The Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off brought together several Glenwood entities, including the park board, which oversees the park where the cook-off has been held for the past 10 years; the Glenwood Library, which held a book sale at the library; the Community Center, which hosted a rummage sale, and folks from near and far who came to cook or taste the dishes.
Beth Menczer took on the organization of this year's cook-off to honor her friend, Gale Moore, the past organizer of the event, who passed away too young last August.
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Glenwood 2015 Dutch Oven Cook-off
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
George Meeks, also known as the Pajarito Dutchman from Albuquerque, was cooking up a pot roast, apple cobbler, ranch butter rolls and Dutch oven ice cream
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Darryl Cases, Socorro County probate judge, came to Glenwood to make red chile, cornbread and apple crisp
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Tory Peeples of Datil was making meatloaf with potatoes. He invited everyone to the Datil cook-off in October
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Cindy and Larry Hinsley of Luna cooked up rabbit stew from domestic rabbits raised by a friend of theirs.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Leah Zachek had not yet started her Tuscany sausage dish
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Benny Ramon and Michelle Gallosa of Deming were cooking up carnitas
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
The Ears and Rears Team of David Wasmund of Hanover and Molly Bryan of Alma were not competing. "We wanted to retire undefeated," but they were cooking chile reline, apple crisp and jalape+?o poppers.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Barbara Bobo of Ohio cooked sourdough rye rolls from starter she made herself, spice cake and rooting' tooting' pork loin. The rootin' was from ginger root and onions and the tootin' from prunes and apple butter.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
The Hensley family cooks, Mary, daughter Christeen Bunts, and Ralph, were making stuffed pork loin, buttermilk biscuits and blackberry cobbler.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Charlie Durie and Pete Villalobos cooked beef tips over wild rice, apple cobbler and bread.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Troy Butler and Lloyd Peeples posed in from of their cooking set up
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
If you didn't win, you can blame the picky palates of the judges. From left are William B. Menczer, Jerry Zachek, Mickey Lemon, Mona Bale, Rawlings Lemon and Mary Newkirk
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Elaine Walven, one of the vendors at the cook-off, was painting signs to fill her depleted inventory.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Beth Menczer organized the cook-off to honor her friend Gale Moore, who used to organize the event before her untimely death last August.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Cresta Terrell sold Gale Moore's collection of cookbooks and some other selected books, the funds from which will go toward the Gale Moore Journalism scholarship.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Dayana and Don Patterson of Silver City cooked up Moroccan lemon chicken
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Don't you just want to dig into this stuffed pork loin?
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
One of the two road signs created, but not yet installed around Glenwood by the New Mexico Department of Transportation, to honor Moore's tourism magazine that was put out every year or two to highlight the things to do from west Texas, through southern New Mexico to southeast Arizona.
2015 Glenwood Dutch Oven Cook-off
Beth Menczer and Claude Smith check out the tree that was moved from Moore's front yard in Silver City to the Glenwood Community Park.-?`^
