This year's NERCC was extra special for us as we brought along our niece Chelsea to compete in the "Yute" division, which is the youth competition. Chelsea had only ever heard and seen pictures of what we have been doing for the last few years, so she was excited to see what it was all about. She and Michael prepared a practice pot in April and I ordered her up an official FB Chili apron, and just like that she was an official member of our team.
Philip was also keen to come back to where he got his first taste of the chili bug, but he had an extra couple of vacation days so decided to travel to his favorite spots in Vermont before meeting up with us in CT on Friday afternoon, just in time to head to the cooks party.
We had a great weekend, ending up with some fantastic results for both Michael and Chelsea. In her first ever cookoff Chelsea came in 7th out of over 20 youth cooks! Michael did okay in his salsa and verde entries, receiving points on both, but falling short of the finals tables. However his red results continue to get better - he received 2nd place points along with 5 other cooks, when the tie breaker was complete he ended up with a 4th place finish out of 58 cooks!! Not too shabby!
We've decided to make a change moving forward and will not be updating this blog after every cookoff. We have found that while each event is special to us, much of the mechanics of them are the same, which makes for very repetitive blog posts! So unless there is something extra special to tell that needs more detailed reporting, we will be moving the updates to our new Facebook page. You can find us at Freddy Beach Chili - just hit "like" and any news will pop up on your news feed.
Thanks to everyone for your support when we hit the trail, and we hope you'll keep following us via Facebook. Our next adventure will be to a new cookoff for us in Woodbury, CT on June 14th.
Until then......chili out!
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