Locally Grown Recipe Contest: You Can Cook Here!
We’ve been getting some good entries in our Locally Grown Recipe Contest. But to encourage more of you to enter, I thought I’d share a couple of the photos I took last night at Valley at the Garrison, where our reader cook-off will be held.
On Tuesday, Sept. 4, four semifinalists will prepare their recipes for the judges  in this sleek professional kitchen. Check it:
The semifinalists will cook their recipes for me, chef Jeff Raider of Valley â€â€
 and Maryann Hedrick of mypersonalfarmers.com.
We’ll judge who is the winner. Best part? All four of the semifinalists are winners. Each one will get a gift certificate to mypersonalfarmers.com, and the grand prize is a $300 dinner at Valley and a $300 gift cert to mypersonalfarmers.com.
But all four cooks get to go back to Valley for a dinner on Thursday, Sept. 6 to find out the winner. (The dinner is also a fundraiser for the Cold Spring Farmers Market, so you can even talk to some of the people who raise the food you’re cooking with!)
And did I mention you can cook in this kitchen?
Plus, we’ll be shooting the cookoff for RNN and writing a feature for The Journal News, so semifinalists are guaranteed to be local celebs, too!
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I think me and my cast iron cookware would be out of place.
No way! You should enter, Steve. You can take your cast iron pot along!
I cook because I love to cook. Not to compete with… if its a speed thing ro something like that, I wont win. If its a pretty pretty plate thing I also may not win. I dont “dress” plates.
Do they want whole meals or just entrees??? I have a few loin recipes, where i use local apples. and some other recipes… oh i looked at the recipe thing. But pretty much I coook with whatever ingredients I get my hands on. I dont have time to go out of my way for specialty ingredients. sigh
so is it too late? can i enter? i could ask my wife which of my recipes i should divulge.
Enter! http://www.lohud.com/locallygrown