I Met Cat Cora!

A few weeks ago, my Baby Daddy (as he now prefers to be called) and a couple friends and I all headed down to my favorite summer event on the Waterfront, The Bite of Oregon. This is a yearly festival in which dozens of restaurants and caterers from all over Oregon set up booths and sell samples of their food. There are also beer and wine gardens, and local celebrity chefs compete in their own mini Iron-Chef competition. In short, its freaking Heaven for The Wonk. An all-day festival of cooking, chefs, eating, and drinking (for the male and non-preggo peeps) in the sun! Yippee!
Last year BD and I got to meet Guy Fieri, one of our fave Food Network chefs. He was really funny and engaging, and won major points in my heart forever when he told my BD he was lucky to have such a cute girl (me)! Anyhoozle, meeting Guy (yes, we're totally on a first-name basis) set the precedent for my new yearly habit of stalking Food Network chefs at The Bite. Anyone who knows me, knows that some day I would like to kidnap and keep a small menagerie of chefs like Gordon Ramsey, Anthony Bourdain, Paula Deen, etc, in a dungeon so that I can release them at my whim and have them cook for me. I am a simple girl, really. I said a small menagerie. Which brings me to Cat Cora!! Cat Cora is the first and only female Iron Chef. She is of Greek descent and hails from the south, so she cooks a mostly Mediterranean-southern fusion cuisine.
First we watched her do a quick cooking demonstration:


Then we were able to stand in line for a meet n' greet and picture. Although I failed to kidnap her for my Secret Chef Collection, I have to say that meeting Cat Cora was truly a pleasure. She super pretty and teeny-tiny--shaking her hand was like shaking hands with a little raccoon paw. That's totally not even an insult, I love raccoon paws!

Here we are--I am the Giant on the left, obvs:


All in all it was a good day. The weather was beautiful and we had tons of yummy food!
Here are the happy and well-fed Parents-To-Be!: