Food Court War's

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Damn! I missed the premiere of the new Food Network show I wanted to love to hate! It's called Food Court Wars and it was on last night and I forgot! Big deal show. Tyler Florence is the host and hot head Gordon Ramsey is the producer.

The thing with it is, a few months ago I saw this thing from Channel 7 saying there was a casting call for this show in Wausau.

The deal was, they wanted couples, friends, relatives to come
up with an idea for a food court eatery that would feature food that was unique to
the area, which this region was for Wisconsin. The winner gets set up with their own food court restaurant and then you make it go on it's own.

So, having been disappointed in my past failures to obtain my own restaurant, and
not being very competitive in nature I was not at all inclined to make an
attempt at this.

And it kept coming back to mind.

So I talked to Kris and she was in and I developed a very unique concept for a food court restaurant and then Kris and I decided what parts each of us would take care of, then we each created our own recipes and bounced idea's off each other, put together the application package they wanted, resume's, pictures, the whole nine yards.

Some of you may remember me creating an event so that people could tell me what their favorite Wisconsin foods were, and when my current profile picture with Kris and I in the kitchen first appeared. That's what that was about.

Our idea didn't have any single item anyone submitted, but it had all of the Wisconsin type ingredients turned into pretty damn original things that probably would have done well.

I forbid Kris to tell anyone we applied to be on this show, because one of my little quirks has also been if you really want something you have to keep your efforts to get it a secret or it won't happen.

I'm not kidding.

In the end, we didn't get picked for whatever reason and rather than being devastated we were like "oh well, next dream please!" To maintain the positive after a disappointment is just awesome and opposite of my old self.

And, since not saying anything didn't make us get selected I guess it can't hurt to say we tried.

That's the thing: We tried and that's what counts. We had fun doing it and sampling each others idea's & recipes. We got to know a lot about each other, and had a one of a kind unique experience together chasing a dream.

The reason a lot of dreams don't come true is we sit on our butts dreaming about them rather than trying to make them happen. Or making excuses for why it couldn't happen anyway.

Getting off our butts and trying doesn't guarantee the dream will come true, but not trying does guarantee it won't.

Still, a year ago I would have sworn on all that was holy, that I would never try to be in a Food Network competition.

Not sharing a dream doesn't make it happen either.

So now my fear of telling people stuff I'm cooking up can just piss off now. I'm not afraid of you any more! :)

On another note if you are ever tempted to try to enter a Food Network competition, don't expect much in terms of knowing anything. We don't know why we weren't selected but we know there was never any acknowledgement that they received the application. Even after I sent it twice to be sure. That was the worst part about finding out the candidates were chosen without ever knowing anything other than we sent the application. To this day we don't know if they ever got it because it was by
email only, which we all know is the most reliable information transportation
vessel of all time.

 Oh well. Next dream please! :)

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