Category: contest recipes
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Dark Chocolate Espresso Cream Pie with Amaretto Cherries
Since World Food Championships 2020 in Dallas had to be cancelled due to Covid-19, this year’s WFC is completely virtual. Instead of the usual categories in which we compete, this year’s format allows us to compete in multiple categories and enter multiple recipes (and pictures). For this year’s Holiday Sweets with Hershey’s and Pyure Organics, […]
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Southern Sirloin & Sausage Biscuit Burger
…a sirloin and breakfast sausage patty on a buttermilk biscuit with pepper jelly, bacon, kale-apple-citrus slaw, and a runny fried egg, and it was a hit among the judges and guests.
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Dubliner Egg Rolls with Corned Beef and Cabbage
Inside of my Irish themed egg rolls, we have thinly shredded cabbage, precooked corned beef, and buttery smashed potatoes with a tangy dipping sauce.
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Shrimp Ceviche Salad on Tostadas
it’s not a traditional ceviche recipe since we’re starting with a precooked shrimp, but it’s in the ceviche style and it’s just as refreshing and light for a hot Florida day.
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Sirloin Patty Melt with Balsamic Figs, Onions & Brie
If you’ve never had a patty melt, it’s what happens when a cheeseburger and a grilled cheese have a baby. It’s a cheese burger served on (usually) thick sliced & grilled bread, dripping with cheese, and topped with caramelized onions. Before competing on Cooks vs. Cons, I’d never had one. I knew the principle, but […]
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Spicy Shrimp & Peppers with Pasta
I’ve been baking nearly my entire life, and as I’ve joked, I could bake an award winning cake before I could cook a meal. As it turns out, I’d been competing with the American Pie Council and the National Pie Championship for a couple of years before I ever entered a non-sweet cooking competition. Looking […]
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Six Ten Brewing Chili Cook off
Six Ten Brewing in Tampa is hosting a chili cook-off this weekdend, and the only requirement…Use Six Ten Beer!!! I can do that! Actually, there are 2 requirements…Six Ten Beer and no fillers…No beans, no corn, no rice, no hominy… No Problem! Sooooo….My entry will include Six Ten’s Horchata Stout, Pork, Cinnamon, Mole, and a […]
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Celebrating with Holidays Cape Cod Cranberry Sangria
Since I’ve been of legal drinking age, I’ve loved sangria…Red sangria, white sangria, fruity sangria, dry sangria. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever had a sangria that I didn’t love. So, when it came time to create a beverage using Cape Cod Select Frozen Cranberries, making a sangria was the natural choice. 1 (750ml) […]
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Grilled Pork & Black Bean Asian Stir Fry with #JSLFoods & Fortune Asian Noodles
While in Ireland this summer, I was asked to participate in the Fortune Asian Noodle Blogger Recipe Challenge sponsored by JSL Foods, and my immediate response was an enthusiastic, “YES!” I mean…seriously!?!!? With the growing popularity of Asian noodle bowls, who wouldn’t want to create and test recipes, especially when you get to eat the […]