Pilsbury Bake-Off
I heard the most interesting piece on NPR this morning. The winner of the 1998 Pilsbury Bake-Off has written a book about the experience. I've been kind of dismissive of the concept because of its "semi-homemadeness" (not that I'm a total Sandra Lee hater), but the woman in the piece was such a good interview, very self-deprecating and shocked that she'd won with her recipe for Salsa Couscous Chicken. Has anyone ever entered or considered entering this contest? I can't say that I'm much of a creator of recipes of my own, especially with pre-packaged ingredients, but she did bring her experience to life in a humorous way.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89530790
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8 Comments:
Some of us start off in that world, and end up in this one. I used a lot of Hamburger Helper decades ago. It wasn't until my kids were in high school that I began to realy be able to try really--I really don't like this word when it applies to food; it sounds too Puritanical--serious food in my kitchen. (Logistics and finance, not lack of interest, believe me.)
lemons at 4:42PM on 04/11/08
Isn't the grand prize like a million dollars? I'd love to come up with a winning recipe. My only hesitation is that now that I actually have the time for something like this, I'm no longer physically able to do what is probably necessary to compete. Sometimes, life isn't fair.
PerkyMac at 4:53PM on 04/11/08
Last year I thought about it, but got distracted. This year I simply forgot about it. But who among us could not put aside some principles for a million dollars? I' m going to try for next year!!
Mich23 at 5:16PM on 04/11/08
I took a recipe I'd created and "dumbed it down" by using as many contest-approved products as possible.
It was still pretty good, but I obviously didn't win $ 1 mil!
(or I wouldn't be sitting here now)(in 8" of fresh blowing snow)(atop the 24" of snow we got this past weekend!)(in Northern MN)
srhcb at 5:23PM on 04/11/08
The last winner is a food blogger- Anna from Cookie Madness
www.cookiemadness.net
And this year, another food blogger I know is in the contest. Very exciting.
http://rahchachow.blogspot.com/
ErikaWaz at 6:46PM on 04/11/08
I haven't entered that one (yet) but have entered others and won. A trip to the Superbowl in New Orleans in 2002 for a warm mushroom dip, our local Peach Festival recipe contest & Thermadore Ovens 50th Anniversary cookbook, a recipe for each state. On sale on Amazon.com
It's fun entering, you never know maybe that big prize will be yours!!
joanpieroni2 at 9:16PM on 04/11/08
WOW Joan..........very impressive!!! Congrats and keep at it. Wouldn't that grand prize be something?
PerkyMac at 9:36PM on 04/11/08
amy sutherland wrote a pretty entertaining book about cooking contests called cookoff.
cybercita at 9:46PM on 04/11/08