Community Events from 2007

November

Arlington Life Shelter Hoilday Dinner

• Prepared a Hoilday dinner of Turkey & dressing, candied yams, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, green beans, dinner rolls, assorted pies and cookies.

October

Taste of Arlington

• Chef Alison Hodges along with student asst. Danieal Sanzo & Sherry Sipho prepared 2000 portions of spritz cookies, brownies, butterscotch brownies, and lemon cake for the 25th anniversary of Taste of Arlington benefiting the YMCA.

September

Zest Fest

• Students competed in the Mystery Basket Salsa Competition: TCC came in 2nd place this year.
• Danieal Sanzo & Alison Hodges Peanut Butter Chipotle Pralines came in 3rd place for the Peoples Choice Awards.

PHOTES FROM 2007 ZEST FEST

TCC entry!

Off to see the judges!

We are done! What a blast!

Final Touches!

Working on Salsa we had
20minutes to prepare, plate, and present!

Jessica (left) gathering our ingredients.

Getting ready for the Salsa Competition!
Go team TCC!

Karima Vega, Michelle King, and Danieal Sanzo

2007 Zest Feast Booth

As usual, we catered the PTK induction for spring and had a few culinary students inducted into the honor society (I didn't take any pictures though - whoops!)




On April 10th, we had our first annual Culinary Graduation/Alumni dinner. Those students who graduated in the fall or going to this spring were honored with dinner and got to catch up with the alumni who attended. It was a fun evening and I hope it can be bigger and better next year! It was fun to see everyone. If you are an alumni reading this and you didn't get an invitation, please forward your address to me so I have current information on you!




Last night was student awards and it was a really nice ceremony regardless of the stormy weather. Danieal Sanzo was honored with the award for Ourstanding Student Leadership in our Culinary/Hospitality Student Organization - Congratulations Danieal!

Wow, it has been a long time since I updated this page, so I have a lot to post!

The spring semester has been long and busy but is quickly coming to an end. We had many successful events, including a chamber luncheon for over 100 the day after the big snow storm we had in January.

On February 16th, we again participated in "Empty Bowls" the annual fundraiser for the Tarrant Area food bank. We mixed it up a bit and served Minestrone soup (for the past few years, we have served white bean chili). The soup was a success and we ran out just before the event ended.

Pictured here are (from left to right): Katrina Warner, Karima Vega(instructional assistant), Mike Duff & Danieal Sanzo (student assistants).