I won a Major Award.
After my neighbor, Dorothy, won the GRAND PRIZE in the Better Homes and Gardens recipe contest, I've been thinking I've got to come up with a way to make some sweet moola of my own. So I entered the CorningWare Lite recipe contest and was notified a week ago that I was one of six finalists!
The grand prize? 5,000 smackeroos!!!! The prize for runner-ups: some bakeware from down to the Corning.
All week I've been thinking about what I'd do with $5,000. 
I decided after paying tithing I'd put it all in savings, except I'd buy this beautiful little puppy so that I could make huge batches of cookies for all my friends AND so that it could sit out on my counter at all times so's I could look at it and just be happy.
I decided after paying tithing I'd put it all in savings, except I'd buy this beautiful little puppy so that I could make huge batches of cookies for all my friends AND so that it could sit out on my counter at all times so's I could look at it and just be happy.Today I was notified by Richard, the contest administrator, that....I'm a runner up. Yep. Got some corningware Lite coming my way!
My recipe: New Mexican Shepherd's Pie, which calls back to my hip-swingin' days when I LIVED La Vida la Loca in Santa Fe! This is a favorite for Joel and I because it reminds us of when we was eating green chili's on everything and going to art museums and cultural festivals about every week.
Here's the winning recipe, if you're interested:
1 lb. lean ground turkey
½ cup onion, diced
1- 15 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed
1- 15 oz. can diced Mexican-style tomatoes
½ tsp. cumin
½ tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. granulated beef bouillon
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. pepper
5 russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 tbsp. Butter Buds Sprinkles
1 cup fat free sour cream
Salt and pepper to taste
2 yellow summer squash, cubed
1 zucchini, cubed
1- 10 oz. can green mild enchilada sauce
1- 4 oz. can diced mild green chilies
1 cup reduced fat mozzarella or queso fresco, shredded or crumbled
In a large pot, heat salted water to boiling. Boil potatoes until tender.
In a large skillet over medium-high heat add ground turkey, onion, cumin, chili powder, beef bouillon, salt and pepper. When meat is about three-fourths of the way browned, add beans and tomatoes. When meat is thoroughly cooked and liquid from tomatoes is reduced by half, remove from heat and strain turkey mixture, reserving liquid. Spread turkey mixture into the bottom of a 3 quart casserole dish.
In the same large skillet, cook summer squash and zucchini in reserved liquid until translucent and toasty-looking, cooking in batches if necessary. Spread squash in another layer over turkey mixture in casserole dish.
When potatoes are tender, strain most of the water out of the pot. But leave ½ to 1 cup of water in the pot and mash potatoes with a masher or hand mixer. Add butter buds, sour cream and salt and pepper to taste. Spread potatoes over squash in casserole dish.
Mix together enchilada sauce and green chilies and pour over potatoes.
Sprinkle cheese over enchilada sauce and bake uncovered in a 350 degree oven for about 30 minutes, or until enchilada sauce is bubbly and cheese looks toasty.
Serve warm.
½ cup onion, diced
1- 15 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed
1- 15 oz. can diced Mexican-style tomatoes
½ tsp. cumin
½ tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. granulated beef bouillon
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. pepper
5 russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 tbsp. Butter Buds Sprinkles
1 cup fat free sour cream
Salt and pepper to taste
2 yellow summer squash, cubed
1 zucchini, cubed
1- 10 oz. can green mild enchilada sauce
1- 4 oz. can diced mild green chilies
1 cup reduced fat mozzarella or queso fresco, shredded or crumbled
In a large pot, heat salted water to boiling. Boil potatoes until tender.
In a large skillet over medium-high heat add ground turkey, onion, cumin, chili powder, beef bouillon, salt and pepper. When meat is about three-fourths of the way browned, add beans and tomatoes. When meat is thoroughly cooked and liquid from tomatoes is reduced by half, remove from heat and strain turkey mixture, reserving liquid. Spread turkey mixture into the bottom of a 3 quart casserole dish.
In the same large skillet, cook summer squash and zucchini in reserved liquid until translucent and toasty-looking, cooking in batches if necessary. Spread squash in another layer over turkey mixture in casserole dish.
When potatoes are tender, strain most of the water out of the pot. But leave ½ to 1 cup of water in the pot and mash potatoes with a masher or hand mixer. Add butter buds, sour cream and salt and pepper to taste. Spread potatoes over squash in casserole dish.
Mix together enchilada sauce and green chilies and pour over potatoes.
Sprinkle cheese over enchilada sauce and bake uncovered in a 350 degree oven for about 30 minutes, or until enchilada sauce is bubbly and cheese looks toasty.
Serve warm.
I WON a major award, people! Don't be cryin' over the green apple Kitchenaid mixer eggs that you were counting before they hatched! Be grateful that I won a Major Award!
I've never had fancy bakeware such as down to the Corning. What does one bake in such dishes?
8 comments:
That's awesome! Congrats!! I'll have to try your award winning recipi-dad.
Holy cow, Beth! YOU WON A MAJOR AWARD!. Probably if you had said demispoon instead of teaspoon in your recipe you would have aced it.... next time?
Oh I remember that shepherd's pie. I think I ordered it at the restaurant was it called Blue Corn? or something to that effect? Blue coyote howing at a blue moon with corn? I was drunk from being on over to the cheeks so I don't recall.
I'm so darn proud of you! Can you still make cookies for all your friends and sisters-in-law with your new corning ware cause you got me all excited about cookies?
Someday if I ever win 5,000 smackaroos I'll buy both of us mixers. I love the green. Isn't this where Joel decides thats what he's getting you for your birthday and we all chip in? I think that's what's supposed to happen right now.... Maybe he can get me one, too?
I want a mixer because everybody in my ward makes bread and they all have mixers. So they all talk about their bread and I always just listen and think, someday if I had a fancy mixer and I could mix dough in it, then I could make bread.
Is this comment long enough now? I'm just so dang proud of you. Dang proud. I know a Corning Ware Lite REcipe contest runner up!
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AMAZING!!! I need to start entering contests. And by the way, I love my corningware!
You Won a MAJOR AWARD!!!! I'm proud of you. You know, I think if you would have gotten that moolah it would have been spend wisely. I too wish for a kitchen aid mixer.
Thanks for the recipe. I'm going to try it! I can't wait!
Holy toledo! Good job Beffy! I can't wait to see it, all my dishes come from down-ta-tha-WalMark
Hey! Congratulations, Beth! That's awsome!
My usual way of dealing with stuff I get down to the Corning is to stack it in my large kitchen drawers and save it for some day when I actually feel like cooking. The cookware stays so fresh and clean that way.
But CONGRATS!! My mom used to enter all these contests - sweepstakes and things - and I think, in the over fifty years that I have known her, she's only won about ten things. And nowhere near anything like making up a recipe and actually having judges LIKE IT THAT MUCH.
I think it's terribly exciting. And I want to say, don't even cry about the Moolah, because the IRS takes half of it anyway, and who needs the fury and frustration highway robbery almost always engenders????
I can't believe I didn't comment on this yet--I'm so impressed with you, Beth!!! Seriously, you're amazing. I want to try your recipe! And see your lovely corningware! Awesome!! Good work!! (And if _I_ won some money, I would buy that mixer for you!)
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