June Royal Foodie Joust Winners!!!
It feels like a very long time since I wrote a post about the winners of the Royal Foodie Joust. I guess that is because the two months prior, I handed the job over to Dharm and Ben to host whilst I was away getting married, honeymooning and gallivanting around. But now, I am back to my regular blogging, and so I have to honor of hosting and announcing the Joust winners again.
There have been some nice changes to the Joust since I last hosted. One, due to popular demand, we changed the voting to a peer vote, meaning that only members of the forum, thus other foodbloggers have the opportunity to vote for their counterparts. This has brought many more participants and very stiff competition to the Joust, making the voting so much harder. I wish I could give an apron to everyone for all the beautiful and tasty entries we recieve each time. The Joust is growing like crazy – with over 30 awesome entries this time around!
Next, my friend Ben over at What’s Cooking? has graciously offered to sponsor the Joust, meaning more prizes for the winners! Ben sponsors the Joust from his Tupperware business and it has been a lot of fun!
Last month’s winner was Elle, of Elle’s New England Kitchen. So not only did Elle receive her own personalized apron, and Tupperware prizes, but she also picked the three ingredients for this month’s challenge. Her picks? Raspberries, Limes and Almonds. We had a wide variety of entries – sweet and savory. To check out the entries for this month, and to enter the next Joust, please join us over on The Leftover Queen/ Foodie Blogroll Forum
This time we are a little late in posting about the winner, because we had an unprecidented tie – in all categories – first, second AND third place. So we just ended the tie breaker polls and it is time to post the winners.
Now for the winners:
First place is awarded to Erin of The Skinny Gourmet with her entry of Almond Crusted Shrimp Tacos with Raspberry Pico de Gallo and Spicy Lime Mayo
Second place is awarded to Maybelle’s Parents of Feeding Maybelle with their entry of
Almond Fried Chicken and Raspberry Sweet Potato Waffles
Third place is awarded to CookinPanda from Flextarian Menu with their entry of Raspberry Filled Almond Baklava with Honey Lime Syrup
CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS!!!!
Thank you everyone for participating in this month’s Royal Foodie Joust and making it a huge success, yet again. Please stay tuned for when I announce Erin’s pick of ingredients for this month’s Joust!
Ben - June 10, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Oh those three dishes look delicious. I need to go over to their blogs and congratulate them. Welcome back Jenn, hehe.
Marija - June 10, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Congratulations to the winners! Can’t wait to see the ingredients. I’ll give it a try this month.
Laurie - June 10, 2008 at 2:53 pm
All those dishes look scruptious!! Yum!!
toontz - June 10, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Those tie-breakers were fun to watch! I thought we might have ties of the tie breakers…then what? ๐
Peter G - June 10, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Congratulations to all the winners! Another fun event …now let’s get ready for the next one!
Peter - June 10, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Congrats to the winners…right down to the wire. I was stumped with the 3 ingredients here and when I had an idea, it was already taken.
I hope to be back in the thick of the competition this month.
Superchef - June 10, 2008 at 5:01 pm
congrats to the winners…all the entries look sooo amazing!!
jen of a2eatwrite - June 10, 2008 at 5:29 pm
What wonderful dishes! I love the creativity of so many of the Jousters! Congratulations to all.
Kat - June 10, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Congrats to all the winners! I was so close to making the podium, just 1 vote, next month, next month….
Mike from Real Bagels are Boiled - June 10, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Congrats to the winners! This was a really tough decision! Everything looked delicious!
Brittany - June 10, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Almond crusted shrimp tacos….now that is the best thing ever! A well deserved first place!! Now I am starving!
Emiline - June 11, 2008 at 12:35 am
Congrats to the winners! Last time I checked, Erin was in the lead. What a creative dish!
I can’t wait to see what the next ingredients are…
RecipeGirl - June 11, 2008 at 1:19 am
wow, these sound like some fun recipes! I still haven’t managed to get organized enough to join in on the fun. One of these days!
Hey, I have a little award for you to pick up on my blog. I see that you already have it, but you ‘Make My Day’ anyways ๐
nรยบria - June 11, 2008 at 10:31 am
Congrats to the winners :D. This was such a tough Joust! Beautiful recipes! Let’s get ready for the next one ๐
Bellini Valli - June 11, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Congratulations Erin on winning the Joust and to the 2nd and 3rd place winners as well. It was a really tough competition and so hard to vote for a favourite. Everyone did an excellent job!!!
maybelles mom - June 11, 2008 at 8:59 pm
congrats to all!
FlaNboyantEats - June 12, 2008 at 11:10 am
seriously? rasberry baklavah? yeah they deserve it. i’m making my way there. i’ll enter at some point. and thanks for the comment luv the other day. it sure helps!