Love Lead Launch: 4th Annual CCC-San Marcos Iron Chef Competition

Ding, ding, ding.....Let's get ready to rumblllllleeeee!
That's right, Oct 20 was our 4th annual women's cooking war, and it was delicioso!

What is this all about you ask? Well, let me fill you in....

The women of Christ Community Church- San Marcos love to cook, chat, and bond, and what better way to bond than over some great meals. In fact, we love bonding so much that we decided to make a little competition of it, so for the past 4 years we have successfully used this competition as an opportunity to get to know the women of our church. From high school ,college, and young adults, to married and experienced moms and wives, we come together to learn life skills, hear encouraging stories and build community....

Titus 2: 3 says this, "³^(C)Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, ^(D)not slanderers ^(E)or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, ⁴and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, ⁵to be self-controlled, ^(F)pure, ^(G)working at home, kind, and ^(H)submissive to their own husbands, ^(I)that the word of God may not be reviled.

Our goal is to put into practice the word of God, using Titus 2:3-5 as a premise to why we do what we do, and to have a blast while teaching and learning from each other our different tricks of the trade when it comes to not just cooking, but life as well. It is so encouraging to see such a diverse group of women working together in the kitchen, trying new and challenging recipes and having fun . Plus, many of our experienced cooks have cool gadgets that I will be putting on my wish list of kitchen essentials, because every girl needs cool kitchen gadgets.

This was my fourth year participating in CCC-iron chef and I teamed up with Kendra and used her kitchen. Our team name was the e-LEMON-ators. Our ingredients were: ginger snaps cookies, kale, peppermint, and rice paper. We threw down, chopped up, sliced, diced, and shredded our way through the kitchen to cook up some tasty creations for our judges to enjoy. In the end- we lost! haha- but at least we had an intimidating name, sort of. Here are some pics of the day. Enjoy and I'm sure we'll get a KO ( knockout) next time.