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Beef is Your Ticket to a Tailgate Party

Guest blog by Michelle Baumhover, Director of Consumer Marketing, Iowa Beef Industry Council

Calling all Cyclone, Hawkeye and Panther tailgaters! Beef on the grill is your ticket to getting your tailgate party featured on the JumboTron during this season’s home football games.

The Iowa Beef Industry Council (IBIC) is sponsoring “Tailgate Fan Cams” at home football games for Iowa State University, University of Iowa and University of Northern Iowa. Video crews are scouring the parking lots and tailgating areas this fall in search of proud beef-grilling fans.

Beef fans can flag the down the video crew if they see them. You may also e-mail michelle@iabeef.org with your tailgate location, and the video crew will come to you!

Whether you’re planning for your next tailgate or a weekday meal, make it quick and easy with beef. Look for fully cooked beef products – including fully

Fully cooked beef products take only minutes to prepare but are satisfying and delicious. During the Latham Hi-Tech Seeds / WHO Radio Crop Tour, we’ve taste-tested beef brisket and meatball sandwiches. Fully cooked beef makes for a perfect fall harvest field lunch!

cooked beef pot roast, meatballs, beef brisket, beef tips and gravy, and barbeque shredded beef – in your grocer’s refrigerator section. Fully cooked beef meatballs and burgers can be found in the freezer section. Simple, but hearty, meals like shredded BBQ beef or brisket sandwiches, spaghetti and meatballs, or meatball sandwiches are a snap when using fully cooked beef products.

Hot Beef Sundaes is another simple, but hearty, meals that is sure to become a family favorite. The recipe calls for fully cooked beef tips and gravy, so you serve this meal in less than 15 minutes!

Even if harvest keeps you away from Saturday’s Homecoming game in Ames, you can hear the play-by-play action from a local station on the Cyclone Radio Network. Remember to stay tuned following the game coverage for the Latham Hi-Tech Seeds Locker Room Show, where analysts, players and coaches share their thoughts after the day’s game.
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Recipe Details: Beef is Your Ticket to a Tailgate Party

Prep Time: 
Total Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: • 1 package (17 ounces) fully-cooked Beef Tips and Gravy
• 1 package prepared refrigerated mashed potatoes (or instant potatoes) to serve 4
• 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese and 4 cherry tomatoes
Directions: Heat Beef Tips and Gravy in microwave according to package directions (4 minutes). Prepare mashed potatoes according to package directions. To serve, place scoops of mashed potatoes in bowl. Top with Beef Tips and Gravy. Sprinkle with cheese and top with tomato. Enjoy!

A homemade version? Yes, you can make Hot “Beef” Sundaes from scratch! Use leftover roast beef. Just chop or shred it, add some beef gravy, and serve over mashed potatoes.

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THURSDAY’S “BROWN BAG LUNCH” TO BENEFIT 4-H

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In celebration of National 4-H Week and National Pork Month, Latham Hi-Tech Seeds on Oct. 6 is helping sponsor a pork lunch fundraiser for the Franklin County 4-H Scholarship Endowment. We’ll be selling “brown bag lunches” in the parking lot of Fareway in Hampton, Iowa, from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. We’re providing two options for the Brown Bag Lunch: Option 1 is 2 pork burgers for $5; Option 2 includes 1 pork burger, a bag of chips and a bottle of water for $5.

Lunches will be ready to “grab and go” for farmers who are busy and need lunch taken out to the field or for any local resident who would like to support 4-H with a quick and easy lunch. Special thanks to the Franklin County Pork Producers, who are taking time out from harvest to grill Thursday’s lunch. Special thanks also to Fareway for helping make this fund-raising event possible.

We hope to see you at Fareway in Hampton on Thursday! The weather looks like it will be perfect for grilling and enjoying a tailgate lunch.

Field Fare & Family Fun Abound in Franklin County

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Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of helping host eight bloggers and their families for Harvest Tour 2011 in Franklin County, Iowa. It was a weekend filled with friendship, fellowship, field fare and loads of fun.

We began with star gazing at Maynes Grove on Friday night. (Editorial Comment: If you’ve never before seen the moon through a telescope, add it to your Bucket List. It’s a must see! From the “oohs and ahhs” I overheard Friday night, I believe several others share my opinion.)

Saturday began with an 8 a.m. tour of Machinery Hall, followed by boutique shopping on Main Street in Hampton before a feast of field fare at Roy & Jeanie Arends’ farm in Alexander. Their soybean field was just a stone’s throw away from Latham Hi-Tech Seeds, where our scales were busy with growers bringing in varieties of Latham® brand soybeans.

Sunday brunch at Country Touch B&B with bloggers Jocelyn Wallace, Nathan J. Taylor, Claire Celsi, Jody Halsted, Laura Gaulke, Sara Broers, Heather Lilienthal , Nancy and Jon Swanson.

Carrying on Grandma Evelyn Latham’s tradition of hospitality, we offered our guests coffee and homemade apple cider plus apple crisp and pumpkin bars. Since I received so many compliments on my baking, today I’m sharing both recipes on TheFieldPosition.com.

One of my favorite comments made on Saturday came from Jocelyn Wallace. You can see her quote, as well as comments posted by other bloggers, below. Click on the links and see photos they’ve posted, as well. Click here to read a related blog, “All In An Iowa Mom’s Day.”

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jocelynwallace_ Jocelyn Wallace
In the cleaning room – does that thing do laundry too? @LathamSeeds [pic]: http://4sq.com/n5iTDH

allauremkt Laura Gaulke
I have to say, I’m pleasantly surprised at how interesting the #ag conversations have been since I don’t know about farming! #harvesttour

naswanson Nancy Swanson
corn, soybeans, combines, trucks, wind turbines, stars, Jupiter, Old Stone House, Maynes Grove, friendly people. #harvesttour

saramomof2 Sara Broers
Hampton, Iowa is the place to be~ Check out this awesome crew on the #Harvesttour 2011~ going on this weekend

deb works Deb Works
I posted 24 photos on Facebook in the album “Harvest Tour for Bloggers 3rd day” http://fb.me/MW1uAlO8

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APPLE CRUNCH

  • 6 apples, peeled
  • 1 c. water
  • Dash of cinnamon
  • ½ c. brown sugar
  • ½ c. sugar
  • ½ c. flour
  • ¾ c. oatmeal
  • 4 T. butter

Slice the apples into a baking dish. Add water and sprinkle with cinnamon. Combine brown sugar, sugar, flour and oatmeal.

 

PUMPKIN BARS

  • 2 c. flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 2 c. sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 c. pumpkin
  • 1 c. oil

Sift dry ingredients. Add to slightly beaten eggs, pumpkin and oil. Bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes. Makes two, 9×13 pans.

Top with cream cheese frosting.