Tillamook Macaroni & Cheese Recipe Contest

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2008 Winners

How many ways can you make macaroni and cheese? The 2008 winning recipes featured ingredients ranging from apples and cornbread, to sweet potatoes and rosemary.

Check out the final results below and try our winners’ delectable dishes.

Our grand finale winner, Angie Phillips, of Tarzana, California, took home $5,000 cash and the title of "The Big Cheese", a year supply of Tillamook® cheese and endless bragging rights for her Caramelized, Sweet Potato, Garlic & Rosemary Macaroni & Cheese.

Our first runner-up, Kathi Jones Del-Monte from Rochester, New York, wowed the judges’ taste buds with her Tillamook Triple-Play Macaroni & Six Cheese Strata, took home $2,000 cash and 15 pounds of Tillamook® cheese.

Rhonda Allen of Lake Oswego, Oregon, took home title of second runner-up with her Tillamook Macaroni & Cheese Chile Relleno Pie. Allen received $1,000 cash and 15 pounds of Tillamook® cheese.

Thanks to you, Melissa LaCaille from Kirkland, Washington, took home $2,500 cash and a year supply of Tillamook® cheese for the first ever People’s Choice Award with her Cornbread Topped Apple Macaroni and Cheese .

Congratulations also to the Widmer Brothers Choice award-winner Catherine Wilkinson from Dewey, Arizona for her Smokey Black Pepper Cheese and Macaroni with Wild Mountain Chanterelles

To check out all of our 2008 finalists and their delicious recipes, please view the 2008 Grand Finale Details .

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How to Enter

Submit your favorite recipe (maximum of 3 entries) either online or by mail.
Entries must be formatted in the following way:

Entrant Information

Full Name
Mailing address
Primary phone number
Email address (if available)

Recipe

First, list the recipe ingredients. Type in the measurement (ex. 1 tsp), then a dash ( - ) then the ingredient name (ex. paprika). Example:

1 tsp - Paprika
2 cups - Bread Crumbs

Next, list the recipe preparation, describing the preparation in detail. Example:

Preheat oven to 350°. In a large pot bring water to a boil. Add packaged elbow macaroni to boiling water and reduce heat.

Deadline

Online submissions must be submitted by 12:01 a.m. PST Monday, July 28, 2008. Mailed submissions must be postmarked by Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Mail submissions to:

Attn: Macaroni & Cheese Contest
1100 SW 6th Ave., Suite 1425 , Portland, OR 97204

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To add ingredients: Type in the measurement (ex: 1 tsp.), then a dash (-), then the ingredient name (ex: Paprika) followed by a return. Be sure to specify type of noodle and brand of cheese. Follow this example for each ingredient.
Example:
1 tsp - Paprika (return)
2 cups - Bread crumbs (return)

To add recipe preparation, please be specific and include oven temperature, etc.

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