[NFB-InTheKitchen] Join The Summer Email Cooking Challenge

Sun Jun 25 00:17:43 UTC 2023

Hello NFB IN THE KITCHEN GROUP

I’d like to invite you all to a fun food email challenge for the remaining
six days of June. This is for ALL cooking levels and everyone who enjoys
eating!

Please read further details below this email- there are three challenges to
enter. You can enter today.

I’ve also included at the end of the email a lovely summer recipe.

Here are the brief details:
1. Prepare the Black Bean Veggie Recipe from our virtual cooking session.
Recipe upon request. Have a photo taken and forward.

2. In The Kitchen: meals, snacks, beverages, desserts… whatever you create
in the kitchen: anything from P B and J  to a cup of coffee or main entree
to a dessert. Anything you make in the kitchen!!  Have a photo taken and
forward.

3. Kitchen Closed Challenge: any food item you enjoy outdoors or ordered
in! Have a photo taken and forward.

The Email Cooking and Baking Challenge winner will receive a $35.00
electronic gift card to their selected grocery store or online grocery
delivery service. Isn’t that awesome?

As a community of food enthusiasts, let’s  join in and have some fun at
being creative in and or out of the kitchen. Remember, it doesn't have to
be anything you’ve cooked! We all must eat, right?

So, let’s snap those bites!

Happy Summer Cooking

Here is the forwarded email with details.

Welcome to Summer!

This new week brought the start of summer, as well as some delicious new
recipes to enjoy through the warm and sunny season. Can’t wait to share
them with you all.

Whether you are in your kitchen tossing a garden salad,  biting into cold
and refreshing sweet watermelon, standing over the sink as peach juice run
down your elbows, enjoying a stroll around the neighborhood after a lovely
meal or sitting beach side enjoying crab salad and sippin on sunshine -
Summer’s here!

Here’s VIRTUAL COOKING SESSION

Last Wednesday, in our cooking session we demonstrated Black Bean and
Mushroom Veggie Burgers, as a nod to alternative meat burgers. They were
absolutely delicious. If you’ve ever tried Black Bean Veggie Burgers from
your local restaurants such as Houston’s or Lazy Dog’s, well, these by far
give them a run for their money and flavor. Our test kitchen worked
tirelessly (4 re-tests) to ensure a delicious tried and true recipe.

If you are going to make the Black Bean Veggie Burger to enter the Email
Baking and Cooking Challenge, please request the recipe. I will only
forward to those who will make the Burgers and enter the challenge. That
means you’ll have seven days to shop, cook and snap photos to enter.  You
can do it!

Forward photos to enter June’s cooking challenge to

friendinthekitchen.challenge at gmail.com

EMAIL COOKING AND BAKING CHALLENGE

June, like the month of May, has been a very busy month. So, to help you
focus and enjoy our challenges, I’ve created an additional Challenge. Here
are your options as June winds down:

Challenge #1

Cook the Email Challenge Recipe — Black Bean Veggie Burger and enter
photos.

Forward photos to enter June’s cooking challenge to

friendinthekitchen.challenge at gmail.com

Challenge # 2

This month you can enter whatever dish or beverage, dessert, snack,
appetizer, or condiments you whip up, whisk up, shake up or grill up, or
whatever you bake or blend. Let's see your yummy meals. Please, it doesn't
need to be anything fancy.

Forward photos to enter June’s cooking challenge to:

friendinthekitchen.challenge at gmail.com

Challenge #3

Kitchen Closed Option.

Here’s to fun, creativity and removing all shyness or quieting your inner
voice whisperings of You Had No Time —

No worries - Got you covered!

During the next week while you’re out getting a coffee, take a photo of
that beautiful foamy cup of Joe. At a sandwich or pastry shop, deli,
roadside stand, orchards, farmers market? Take a photo and forward.

Dining in a vegan cafe, popcorn and drink in a movie theater, on the beach
or boardwalk or in the mall having an ice cream cone? Snap a photo! Order
Uber eats, Doordash, friends bring you supper, receive a gift basket…take a
photo!

Wherever you enjoy your food. Let’s capture that moment - it may bring in a
few bucks toward your next food outing!

Forward photos to enter June’s cooking challenge

friendinthekitchen.challenge at gmail.com

What Chef Regina

and Stan are Eating:

We’ll join you!

I’ll start off the Email Cooking Challenge and complete each of the three
challenges. While taking you along with me, I’ll enter a photo of one
challenge per day for the last seven days of June starting this evening!

I’ll forward photos to this Email Cooking Challenge Group daily with image
descriptions, locations, expressions and impressions of ‘Yum!’ or
DoubleYum!

You’ll be getting a peek into Chef Regina and Stan’s daily chow downs!

Wonder who will be the brave one to join us in our seven day adventure?
Anyone!

Let’s snap food photos and forward to friendinthekitchen.challenge at gmail.com

Eligibility For Email Cooking Challenge Drawing:

Participants should forward two photos of the June Challenge — Black Bean
Veggie Burger Recipe (during cooking and finished recipe). If entering the
other challenges, have one photo taken of your food item.

All submissions must be received by June 30, 2023 8:59PM EST.

All entrants names are randomly drawn. Winner will be notified on July 1st,
2023.

The winner will receive a $35.00 gift certificate of choice to local market
or online grocery shopping or delivery (Walmart, Instacart, etc).

After winner is notified all participants will be notified of the winner.

SPECIAL NOTE:

I’ve included one of my favorite seasonal recipes that is delish to have in
your summer repertoire! Hope you enjoy it!

Happy Summer Cooking❣️

(Red Heart Exclamation)

Next Cooking Session

NEW DATE — BE SURE TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

4:00PM PST | 6:00PM CST | 7:00PM EST

See You In The Kitchen

A SUMMER

RECIPE FOR YOU

Heading to a BBQ this summer? Try one of my absolute favorite BBQ side dish
recipes that always remind me of the season's bounty.

WATERMELON FETA SALAD

with a tangy

MINT - LIME SPRITZ

This Watermelon Feta Salad is my go-to summer side dish. Few things say
summer like watermelon. The sweet and salty combination of feta cheese and
watermelon with snips of mint is wonderfully refreshing and satisfying.
You’ll want  to make it most of summertime.

Watermelon is such a fun fruit, especially when it’s peak season and you
have so many options. I love using it in this summer salad because it’s
sweet enough on its own without adding any additional sugars or syrups.
It’s also light enough to be served alongside your main course.

One great thing about this recipe, you don’t have to purchase an entire
watermelon. Check your produce section, there’s plenty of fresh precut
cubed watermelons — it’s summer, let someone else do the hard work!!

Why eat watermelon with feta?

You see, the saltiness of the feta combines so well with the sweetness of
the watermelon it is like an explosion of flavors in your mouth. It's
flavor mixing 101 and always produces something magical. So if you want to
mix ingredients, just remember that something salty and something sweet
work well together.

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Course Salad, Side Dish

Servings 4-6

INGREDIENTS

▢ ½ watermelon, scooped into balls with a melon baller or cut into 1
1/2-inch chunks chilled

▢ 1 pint blueberries

▢ 1 - 2 cucumbers sliced and quartered

▢ 8 ounces feta cheese cut into cubes or crumbles. Sub goat cheese, cottage
or Cotija. Can omit for Dairy Free

▢ 10 mint leaves sliced

▢ 5 basil leaves, sliced

▢ 2 limes, juiced and zest, optional

▢ salt to taste, omit if using feta cheese

INSTRUCTIONS

In a large bowl, combine watermelon, blueberries, cucumbers, and feta
cheese.

Toss gently.

Chop the herbs: I like to cut my herbs by putting the leaves all in one
stack and then rolling them up and slicing them like you would slice
cinnamon rolls. This creates really pretty ribbon shapes for the salad

Add the ribboned sliced mint, basil, and the juice from both limes.
(Optional: add the zest from the limes as well.)

Sprinkle with salt if desired.

Stir until all ingredients are coated in lime juice. Chill until ready to
serve.

Give it a quick stir before serving.

CHEF’S NOTES

You can also add any other ingredients that you have on hand: red onion,
green onion, lemon juice, and fresh herbs

You don’t have to purchase both basil and mint. Use either or omit.

For added crunch and texture toss in a handful of chopped walnuts, almonds
or any other kind of nuts you like.

For more of a dressing, drizzle balsamic vinegar. Not too much, though! Let
the flavors of the salad ingredients shine through.

This cool salad can be served alongside grilled protein like shrimp,
chicken and fish, crisp tofu or as an alternative to a traditional pasta
salad for a summer potluck.

You can make this salad ahead of time and store it in an airtight container
in the refrigerator until you’re ready to serve it.

What Dressing Goes Best with Watermelon Feta Salad?

This salad doesn’t have a dressing per se, but it is topped with lime
juice, chopped basil, and fresh mint.

For more of a dressing, a light drizzle of balsamic vinegar.

Enjoy!

NEW DATE — BE SURE TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS COOKING SESSION

See you in the kitchen

Wednesday July 19, 2023 @ 4:00 PM PST
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