Upgrade your tailgate with TCU's elevated stadium menus

TCU Horned Frogs taking on the West Virginia Mountaineers. And whether you're in it for the touchdowns or the tailgating, TCU Dining says fans deserve flavors as bold as their team spirit. Joining us this morning, Chef Mike Smith, the Director of Culinary for Sodexo at TCU. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. You guys get so creative. You had those purple corn dogs that went viral. Now we're talking about purple sweet potatoes. What are you going to be making for us? Today I'm going to be making something that's going to be shown in our Love Street Club. It is a purple sweet potato with a Japanese ginger Kombu sauce, and it's going to have lobster and furikake and a crispy leek salad. And then fancy, fancy, fancy, forget just the corn dog. I mean, we're stepping it up. So what do you got going on, on the stove right now? So what we do, we're cooking some lobster right now in miso butter and we've already roasted our sweet potato. It takes about an hour. We put it in our smoker and then we're going to cover it with a little bit more potato curry. So did it come, it's a purple potato. Yes. And then now you've done a puree with the purple potato. So you're doing the purple on top of the purple. Okay, that is awesome. We scoop that out and then we add a little bit more potato into it. Okay. Then we top it with a kombu cream. Kombu is like a seaweed, a kelp that is indigenous in the Japanese area. This is fun. Is it sweet? It is, it's got a very like seaside flavor. It gives you a sense that you are at the ocean and it's really evocative of that. Okay, which makes sense with the lobster that we've got going on. Okay. Then we top it with this miso butter lobster. And you're just going to keep building on top of this because apparently that seems to be your thing. Bigger is better, right? Bigger is better at TCU football, that's for sure. Okay, what is that now? This is chive oil. Chive oil, okay. And then? Then we have furikake, which is another seaweed. You were talking another language. fun and then we top it with a crispy leek salad crispy leeks on top of that beautiful and then the uh ingredient that really sings are these spicy wasabi peas on top of that so that gives you a little heat you just need to get a fork and mix it all up and and get in there i guess you just have to jump in you have to ask you we have a couple of the other items on display here that you guys are selling this year as well in that in the luxury area as well these two items are in our concession stand okay so anyone can can get their hands on this if they can figure out how to eat this is a mungo burger this is our stampede burger this is only going to be available at this game oh and this is uh two beef patties okay brisket texas chili caramelized onions queso pickles and it is breakfast lunch and dinner and a midnight snack what's your advice on how to eat it you need a knife and fork not eat the day before okay and then to get in there with a knife and fork and just enjoy yourself and split it with some friends okay this is something that is super cool and this is something people can buy so we've got the TCU cup and you're going to go ahead and pour i'll show you how this activates when you get your cold drink and you get your cup you pour it in that lights up the cup put it next to my microphone look at the purple lights how fun that's a great thing so those are available in our concession stands as well and i hope everybody comes by and gets them it is an experience not going to a football game it's not just football anymore i feel like now we've got food we've got entertainment we've got treats i mean it really is just a special special it's like a day at the state fair it should be a little something for everybody and entertainment throughout the day it's about football but it's something else to to make your day really special when you get really creative with the food. You must take a lot of pride in that. We do. We're very proud to show it to people and have people come back and tell us they really loved it. And even to talk about the purple corn dog a year later, it's very meaningful to us. So we really appreciate that. And now the purple potato is going to take over. All right. Check it out. TCU Horned Frogs taking on West Virginia again. It is this Saturday. We'll put the recipe and some of the details on our website, fox4news.com. Go Horned Frogs. Go Horned Frogs. Go Horned Frogs. Final check of your weather when we come back.