What is a county fair without pie contests? We’ve had many mouthwatering competitions, and it’s been my great pleasure to cover them. Saturday night the Karo Perfect Pie Contest took the cake for yumminess. Peggy Linberg of Upland brought a bit of aloha to Culinary Styles with her First Place-winning Hawaiian Sunshine Pie. The crushed shortbread…
These certainly weren’t your grandmother’s Hershey-variety chocolate chip cookies. Competitors in the Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookie & Brownie competition held Sept. 18 used plenty of exotic ingredients in their winning recipes. Take for example, First-Place winner Marina Castle’s Decadence Chocolate Chip Cookies. The North Hollywood resident and Culinary Styles competitor since 1985 added mocha…
One of the most anticipated Culinary Styles contests brought out chocolate lovers of all ages on Saturday, Sept. 18 – the Ghirardelli Chocolate Champion Contest. The scent of rich chocolate – dark, milk, white and every variation thereof – filled the contest area as competitors delivered precious choco cargo before judging started at 1 p.m.…
Gayle Bauer of La Verne literally took home the whole enchilada, winning the Best Enchilada Recipe contest at the 2010 L.A. County Fair. She won 1st place in both the chicken and vegetable enchilada categories. The Culinary Styles judges particularly praised Bauer’s Chicken Enchiladas for the creamy texture achieved from her blending of whipping cream…
These folks take their party dips seriously. Actually their guacamole and salsa dips seriously. Peggy Linberg of Upland won first place for the 2010 Perfect Guacamole contest with her Cobb-amole, a recipe incorporating the best parts of the classic Cobb Salad – crumbled bleu cheese, bacon and sour cream – into a chopped avocado mixture. Yum!…
The waiting is the worst. Pacing back and forth, back and forth. Wide eyes darting to and fro. Deep sighs heard every few minutes. For crying out loud, waiting for the birth of a child isn’t this nerve wracking! So goes the judging at the cooking competitions at the L.A. County Fair. Every year domestic…
Today, guest kid blogger Raptor J blogs about the Jurassic Planet attraction. The L.A. County Fair was “chosen” by the government to hold a stash of dinos found in a Lost World. Problem is, some have escaped! Here is what Raptor J had to say: Featuring baryonyx, deinonychus, giganotosaurus, allosaurus, dilophosaurus, compsagnathus, carnotaurus and more,…
I don’t know about you, but I’ll take pie over cake any time, and covering the All American Pie contest earlier this week was pure mouth-watering heaven. The contest was intense as judges lingered over each entry, taking just one more bite (two or three – wouldn’t you?) to make sure they picked the right…
Saying he felt “just like the Lakers with this repeat,” Jason Ward of San Bernardino took home the Grand Prize for Best BBQ for the second year in a row at the L.A. County Fair. His recipe for Big J’s Spare Ribs won not only a 1st place ribbon and a $100 check for the…
Culinary Styles kicks off the 2010 contest season Sunday with the much-anticipated Best BBQ, BBQ Sauce and Chili contests. Just follow your nose to the Big BBQ Ranch at Wilderness Ridge by noon to see all the action. The Best BBQ Sauce Contest with eight contestants starts at noon with judges rating sauces on taste,…
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