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You guys sound like a bunch a kids that got their toys taken away on the playground. The Bake Off Rules simply state - bring a recipe to the table and bake it! Your baked goods will be judged and the prize awarded. It doesn't say you have to "FORK & TINES” or that you can not use "premade shortcuts" or any of the other horrible things you guys have said. Shame on all of you!

I bake cookies with the kids across the street all of the time. When you are bake with 4 to 6 kids under the age of 7 they don't want to "FORK & TINES" they just want QUICK cookies and into the oven. Of course they want them to taste yummy at the end. As for the person that said "My only problem is the recipe didn't specify salted or unsalted peanuts; I made them with salt and the sweet/salty" maybe you should enter it next year who knows you might win. The gal or guy who wrote ... Off the top of my head I got: Listerine strips, Junior Mints, Sour patch kids, Andes mints (the free ones at Luby's), MSG, Flintstone vitamins, Grape Dimetapp, the same dough that you're wrapping it in, sunflower seeds, granola bar, assorted starbursts, maybe an air cookie, Rolos, sweet and sour duck sauce, and a tryptophan cookie...well that is just sick. I guess you think all of that was funny, but the funny was the "hiding a ball of peanut butter in a peanut butter cookie" But it DID WIN!

Where has our joy for the winner gone - the celebration of the ideas of the cooks? Regardless of how simple they might be. If you don't like the "hiding a ball of peanut butter in a peanut butter cookie" enter something yourself. Frankly for me - I'm to busy having fun baking cookies with the neighbors kids. Why not send a note simply saying have fun spending your $1,000,000.

I just had to tell all of you that I was very disappointed in your comments!

Remember all of us cooks have to stick together isn’t that what it is all about?

I depends on what I have around the house and my mood. I LOVE chicken salad period!! But my usual is (of course) chicken diced, mayo, white pepper, lemon juice, lemon pepper, tarragon, diced celery, onion (green or purple) and sometimes I will add cashews or other times curry powder. But my favorite all time chicken salad is from a restaurant chain called Breugger's Bagels, they have the best chicken salad I have ever eaten. Now for the sad part (sniff sniff) they pulled all the Breugger's out of the Pac. Northwest, so I can't have it anymore. Anyone live near a Breugger's? hint hint........

Red Grape, blueberry and almond chicken salad.
http://expatriateskitchen.blogspot.com/2007/04/taute-cusine-red-grape-blueberry-and.html

My recipe is kind of purist. Hellman's mayo, diced green pepper and salt and pepper to taste. The trick is to shred the chicken (all wite meat), not dice it and to add the mayo when the chicken is still very warm. This way, the chicken sucks up the mayo instead of floating in it. Also, resist the urge to boil the chicken. Try roasting bone-in breasts with the skin on (ala Ina Garten). The result is much juicier chicken.

This is very helpful. I've seen the organic codes, but never GMO. Guess I'll have to check the produce section of a huge supermarket if I want to catch a glimpse.

you really don't have to remember even that much though, because any organic item will almost always say "organic" on the sticker along with the PLU code

i have yet to see a GMO item though.. and since i work at Whole Foods Market, i thankfully never will lol

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I have to admit, mine is the best I've eaten. I just use a yellow cornbread mix (usually Martha White), add Pace's Picante Sauce, grated cheddar cheese and whole kernal corn. Extra cheese goes on top. Yuuummmy! For restaurant cornbread, it has to be Mama's Daughter's Diner in Lewisville, Texas.

Jiffy Mix made in a preheated cast iron skillet, greased with some bacon drippings. I love the crusty brown portion! Gotta eat it with real BUTTER! Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!

My favorite was my mother's homemade cornbread. She's gone now...sure wish I'd gotten her recipe.

Both my husband and I love corn bread, this looks like a great book, it's the first I have heard of it. Oh and of course I make it the best!

I use the one on the Alber's cornmeal box and my north carolinian girlfirend's tip: melt the butter in the baking dish before you pour in the batter. Perfect, every time.