How to Enter the Instructables Cooking Contest

There are so many instructables on how to make different foods, but what is the best food that the instructables community can think of? That's what I'm set to find out.

For easy access: Contest Group

Edit: The contest has ended. Results can be found here.

Step 1: Criteria

We want this contest to be a learning experience for you too. That being said, don't post up how to cook up your favorite recipe that you found in an old cook book. We want this to be something developed by you.

Here are some examples that would be great:

*You saw a picture of a dish in a magazine, and tried to replicate it.
*You took making a simple pizza from store bought ingredients up to the next level by altering the sauce with new ingredients, adding cheese into the dough as you knead and stuffing the crust.
*You were watching a cooking show on tv, and only liked the idea of the recipe they were making, so you took that dish and made it your own!
*Or best of all, it's just a recipe you made as you went, and perfected over many preparations!

(You get extra points for inventing the recipe specifically for this contest...obviously we're on the honor system in that regard...so it won't be that much extra)

You can enter as many instructables as you want, and more than one of yours can get in the top five.

Step 2: Judging and Prizes

*All entries need to be submitted by 12:00 AM, July 9th, 2007 EST.

I will judge all of the submissions based on the following characteristics:

*Completeness
*Spelling and grammar
*Adequate pictures
*How easy it is to replicate
*Whether or not it is new
*If you posted a story behind it
*Originality
*Presentation
*Appeal

Using that, and the rating of each instructable, they will narrowed it down to the five top instructables. Everyone in the top five will receive stickers and a patch. From the top five, The Grand Panel of Judges will select a winner to receive the grand prize (details below).

Who exactly is on this "The Grand Panel of Judges?"

*Myself, of course
*My Dad, who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America
*My Mom, she is "that lady" the Jewish woman whose cooking everybody loves, who still makes her Grandmothers amazing recipes

...obviously, I am not eligible to win ; )

How are you going to make this worth my while?

Well...the Grand Prize Winner will get to select from any of the following Grand Prizes:

*Laser engraved cutting board
*Laser engraved wooden spoons
or
*Laser engraved spatula set

You can enter as many instructables as you want, and more than one of yours can get in the top five.

Step 3: Resources

Here are some things to help you with your ventures:

Instructables

How to make a great instructable

How to cook

How to add an instructable to a group

My Sister's Kitchen (To give you inspiration)

Methods

Cooking Resourcefully

Please feel free to suggest more links to add.

Step 4: How to Submit Your Instructable

In order to be eligible to win, add your instructable to the Cooking Contest Group by
12:00 AM July 9, 2007 EST

Have fun!

*Note the rules of this contest are subject to change