Oh So Tasty: twelfth Annual Taste of the NFL

Kent Rathbun Concepts is 1 of many restaurants who participated inwards this year's Taste of the NFL event

North Texas Food Bank Tackles Hunger at the twelfth Annual Taste of the NFL
The Ultimate Cowboys Tailgate Party
by Dawn Neufeld


“Are you lot withal on your pageant diet?”

It’s the get-go interrogation I was asked past times a friend equally I stood on the 50-yard business at the behemoth that is AT&T Stadium inwards Arlington concluding weekend. I’d competed inwards the Mrs. Texas America pageant the weekend prior, together with later on a calendar month of build clean eating, I was gear upward to throw downwards at the 12th Annual Taste of the NFL: The Ultimate Cowboys Tailgate Party presented past times the North Texas Food Bank together with the Dallas Cowboys. More than twenty booths serving mouth-watering, gourmet tailgate nutrient from some of DFW’s best restaurants lined the sidelines on the field. It was on!

There is together with thus much nutrient at this number together with if you’re non careful, you’ll fill upward your belly earlier you lot convey a jeopardy to endeavor everything. One of my favorite barbecue spots inwards Dallas, Off the Bone Barbecue, was serving their famous ribs. After I inhaled my get-go rib (the meat actually does autumn off of the os – it’s divine), I contemplated grabbing some other 1 but decided to concord off together with thus I could salvage room for all of the other delicious food. As I was withal wiping barbecue sauce off my face, my hubby Ryan together with I noticed Dallas Cowboys caput charabanc Jason Garrett chatting amongst folks together with taking pictures. My hubby is a retired NFL thespian together with he together with Jason were teammates Ryan’s get-go yr inwards the league together with thus they spent a piffling fourth dimension chatting equally I plotted my adjacent move.

Jack Ingram performed at the twelfth Annual
Taste of the NFL

We walked past times Cowboys tackle Tyron Smith together with some of his teammates on our agency to banking concern tally out the Abacus booth on the other side of the field. Sure enough, Kent Rathbun was in that place – I’m a fan of his together with his food! His smoked beef tenderloin amongst jalapeno-corn pudding was mouth-watering together with totally portable – the “utensils” were chips! Perfect tailgate nutrient if you lot enquire me. Another favorite was the smoked pork tenderloin amongst light-green chili buffalo sauce at the Chamberlain’s Steak together with Chop House booth. I went dorsum for seconds of that. I’m telling you lot – this number is a carnivore’s dream. From wagyu corndogs to Applewood smoked pulled pork, Taste of the NFL is a meat lover’s dream.

After nosotros grabbed a dyad of beers at the bar, nosotros checked out the still auction. We were blown away past times all of the non bad items. One of the get-go items that caught my oculus was an autographed Steph Curry jersey. Impressive. But only a few items downwards from it was an autographed Prince guitar. H5N1 PRINCE GUITAR! Last I checked, the highest bid was around $4,000 – totally out of my toll arrive at – but it was pretty cool to see. With total bellies, nosotros were determined to tackle some of the dessert booths. The Food Network regular together with cake sorcerer Bronwen Weber’s Frosted Art Bakery had a spread of diverse cupcakes. I couldn’t halt eating them together with fifty-fifty grabbed a dyad of to a greater extent than on our agency out. But that didn’t halt me from trying delicious mini churros together with football-shaped desserts from some of the other booths.

With my belly full, the irony of it all did non escape me. I ate good that nighttime together with thus others tin too. Since the event’s inception inwards 2005, over $2 1000000 has been raised to feed hungry North Texas children. The stadium is the perfect venue for this event. There was plenty of room to movement around together with it never felt crowded fifty-fifty though in that place were a ton of people there. It’s non oftentimes you lot instruct to sense what it’s similar to stand upward on the bluish star inwards the middle of the plain together with await upward at the enormous video covert hanging over it. The ambience solitary is worth the cost of the ticket. Add food, football game players, beer together with wine, the Cowboys cheerleaders together with province crooner Jack Ingram, together with it was a must-not-miss party. I’m looking frontward to going dorsum adjacent year!

About Dawn Neufeld:

Dawn Neufeld is a multi-faceted adult woman amongst a view for her household unit of measurement together with children. She developed an involvement inwards media together with journalism together with earned her Bachelor of Arts score inwards Communication Studies amongst a Women’s Studies pocket-size from UCLA. She went on to earn a constabulary score from the UC Davis School of Law together with is licensed to exercise inwards both California together with Texas. H5N1 cast fellow member on VH1’s Football Wives (2010), Dawn nigh late hosted The Broadcast together with Take Charge Parenting. Dawn is the reigning Mrs. Frisco together with late competed inwards the Mrs. Texas America pageant for the 7th time. Dawn enjoys spending fourth dimension amongst her hubby together with ii children, Will together with Bryn, together with participating inwards her favorite charities – Autism Speaks, Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation together with the Layla Grace Foundation. Dawn currently serves on the Helping Restore Ability board. She is also a fellow member of the Junior League of Dallas. She is an active participant together with onetime board fellow member of Off the Field, the National Football Wives Association. Follow her on Twitter @DawnNeufeld and on her blog, The Gridiron Goddess.



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