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Food for Thought: Fan the flame on your hot recipes
By Loretto J. Hulse, Herald staff writer
Are you or someone you know fired up over cooking?
If so -- and if you happen to put out fires for a living -- the McIlhenny Co., maker of Tabasco hot sauces, has a contest for you.
The fifth annual Cook & Ladder Competition is open to firefighters nationwide -- fulltime and volunteer.
There are six categories -- appetizers, soups, salads, entres, side dishes and desserts. Recipes must be original and include at least one of the company's six pepper sauces.
Entries will be judged on originality and creativity, taste, use of Tabasco sauce, recipe clarity and presentation.
Top prize is $10,000 to be divided evenly between the contestant and his/her firehouse. Ten finalists will be chosen to participate in a cook-off in New York City next year.
There's just one catch -- entries are due by Oct. 31. Entry forms and contest rules are available at www.tabasco.com. Print it out, attach your recipe and a photo of the completed dish and drop it in the mail quick.
Markets closing
Saturday is the last day of the year for many of the farmers markets in the Mid-Columbia including those in Pasco, Ephrata and Moses Lake.
The Walla Walla Farmers Market will close for the season with an End of Harvest Festival from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Free and tasty recipes
This year's holiday recipe brochure featuring "Holiday Classics with a Twist," contains perforated recipe cards for five holiday sweets. Each recipe card contains a color photo of the finished recipe and complete baking instructions.
Download the brochure at www.landolakes.com or call 800-837-7702 through Dec. 31 and request a brochure be mailed by leaving your name and address on the voice mail.
While at the Land O'Lakes website, check out their free cooking and baking recipes, how-to videos, holiday menus and free downloadable holiday gift labels and coloring sheets.
New read
The book: The Mixer Bible: Over 300 Recipes for Your Stand Mixer by Carla Snyder and Meredith Deeds.
Cost: $28
Best for: Learning how to use your stand mixer and its attachments to do everything from grinding meat to slicing veggies to stuffing sausages. The cookbook has more than 300 recipes.
Get more: Read more book reviews and literature news in Sunday's Desert Living.
*Loretto J. Hulse: 582-1513; lhulse@tricityherald.com. To receive a recipe via e-mail each Tuesday register at tricityherald.com and click on newsletters. If you already are registered, click on edit account and newsletters to select Recipe of the Week. This exclusive recipe does not appear in the newspaper.
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