Welcome to Cook with Us #6!

The Winners Circle

Cook with Us #6 is officially on! For this week, we are putting The Winners Circle in motion, where the 1st placers from the first 5 weeks are judged in a separate group. Only one winner will be awarded from this group with 5 SBD as the prize.

The Winners Circle is comprised of the following:

@ground2feet
@loveself
@whattheduck
@foodforsoul
@deimus

The rest of our wonderful contestants - new and old - will be judged as normal with the following prizes:

• 1st place - 5 SBD

• 2nd place - 3 SBD

• 3rd place - 1 SBD

For more details, please refer to our newsletter.

The theme for Cook with Us #6: Inventive Salad

A well-composed salad can be the most satisfying of meals. Cool and crisp lettuces, shaved veggies, lentils, caramelized onions, cheese, grilled meats and maybe some fried shallots and croutons, all pulled together with a zesty vinaigrette. All of the different textures and flavors work to create an interesting, tasty, healthful and light meal.

This week we would like to see your favorite inventive salad. Let your imagination run and see what you come up with. Let us know about any ingredients that we might not know about or any interesting story behind your dish.

Get your kids involved! It could be a fun way to get them to eat their veggies.

If you have any suggestions for future themes, let us know. And please don't forget to comment and upvote each other's posts in the Cook with Us community.

We wish you good luck and look forward to your creations!

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The Cook with Us Contest

The Cook with Us team - @chefsteve , @pandamama and @offoodandart - is very excited to welcome you and look forward to getting to know you as we cook or create dishes together. It is our intention to build a community of people that enjoy cooking and sharing with each other. We are pleased to announce the following prizes for this challenge:

• First place - 5 SBD

• Second place - 3 SBD

• Third place - 1 SBD

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Cook with Us Official Contest Rules

Please take some time to review the contest rules below. We have made a few changes. We understand that a lot of work is put into every post and we do not want to disqualify anyone for not following the rules. If you are unsure about any of them, just ask us for some clarification. We will be happy to help you.

Contest Entry Rules

• The title of your post should look like this: Cook with Us #6 – Name of your salad For example, Cook with Us #6 - Mushroom Salad.

• The first tag on your entry must be: cookwithus.

• Please upvote and resteem this @cookwithus post that you are submitting an entry for.

• The first time you enter this competition, submit a proof photo. This can be in the form of a handwritten note with your Steemit name, the name of the dish, and the date with your entry - or it can be a photograph of yourself with your dish. Thereafter, you will not need a proof photograph going forward as we will know who you are. Please do not use Photoshop for the proof photo.

• Include a description of the dish. Some examples are the taste of the dish, its origin, or the story behind it.

• Describe why your dish works. Give a brief description about why you put these ingredients together.

• Post a link to your entry in the comments section of the weekly challenge. This is the post that announces the start of the week's contest

• You can only enter one dish per entry (a dish means a single version. Not one dish two or three ways). You may only enter one entry per week.

General Contest Rules

• Contest ends every Monday 12:00 UTC.

• Results will be published no later than Thursday 12:00 UTC, three days after the contest is closed.

• Entries do not have to be original. However, if not original, please provide the source.

• While there is a calendar showing future themes, entries can only be submitted for the current week's contest and only after the official post for the contest is made. Entries submitted before the official start date or after the deadline will not be considered valid entries.

• The Cook with Us contest will cover many topics and disciplines. Make sure you check for weekly contest rules that may change due to the nature of the challenge.

• By entering @cookwithus, the contestant agrees to their material being used by the organizers for any purposes and will not be compensated should the material be published. But you, the author/photographer, will be given written credit.

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The Cook with Us Calendar

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Acknowledgements

There were many people that helped us to get this competition up and running. We would like to say a BIG thank you to them all and express our sincere gratitude for their contributions.

We are delighted with the caricatures made for us by @bazbiscuit and already people are asking where they can get these delightful little characters. Thank you Barry!

@jacklimberis made our banner and gif for us. Thank you Jack - we really appreciate all the hard and beautiful work!

Thank you @edenmichelle for making the youtube video for us.

Please follow @jacklimberis, @bazbiscuit, @edenmichelle, @theywillkillyou, @world5list, @world-travel-pro and @heyitshaas. We hope to add to this list of supporters of our competition. If you would like to be a supporter of @cookwithus, please contact us. We would love to hear from you.

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