It’s time for The Chef’s Challenge! Remember… last day to enter for a chance to win a custom recipe is July 31. If this is your first time visiting or you missed the announcement post, see the details from that post below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Before entering your custom recipe entry, please read carefully the requirements for entries, highlighted in green below:
Announcement Post from July 3, 2012 ~ With instructions for entering to win (highlighted in green below):
Are you a parent who’s tired of fighting food battles? Is there a certain food you’d like to incorporate more of into your diet but you haven’t found a way to eat it yet that appeals to you? Do you have food restrictions due to health challenges or food sensitivities/allergies and struggle to find new recipes to try that incorporate ingredients you can have? Are you pregnant with cravings for certain foods and would love to have a new recipe created with you in mind to help satisfy those cravings?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then The Chef’s Challenge is an event you don’t want to miss! Here’s how it will work.
You write a post, highlighting The Chef’s Challenge event, and publish it on your blog anytime between now and July 31.Â
You MUST include the following in the post:1- A key ingredient that is a favorite or one you would like to add more of into your diet and what type of recipe you prefer: main dish, side dish, etc. This ingredient MUST be one that is readily available in any grocery store. (We don’t want to make The Chef’s Challenge next to impossible.)Â2- Ingredients you would NOT want to be in the recipe. These would be things that you don’t like, cannot have due to health issues or that are problematic for you, through food allergy or sensitivity.3- Types of flavors or foods you generally like, such as robust flavors, sweet, salty, sour or bitter.4- Tell us who this recipe is for. If it is for a child, you must include the child’s age. Please share with us the story behind your desire for this recipe… food battle, favorite food, allergy/sensitivity, etc.5- Somewhere in the post, you must include a statement letting your readers know this post is a part of The Chef’s Challenge. It can be this statement or something similar:Come join me at The Chef’s Challenge at The Saturday Evening Pot, where I am participating for a chance to win a custom recipe based on a key ingredient and specifications I provide!
Also, do you think any of you readers might like to enter? Let them know about the event if they missed your post: Copy and paste the code below this event button to place the button into your blog sidebar:
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Don’t have a blog but would like to participate? Of course you can! Follow us on Facebook here, then click here to post your request on the Event Wall. Please then share the event (see “share” button in top right corner of Event Wall on Facebook) on your Facebook wall to help spread the word should any of your friends be interested in participating.
On July 15, we will update this post with an InLinkz link-up, and you can come link your post between July 15 and July 31. On August 4, we will announce the winner of the custom recipe, randomly selected from the entries. The Chef will then create a recipe based on information from the post and we will publish the recipe, with a link to the winner’s event post on his/her blog, no later than November 1.
Depending on the level of participation, we may select one each quarter for four consecutive quarters, or if The Chef decides to continue creating custom recipes, there may be additional drawings during subsequent quarters until further notice. Who knows… this can evolve based on the response, but guaranteed, there will be at least one custom recipe provided! Stay tuned (subscribe to receive free updates in your inbox or follow us on Twitter or Facebook) for further details.
Following are some examples of custom recipes The Chef has created in the past. When we first started this blog in January 2011, we were talking about how popular Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka had become in the United States. The Chef loves cooking with alcohol, so I asked him what might pair well with it if he were to experiment cooking with it. And so one of our first recipes, Peach and Sweet Tea Vodka-Glazed Pork Tenderloin, was born! It is delicious and combines two flavors prominent in the South. See what the “food critics” have said about it here.
Example 2 would be a guest post we wrote for My Sweet and Savory with the recipe, Quinoa with Roasted Vegetables and Balsamic Vinegar. This recipe was developed by The Chef out of my desire for a good recipe with quinoa. We had been unfamiliar with quinoa until our family experienced an Elimination Diet. It was one of the limited number of foods we could have during the strictest phase (1) of the diet. At first, we liked the flavor. But I quickly grew tired of it. It was such a strong and different kind of flavor, I got to wondering if it would taste better if paired with other flavors I knew I liked, such as balsamic vinegar and sun-dried tomatoes, strong flavors that would overpower, but compliment, the strength of the quinoa flavor. The end result was amazing! When I shared about this recipe with someone looking for quinoa recipes, she said, “How awesome that you can have your hubster ‘create’ for you!” Now you can have that opportunity, too.
The final example is a recipe that The Chef created out of frustration that he and I love his Crockpot Pot Roast but our children won’t eat it yet due to the texture of the roast. So he decided to use hamburger, an ingredient they will eat and attempted to create the same flavors combined with the hamburger, potatoes and carrots. The end result was Crockpot Hamburger Soup, and it was popular immediately in our family and with our readers.
With that, be thinking about what kind of recipe you’d like to have, and we will “see you” back here between July 15 and July 31. We look forward to reading your requests and stories!
If you would like to sponsor a giveaway prize for this event,please notify us through our contact form and we will be in touch to further discuss details.ÂThank you!
More great ideas: Tip Me Tuesday, Titus 2sdays, Works for Me Wednesday, Women Living Well Wednesday, The Mommy Club , The Alabaster Jar
About the Author
Raised in eastern North Carolina, The Chef has always most loved southern cuisine. While working for a top resort just after finishing Culinary School at Johnson and Wales University, when they still had a campus located in Charleston, South Carolina, he began learning about Gullah cuisine and enjoys it as well. He's a family man and country boy at heart, loves hunting and is a big fan of the John Boy and Billy Big Show and the Carolina Panthers.
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