Food Contests – August 2010
August 26, 2010 - Written by DianaNeed some end of the summer cooking excitement? Here are contests that you can enter to help with that. Some require recipes, others you just need to enter. If you win, let me know because I love it when a Cookerati Reader wins something or has some good luck.
- California Strawberry Commission is hosting the “California ‘Everyday Superfruit’ Frozen Strawberry Recipe Contest” for a chance to win a $250 Amazon Gift Card. Submit your own, original recipe in the form AND upload the image with the exact recipe name to the California Strawberry Facebook page . Please include the words “Frozen Strawberry Contest Entry” in your post. The deadline date is Monday, August 31st at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time and all contest rules can be found here.
- Worldwide Video Recipes and Chefs – Enter or Vote in their Amateur / Pro $1,000 Video Recipe Contest. The contest runs from August-17-2010 to October-31-2010. Anyone may enter, amateur or professional chef.
- Mrs. Cubbison’s invites home cooks across the country to share their creative ideas in its “No More Naked Salads” Recipe Sweepstakes. The Grand Prize winner will enjoy …
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Walker’s Shortbread Cookies – A Trip Back to Childhood (& Giveaway)
August 6, 2010 - Written by Diana
For my son’s party, we had a platter of Walker’s cookies out for everyone to share. These cookies are timeless, classic cookies, that took me back to being a kid growing up in my grandparent’s house.When we were kids, we lived in my grandparent’s house. There were three floors and each floor was a separate apartment. When we were really small, we had one of the floors, my grandparents another, and my cousins the third. My cousins eventually moved out, but we didn’t share the extra floor, so it stayed empty. My grandmother had a store, and she and my grandfather ate a late dinner every night after they closed the store for the night. They were smart grandparents, they knew that the best way to get visits from the grandchildren was to have dessert out while they ate. There were six of us, and we went to bed at different times. However, we all knew about the desserts, and we all knew that if we went up to say good night to our grandparents, we would get some dessert. Most of the time dessert was cookies and short bread cookies was one …
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Produce Bags, the Next Step For Me & ChicoBag Has Them
May 24, 2010 - Written by Diana
I’ve been to this step before in the farm markets. I tell them to just put the produce in my reusable sack. That’s easy with the farm markets, since you are going from stand to stand. They aren’t the best for storage though. ChicoBag makes a Produce stand pack that is great and you can use them in the store shopping cart because your veggies won’t dump out. I am trying my Produce Stand Collection right now. I did get incredulous looks from the clerks when they picked up the bags full of fruit and veggies because they weren’t packed in the stores plastic bags. ChicoBag Produce Stand Collection is meant to replace those plastic bags you pack your fresh produce in that you pick up off the vegetable stands in grocery store.The new collection offers three different bags, each constructed from a different fabric designed to optimize freshness. The Hemp-Cotton blend is perfect for leafy greens, grains and green beans. The rePETe™ Mesh is great for apples, orange and potatoes. The rePETe™ will keep your squash, broccoli and carrots fresh. All bags stuff into …
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Winner! Dinty Moore/ Hormel Chili Giveaway.
May 14, 2010 - Written by DianaWe had tons of great recipes and comments on our giveaway, it was really hard to think about choosing a winner.
We made our own chili dip and it not only disappeared, but then I made a second batch and it disappeared too. Really. We ran out of nacho chips, so peppers, crackers and pretzels were used.
Here’s the quick dip.
I can of roasted tomato chili – heat up in the microwave in a glass or heat proof bowl Sprinkle with cheese – you can either put in for another minute, or let it melt naturally if the chili is warmed enough. Top with diced peppers, green onions and tomatoes, then dollop sour cream on top. It’s a really cool snack for the high school crowd, that’s for sure.
Okay, enough of the small talk our winner is Cass who said:
Hormel chili in a casserole of Sliced semi-cooked potatoes and cheddar, chives and bacon bits layered and baked at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Great idea Cass, thanks for sharing.
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Winner of our NY Style Garlic Snacks Giveaway
April 25, 2010 - Written by DianaMonique Rizzo is the winner of our NY Style Garlic Snack Giveaway.
She said,”I like the Garlic Crisps with Artichoke dip! Thanks for the chance. ”
My New York Style Garlic Snacks are gone, gone, gone, but Monique should be recieving her shipment as soon as I recieve an email with her postal address. I’ll send Monique an email to let her know.
We’ve got another giveaway coming up soon, so stay tuned.
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Celebrate National Garlic Day with a NY Style Giveaway
April 19, 2010 - Written by DianaCooking with garlic is one of the best ways to flavor a dish. I grow garlic, I cook with garlic, I buy garlic flavored stuff and I love the smell of garlic cooking. Any time you throw a few garlic cloves in with a roast, the kitchen smells wonderful. April 19th (today ) is national garlic day, a day we should all observe by cracking open a few cloves. I might make some garlic potatoes for dinner tonight, that would be a great way to celebrate don’t you think?
New York Style sent me a pack of Garlic goodies to review for National Garlic Day last year, but this year we are even luckier. Cookerati is holding a contest to give away the garlic goodness.
Coupon for $0.75 Off New York Style Snacks
Even if you don’t win, you can still come out ahead.
New York Style has a special coupon so you can stock up on your favorite garlic treats for the annual Garlic Day celebration. Visit www.NewYorkStyle.com and become a member of the Central Park Club to receive a $0.75 off coupon toward a New York Style garlic snack.
If you wanted to use a spread or dip on one of …
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Bertolli’s Into The Heart of Italy Webisode – The Secrets of the Fungaioli
April 1, 2010 - Written by DianaThe second webisode of Bertolli’s Into the Heart of Italy starring Rocco DiSpirito, Marissa Tomei and Dan Cortese came out on Monday, March 29th. The new webisodes are going to appear approximately every 2 weeks. This week they start out in pistoria, and end up meeting the fungaioli and harvesting mushrooms.
Take a look:
Bertolli has more fun viewables and a contest to enter on their site. You might win a culinary trip to Italy, wow, that would be cool.
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Into the Heart of Italy by Bertolli
March 15, 2010 - Written by Diana@Bertolli has invited all of us to a tweet-up – Bertolli’s Taste and Tweet (#bertolliitaly) tonight during Desperate Housewives (ABC, 9/8c) – . The Taste & Tweet is to introduce you to the new Into the Heart of Italy Webisodes with Rocco DiSpirito, Marissa Tomei and Dan Cortese. They travel to Italy participate in challenges – that involve food, and Italian Culture and end up with a great family meal.
I tried their Chicken Florentine & Farfalle for dinner tonight. We loved the frozen pasta dinner. I served an asparagus side dish with some garlic toast. One package states that it serves 2 . After I heated it, I was in agreement, and so added another bag to the pan because there are three adults sized people at dinner. There were leftovers though, and we’ll eat them for leftover night sometime this week. I like that it only takes ten minutes to cook on the stovetop. When the kids were younger we survived on soccer nights with frozen pasta dinners. It was more important for my kids to sit down with me for a meal, then for us to pick up …
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Food Contests – Feb 28, 2010
March 1, 2010 - Written by Diana- Idaho Potatoes – Now through March 31, submit your original, healthful, affordable & easy-to-prepare Idaho® potato recipes in the Idaho Potato Commission’s “Watching Waistlines & Wallets” Recipe Contest for a chance to win more than $7,500 in cash & prizes, including a $5,000 grand prize! The IPC has compiled a continually growing resource of its best low-cost, low-cal recipes http://www.idahopotato.com/waistlines_wallets and is rewarding resourceful home cooks for contributing.
- SPAM! – Dish This! allows consumers to share their SPAM® creations, try and rate recipes from others and learn how merely adding SPAM® products to some of their favorite and most-familiar foods is a surefire way to spice up mealtime. Jan – Mar they’re looking for Egg recipes that include SPAM. In April through June participants can upload their SPAMWICH™ inspired sandwich, try and rate others and receive a coupon for SPAM® products. Five top-rated recipes will receive a year’s worth of SPAM® products. During July through September, Consumers enter a contest by submitting an original recipe that combines SPAM® with Mac & Cheese. One grand prize winner will walk away with $1,000 in cash or a gift …
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Pace Salsa Winner
February 14, 2010 - Written by DianaSusan C. You are the Pace Salsa Winner.
I had a dilemma with Susan, she was so darned nice about both teams.
She said:
I like that Sweet & Spicy Barbeque Brisket. I might have to make that next week. How can you go wrong with a good BBQ??
Who will win?? I’m going to say Colts, although I’ll be rooting for the Saints. (I am Catholic – got to root for saints.) I’m more interested in the commercials.
I almost gave her an entry for being Catholic, but it wasn’t in the rules, so it didn’t count (seriously, that’s a joke – it has to be in the rules to count). I actually used random.org, and it helped that she had extra entries. So Susan C, you are the winner. I’ll contact you for a postal address.
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