Monday, May 16, 2011

Local team and local brew tailgating fun

Over the weekend, I went to Foxborough,mass to watch my favorite sports team, the New England Revolution soccer team. I support local beer and my local teams so this was double action.

Ahead of time, I decided to make Italian pasta salad to go with grilled chicken marinated in Italian dressing. I don't have a specific recipe for Italian pasta salad, I throw whatever I feel like in there with a dressing, cheese, spices. This time I used penne pasta, cherry tomatoes, black olives, onion, green pepper, mushrooms, Italian 4 cheese, black pepper, italian seasoning, and a garlic cesar dressing. Mmmmmmmm it came out very good!

So I had the pasta salad ready to go with the marinating chicken. I packed a six pack of Gritty's vacationland summer ale, a new england beer brewed in Maine. I also had the leftover Sam Adams mix pack. With all this good stuff, I was excited to start tailgating, especially since this was my first real tailgating experience where I ran the show. We get to the game and park in the tailgating section. Time to start drinking the brews! I set everything up, folding chairs, cooler, grill, stereo with Ipod. We crank the tunes and get the grilling going. Gritty's vacationland was a decent summer ale by the way, nice and refreshing. So what better way to kick off the day with great beer, awesome food (grilled chicken and pasta salad came out great!) Right before the game started as we were finding our seats, I found a stand that said "New England Beer" sweet! I was hoping they would have a good beer somewhere, you gotta love New England, they have stands dedicated to local beer at their stadiums! So, I had to get Harpoon UFO white which I love during the summer. My New England Revolution winning 1 to 0, what a great day!
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