Every month for ten months of the year, the Fox Valley District holds their Round Table meetings for the Cub Scout and Boy Scout leaders. The last meeting of the year is in June and then we skip July and August.
Our last meeting was last night. To celebrate the last meeting of the school year, they held a dutch oven cook off outside at the county fairgrounds. I decided to enter and chose a recipe called "Tortilla Lasagna" than I found at DutchOvenNet.com. I was up against eight other leaders, most of whom had participated in past years.
There was a shrimp gumbo, chicken cacciatore, venison chili, beef stroganoff, a bratwurst breakfast and three other Mexican dishes. Two of them were similar to mine. They were all pretty good and so were the three dessert entries.
There were four judges. Each scored up to six point in three categories (appearance, smell, and taste). So the total points possible per judge was 18 and the total possible score was 72.
Any way, I wound up tied for third place with 55 points and second place was only one point ahead of me. I didn't hear what the point total was for first place, but I was very happy with the result.
Next year I'll have to come up with something different to separate myself from the crowd.
