Hello! How was your weekend? Mine was lovely… a date night of dinner + a wine tasting Friday, a nice, relaxing movie night Saturday (State of Play was so good!!), and Sunday was more relaxation due to a great yoga class and an afternoon spent doing things that I enjoy.
I’m so happy to have had the opportunity to host BSI this week! Unfortunately, I didn’t get a lot of submissions and considered extending it a week, but I thought that that wouldn’t be fair to the people who did get their recipe submissions in on time.
Thank you so much to everyone who took the time and energy to create a new recipe to enter into the BSI Mushroom Challenge! Here are the submissions:
1. Food Mama (Mushroom and Thyme Tartlets)
2. Karena from Run Beans Run (Mushroom Wanton Raviolis)
3. Leena from Living Leena Loca (Mushroom Chicken Chickpea Burgers)
And the winner is…….Leena!! While I was very impressed with all of the submissions, you won me over with your addition of chickpeas! I also applaud you for your culinary aspirations….I often wish I had the foresight to go to culinary school when I had the opportunity, and I think you are well on your way towards your dream!
Congrats, Leena! Please email me (ChicagoMarathonVal@gmail.com) with your address and I’ll be sure to send out your prize package soon.
I’m happy to hand over the BSI hosting duties to one of my favorite bloggers, Karena! I love reading Run Beans Run because I feel like I have a lot in common with Karena, and because I love reading about the interesting recipes she creates.
Have a great rest of your day, everyone!
I'm a school social worker who is also a newlywed (and had a Big Fat Greek Wedding, no less!) living in Chicago. I am starting this blog to talk about the training process I will go through to prepare for the Chicago Marathon, while also raising awareness for Ceasefire, a Chicago anti-violence program.
The way to my wife’s heart has always been chick peas
all those recipes look terrific. yay for shrooms!
Ha, love Mike’s response! So sorry I didn’t submit anything – not a mushroom fan and I couldn’t come up with anything Tony would eat – thank you for hosting though!
I love mushrooms, but time just completely got away from me, and you were posting the winner before I realized I hadn’t made anything.
Still, three recipes that all look good I’ll definitely have to make sometime soon!