.
These Mini Deep Dish Pizzas are smothered in garlic butter and parmesan and they are so easy make. They are super versatile, and great for kids, college students, or just easy football food that’ll please even the pickiest eaters.
This recipe is so easy it almost doesn’t even require a recipe. These cute mini deep dish pizzas are made with store-bought pizza dough and your favorite toppings.
Don’t you just love finger foods? You may also want to check out some of my other popular easy appetizers: Air Fryer Chicken Alfredo Calzones, BBQ Chicken French Bread Pizza, Cheesy Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites and my Garlic Parmesan Chicken Skewers. Continue Reading…
Tender and juicy sliders using my authentic beef birria recipe! These beef birria sliders are covered in a layer of melty cheese, toasted in the oven, and then topped with cilantro, jalapeño, pickled red onion, and a squeeze of lime.
I’ve made a lot of sliders in my days as a food blogger and I have my favorites, like the Popeye’s Spicy Sandwich Sliders, Brisket Elote Sliders, and Honey Mustard Chicken BLT Sliders. I feel cliche saying, “this one is my favorite”. But guys, these beef birria sliders are unlocking a new level of sandwich we never knew we needed.
These sliders are absolutely out of this world phenomenal. The toasty sweet slider buns, the melty cheese, and tender juicy beef all dipped in the consommé. You’ll be on cloud nine!
I chose slider sized sandwiches because we love a finger foods on the table, especially for football Sundays. But you can also make these into large sandwiches on toasted brioche buns.
This smoky and creamy caramelized onion and bacon dip will knock you off your feet! It’s the perfect dip for your next gathering. Serve it with your favorite potato chips for an appetizer that your friends and family won’t be able to stop eating.
Are you a dip-fanatic too? You’ll love these other party dips: Jalapeño Popper Hot Corn Dip, Meat Lover’s Pizza Dip, Spicy Italian Sausage Dip.
If you’ve made caramelized onions before, you know they do take a bit of time to cook, about 45 minutes on low. The good news is that they are low maintenance as they cook and most importantly, you can make them ahead of time.
This caramelized onion and bacon dip is so packed with flavor, you’ll never be able to find anything like this in the store!
Buffalo Chicken Alfredo uses perfectly seasoned pan-seared chicken, tender fettucini noodles all coated in a garlicky buffalo creamy alfredo sauce. This showstopper is thrown together in under 30 minutes.
Looking for more easy pasta recipes? You will love my Chicken Tetrazzini, Scampi Stuffed Shells, and Buffalo Mac and Cheese.
This quick and easy buffalo chicken fettuccine alfredo recipe is the ultimate comfort food and it’s better than anything you can get at a pasta restaurant chain. The velvety smooth alfredo sauce tastes gourmet but it’s truly simple and easy to make. The buffalo sauce adds a kick of heat but the cream balances it out making it palatable for kids too!
Caramel apple dip is a 5-ingredient whipped creamy dessert dip that just takes a few ingredients and couldn’t be easier to make. This dip is then smothered in a thick layer of thick decadent caramel sauce and topped off with toffee chunks. You can serve this dip with seasonal farm fresh apples, graham crackers, or vanilla wafer cookies.
The caramel apple dip toppings are versatile and if you aren’t a toffee lover, you can substitute that with chopped nuts, chopped chocolate, mini M&M’s or mini Reese’s Pieces.
You’ll slip right into the fall season with the first dip of this addictive easy dessert. It’s perfect for a girls night in, the kiddos, movie nights, football parties, etc.
Garlic Parmesan Chicken Pasta is a creamy cheesy pasta that the whole family will love. It’s full of tender chunks of chicken breast, lots of parmesan, and the garlicky homemade cream sauce just oozes out of the penne pasta.
This is another great weeknight meal that’s so easy to throw together in a big skillet. If you’re looking for a recipe you can set-and-forget, I’ve also included instructions on how you can easily make this in a crockpot.
Garlic Parmesan Chicken Pasta has become very popular on TikTok. Typically, it uses a premade bottle of Buffalo Wild Wings garlic parmesan sauce but in this recipe, we make our garlic parm sauce from scratch – the same famous recipe that blew up on social media for my Garlic Parmesan Chicken Skewers. Using this sauce yields a much more flavorful, garlicky flavor with a kick lots of parmesan.
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