Winner, Winner, Taco Dip??

Last Thursday night was the Blount County Farmer's Federation Women's Committee Cooking Contest. Lance's Aunt Nell is chairman of the committee, so she always cons asks me to participate. This years theme was appetizers, so I made this:

Layered Taco Dip

2 (10 oz) containers bean dip

1 1/2 tsp garlic salt

1 1/2 tsp hot sauce

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

1 (160z) container sour cream

1 cup mayo

1 pack taco seasoning

1 bunch green onions

2-3 medium tomatoes

1 (4oz) can black olives

2 cups shredded cheese

In a mixing bowl, combine bean dip, garlic salt, and hot sauce. Spread in a dish. Combine salt, pepper, sour cream, mayo, and taco seasoning. Spread over bean dip. Layer chopped onions, tomatoes, olives, and cheese. Chill.

Here's all of the entries before the judging.

And here's the winners!

Look who got 3rd place (and 25 bucks!), woohoo!

There was also a new contest this year...tablescapes! The rules said to pick a commodity and decorate a 3 foot table space. Obviously I chose cotton!

I had a 100% cotton table cloth and a cotton pick sack (Lance got it as a wedding present!) as the base.

I used our John Deere Fine China!

The cotton stalk "bouquet" is some of the cotton that we used at our wedding reception! I put the cotton in a John Deere milk can, and put that on our John Deere lazy susan. Also on the lazy susan are two of Lance's toy cotton pickers and a cotton boll lapel pin and tie tac. I filled a John Deere lunch box full of cotton bolls and put a picture of one of our cotton fields behind it!

On this side of the table are 2 mini bales of cotton and a Cotton Incorporated car tag.

Booyah! Look who won again!

Ok, maybe I should mention that I was the only one in the county who knew what a tablescape was, so I won by default. I still got that $50 prize money though!