Guide Cook-Off Winners!

 

We recently held a fun event for our guides and staff – a healthy competition of our guides’ culinary skills – a Guide Cook-off!

 

Our competitors — Greg Blessing, Jon Easdon, and Juan Ramirez — cooked a meal like they would prepare and provide on any guide trip — right off their tailgates!  Greg cooked up his buffalo burgers, baked beans and potato salad.  He topped that off with homemade cheesecake.  Jon made his bacon-wrapped grilled chicken.  Next up was Juan’s protein-rich “Hopper Juan Casserole.”  Just kidding!  We had his New Mexican Green Chile (from a secret family recipe) served up with homemade corn chips.  

 

Our judges went to each contestant’s dining table to score their meals on three pre-established criteria:  taste, presentation, and what we will call replicability.  What?  The criteria were:  did the meal taste good?  was it served  with attention to details (or just spooned up on a paper plate?), and could it be made again, in one of those little pull-out areas in the Canyon or along the Arkansas?   

 

One thing is for sure: on your next guided fly fishing trip, even if the fish aren’t cooperative, at least you’ll be well-fed! No hot dogs and beans on our trips.

 

And the winners are…

First Place Greg Blessing	Second Place   Juan Ramirez	Third Place   Jon Easdon