Recipe Contest - Pasta Casserole - win $500!

[housewolf]

Hey DU'ers - I'll be somebody from here could win this!

:popcorn:


Reader Recipe Contests: Win $500!

Every issue of Cook’s Country will feature two recipe contests. The winner gets $500 and has his or her recipe published in the magazine along with recipes from several runners-up.

What we're looking for now:
Cook's Country, the sister magazine of Cook's Illustrated, is looking for homemade Pasta Casserole recipes. Send us your pasta casserole recipe, and If it's published, you will win $500 and a one-year complimentary subscription
to Cook's Country magazine. Your recipe will also appear in the February/March issue.

Send your recipes to [e-mail]. The deadline is July 1, 2005. Please include the title of the recipe, "Pasta Casseroles", in the subject line of your e-mail. Please also tell us a bit about why your recipe is special to you and your family. Also make sure to include your name, address, and daytime phone number.

We look forward to reading--and tasting--your recipes!

If you prefer to mail your entries by post, please send them to:

Cook’s Country
P.O. BOX 470739
Brookline, MA 02447

All grand prize winners will receive $500. All runners-up will receive a one-year subscription to Cook's Country. All entries become the property of Cook’s Country.

http://www.cooksillustrated.com/cookscountry/contests.html

[eleny]

1. I missed your posting somehow!

Hmmm... So this could be any kind of pasta. At first, I was thinking of elbows and tuna and cream of whatever soups. But then bow tie pasta came to mind and other ingredients. Such a basic dish - the casserole with pasta but my knees are weak over trying to think of something that's "jump out of your socks" different.

[housewolf]

4. You have about 6 weeks to come up with something

I'll bet you could do it

[Stinky The Clown]

2. I wonder if they're looking for scratch stuff or one of those ......

...... 'back-o-the-box' kinda things ...... can of some soup, some durkee's onion rings, etc., etc.

We did a tuna noodle casserole from scratch a while back cuz Sparkly Jr likes it and I wanted to show her the real deal. It exceeded everyone's expectations. It involved everyting from scratch ... egg noodles, bechamel base, fresh shelled peas, gilled fresh tuna .... the whole magilla.

[housewolf]

3. The magazine is a new spin-off from Cooks Illustrated

so I expect they're looking for "real thing" kind of recipes, not the canned soup kind of thing. I was especially thinking about your asperagus pasta that you posted here a few weeks ago...


:donut:

[Stinky The Clown]

6. The asparagus pasta wouldn't really be a casserole, would it?

By the way, did you try it?

[housewolf]

10. No, I guess it wouldn't exactly be a casserole

but it made me think you had the creativity to come up with a winning entry...


No,I haven't made the asparagus pasta. I live alone so I don't do a lot of main-dish cooking.... sad to say

[eleny]

5. From scratch casseroles are so good!

Each one is different from the one before. Like my mom's soups that were made with what she had on hand. I hope you submit a recipe to the contest!

[Stinky The Clown]

7. I'm kiinda thinking about it.

Back when we (my partners and me) used to do a newsletter, we often included recipes. I'm wondering if I can actually even qualify. I might be considered a professional, even though I haven't boiled water for money in more than 30 years.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. Yummmmmmmm

You just made me drool. :9

I did a similar scratch tuna casserole once but with regular egg noodles in a bag. My son, who's a tuna casserole freak, said for all the work involved he'd rather I just go back to the regular pre-fab version. It was a nice change for me tho.

I haven't made a pasta casserole other than the tuna thingy in a while. Lately, I like my pasta with just olive oil, garlic, maybe some parsley and lotsa grated cheese.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

9. I've never entered a baking contest.

It might be fun. Unfortunately I have tons of stuff going on in the next few weeks & (most important) I'm no where talented enough to do it.

Are you going to try? Have you ever entered a contest before? I'll bet you'd be good.

best

[housewolf]

11. I don't think it's for me...

No, I've never entered a cooking contest. I live alone so I don't do much main-dish cooking, plus I'm not really creative when it comes to combining ingredients. I'm much more of a "recipe reader" kind of cook.

I'm sure there is SOMEONE here who could win it, though...