April 25th, 2010 | Uncategorized |
It has been a very exhausting whirlwind of a trip that had included tons of cheese and laughs, drinking and dancing, and winning and losing. I learned a lot from the Karma Sutra and feel the Ballsy Boy did pretty damn good, considering it also went up against MTV’s Robert Dyrdek and his Glee club that came to compete. I hear here really cared about grilled cheeses so mad props for that, but the rest of the show was a little too much for cheese-town. That and he mysteriously got front and center for him and his chaotic club. I actually got more of a chance to meet a lot of cool competitors, some I had even competed against in other cooking competitions like SF Food Wars.
Yet in the end it was the brick and his trick that took yet another trophy home to make 3 total trophies for this legendary sandwich. (2 firsts and the 2nd place yesterday in Missionary) Thank you all who voted for this sandwich and I hope to take some of the advice I heard out there about my sandwich and its serving so we can bring it back to the top next year. But luckily I got 364 more days to not worry about that. The Brick’s Trick did well and I will admit here and now that the man who beat me had a damn good grilled cheese (although if I mentioned the bread that beat mine……ppl would cry) and a damn good little cheese topping to go with it.
Beautiful day. Major crowds. Fun to compete against the MTV Glee Club. Awesome grilled cheese fans. Awesome after party.
1st heat should have waited until the crowds were in the pen before we started. 2nd row got shorted a bit. Award ceremony hella rushed because of some announcements that should have gone AFTER.
Great job Tim, Tillamook, and all those volunteers and people that make this fun ass event possible for the cheese chefs of the USA to come and share our creations. Thanks TT for teaching me the art, beauty, and simplicity of cooking. Until next time, there is always the Oakland Art Mur …….. ..
2nd place Missionary Man.
Brick’s Trick Maker
3 time winning cheese champion (and 4 if 4th places count)
Michael D
(Ballsy Boy was still delicious and gained some serious followers. Respeckt)
Articles:
http://freshneasybuzz.blogspot.com/2010/04/thousands-get-cheesy-at-fresh-easy.html
http://dailycollegian.com/2010/04/25/wicked-cheesy-ring-in-u-s-grilled-cheese-month-in-good-taste/
http://uncouthgourmands.com/2010/04/24/my-time-at-the-1st-8th-annual-grilled-cheese-invitational/
http://biggieville.blogspot.com/2010/04/grilled-cheese-invitational.html
http://grilledcheeseinvitational.com/
November 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized |
www.sffoodwars.com
Facebook has offered me to be friends with a lot of people I don’t want to be, a lot of people I didn’t know wanted to be friends with me, and then other things like “road soda” for way to long it makes me start to wonder about myself. But then somehow, and I still don’t remember all the digital details, but the facebook offered me to be friends with SF Food Wars*. At the point of our friendship the war was mainly focusing on the cheesy things that mac can do. I was dismayed to find out that the competition had closed up considering I already had the full weight of a block of cheese-know how under my belt. (Hell this site is still the after-party that was the GCI of 09……with grilled cheese domination in 10 talks alaready going down). Nevertheless, I checked in on the battle when the dust settled and saw the results of the first frisco food flurry. What I saw was a nice website trying to decadent up a bunch of pictures of cheesy piles of crap. Alas, this was not my fight.
The second war was about mini-cupcakes which I’m going to just go ahead and yada yada through considering the mildly retarded pandemonium going on for these things right now. I will say they looked very pretty and probably tasted wonderful for that one second of bite. There’s my mini-take on that.
This third and what I can only presume to be the final battle as epic/world-like wars appear to not be able to make it past three has been called and the stage is a festive plain of fix-ins from the holidays hearts of SF’s finest food elves (and elvettes I presume).
I present to you the line up of my competitors for you to take all in and stay tuned for the mini-doc of the Very Merry Culinaries! rise to world food domination!
Bake-On Betties / “Bringin’ Home the Bacon”
Dakine’s Davine / “Avocado Mushroom Mashed Potatoes”
Love and Mycology / “Makeout Mushrooms”
Brown and Crispy / “Lovin’ Lumpia”
New Gorge City / “Japanese Sweet Potato Latkes”
And for Dessert? / “Sweet Potato Cranberry & Pecan Casserole Topped w/ Baked Marshmallows”
MaliNumNum Treats / “Yam, Bam, Thank You, Mam!”
The Muffin Top / “Perfect Popovers”
Ready, Willing, and Mable / “Tangy Love, A Fresh Cranberry Relish”
Red Ryder Shooting Club / “Grandma’s Real Deal Cranberry Sauce”
Mimi & William / “The Emancipation of Mimi’s Cornbread Stuffing”
Karwan’s Kitchen / “Jiffy Corn Casserole and I Don’t Care (about the calories)”
Team Wombat / “Has Nuts, Not Kosher”
The Very Merry Culinaries! / “Pasta Christmas Wreaths with Coquille-Saint Nick”
Hustle & Pout / “Great Balls of Spinach”
Eat Your Spinach / “Classic Comfort Creamed Spinach”
Boozy and the Beast / “Turkey Cone Cyclone”
Team Sweet+Savory / “Look Ma, No Crust! Apple Pumpkin Pie-brid”
Heartbaker / “Drunken Punkin Puddin’ Bread”
Double Dutch Sweets / “Screw the Turkey Pumpkin Pie”
Food couldn’t be “left” out for the holidays so hope you enjoy this random update that no one will prob notice! Stay tuned for more SFFOOD Wars which goes down December 6th @ Stable Cafe in the Mission.
Happy Thanksgiving All!
*There is still a high probability that I friended them but I really don’t recall how.
