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Food for Thought: Beefy contest attracts state cooks
By Loretto J. Hulse, Herald staff writer
Tonight, when you're making dinner, consider this: Is what you're throwing together worth $25,000?
It could be if your dish was built around beef and you'd entered the 28th annual National Beef Cook-Off earlier this year.
Two amateur cooks from Washington don't have to wonder. They'll know for sure in just a few hours where their cooking skills rate.
Elizabeth Bennett of Mill Creek and Morgan Hanrahan of Olympia are finalists in two different categories in the national cook-off today in Sonoma, Calif.
There are only 15 finalists, their recipes chosen from the thousands of entries sent in by cooks nationwide. So it's unusual to have two from our state.
Both their recipes are for steak salads. But where Hanrahan was inspired by the flavors of Southeast Asia, Bennett stayed closer to home tossing in handfuls of garden fresh veggies and nutritious butter beans and punching it all up with fresh basil.
Who will take the grand prize? Check www.beefcookoff.org in the next day or two and you too can put a $25,000 dinner on the table this week.
Children's fundraiser
The 24th annual Columbia Valley Harvest Ball will be held Oct. 24 at the Pasco Red Lion Hotel.
Dinner will feature Mid-Columbia products and wines, an auction and dancing to Seattle's BrickHouse Band. The cost is $100 per person.
Proceeds will go to the Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Foundation.
For reservations, call Tamara Redinger, 509-460-0172, by Oct. 10.
New read
The book: Make-Ahead Meals for Busy Moms by Jane Doiron
Cost: $17.95
Best for: Over 140 recipes perfect for freezing, pre-assembling or quick reheating so busy families can plan dinners when they're ready, not when feeling pressured and stressed out.
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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