This year we will be at the Locust Grove Recreation Center Community Room located at 10 Cleveland Street, Locust Grove, GA 30248.
Come out and join us for a fun afternoon of Food and Storytelling!!
Hopefully all of the perennial favorites will come out along with some newbies to give them a great challenge!
The GGA February 2013 Meeting will be held on Saturday, February 9th from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM.
Break out your recipes and/or appetites and come hungry for the Chili Cook Off!
1st Place Traditional 2012 2nd Place Traditional 2012
3rd Place Traditional 2012 1st Place Non-Traditional 2012
Best Presentation 2012 The Chili 2012!!
You do not need to bring chili to attend, but, the more the merrier! If you choose to compete please bring your best chili effort to the meeting and share your culinary talents. The judges have been primed and bribed, err, we mean prepared and the chili will be tasty! Of course your entry will be judged for the opportunity to take the ‘GOLD’.
If you are competing please bring your chili ready to eat, or close to it. Contestants will need to bring a chili serving utensil. Bowls, eating utensils, cheese and saltine crackers will be provided. Electrical outlets will be provided for chili pots. Entrants are asked to check in early so that they can be given an entry code to protect their identity. Chili check in will start at 1:45 pm and end at 2:15 pm. The judges will NOT know who brought what entry, they will be isolated during the check in process.
Entrants will be provided with a small card to list any unique ingredients. Ingredients such as, but not limited to: peanuts, chocolate, shellfish, seafood, honey, MSG, etc. This is for the safety of those with specific food allergies. We will again be having a Non-Traditional Chili Catagory. This will be chili's that are not traditional red. Traditional red chili is defined as any combination of meats,cooked with red chili peppers, various spices and other ingredients. Some ideas for alternative chili are white, vegetarian, verde or anything you can think of. If a contestant bringing an alternative chili would prefer to compete in the traditional category that is allowed. A traditional chili as described above many not compete in the alternative category.
There will be a category voted on by all attendees:- - BEST PRESENTATION - -
Please arrive early enough to have your presentation area ready no later 2:15 pm. The attendees will be allowed to start voting at that time. If your presentation needs electricity please bring an extension cord or power bar.
Click here for Chili Cook Off Information For Contestants.
We are expecting all kinds of Chili, so there should be something for everyone. So bring your appetite and join us for a fun, tasty, and informative time.
For all the attendees, you can sample the chili and you get to vote for the Best Presentation Award.
Here are some pictures from the 2009 event and the 2011 event.
Please see our GGA web site at: www.ggaonline.org.
You can also join our forum discussion at: http://ggaonline.org/groupee
For information about past GGA Events please click here. You will need to be logged in to view archived caches.
We hope to see you there!!!