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Darren:
Hey everyone! Silas here - and I have another Dutch Oven Cookoff at work coming up on May 20th. I'm pretty excited about it, but I am hoping to get some ideas on what to cook to have a chance to win.

Right now, I'm thinking about this: http://http://papadutch.home.comcast.net/~papadutch/dutch-oven-recipe-bbqbrisket.htm
and this: http://http://papadutch.home.comcast.net/~papadutch/dutch-oven-recipe-verasbeans.htm

...for the Main Course.

And here's what I'm considering for dessert: http://http://www.justgetoffyourbuttandbake.com/?p=2726

Of course, the third recipe will have to be changed to fit a 12 inch dutch oven, but it looks good.

A little more background - we are having two categories, Main Dish and Dessert, and all judging will be People's Choice - that is, if the people like your food, they vote for it. Each person sampling will have two tickets, one for main course, and one for dessert.

Anyway - thoughts? Good recipes? Anything guaranteed to win?

DeShawn:
My thought right now is that you had better have an awning of some sort.

I like your ideas.  Brisket, beans, AND dessert?  That should garner quite a few votes!

Darren:
So...update!

Tomorrow is going to be not only rainy, but possibly THUNDERSTORMY. But even with the rain, if you think about the "business reason" for such an event is to get the employees (ALL employees, not just chefs) to go out and mingle, hang out together, and that won't happen in the rain.

So it's been postponed until Thursday, May 26th. I'm so stoked!

I'm hoping that a Sous Chef will come help me out...I won't announce until he does.

So for the moment, I'm re-thinking my recipes, my strategy, and trying to work out exactly what we're going to do. Other than kick some major rear-end...

 :D

-darren

DeShawn:
So iffen' you haven't guessed, I'm the Sous Chef.

I used to work at the same company as Darren, so it's going to be a mix of "Hi! Welcome back!" and "What are you doing here, traitor?"  However, they're not going to complain about eating my food.  :lol:

So the two of us, together, should probably do very VERY well.

This is, of course, pending approval of my family. I haven't talked with them about it yet and it's my oldest son's Birthday that day.  He'll be in school while I'm playing Sous Chef, but still...I don't want to interrupt his day at all.

Darren:
Family first, as always.

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