Are you a whiz in the kitchen? Do you have a favorite recipe that all your friends and family members constantly rave about? Well, it is Ultimate Recipe Showdown time over at The Food Network, and your original creation could win you a cool $10k. According to their official rules, fifty-four finalists (9 in each category) will be flown to Los Angeles to prepare their original recipes on camera and compete for the top prize in each category - $10,000 in cash. The categories include chicken, pasta, comfort foods, burgers, cookies, and cakes.
I've seen what some of you can do in the kitchen, and I'd love to hear that one of our readers / a fellow blogger won one of the prizes, so get your submissions in! You can view the full contest rules at the Food Network site.

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5-23-2007 @11:53AM Barry said... Yes, do submit your recipe. Those who make it on and don't win anything (heck, even the winner) can take comfort in the millions in advertising the Food Network will make off of you. Oh and you'll have the prestige of being on a network that's gone from a diverse array of cooking shows to "Unwrapped" and "Top 5" being shown 50 times a week. Good luck!
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5-23-2007 @12:48PM Dmnkly said... Tempting, until the fine print reveals that the story behind your recipe is a part of the selection process, and that the only pastas they're interested in are stuffed pastas, lasagne and "spaghetti and meatballs."
Kind of difficult to take that seriously.
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5-23-2007 @5:13PM Angela Pitt said... I submitted a recipe for cookies; I'll let you know what kind after the deadline when I know if I'm going
to California or not!
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5-25-2007 @10:54AM Joanne Lutynec said... Good luck Angela, do let us know!
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6-07-2007 @10:57PM Stacey said... to Dmnkly
I understand your feeling on not taking the contest seriously, but it is about giving them your take on one of these types of pastas. I submitted a shrimp and pasta dish. The spaghetti sauce was actually in my version a spinach cream sauce and in place of the meatballs I use shrimp. Swap one sauce for another, and one meat for another and presto. It's about the ULTIMATE recipe. It's about the thought and the story. If someone said "hey I slapped this together for you" then that wouldn't make you feel so good. But if someone said "hey I made this especially for you" then you would feel better. It's about a total experience. Recipe, story. and taste. It's about old and new ideas. Old ideas like spaghetti and meatballs and newer versions of those classics.
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