Football Weekend Chili Cheese Dip

There’s nothing like warm cheese dip to make a football game more exciting! Try this football weekend chili cheese dip recipe for the big game.

I don’t know how football season goes in your house, but in ours it is a conglomeration of Saturday college games, Sunday pro games, and a whole lot of nibbling in front of both.

And in the midst of all of this, we spend one gloriously noisy weekend every football season down in Clemson, South Carolina with the Southern daughter, eating, cheering on the Tigers, eating, tailgating with family and friends, eating, perhaps indulging in an adult beverage or two…and eating.

So if you are as enamored of football cuisine as we are, here’s a guaranteed easy favorite…Chili Cheese Dip!

You can skip right to the end of this post for the recipe…or you can take a walk through our Southern football weekend with us!

Here we are at the world’s best tailgate.  Just imagine another 100,000 people dressed just like us, with orange tents and tiger paws as far as the eye can see, and that will give you some idea of a proper tailgate experience!

We spent a good part of the day doing our tailgate thing, and then it was off to watch our Tigers play.

Taking Tiger selfies (check out the field artistically reflected in our sunglasses!)…

Discussing Tiger 3rd and long strategy….

And clapping for three hours straight.  I literally bruised my hand with all the clapping.  It’s a purplish looking badge of honor.

Here’s the Southern daughter and her sweetheart in the student section.  For some reason, they prefer sitting here to sitting with the old folks.  Mysterious.

And in between the before the game tailgating and the actual football game and the after the game tailgating, we managed to fortify ourselves in other ways.

Football weekends are a hungry business!  And you definitely don’t want to miss any of the game, which is why this warm, one skillet dip is one of our all-time faves.

Here’s how you make football weekend chili cheese dip!

I like to make it in a heavy, deep skillet…the skillet holds enough of the heat that you don’t have to transfer it to any kind of heated bowl.

You start by browning a generous amount of ground beef with some onion and chili powder.  You can spice it up or down by varying the chili powder…the amount in the recipe is medium spicy.

Once your beef is nice and brown, add in cubed Velveeta.  No, you can’t use anything else…this is what Velveeta was born for.  It melts up to make a perfect, smooth cheese sauce.  Perfect.

Now stir in some canned diced tomatoes with green peppers – you can usually find these right next to the regular canned tomatoes in your supermarket.

And that is it!  A spicy, hearty, cheesy skillet of deliciousness, just waiting to be scooped up on tortilla chips or celery sticks or anything else you like to scoop with.

If you have any left over, reheat it it and spoon it over a hotdog.  Pure happiness in a bun.

Isn’t football season DELICIOUS?