Day 10 - Just What the Doctor Ordered

Woohoo! I'm super thrilled about expecting our 2nd baby, but this back pain has been insane and has put a real kink in my culinary contest efforts. My OB gave me a referral for physical therapy. I'm super excited because in the time it took for me to make 3 contest entries today, my back and bum are out of commission tonight!

So first up is my supper yummy "Glocal Pizza". I created and filmed it for Pizza Fusion. However it is not yet up on their voting site and I can not get anyone to respond to my inquiries. But that is for another paragraph (see further below). It is a super yummy organic pizza that can be made in your kitchen in the same time, if not quicker, than those processed pizza delivery guys! Please try it.. It will change your dependency on tomato sauce and it will thrill your taste-buds! Here is the video..

Next is my "Be Thankful Everyday Cupcakes/Muffins". The premise was to create a meal or dessert with mix starter. I used a pumpkin spice bread mix. I would love to get this country on pumpkin 365 days a year! Pumpkin is soo awesome.. Here is the recipe & photo..

And I also did a run through of my side dish for Paula. It is called "Isabelle's Mean Green". It is awesome. It will make your other side dishes cry in embarrassment. Everyone in this house loves it. You will be inclined to want to eat the whole thing.. it's okay, I won't tell. Recipe and video will be up tomorrow.

Day 9 - When Paula Doesn't Call, Make Lemonade

or rather, make some spicy hot mini corndogs...

Here is my recipe

Until tomorrow..

Day 8 - Day of Rest

Well I didn't exactly rest today, but I didn't do too much contest culinary related. Wrote a few recipes and edited my timeline for entering contests.. but that's about it.

Until tomorrow..

Day 7 - Get in the Chitchen and Make me a Smamich

Sorry, inside joke with my mum. Let's just say we saw a scrapbook page on display with that as the title. It doesn't take much to amuse us.

Dinner tonight was a contest entry. You had to incorporate All Bran or a similar healthy cereal into a quick, but healthy dinner. Yeah, right was my first thought. All Bran? I wouldn't eat that by choice for breakfast let alone be able to incorporate it into a dinner that I would serve my family. But then I thought if I thought it was impossible,then what better challenge?

My shtick is I usually tend to spice things up..and that's what I did with this one. There are lots of great spices and my go-to gal, Tabasco.

Like I said, I thought that any type of dinner with cereal..bran cereal, would taste like cardboard. But these are *awesome*! We had them tonight with spicy mustard dip and potato salad. They rock! Even my toddler who hates meat (much to my husband, the hunter's chagrin) devoured these.

I'm so proud that I was able to create a dish that is really tasty and healthy. You get a power punch of fiber and protein!

And here it is...

And of course, if you would take the time to vote for it.. I'd be so grateful :D

Until tomorrow..

Day 6 - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

Aha, YouTube laughs when you are busy making plans..That is when you have a few hours on the last day of a contest week to upload the entries. With my MIL in town, it was too ambitious to try to do 4 Paula Deen videos plus my Bacardi 1.

Alas.. I have 3 out of 5 uploaded on YouTube.

And I have all 4 recipes written on the Paula Deen site.

I'm hoping I can enter the other 2 on the last week of desserts (which is 4 weeks and is the VERY last week of the contest.. If I haven't been called by then, I'll be sweatin' beads of cream cheese!)

Not sure how the Bacardi one will fare. If I had read the rules throughly, I would have understood that YouTube watchers vote - and they have till tomorrow to vote. So I waited till the day before?!? I would adore you forever if you would vote for me (Pink Pucker Frosty) and if you begged everyone in your email contact list to vote for me too. Alas, we shall see..

Few contest on tap this week..

So until tomorrow...

Day 5 - Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing

Let's just say I've spent the better part of the day dreaming and creating recipes when I was supposed to be on another task. Let's leave it at that, m'kay..

Today I created my:

Who You Callin' Mini Weenie Corndog with Hot Mayo for the Dude Food contest (couldn't find it in the rules that you had to be a testrone charged male to enter.. so we'll see..)

Spicy Sweet Brie appetizer. Sadness. Can't try this for myself till post baby. Ah the things we do for our children..

Thai Chicken Pizza. I *love* thai chicken pizza, but Utah has not discovered this joy. So folks, this one that will be used quite a bit in my own kitchen regardless of if I win the contest. My stomache says this is a winner, and that is that!

And a boring warm spinach chicken strawberry salad. It's so lackluster and boring I could cry. I have to rethink this one quite a bit.. It doesn't scream "ME" at all.. Sad.

Tonight I'll be doing my last test for the Paul Deen desserts - a naughty pumpkin empanda. This is a nod to one of my favorite movies, "The Waitress". Love the story and can't wait to try these in my mouth!

Until tomorrow..

Day 4 - Yum, yum, and yum

Let me just say if Ms. Paula Deen doesn't fall in love with my Chocolate Chipotle Empanada or my Mango Lime Empanada or my Triple Berry Chocolate Brownies.. Well then there is something wrong in Savannah! These are sooo good. And sooo easy! People, I can't wait to upload the recipes for you to try!

And today was quite busy, so the only other recipe I attempted is my Tropical Bellini.

Now just try to tell me that doesn't look like the most refreshing wine cocktail!!