Not everyone should enter this competition, as it is not for the weak of heart! The entry forms always tell you that you need to make enough food for at least 70 people, but the reality is, you don’t want to run out of food. So Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the Insider’s Guide to the SF Food Wars: You have to make enough food for at least 250 people (I baked 20 pies) and make sure it’s better than everyone else! The competition is fierce. Most recently SF Food Wars, after taking a break for the holidays, is back with “Return of the Mac and Cheese” and it occurred to me, as a double rainbow winner (winner of both judge’s first place and people’s first place) as well as someone who has attended the event, that I had some advice to give about the SF Food Wars as people has asked me in the past about it. It’s a pretty amazing event where 15 to 20 people (professionals and amateurs) compete with their own variations of whatever the theme of the contest is in the hopes for prizes and glory. Last year I competed in the SF Food Wars. In the meanwhile, I’m starting this brand new site with something else new to me, an Insider’s Guide to the SF Food Wars, which is back with their “Return of the Mac and Cheese” competition as well as my own recipe for smoked gouda and white cheddar mac and cheese with swiss chard AND a chance at winning tickets to the VERY SOLD OUT event! SORRY, this is event is over. Look for more frequent updates, hints on baking, and a whole slew of other stuff from me (but please bear with me with the old posts as I get them up to snuff). Thank you for all of you pushing for me to make the switch. Welcome! It’s a new year and a new website (okay, so the new year was three weeks ago, but whatever)! I had outgrown my old blogger site for sometime, but it took me awhile to make the leap over but with plenty of encouragement from Justin, Shauna, and other, as well as Stephanie who gave me awesome technical support, I finally dove in, and surprisingly the water was quite warm and lovely.

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