November Royal Foodie Joust Winners & Ingredients for This Month’s Joust!
Next week we will be back again with Finest Foodies Friday! It just so happens that today is the day to announce the winners of this month’s Royal Foodie Joust. I thought about featuring both Joust winners and FFF in today’s post, but I felt that it would steal the thunder from one group and I didn’t want to do that. So please forgive me and I promise FFF next week. But until then, please check out the Joust winners’ blogs to keep you tied over! I promise they are all great blogs:)
The Royal Foodie Joust is an awesome monthly peer voted competition that is hosted on
The LeftoverQueen/FoodieBlogroll Forum! It gets better each and every month as the competition gets stiffer as Jousters try to outdo each other each month! It is also one of the friendliest competitions I have ever seen. So please don’t be intimidated to come and join us this month! We don’t bite, unless of course there is real food in our faces 😉
The only rules for the competition is that each Jouster create one dish and each entry must feature the 3 ingredients in common. This competition has been referred to many times as the “Iron Chef” of the Food Blogosphere. Each month’s ingredients are chosen by the previous month’s winner. The winner of each Joust not only wins the Queen’s favor, bragging rights and a cool icon to put on their blog, but is also awarded with a super awesome personalized apron!Other prizes too!
So what are you waiting for? Come over and join us this month!
This month’s ingredients of Acorn Squash (or winter squash), Orange and Sage were chosen by last month’s winner, Susan from Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy
As always we had really awesome and inventive entries come in based on these ingredients – everything from sweet to savory and all in between!
This month’s winners TS and JS from Eating Club Vancouver stole the show with something sweet: Squash Churros with Orange-Sage Hot Chocolate.
As soon as I saw this entry I just knew it was a winner! There are always super creative entries that go into the Joust, but sometimes an entry comes in that everyone just loves – and this one featured chocolate, plus it was just so whimsical and creative! This was the one this month – so way to go girls! Look for that apron in the mail! 😉
Second Place goes to my pal, Peter from Foto Cuisine. Peter is one half of a husband-wife blogging team – he cooks, she photographs – how cool is that?! But really this is a stellar blog full of stunning photos and gourmet food. Their entry this month was Autumn Grouper over Risotto.
Third Place is another great savory entry by Melody from Trap Door and an entry that I was hoping someone would make as I just love her 3-Cheese Squash Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter and Orange Sauce
Thanks guys for making this Joust another huge success and giving us all great ideas for how to use the abundance of squash this season!
To check out all the other great entries this month, please click here
Please join us for this month’s Joust – the ingrendients are: Coffee, Black Peppercorns and Honey. As chosen by our winning blog! December is my birthday month, so please make my wishes come true and enter the Joust! Even if it is your first time! Plus, we are going to change things up a bit! 😉
Happy Jousting Everyone!
Aggie - November 7, 2008 at 9:34 am
Oh wow, these entries are making my mouth water! Great job guys and congrats to all the winners!!!
kat - November 7, 2008 at 10:30 am
Like you the minute I saw their entry I knew they had won
Judy - November 7, 2008 at 10:59 am
Great entries for last month and I love the ingredients for this month! Congrats to all the winners!
Núria - November 7, 2008 at 11:38 am
What great recipes!!!! I love the 3 of them… but I have a weakness for churros… how could that be? ;D
Congratulations to the winners 😀
Happy Cook - November 7, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I think all of them are yumm, but yeah itotally agree the churros looks so yumm.
Chocolate and honey yes, but peper. I am looking forward to the winning recipe
joan nova - November 7, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I congratulated the winners individually but wanted to offer my congratulations, collectively, to the rest for some very inspiring and delicious dishes. This was my first RFJ challenge but not my last. I’m already conjuring up the new ingredients.
And, special thanks to you Jenn for taking on this project.
Laurie - November 7, 2008 at 1:18 pm
They are all winners!! I have to say though.. I’m loving the grouper recipe with sage, orange and acorn squash seeds.. he put that together so well and also very creatively! I’m impressed with them all! Congrats to everyone!!
Laurie - November 7, 2008 at 1:18 pm
They are all winners!! I have to say though.. I’m loving the grouper recipe with sage, orange and acorn squash seeds.. he put that together so well and also very creatively! I’m impressed with them all! Congrats to everyone!!
Patsyk - November 7, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Those churros are definitely a creative use of those ingredients! Very impressive! Congratulations to all the winners, your dishes all look delicious!
Natashya - November 7, 2008 at 8:18 pm
What an outstanding array of dishes! Congratulations, winners. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for the Dec 1st joust – the ingredients sound intriguing.
Nikki - November 7, 2008 at 9:34 pm
All three were my numbers 1, 2, & 3 I had to choose from. Congratulations, you all! I am SOOooo excited about December now!
Bellini Valli - November 8, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Congratulations to all the winners:D
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Kim - November 9, 2008 at 12:53 am
Love the site…now I’m hungry!
Bob LaGatta - November 9, 2008 at 1:39 am
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Maggie - November 9, 2008 at 9:29 am
Congrats to TS and JS! Those churros were unbeatable looking.
Lo - November 9, 2008 at 7:36 pm
These are all really terrific entries! But, I’ve got to admit. Churros always manage to steal my heart 🙂
And I LOVE the coffee/black pepper/honey combo.
I’ve got to get my butt together and join in the joust one of these days!!
Jo - November 10, 2008 at 11:47 am
Congrats to the winners! They all look amazing!
Heather - November 10, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Gratz, TS and JS! Great choice of ingredients!
_ts of [eatingclub] vancouver - November 12, 2008 at 12:00 am
Thanks for the mention! =)
As for the choice of ingredients: we hope we can make something out of them, haha. I’m sure we won’t even start thinking of our dish until there’s little time left.
Ooh, we’re excited about upcoming changes in format in the Joust.
Juan - December 2, 2008 at 12:11 pm
It is awesome to be part of this group of Foodies. I just entered last month for the first time to the monthly contest. It was great to see all the incredible meals that came out of the contest. Congrats to the winners.I look forward to this month and the interesting ingredients.
Juan
foodbin - December 15, 2008 at 12:21 am
the autumn grouper over risotto was mouth watering