Friday night preparations for the #TexasChili cook-off today. Way too spicy yesterday, but that’s normally what you want as most of the “raw” heat dissipates overnight, and instead adds depth in flavor. Turning out real well today. Some final touches before I go, and this is a good contender to win 🙂

#cooking #food #cookoff

I’m primed and prepped to deliver amazing gf #chowder and 🥖 tomorrow! ingredients from local farms: Pinnacle, Spade & Plow; and duck fat (YES!) from The Meatery. I spent 5 yrs in Boston obsessed with chowder and Judith Jones. Come find Switch Bakery! #SantaCruz #cookoff

We held a chili cookoff during lunch at work today. Eleven (11) contestants vying for the title of Chili Cookoff champion. My brother ended up winning (!), but now I'm sitting here at my desk, a belly full of eleven different kinds of chili and I'm...not supposed to take a nap? Do I have that right? What kind of sadistic HR game did I just stumble into?

#Food #WorkLife #Cookoff #Chili

As an #Austinite, I am attuned to another aspect of #FiggyPuddingSpam #Semiotics.

It seems entirely possible that #Austin is to blame for #Hormel's venture into #Spam-related #Weirdness.

Austin persists in hosting #SPAMARAMA -- the on and off festival that began as a parody #Chili #CookOff -- and took on a life of its own.

I just learned that there had, in fact, been a #SPAMARAMA this April of 2022.

Will there be a #ChristmasSpamarama? -- Who can say?

#KeepAustinWeird #FiggyPudding

@cliffwade Happy Saturday

Today I'm hosting a #neighborhood #soup #cookoff that promises to be loads of fun and relaxation now that the #election is behind us.

My partner is making 10-layer #Vegetable Soup as our entry. It's my favorite #autumn pot of yummy-ness. #Recipe is from the cookbook Greene on Greens & Grains.