San Diego Epilepsy Foundation Gingerbread City Competition 2008 - Brownstones & Batali
San Diego Epilepsy Foundation Gingerbread City Competition 2009 - Fondant the Yellow Brick Road
Highlights from Gingerbread City 2010 - A Night at the Movies
Highlights from Gingerbread City 2011 - Hit a Home Run for Epilepsy
'Tis the Season for Gingerbread City 2012 - Myths & Legends
San Diego Epilepsy Foundation Gingerbread City Competition 2009 - Fondant the Yellow Brick Road
Highlights from Gingerbread City 2010 - A Night at the Movies
Highlights from Gingerbread City 2011 - Hit a Home Run for Epilepsy
'Tis the Season for Gingerbread City 2012 - Myths & Legends
Holiday and Theme Parties
Sous Vide Debuts for our Weird Science Halloween Party and Culinary Extravaganza, 2009
Valentine's Aprhrodisiac Tasting Party, 2010
Oktoberfest on the Harbor September 2010
Villains on Trial - Try 'em and Fry 'em Halloween 2010
Seashell Birthday Cake, with White Chocolate Shells and Vanilla Buttercream
The Crown Jewel Affair, a POM Wonderful pomegranate dinner party 2010
Take the Cannoli...to Alec's Sinatra/Rat Pack Party September 2011
Coronado Pirates Board the HMS Obsessed for a Halloween Sail Halloween 2011
Thanksgiving Dinner 2011 - Sylvie's Stuffed Turkey Breast Ballotine
Christmas Eve 2011 - Mario Batali's Porcini Rubbed Prime Rib
Valentine's Aprhrodisiac Tasting Party, 2010
Oktoberfest on the Harbor September 2010
Villains on Trial - Try 'em and Fry 'em Halloween 2010
Seashell Birthday Cake, with White Chocolate Shells and Vanilla Buttercream
The Crown Jewel Affair, a POM Wonderful pomegranate dinner party 2010
Take the Cannoli...to Alec's Sinatra/Rat Pack Party September 2011
Coronado Pirates Board the HMS Obsessed for a Halloween Sail Halloween 2011
Thanksgiving Dinner 2011 - Sylvie's Stuffed Turkey Breast Ballotine
Christmas Eve 2011 - Mario Batali's Porcini Rubbed Prime Rib
Coronado Summer Concert in the Park Culinary Challenges
(These posts include featured recipes and some links to recipes)
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Summer 2013
- Campania
- How We Roll. Cuisine inspired by The Rolling Stones
- Cheese, Charcuterie and Accompaniments
- Zoo2 and Too Many "U"s (cuisine inspired by U2 tunes)
- Iliana Rose and Cuban Cuisine
- It Never Rains at Hotel California (cuisine inspired by Eagles tunes)
- Feeling a Little Blue (Liquid and/or Blue cuisine)
- Take a Rock on the Wild Side (Rockola band)
- Out of South Africa
- Stuck in the Middle
Summer 2012
- An Evening in Corsica
- Mushrooms, Flowers & Weeds
- Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
- The Pacific Northwest
- Fusion
- Twisted
- Beach Shack Snacks
- Stripped and Dipped
- Make it Raw, Baby
- New England Cuisine
- On a Stick
- On a Raft
- Latin American Cuisine
- Shake, Rattle and Roll
- Childhood Favorites, with an Adult Spin
- Oodles of Noodles
- Impostors
- When in Rome
- Chopped
- A Taste of Provence
- Taste of Provence, Part II
- Home on the Range and Off to the Ranch
- The Exotic Cuisine of Thailand
- New Zealand, A Concert in the Park Piss-Up!
- Peaches, with special guests, Thomas Keller and Bobby Flay
- Our Turkish Table
- Cooking Keller
- Cooking with Wine, Post 1
- Cooking with Wine, Post 2
- Tacos
- Bacon
- Jewish Cuisine Hot August Night, with Neil Diamond and Jewish Cuisine
- Our Portuguese Dessert Table
- Our Portuguese Picnic Table Overfloweth
- Second Annual Southern Jubilee (Southern-Style Seafood Boil)
During the Summer of 2009, we started to incorporate various countries and regions, as well as a few "fun" themes for our weekly Challenges. Our group continued to grow, and we would often have 20+ people gathered around our gourmet picnic tables.
- Fill Me Up Until I'm Stuffed
- Cherries
- Spanish Tapas
- Nuts and Balls
- Beer
- Chile Peppers
- All-American Fare
- Sailing the South Seas
- A Passge to India
- Basque Country
- Journey to Russia
- Citrus
- Gourmanizing Fast Food
- Greece
- Peruvian Cuisine
- Finale: Last Supper
- After-Party, Southern Jubilee
These Concerts in the Park took place prior to There's a Newf in My Soup was launched and I would e-mail our group a recap of the event and include a few photos. Each week, we used the secret ingredient from the Iron Chef America episode that aired that week. These posts contain my abbreviated recaps of the concerts, photos, and the menu of what was served. Unfortunately, the posts do not contain the recipes/links, but are simply included to provide inspiration for an Iron Chef theme party!
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