The July Recipe Contest Has Begun!

1st Prize – $50 Foodie Kitchen Gift Certificate
2nd Prize – $30 Foodie Kitchen Gift Certificate
3rd Prize – $20 Foodie Kitchen Gift Certificate

If you don’t spend much time cooking indoors in the summer, you’re a whiz at making original easy-to-pack snacks, or you know just how to turn a neighborhood favorite into your own creation, you will love this month’s recipe contest.

THE CATEGORIES:

Category One: GIVE YOUR STOVE A VACATION
Preparing meals that don’t heat up your kitchen – using an outdoor grill or your favorite no-cook method.

Category Two: HOMEMADE TO-GO SNACKS
Snacks you can throw in the picnic basket or in your kid’s backpack.

Category Three: UNIQUELY SUMMER IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
This month, in honor of good old American ingenuity, the final category is Uniquely Summer In Your Neighborhood. Send us the recipe that most represents a dish that is unique to your region in the summertime.

Here are a few helpful hints to submitting a winning recipe:
Recipe should be original, as in you created it, or modified someone else’s to make it truly your own.

The judges here are easily won over by dishes with lively and deep flavors – think chilies, ginger, dark chocolate, herbs and spices of all kinds.  Using seasonal ingredients will definitely get our attention.  Including a picture of the dish is always a good idea.

Contest deadline is JULY 15, 2010.  Please be sure to get all the details on how to enter, rules, fine print, etc on our contest page here.
Good luck!