Thanksgiving your way! Recipe Challenge
Celebrate Thanksgiving your way!
Thanks for Sharing the Thanksgiving challenge!
Welcome to the 7th recipe challenge organized on Very Good Recipes!
It has been a very long time since the last recipe challenge on Very Good Recipes, I hope you did not miss them too much and that you will enjoy this one!
There is also a Thanksgiving challenge on the French version of Very Good Recipes, Recettes de Cuisine. We thought it would be a great idea to bring it to Very Good Recipes as well,
so here it is!
We will also organize a new Very Good Recipes challenge next month (December), if you would like to be one of the judges,
please add me on Facebook and send me a message there so that I can add you to the judges group.
The theme for this challenge has been selected by 12 food bloggers who have kindly accepted to be the judges for the challenge.
Each judge is also presenting his or her own recipe of the theme they selected. The judges will select the winners at the end of the challenge (and of course they cannot win).
The Judges
The judges for this month are food bloggers with blogs in French, next month we will hopefully have judges from all over the world :-)
Theme: Thanksgiving your way!
On the fourth Thursday of November (November 28th in 2013), Americans celebrate Thanksgiving: an opportunity to join family and friends for a great dinner and to think about
all the great things that happened to us during the year. Traditionally the Thanksgiving dinner features dishes such as roasted turkey with cranberry sauce, gravy, mashed sweet potatoes, corn, pumpkin pie, pecan pie etc.
The judges for the challenge invite you to celebrate Thanksgiving, even if you do not live in America, in your own way! You could for instance take a traditional Thanksgiving recipe and substitute or add an
ingredient from where you live or that you love to cook. Or you can do the reverse and take a traditional dish from where you live and give it an American touch. Let's mix cultures and traditions!
Of course you do not have to cook turkey to participate in this challenge, all the other ingredients, desserts and vegetarian recipes are also very welcomed!
Participating
The challenge is open to everyone, whether you have a food blog or not.
In order to participate, you need to enter a Thanksgiving recipe.
- If you have a food blog registered on Very Good Recipes, you just need to publish your recipe on your blog with a link to the challenge page https://verygoodrecipes.com/thanksgiving-challenge in the text of your recipe.
It will then be automatically listed on this page. (if you don't see it after 30 minutes, please e-mail me)
- If you have a food blog (or a blog with a recipe category or label) but are not yet registered on Very Good Recipes, you can register in 30 seconds.
- If you do not have a blog, you can participate by sending me your recipe with one or more pictures. I will publish your recipe on Very Good Recipe's blog so that it can be
displayed on the challenge page.
Rules:
- There must be at least one picture in your recipe, and both the recipe and picture need to be your own. If your recipe is inspired by another, please mention it in your recipe.
- You cannot use an already published recipe to participate in the challenge, you need to publish a new recipe (otherwise there's no challenge!)
- We would love to have participations from all around the world, including from blogs in languages other than English. Please do include an English translation of your recipe in your post though. :-) If you need help with the translation (proofreading etc.),
we will be glad to help if we can.
- You can participate with at most 3 recipes.
You can participate from November 14th 2013 until December 7th 2013 included.
Prizes
The judges will select the winning recipes.
1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place
I will offer one ore more cookbooks of their choice to each of the 3 winners (up to $30 value). Shipped to your place wherever you are!
I am looking for sponsors to offer prizes for the next challenges. If you have contacts of potential sponsors who could offer cool prizes (or if you would like to offer a prize yourself), Please let me know!
Laurels and badge
All the participants will receive a badge with laurels that will be displayed on Very Good Recipes (on their page and in the huge list of food blogs). You can also display it on your blog or your challenge recipe if you want to.
Winners will get gold, silver and bronze laurels.
Have fun!
Thanks a lot to the judges to make this challenge possible!
I hope you will enjoy the challenge and that many of you will participate! Have fun!
Results
The judges have selected the winning recipes:
1st place
India’s Unique Flavors for Thanksgiving Day…The Turkey & Sauces
By Peri's Spice Ladle
2nd place
Mulled Wine Cranberry Sauce & Pumpkin Cornbread
By Wandercrush
3rd place
Sweet Potato Bake
By Cuisine Addict
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks a lot to all the participants and the judges!
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