I have another delicious theme here to get your teeth into this week!  For the winners of the previous round please click this link: "Chocolate Crazy Dessert Divine".  This week's theme is nice and healthy to balance out last week's chocolate madness... though truth be told chocolate desserts don't have to be unhealthy... quite the opposite.  Whatever the theme, many of our SCC participants regularly demonstrate how most if not all popular dishes can be perfectly healthy when made with quality and nutritious ingredients.  Although healthy ingredients are not required in the SCC, I do encourage conscientious choices because your health and the health of people making your recipes is very important.  A matter of life and death, in fact!

FYI - From now on all entries submitted will feature in the weekly winner's post, so even non-winning entries will get another chance  to be admired and upvoted.  I will do this instead of re-steeming every entry.  I also upvote 100% each entry and always have done.  I'd very much appreciate upvotes and re-steems in return please.  Many thanks! 

To enter the Steemit Culinary Challenge...

 ...it's very easy! We have a different theme and guest judge each week, and all you have to do is prepare a dish appropriate for the theme, and also ensure you follow the general rules of the challenge  (below).  You don't have to be a master chef - just try to be creative  with your recipes and take beautiful photos, since unfortunately we  can't taste the entries so you must help us do this with our  imaginations!  Original recipes are encouraged, but you may use someone  else's recipe as long as you credit the original source.   

We have great prizes sponsored by the very talented and lovely @gringalicious (visit her blog for food & photography inspiration!) and also from the very loyal @sirwinchester who continues to support this challenge from afar!

This week's guest judge is @lenasveganliving, a very talented vegan cook from Mississauga, ON, Canada, who I have come to admire very much for both her gorgeous culinary creations and her delightful personality too.  Not only has she been a regular participant (and winner!) in the Steemit Culinary Challenge, but for the last couple of months she has been hosting a wonderful and increasingly popular 'Fruits & Veggies Monday' contest.  You can check out all the details in her weekly contest post.  Lena has thought up a fantastic theme for us this week... a vegan dish of course but one that gives you absolute creative freedom in design.  There is no one specific formula for this dish, so each is totally unique to suit your own particular tastes and nutritional needs.  Lena has put together some of her own recipes to inspire you, which you can check out here: INTRODUCTION TO A BUDDHA BOWL for THE CULINARY CHALLENGE #45  Please don't forget to upote her post, thanks!

1.  Title your entry this way: “STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE #45: Title of your Dish”

2.  Tag your “Vegan Buddha Bowl” post with ALL FOUR of the following:

# food  

# food-trail  

# steemitculinarychallenge 

# recipes

3. Only NEW RECIPES that have been created in response to the weekly theme will be accepted.  Each photo must feature a sign displaying the current date.

4.  TAKE PHOTOS OF THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS in preparing your dish.

5.  So we can verify your entry is indeed yours and not plagiarised, and is also a new recipe, you MUST DO the FOLLOWING: 

 
6.  POST A LINK OF YOUR ENTRY below on the comment  thread.  If you have signed up to Steemit.chat please also post it on  the steemitculinarychallenge channel.  To sign up you can click here.
 

7.  The DEADLINE for submission is NO LATER than Wednesday at 12:00 Noon UTC.
 

8.  You may submit TWO ENTRIES if you wish.
 

Here is an example of one of my own step-by-step recipes.   Any questions, please ask.

I'd like to share my sincere THANKS to @gringalicious and @sirwinchester for their continuous sponsorship of this challenge, the Steemians who regularly or occasionally submit entries, and to everyone who upvotes and supports the entries.  I'm well aware there would be no challenge without you all!!! 

PREVIOUS WINNERS of the Steemit Culinary Challenge:

#45 - Vegan Buddha Bowl

#44 - Chocolate Crazy Dessert Divine

#43 - Autumn Feast Special

#42 - Beautiful Bread

#41 - Monochrome

#40 - Mexican Food Showdown

#39 - Baby Food

#38 - Vegan Dishes From Around The World

#37 - Healthy Yet Tempting Food for Children

#36 - Food Fit For A German

#35 - Ice-Cream

#34 - A Smoothie for @smooth

#33 - Brilliant Berries

#32 - Picnic Alfresco

#31 - Vegan Main

#30 - Tempting Tarts

#29 - Take Me To Brunch... In Your Country

#28 - Cupcakes

#27 - Be A Michelin Star Chef For One Night

#26 - Sugar-Free Raw Vegan Desserts

#25 - Your Favourite Dish

#24 - Mouthgasms

#23 - Otsumami

#22 - Mediterranean Night

#21 - Coffee a la Barista's

#20 - Pancake Paradise

#19 -  Sweet and Savory Crepes

#18 - Tasty, Wholesome Meals for Weight Loss

#17 - Shepherd's Pie

#16 - Tacos for a Tech Savvy

#15 - Roast It

#14 - DIVINE LEMONed DESSERT

#13 - The Finest Fish Dish

#12 - Purely Paleo

#11 - Cheeseless Burger

#10 - Anglo–Sino Chicken

#9 - New Year on a Platter

#8 - La Pasta Perfetta

#7 - Battle of Noodles

#6 - HOT Off the Grill

#5 - Unorthodox Chillied Dish

#4 - Super Salads

#3 - Smoothie Showdown

#2 - Out of the Box Sandwiches  

#1 - Sniffle Remedy Soup

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me, either by posting your queries on the comment thread below, or you can find me on Steemit.chat under the same name.  I will respond as soon as I can. 

For the announcement of winners and new themes, follow me :-) 

Image kindly created for me by @sashagenji