Sunday, 16 October 2011

Football Food Sunday, Take 3!

Wow, Football Food Sunday again? I feel like MoFo's moving crazy fast. I spent most of today helping to prepare & serve a Sunday Roast for 30 people to raise money for Sea Shepherd so I needed the Football Food to be pretty low maintenance.

I decided on loaded potato skins, barbecue tofu & avocado fries.

Yeah you read that right, avocado fries! Seriously, go & make these now! Mine don't look as good as Naiomi's, they got totally stuck in my fryer basket & I had to prise them out using two spatulas & a knife. I should have listened to her instruction to nudge them a little during cooking. I served these delicious fries with some of last weeks smoky mayonnaise. I really can't wait to make them again...like can't wait as in I'm considering going back to the kitchen to make more once I publish this! They're AMAZING! And yes, that did need the caps lock!

The loaded potato skins were ridiculously simple, I cooked them for 7 minutes in the microwave before chopping them in half, scooping them out & filling them with Melty Vegusto & Redwood Foods Vegi Bacon. I also topped them with sour cream. Um, yum! I didn't think these could be AS good as they were but they were pretty spectacular. I'm glad I only made two because if there had been more I'd have eaten them even though I already felt kinda sick...I ate a huge Sunday Roast at about 4pm! The barbecue tofu was a bit of a cheat, I seared my tofu, covered it in store-bought barbecue sauce & then cooked it for about 10 more minutes. It was delicious but I really need to try making my own barbecue sauce soon!

Sorry it's such a short one today but I'm super tired and the avocado in the kitchen is calling out for some deep frying...

26 comments:

  1. That looks like an awesome meal. Avocado fries! Who'd have thought that was possible!?

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  2. Looks yum! Reminds me..have you seen this blog? www.veganhappyhour.com/ It's got some great stuff on it! Well done on the Sea Shepherd fundraiser. Saw the pic of the roast on Kips FB, wish I had been nearer!

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  3. YUM! I love your Football Food Sundays.

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  4. YUM INDEEEEEED!
    Also, good work on the fund raiser!

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  5. What a crazy good looking meal! Those avocado fries look seriously mind-blowing.

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  6. so awesome on you helping to raise money for the Sea Shepherd, Jojo - you are the best!

    avocado fries?!?! sign me up! and i'm kicking myself for dan and i never thinking to make loaded potato skins. ahahahahahaa. we have some cheddar daiya in the house so i'm gonna make those happen. your bbq tofu looks great - perfect grill marks, too. nice!

    hooooray for football sunday - we've been bumming out on the couch all day watching the games. wheeeeeeee!

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  7. WHAT! This is so going in the mofo roundup.

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  8. That dinner looks great. I really want avocado fries now, but my heart is filled with a fear of deep frying! :(

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  9. Oh, I would have loved to eat that... avocado fries, wow!

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  10. avocado fries. oh.my.gosh. you have both blown my mind and made my day! thanks! great post!

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  11. Well done on the fundraiser, Jojo!

    And yummo, I made tempura avocado for the first time last week and I liked it even though I really didn't think I like cooked avocado at all. Your meal looks delicious!

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  12. I want to apparate through my screen to yours and wolf down that plate of food!

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  13. I'm intrigued by the avocado fries, even though I don't think I liked cooked avocado, how does it taste?

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  14. Fantastic work onthe fundraiser! I am in awe of all the great things you do.

    No seriously, when are you going to invite me over to watch football? (I don't even like football, but I will watch for the food!)

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  15. I've never thought of doing potato skins like that, they look brilliant, I want to make them now! I am a big fan of putting fake bacon bits on everything so they would work well there too!

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  16. What a fantastic dinner! It all looks delicious and the avocado fries sound really interesting.

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  17. Looks really goood......

    Baci from Malaysia,
    Rika

    http://www.veganmiam.com
    http://www.twitter.com/veganmiam

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  18. Avocado fries = awesome idea. That tofu looks delicious as well.

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  19. You raise money for Sea Shepherd! That's awesome. My husband and I love them. That whole meal looks like my perfect comfort food meal. I had fried avocado at a restaurant once. It was good. I've always wondered if I could make themm.

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  20. Everything on that plate looks awesome! Thanks for linking the avocado fries recipe! I had avocado fries on my very first date with my husband, and now I must make these!

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  21. Way to go on the fundraising!
    I'd love to have some of that BBQ'd tofu, it looks so good, those grill marks are perfection.

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  22. That tofu looks especially yummy! Hope your fundraising is going/went well!

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  23. I'm hungry for that now! It all looks and sounds so tasty!

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  24. I love your American football posts. I'm going to have to save some of these ideas for the inevitable Superbowl party I'll be expected to attend. The best part of those parties is always the food (and sometimes commercials)!

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  25. I neeeed avocado fries in my life!!!

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