Taste of Home cooking show

For the past several years I have seen advertisements for the Taste of Home cooking show and thought it would be a fun event to attend, but somehow every year by the time I got around to trying to get a ticket they were sold out.  This year I got an email about it and decided to order my ticket right away so I could go.  I found a couple friends to go with me so it would be more fun. Thanks for coming with me Candice and Denise! I had a great time with my friends, but with all the entertaining cooking shows out there I found the chef that was making the recipes a little bland and lacking personality. It kinda felt like watching a big commercial with all of the product endorsements too.  In spite of that I had  a great time and got some great ideas.  They had tons of giveaways, but unfortunately we didn’t sit in the right place or luck just wasn’t with us because none of us won anything and only one person close to us won. I was hoping to win some of the food they cooked because the serving dishes they put them in were beautiful.  I should have brought my lucky husband with me.  :)