Chili Recipes from the 2009 Chili-Off ...

Winners:

First Place: Dave Nissen's Hickory Smoked Chili

Second Place: Mike Larsen's Second Best Chili in the School

Third Place: tie between Dave Palzet's Buffalo Chicken Chili  and Helen Lanzourakis's Helen's Famous Chili

Participants (no less fabulous than our winners):

Monica Polley's Southwestern Stew

Katey Sherman's Two-Vote Chili

Andrea Kowalchik's Mysteriously Named Karen's Chili

Jenny Rosene's Eponymous Chili (The Chili formerly Known as Jenny's Award-Winning Chili)

Laura Rinkenberger's Husband Dave's Secret Chili

Aleece Ginsburg's Husband's Un-Secret Chili

Cornbread Winner:

Emily Kalway's Landslide Victorious Cornbread

Cornbread Runners-Up:

Kelly Shoemaker (Cornbread #5)

Dawn Fessler (Cornbread #3)

Dave Nissen (Cornbread #4)

Monica Polley (Cornbread #6)

Sophia Theodoropoulos (Cornbread #7)