Chili Cook Off

My mom and I were again part of the Brainerd Lakes Area United Way Chili Cook Off - as past winners, we had high hopes...but unfortunately, we didn't take home the gold. We had a blast though - a couple nights before we attempted to change our recipe (which really just is whatever we feel like putting in it at the time) to a chicken and seafood chili. While the taste of these chili's was paletable, it just wasn't chili - so we went to our standby and cooked up some zesty italian sausage and peppers. We even enlisted Ryan this year (that's who we blame for the loss, he must not have sauteed the peppers right!!) We really do need to get on the decorating bandwagon though - we always do the fall colors, pumpkins, etc - but this year others were awesome with their booths. Their were astronauts, 30s flappers with their gangsta man, sailors, etc. Truly fun and we raised 25,000 for United Way so all is good.