“Life in the Van” took on a whole new meaning this past week as my crew took a road trip to Tennessee. After the completion of twenty-two hundred miles of driving, we were left with some awesome memories, ones that I know we will not soon forget!
Category: Winning Recipes
It’s Not All About the Dough!
For nearly eight months I had waited for this day to come, and now, here it was! After breakfast all one hundred finalists filed into a small room off of the main ballroom. We were carefully lined up in the order of our kitchen station location. We also emptied our pockets of any personal belongings. Nothing, and I mean, nothing personal was allowed onto the Bake Off floor. No tissues, no phone, no camera, no lip balm, no pictures of the kiddos…nothing! Hey, there’s a million dollars on the line here. I get it; they mean business, so much so that we were told that we would not be permitted to use the restroom without an escort.
The Road To Vegas
Now that my status as a finalist for the 46th Pillsbury Bake Off had been confirmed, my husband and I were left with a dilemma: do we take the whole family out to Vegas, or do I head out solo? The kids were eager to go; they wanted to see mom in action. My husband and I were hesitant. Las Vegas, a place neither one of us had ever been to, just didn’t seem all too family friendly to us. To our surprise, many people told us to the contrary. They provided a litany of kid friendly attractions that we were sure to love. Even our pediatrician suggested that we take the kids along. We prayed about it and simply asked that the Lord close the doors shut if it wasn’t His will. Well, door after door was not only closed, but slammed in my face. It was becoming abundantly clear that I would be traveling solo.
The Road to the 46th Pillsbury Bake Off – Part 1
It was January 2013, and I, like many of my fellow competitive cooks, was eagerly waiting for Pillsbury to release the rules for the upcoming Bake Off. This would be the year that I seriously try my hand at becoming a finalist. I had attempted to put together a few recipe submissions for the 45th Bake Off, but they all fell flat. I had tried WAY too hard to create something. None of the submissions were ones that I would feed my family, none of them had my fingerprint, none of them were me. So I wasn’t surprised to be watching the festivities from the comfort of my home.
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