Got a magnificent mushroom recipe? You could win two pounds of morel mushrooms from Marx Foods!
According to the contest description, Marx Foods is open to "the most simple ideas to complicated epicurean creations." However, they do point out that "sometimes with fresh seasonal items, they should be the star of a dish and not overshadowed with other flavors." My guess is that they will pick something simple that really features the mushrooms, but they could surprise me.
The recipes will be judged on deliciousness (you better hope that the judge has the same taste buds as you) and originality.
The contest deadline is Thursday, May 15th. As the time of this writing, 35 people have entered.
Get all the contest details and submit your entry at Marx Foods.
Everyone has one. A really ugly piece of cookware that they love too much to get rid of but it still embarrassing nonetheless. Mine is my griddle. It was originally an unassuming square of aluminum when I picked it up at a junk store six years ago. Since then it has gotten blackened and worn, with four perfectly seasoned circles where I always cook pancakes. I adore it, but when other people see me cook on it, I start to blush a bit and try to hid it from their gaze as much as possible (however, when they taste pancakes or french toast from my griddle, they chow down happily and are quite willing to ignore the pan from whence their brunch was cooked).
Do you love Peet's coffee? If you answered yes to this question and you can articulate why it is you feel so fondly towards Peet's coffee, then you are well on your way to potentially winning a year's supply of Peet's. They are currently running a contest in which they are asking people to submit stories based on the theme, "Why I Love Peet's Coffee." It can be about an interesting experience you had while in the store or about someone you met while getting a cup of coffee.
The only irritating thing about this contest is that they want you to surrender email addresses from five friends along with your story, which makes the promotion feel a little less cool. However, if you're willing to sell out five friends for a chance to win a year's worth of coffee (I must add that Peet's coffee is quite excellent), then you can find all the official rules and entry info here.
Epicurious and Dawn Direct Foam set out to find the world's messiest dish, and they found it all over the face of 1-year-old Audrey Kaplan. The food all over Audrey's face is spaghetti and meatballs, made by her grandmother, Dorothy.
Dorothy won a flatscreen TV and a year's worth of Dawn Direct Foam for submitting the picture of her very messy granddaughter. It's kind of ironic that this photo won, since Dorothy will presumably not be using Dawn Direct Foam (a dish soap) to clean up her granddaughter (although I'm sure it will do a number on her dishes).
Coolio is back (check out our interview with Coolio here) with another episode of his new cooking show (on My Damn Channel), Cooking with Coolio. This time he is a little bit more family-friendly and safe for viewing at work, as he makes "Spinach Even Your Kids Will Eat." It was nice to see him interact with Ethan in this video and the spinach he cooked up looked pretty darn tasty as well. So far, I'm liking what he's doing.
If you're enjoying watching Cooking with Coolio, consider leaving a video response. The best comment will win an autographed bell pepper. Imagine how much you could get for that thing on eBay!
Valentine's Day is a little more than a week away and so it is time to start celebrating all things chocolate. Our friends over at Culinate are hosting a contest in which they'll be sending both a reader (and their guest) and a food blogger (as well as their guest) to Copia Center'sDeath by Chocolate Festival in Napa Valley. Entering is easy, just head over to the Culinate contest page, sign up and choose your favorite food blogger. You enter yourself when you vote and put your preferred blogger one step closer to winning as well.
Do you like to bake cookies with your kids? Are you interested in going to New York City or winning a $10, 000 savings bond? Well then you may be interested in entering the Second Annual WearEver Extreme Cookie Challenge.
The contest is for a parent/child team, though the child must be between the ages of 5 and 15. WearEver is looking for your "tastiest and most extreme cookie recipes". Five finalist teams will be flown to New York City to compete in the "Cookie-off" In April 2008.
The grand prize is a $10,000 savings bond. The four runners up will each receive a savings bond for $1,000. All finalists get an assortment of WearEver products for lots of baking fun.
You can check out the website for official rules and entry information. The entry deadline has been extended through January 31, 2008. The final deadline is fast approaching, so if this sounds like fun to you then now is your chance!
I have always had a fascination with Asian cooking. When I was younger, I would beg my parents for meals from our local Vietnamese and Thai restaurants and as I got older, any time I had the opportunity to eat out, my preference would be sushi or Pho. Several years ago, I started playing around with learning to cook food that tasted mildly similar to my restaurant favorites (I had particular success with baby bok choy).
If you have a similar culinary obsession to mine, there's a contest going on now that you might want to check it out. It's something of a long shot, but what an amazing trip it will be for the lucky person who wins. Thai Kitchen and Simply Asia are giving away a seven-day trip for two to the winner's choice of one of the following locations: Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; or Bangkok, Thailand. The trip includes air travel, hotel accommodations for six nights, transfers to and from airport and hotel, and even some spending money cash. Sounds like a dream vacation to me.
Even for those who aren't interested in the contest, it's worth checking out the website, as they offer lots of recipes as well as how-to instructional videos with Chef Katie Chin. One of their recipes, for Spicy Pork Noodle Soup, is after the jump.
Competitive eating isn't just for professionals anymore, these days anyone who had a video camera and a few minutes can get in the game. Sweet Sweet Confections, a candy company out of San Jose, CA is currently running a contest in which contestants see how many S'mores bars they can eat in three minutes. Sweet Sweet is offering those bars at 25% off through the contest (which ends September 30th), however even with the discount they are still sort of spendy to be stuffing into your mouth with wild abandon. The winner (many will enter, few will win) will be reimbursed for the cost of their candy and will be awarded a cash prize and free chocolate (although I wonder the winner will even be particularly interested in chocolate after going the distance to win this contest).
Contest alert for all you potato chip lovers out there - Kettle Chips has teamed up with Smart Car and they are holding a contest to win free chips for a year. All you have to do is visit their website and guess how many bags of potato chips they have crammed into a "For Two" Smart Car. Unlike a lot of these "guess how many" contests, they provide a rotating picture of the car so that may make it a little easier for you to count/guess.
They are also taking suggestions for new Kettle Chip flavors, so while you are there you can submit your own ideas - you can come up with something better than Carrot & Coriander or Blue Cheese with Bacon, right?
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.
We always love a good giveaway here at Slashfood, and even if we're not the ones who are doing the giving away, we still like to let our favorite Slashfoodies know about other opportunities.
ThisNext.com is giving away a set of stainless steel cooking utensils from Tovolo.com on their site for participating in their weekly contest. Since summer entertaining is right around the corner, this is the perfect time to stock up on highly-heat-resistant silicone and stainless steel utensils. Here are just a few of the goods in the prize package, but head over to ThisNext.com for the details on how to enter:
Last year, Häagen-Dazs invited consumers to submit their best ice cream flavor ideas for a chance to create the brand's next superstar flavor. The ultra-premium ice cream brand attracted submissions that were a far cry from chocolate and vanilla, and the finalists were featured on a Food Network special about the contest. Sticky Toffee Pudding was chosen as the winning flavor over Toasted Coconut Sesame Brittle and Cannoli ice creams, even though the two runners up seemed to be more popular with the fans than the winning flavor was.
Clearly, however, Häagen-Dazs did pay attention to those interested in the other flavors because they have just released Toasted Coconut Sesame Brittle as part of their new Reserve line. There is no mention of the fact that the flavor was an entry in their last contest - in spite of the fact that it was only a few months ago. Hopefully the woman who submitted the original flavor got some sort of recognition from the company for coming up with the idea...
GroupRecipes, the social networking and recipe-sharing site for foodies, came out in a beta version a few months ago, but is celebrating their official launch this month. As an added bonus for everyone who signs up (don't worry - it's free), you're entered to win $6,000 towards a brand new kitchen! The contest works like this: when you sign up, you get one entry. At the time of your registration, you can refer three of your foodie friends - bloggers, chowhounds, gourmets, etc - and you will get three entries for each one who signs up. When the contest ends on March 7th, a winner will be chosen at random and will get to spend their prize money at Home Depot, Loews or Sears!
And, because we value all your guys as Slashfood readers, you can increase your chances to win by using this link to register. When you do, you'll get five entries instead of one!
What food-lover doesn't want the chance to win a new kitchen? And even if you don't win (and we hope you do!) you'll still get to check out lots of interestingrecipes and meet some great new friends.
The entries for Jif's Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich contest have closed and it looks like all of the participating kids worked really hard to get their entries just right. Jif has compiled the top ten recipes and posted them online where users can vote on their favorite.
The participants range in age from 6-12 and, while some parental help (possibly with knives and cutting) is allowed, these are definitely the kids' creations. The recipes include some really unusual, but creatively shaped "sandwiches," like the Peanut Butter Pool Party Sandwich, which is topped with a blue yogurt "pool" and teddy grahams. Others are more conventional takes on the classic peanut butter sandwich, like the Peanutti Panini, Kirsten's Hot Wrap Apple Breakfast Wrap and French Berry Jif® Toast. Check out all the recipes, especially if you have kids that will like the sense of participating in the contest by becoming recipe testers.
The winning child gets a grand prize $25,000 scholarship fund and four runners-up get $2,500 scholarships.
It sits alone and untouched at the end of a long buffet table -- a bowl full of apples and bananas, maybe a seedy orange tossed in as an afterthought. Don't let your fruit salad meet this awful fate, spruce it up instead!
Do you like to bake cookies with your kids? Are you interested in going to New York City or winning a $10, 000 savings bond? Well then you may be interested in entering the Second Annual WearEver Extreme Cookie Challenge.
I have always had a fascination with Asian cooking. When I was younger, I would beg my parents for meals from our local Vietnamese and Thai restaurants and as I got older, any time I had the opportunity to eat out, my preference would be sushi or Pho. Several years ago, I started playing around with learning to cook food that tasted mildly similar to my restaurant favorites (I had particular success with baby bok choy). 
Competitive eating isn't just for professionals anymore, these days anyone who had a video camera and a few minutes can get in the game. 
Contest alert for all you potato chip lovers out there - 
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 
Last year, Häagen-Dazs invited consumers to submit their best ice cream flavor ideas for a chance to create the brand's next superstar flavor. The ultra-premium ice cream brand attracted submissions that were a far cry from chocolate and vanilla, and the finalists were featured on a Food Network special about the contest. 
The entries for Jif's 
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