Are you ready for some FOODBALL ???.
What a
great game! We gathered at my niece’s house and our Super Bowl
party was a success! Fun, family and lots and lots of food. I made three
appetizers and they all turned out, so overall the day was filled with touchdowns!
Now I’m starting to sound like my husband. I guess it can’t be helped since we’ve
been married 36 years. He likes to cook and has decided he will join me on my
blog. This is a wrap up, he wrote of the Football/Foodball season!
Go Greg!
As with the past years as the football season plays out GO ARIZONA CARDINALS !!!!,
Chef Greg brings you a review of the culinary foodball action in our little culinary world here in Arizona. This year’s contests started, as usual, with ………
The Arizona
State Fair Culinary Contests.
This year many
of our top local chefs boycotted the State Fair contests
due to a
change in Culinary Department management that made last year’s
contests
really SUCK. However, ever vigilant Chef Dar noticed that this year’s
DOLE FRUIT DESSERT CONTEST was offering $500 as a first Prize.
Chef Dar likes money and
guess who walked off with 1st
place with her
Topsy-Turvy
Spiced Mango Dumplings.
Chef Greg forgot the baking soda in
his recipe and his
Pineapple
Carrot Upside Down Cake-lets tasted like Upside down shit-lets.
That, however,
didn’t stop them from using my picture on the State Fair web site.
Rubbing it in
I’m sure.
Next came the
ever popular SPAM CONTEST. This contest
is a stepping
stone to the national contest that you may
remember Chef Dar won
in 2007 to the tune of $3000.
Chef Dar was the odds on favorite
this year until Chef Sommer
with her SPAM TAMALES arrived and took 1st place.
Chef Greg took 2nd
place with his Easy-Cheesy
Fiesta SPAM Sweet Corn Casserole.
This means Chef Sommer has the opportunity to
follow in her Ma’s foot steps
and win the
National Title. Good luck, Som,
you’ll win today or tamale.
Chef Dar would have been in the
money had it not been for the
contestant
that showed up late with a HOT DISH, a food
contest dirty trick.
Ours were all
ice cold after sitting on the judging table for 45 minutes.
But Chef Dar assures me
she’s NOT BITTER.
THE ULTIMATE FOOD FIGHT
Next up were
the much anticipated World Food Championships held in Kissimme, Florida.
Both Chef Dar and
Chef Greg won “Golden Ticket” entries in the WFC via on-line
competitions.
They joined 500 Fellow Chefs from throughout the world in contests
for over $350,000
and you may remember what I said earlier “Chef
Dar likes money”.
First
up was the FOOD FIGHT WRITE BLOGGER CONTEST.
This
was an invitation only for Food bloggers. Chef Dar made us all proud finishing 4th
And
just missing the money in a field of 30.
Next was the WORLD RECIPE CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST.
Chef
Greg, sweating his
ass off In the 90 degree Florida humidity, came in 16th in a field
of 30.
Only
the top 10 move on to the big money finals. Chef Greg’s response “I’LL BE BACK”
Last,
but not least, came THE WORLD SANDWICH CHAMPIONSHIP.
Chef
Dar, now in
fighting shape, came out swinging with her UPTOWN STEAK
SANDWICH.
This
contest was sponsored by the KC Steak Company, providing three melt in your
mouth
filets
for use in creation of a steak sandwich. She nailed it and placed 9th
in a field of 50.
This
put her in the TOP TEN ROUND with a top prize of $10,000. She placed 10th
and took
Home
$500. She beat out many top Chefs and TV food personalities and with her
Automatic
“Golden Ticket” for 2016 everyone now
knows “SHE’LL BE BACK”
as will the ARIZONA CARDINALS
as will the ARIZONA CARDINALS
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