This was a church sponsored event, it included Halloween festivities such as our yearly Trunk-or-Treat and Games along with the Chile Cook Off. The event is also held en masquerade and is just a whole lot of fun for everyone.
The Trunk-or-Treat is great with people spending a lot of time/effort turning the rear of their vehicle into cool Halloween displays. The kids go from car to car and game to game scoring prizes and getting candy/treats.
Two of the biggest hits this year were a family that made a whole keg of Homemade Root Beer and one that rented a Cotton Candy Machine.
There were about twenty (20) entries in the Chile Cook Off, of which in my semi-educated opinion five (5) were worthy of being called Chile.
The Winner and two Placing chiles were in my top five picks.
While I referred to the winning chile as heretical, it was a good White Chicken Chile with real nice aroma, flavor, spiciness, good use of some fiery green chiles and it's finish on the palate was superb.
I still think the NM Green Chile Chicken was better, but that is because I'm a just more of a traditionalist.