The New England Patriots open the season playing the New York Jets at Giants Stadium at 1 p.m. Sunday.

TV: CBS (Ch. 12 in Providence.)

Radio: WSKO Providence, 790 AM. 99.7 FM; WBCN Boston, 104.1 FM.

Our new Projo Football Food & Spirits blog is up. It's recipes and takeout for gameday. Your favorites, too: What's on tap for Sunday's game at your house?

We've launched with only retro tools to publish 'em, but the season's just starting.

It's hardly football weather here, high 80s, too hot to cook. I'm looking at this chilled Curried Chicken Salad recipe.

Journal Food Editor Gail Ciampa posted the architectural elements of a Giant round Italian grinder she improvised last year when her husband got included in a tailgating pilgrimage to Gillette Stadium.

Her recommendations for Gourmet R.I. pizza to go, with beer, may be all you really want if it stays warm around your TV.

Later: I've just posted a dead-easy Chocolate-Dipped Fruit recipe over there -- all it requires is a ripe fruit, a microwave and chocolate chips.

The PatsBlog should be heating up as gametime nears.

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