GRAVETTE -- Six teams entered the third annual Gravette Day cook-off. They all showed up and prepared their dishes in the traditional cast iron Dutch ovens, even though the weather was almost so hot they could have cooked them on the sidewalk.
Five teams entered the three-pot division, preparing a main dish, a bread and dessert; and one novice team prepared only a main dish and a dessert.
Swifty Creek Cookers, the team of Curtis Feather and Scott McKay, from Sarcoxie, Mo., was first-place team overall with its menu of stuffed pork chops with tante wine cherry sauce, cheese onion rolls and apple pie with caramel brandy sauce. Their prize for winning top honors was $150. The Swifty Creek team also won the showmanship award, a Cabelas gift card, and took first place in the bread category and third place in desserts.
Backwoods Bakers, from Fayetteville, won second place overall and a prize of $100. Backwoods Bakers also won second place in the main dish category and second place in desserts. Third place overall honors went to Barnyard Cooks, of Lincoln, who won $50. Barnyard Cooks also won first place in the main dish category, second place in desserts and third place in breads.
A Team Divided, a local team of Fred Overstreet, Jim Bob Britton and Mary Snook, won first place in the dessert category with its apple dumplings. A Team Divided, so named because of their loyalties to Oklahoma, OSU and Arkansas, also was chosen People's Choice Award winner for Fred's pork chops.
Another Gravette team, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Corey and Donna Taylor and their daughter, Cori Beth, won third place in the main dish category with its hot pict' cabbage and taters with pork sausage.
Winger Creek Cookers, teenagers Zane White and Kenneth Calloway of Sarcoxie, Mo., won first place and a prize of $50 in the novice category with its main dish of pork roast with sweet potatoes, green onions, carrots and garlic and a chocolate ganache raspberry cake for dessert.
Community on 08/19/2015