Dole California Cook Off

Dole has some of the best fruit and right now they are doing an awesome giveaway and inviting you to get creative too.  Do you love coming up with new recipes to try on your family?  Do you have a knack for making up delicious meals from whatever you have on hand?  Then it should be a piece of cake (ha, ha) for you to come up with something fabulous using Dole fruit.

SUBMIT YOUR RECIPE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A CALIFORNIA GETAWAY!

• The California Cook-Off event will be held at the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts, one of the most well-respected culinary schools in California. You will be teamed up with a professional blogger as your “sous” chef, who will chronicle the cooking process and feature your dish on their site! This blogger will be on hand to help with your dish and share the experience with you and with their readers. Plus the Grand Prize winning recipe will appear on cans of DOLE Fruit nationwide!
• Don’t forget to keep coming back to www.DoleCookOff.com for more chances to enter your favorite recipes, as well as discover great new recipes to try out! WWW.DOLECOOKOFF.COM

WIN INSTANTLY AT

• The California Cook-Off Instant Win Game offers even more chances to win with DOLE. All you have to do is register at www.DoleCookOff.com, and you’ll be automatically entered to win one of more than 100 great prizes from Cooking.com
• And tell your friends! For each friend you tell about the DOLE Cook-Off, you’ll get an additional entry to win! DOLE Canned Fruit comes in three different varieties: Mandarin Oranges, Pineapple and Tropical Fruit.

DOLE CANNED FRUIT FUN FACTS

• Convenient and ready-to-eat, DOLE Canned Fruit is the one of the best ways to have fruit always on hand in your pantry.
• DOLE Canned Fruit is naturally fat free, saturated fat free, cholesterol free, and rich in vitamin C.
• DOLE Canned Fruit has been awarded the ChefsBest award by the American Culinary ChefsBest.
• DOLE Canned Pineapple is a convenient, ready-to-eat product. For your convenience, DOLE Canned Pineapple is available in slices, chunks, tidbits and crushed.
• DOLE Tropical Fruit is a combination of hand-selected pineapple and red and yellow papaya chunks packed in light syrup and passion fruit juice.
• DOLE 100% Pineapple Juice and Pineapple Mango Juice are packed with real fruit taste and always have the flavor adventure you’ve been craving.

Just visit www.DoleCookOff.com to enter your signature recipe for an entrée that highlights at least one can of DOLE Fruit or Juice. Using DOLE Pineapple, Mandarin Oranges, Tropical Fruit, Pineapple Juice or Pineapple Mango Juice, as well and no more than seven additional ingredients, you will be automatically entered to win this ultimate California cooking experience.

Judging criteria for the Grand Prize Winner will be based on:

• Best use of DOLE Canned Fruit or Juice
• Creativity
• Flavor and taste

From home cook to celebrity chef! Five lucky finalists will win more than just their 15 minutes of fame with a trip for two to sunny LA where they will participate in the California Cook-Off event with celebrity chef Ben Ford. With airfare, three nights’ accommodations, a rental car and spending money included, you’ll be living your very own California dream!

What are you waiting for?  Get cooking!!

*I received from Dole a coupon for Dole fruit in exchange for letting my readers know about this cook off contest.*