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February Contests

• This contest is looking for your perfect party appetizers! Especially the delicious and easy recipes that would be perfect for a holiday party! The winning recipe will be featured in the December/January 2013 issue of Simple & Delicious.

• Enter your fabulous holiday desserts that your friends and family love! The contest is looking for dessert recipes in a variety of different categories: Cookies & bars, bread pudding, cakes, candies, cobblers, and tarts & pies. Winners and runners up will be announced in the December/January 2013 issue of Taste of Home.

• Enter the Iowa Egg Council 2012 Cooking Contest! Your recipe must contain a minimum of 4 whole eggs and a maximum of 12 ingredients. The recipe can be an appetizer, main dish, side dish, snack, dessert, or beverage!

• Do you enjoy cooking? Enter a recipe with fresh or frozen strawberries. The dish can be for a main course, salad, side dish, appetizer, or dessert. The recipe should have a romantic quality! Upload your recipe and a clear photo today!

• This contest is looking for the best family dessert recipes, such as cookies or cakes! To enter, submit your recipe, become a fan of Hampton & Hampton Facebook page, and post a picture of your finished recipe!

• All shapes and sizes of cookies welcome to this cookie celebration! Enter your favorite cookie recipe into this challenge. Judging will be based on creativity, ease of preparation, presentation, and taste.

• All gardeners and cooks are welcome to submit their favorite recipe to one of two categories: fruit or vegetables. The recipes will be judged by use of fruit or vegetable, creativity of ingredients, ease of execution, and taste.

• This contest is looking for your favorite turkey recipes (made with Plainville Farms turkey!) served in a bowl.

• The Florida Tomato Committee would like to hear about your most delicious recipes containing versatile fresh Florida tomatoes. Submit your original recipe for any type of dish.

• Enter an original main dish recipe using at least one package of Martha White Cornbread Mix and cooked in Lodge® Cast Iron cookware. In this 2012 National Cornbread Cook-Off, the first prize is $5,000!

March Contests

• This contest is looking for an original family recipe using any Chef Boyardee product, plus any other ingredients! Upload a picture of your masterpiece in your entry. You could win free groceries for a whole year! Be creative!

• Enter your favorite lightened-up holiday cookies and bars and you could win cash prizes! Whether it is a cookie cutout, swirl, drop, macaroon, or crisp, we're interested! Enter your time-saving tips, variations or decorating tricks too!

• Using the Auntie Anne At-Home Baking Kit, it is your turn to create an original recipe! Use the dough and yeast provided in the kit, add your favorite ingredients, and create a brand new dish. Create up to three snack, appetizer, side dish, bread, main dish, or dessert recipes for your chance to win $1,000, $500, or $250. Judging is based on creativity, appearance, ease of preparation, and taste.

• This contest is looking for parents to share their recipes that their kids love, especially those that have made their kids happy to sit down and munch away! Whether for breakfast, lunch, snacks, or dinner, enter your concoction today! Stage 3 foods defined here are for children over 10 months that have mastered swallowing pureed foods and are ready for "Family Table" Foods.

• Do you have a special Mama Mary's® pizza recipe using a Mama Mary's Gourmet Pizza Crust? Enter it today in Mama Mary's ® Pizza Creations Recipe Contest! 4 semifinalists will be chosen in each category each quarter. Semifinalists will receive a cappuccino machine and a free one-year supply of Mama Mary's® Gourmet Pizza Crusts.