Pretending to play chef for a good cause

I am no chef, as a matter of fact, I am quite annoyed when some one says they are a chef and all they do is heat pre-made food at the local Red Lobster. Not only does it take years of practice and training to become one, it also take creativity to deserve the title. Worse yet, with all the TV shows about cooking it seems like chef-ing it up is a fashionable thing to do, and anyone who operates a hot dog stand is now called a chef.

But once a year, and only once a year, I do go out and pretend to chef it up, but that is only for a good cause. This year, the date is June 4th and I will play host to about 80 people in our back yard and make food for a good cause.

This year, there are 10 appetizers as follows:

Pallet Cleanser: Lemonchello
App1 Water Crest/Apple Soup
App2 BBQ Pork Ribs
App3 Brown Rice with Shroom
App4 Seaweed Edamame Toss
App5 Lamb phillo
App6 Ultimate Mix with Bacon and Green Tea vinaigrette
App7 Lobster Mouse
App8 Shrimp Tarts
App9 Beef Carpaccio
App10 Cured Trout  (not firm on it yet, it may be swapped out)

Once we are done with the apps, we will serve the main, keeping it simple this year, there are 3 items, a vegetarian cous cous,  paella and pork. Then we wrap up with dessert

Last year we raised almost 5K to cancer research, I hope to break that number this year. I have already raises 3K, so I am close

There are so many good causes in the world, the need is great. I tend to support 3 charities, one is the Cancer Relay for Life, one is The Christmas Exchange, and The United Way. In June I chef it up for cancer. You can support my cause by going to http://convio.cancer.ca/goto/sforzley

What cause do you support?