Cookerati

Sorry about such late notice, my email is backlogged from band season and I’m getting through everything as quickly as I can.  Fortunately, you still have a few hours to come up with a great recipe and enter today – November 14. 

This year, create a meatball recipe fit for your Thanksgiving table and enter it in the “Give Thanks to Mama (Lucia)” Meatball Recipe Contest sponsored by Quaker Maid Meats. Who knows – maybe you’ll start a new holiday tradition!

Entries will be judged on creativity, eye and taste appeal, and suitability for Thanksgiving.

First prize is a 6-Quart Crock-Pot Smart-Pot with Countdown Slow Cooker, complete with programmable cooking times from 30 minutes to 20 hours. Second and third prizes are 4-Quart Crock-Pot Slow Cookers with Travel Bag for toting to picnics, potlucks and parties of all types.

The contest runs from August 15 through November 14.  Winners will be selected by December 1. Recipes can be submitted to mamaluciacontest@sspr.com 

Alter Eco –  a Fair Trade brand based out of San Francisco launched a Fair Trade Cooking Challenge this month in honor of Fair Trade Month. Chefs of every skill level can create and submit their Fair Trade recipes (must include at least one Alter Eco Fair Trade ingredient) online for inclusion in the Alter Eco Virtual Community Cookbook. Though November 14^th, those who submit recipes will be eligible for some delicious Alter Eco prizes. The recipes will first be peer reviewed, and the top 10 rated recipes will receive an Alter Eco gift basket. Chef Sita will select the 5 best recipes among these top ten, each of whom will have 10 tree planted on their behalf in the Peruvian Amazon, at the Alter Eco cacao co-op Acopagro in addition to receiving a gift basket.