THE FIELD OF COMPETITORS
- Already intro-ed, the 3 elk hunters (dishes pictured above, plus another elk adobo taco dish that SLAPPED)
Harvest ladies:
- Italian au pair
- Vegan mom
- 2 cocktail ladies
Upon entering kitchen stadium I discovered that Vegan Mom was also cooking sage brown butter (butternut squash) ravioli! Scandalous. Also delicious!
The Italian au pair made a dish of regional northern pasta - comfort food that you’d serve in a refugio made with cheese, cabbage, and garden herbs.
Drinks were served (pisco sour made with backyard eggs, old fashioned made with backyard sourced cherries), mains were dished up, groans of satiation were heard all around. Then, the voting. Everyone got 3 votes. There were 12 people, 3 vegan/vegetarian…


….the tartare, elk ravioli, and thai elk tied for
third place
…refugio au pair pasta for
second place
…butternut squash ravioli for
first!
If the cast of judges was unilaterally omnivorous would that have changed the outcome? Perhaps.
The real winner in this was
friendship my freezer which now houses 40+ elk raviolis