Heavy Hash Slingers: A Sauce Cook Off

Challenge: Create a pasta sauce so delectable, Gourmet Guru, Shea Taylor, would beg, plead and attempt thievery for the Secret Recipe that could rid the culinary world of its sundry pasta sauce evils.

2 teams

Table full of traditional and “surprising” ingredients, including (but not limited to) sweet potatoes, Italian dressing, and cinnamon

Random selection by teams of said ingredients for the Perfect Pasta Sauce**

**ALL—and we meant ALL—ingredients to be used in concoction

Separate work stations for superior performance and secrecy.

GET COOKIN'!

Each team set to work…

Sauces bubbled and boiled, filling the air with savory goodness…sniff, sniff….and onion, oh, THE ONION!!

Team 1: “Basil with a Hint of Sauce”

Team 2: “The Flaming Fork” (A special thanks to their god friend, Red Pepper who was a martyr for the cause…)

Gourmet Guru Shea and his Taste-Testing Face

The Winners and Bona Fide Culinary Artists: Team 2

(Talyn took culinary artist to a new level with her onion cup…steer clear.)