{"id":37795,"date":"2021-09-03T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=37795"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:37:44","slug":"football-friday-tailgate-recipe-spinach-and-caramelized-onion-sliders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2021\/09\/03\/football-friday-tailgate-recipe-spinach-and-caramelized-onion-sliders\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Friday Tailgate Recipe: Spinach and Caramelized Onion Sliders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Football Friday we have another tasty treat on deck for a full season of tailgating.\u00a0 Did you save the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2021\/08\/27\/football-friday-tailgate-recipe-oreo-cheesecake-bites\/\" target=\"_self\">Oreo Cheesecake Bites<\/a> recipe?\u00a0 This week for our Football Friday Tailgate Recipe: Spinach and Caramelized Onion Sliders.\u00a0 They are the perfect little snack for tailgating.\u00a0 It was sent to me by <strong>AP Boze<\/strong> a loyal Vanderbilt fan. Y\u2019all enjoy!<\/p>\n<h2>Football Friday Tailgate Recipe<\/h2>\n<h3>Spinach and Caramelized Onion Sliders<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Ingredients:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Two yellow onions<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">One large container of fresh spinach (or two bags of frozen spinach)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">24 pack of Kings Hawaiian Rolls<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Four tablespoons of unsalted butter<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">One 16oz bag of shredded mozzarella<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Preheat two non-stick skillets to medium heat.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Thinly slice both onions.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Add all sliced onion to one of your skillets and turn the burner to medium-high.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Trim stems off of spinach.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Add spinach to the second skillet and turn the burner to low.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The caramelization of the onion and the wilting of the spinach should take about the same amount of time.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Once the onions are translucent and the spinach is wilted, add two tablespoons of unsalted butter to each skillet and season to taste with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">After the onions have caramelized, slice the Kings Hawaiian rolls as a unit (don\u2019t separate into individual rolls).<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Layer spinach, onions, and all the mozzarella.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Place tops on sliders and bake (covered with foil) until the cheese is melted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>On The Menu<\/h3>\n<p>Next week on the menu we have Root Beer BBQ Pulled Pork. Easy, tasty, and it travels well. \u00a0It is one of my favorite recipes that pair well with everything.\u00a0 Hope y&#8217;all enjoy a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/football\/article\/college-football-tv-schedule-game-times-preview\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full slate<\/a> of football games this weekend.\u00a0 Enjoy your weekend of football and tasty treats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Football Friday we have another tasty treat on deck for a full season of tailgating.\u00a0 Did you save the Oreo Cheesecake Bites recipe?\u00a0 This week for our Football Friday Tailgate Recipe: Spinach and Caramelized Onion Sliders.\u00a0 They are the perfect little snack for tailgating.\u00a0 It was sent to me by AP Boze a loyal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":37992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35689,35691,2056],"tags":[4817,4780,7983,3342,20,7846],"class_list":["post-37795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-culture","category-recipes","category-top-25","tag-acc-football","tag-big-12-football","tag-big-ten-football","tag-pac-12-football","tag-sec","tag-tailgate-recipes"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80398,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions\/80398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}