Welcome to Cook with Us #8!

The theme for Cook with Us #8: Guilty Pleasure Food

Plus bonus theme: Favorite Food from Your Country

Who has not found some pleasure in eating a week’s worth of fat, sugar or sodium in one sitting? We all have guilty pleasure foods that we love to eat and then feel a little bad about it afterwards. Sometimes eating a whole tub of movie theater popcorn with extra “butter” and washing it down with a liter of sugar water seems like a good idea! Or maybe you like loaded nachos, dripping with chili, sour cream, cheese sauce and guacamole! One favorite growing up was the super Sunday from Friendly’s. It was five scoops of ice cream, served with hot fudge sauce and whipped cream!

Folks, there is no shame here. We welcome your guilty pleasure foods and the stories behind them. This week you are to make your homemade version of your favorite guilty pleasure food.

Also this week, we are doubling things up by adding a bonus theme. Yes, we have two themes! @whattheduck suggested that we do a family favorite dish based on the country you grew up in. We thought this was a great suggestion so we're going for it for a second theme. If you choose not to do a guilty pleasure food, then you can make a family favorite dish based on the country that you grew up in. Thanks @whattheduck for your suggestion!

If anyone else has a suggestion for a theme, let us know. And please don't forget to comment and upvote each other's posts in the Cook with Us community.

We wish you good luck and look forward to your creations!

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The Cook with Us Contest

The Cook with Us team - @chefsteve , @pandamama and @offoodandart - is very excited to welcome you and look forward to getting to know you as we cook or create dishes together. It is our intention to build a community of people that enjoy cooking and sharing with each other. We are pleased to announce the following prizes for this challenge:

• First place - 5 SBD

• Second place - 3 SBD

• Third place - 1 SBD

The following, if participating in Cook with Us #8, will be competing in the Winners Circle, including whoever wins 1st place in Cook with Us #7. There will be one winner from the Winners Circle and the winner will be awarded 5 SBD.

• ground2feet

• loveself

• foodforsoul

• whattheduck

• deimus

• blackberryskunk

• 1st place winner of CwU #7

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Cook with Us Official Contest Rules

Please take some time to review the contest rules below. We have made a few changes. We understand that a lot of work is put into every post and we do not want to disqualify anyone for not following the rules. If you are unsure about any of them, just ask us for some clarification. We will be happy to help you.

Contest Entry Rules

• The title of your post should look like this: Cook with Us #8 – Name of your dish. For example, Cook with Us #8 - Mac and Cheese.

• The first tag on your entry must be: cookwithus.

• Please upvote and resteem this @cookwithus post that you are submitting an entry for.

• The first time you enter this competition, submit a proof photo. This can be in the form of a handwritten note with your Steemit name, the name of the dish, and the date with your entry - or it can be a photograph of yourself with your dish. Thereafter, you will not need a proof photograph going forward as we will know who you are. Please do not use Photoshop for the proof photo.

• Include a description of the dish. Some examples are the taste of the dish, its origin, or the story behind it.

• Describe why your dish works. Give a brief description about why you put these ingredients together.

• Post a link to your entry in the comments section of the weekly challenge. This is the post that announces the start of the week's contest

• You can only enter one dish per entry (a dish means a single version. Not one dish two or three ways). You may only enter one entry per week.

General Contest Rules

• Contest ends every Monday 12:00 UTC.

• Results will be published no later than Thursday 12:00 UTC, three days after the contest is closed.

• Entries do not have to be original. However, if not original, please provide the source.

• While there is a calendar showing future themes, entries can only be submitted for the current week's contest and only after the official post for the contest is made. Entries submitted before the official start date or after the deadline will not be considered valid entries.

• The Cook with Us contest will cover many topics and disciplines. Make sure you check for weekly contest rules that may change due to the nature of the challenge.

• By entering @cookwithus, the contestant agrees to their material being used by the organizers for any purposes and will not be compensated should the material be published. But you, the author/photographer, will be given written credit.

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The Cook with Us Calendar

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Acknowledgements

There were many people that helped us to get this competition up and running. We would like to say a BIG thank you to them all and express our sincere gratitude for their contributions.

We are delighted with the caricatures made for us by @bazbiscuit and already people are asking where they can get these delightful little characters. Thank you Barry!

@jacklimberis made our banner and gif for us. Thank you Jack - we really appreciate all the hard and beautiful work!

Thank you @edenmichelle for making the youtube video for us. A huge thanks as well to @leelektrik for creating our logo.

Please follow @jacklimberis, @bazbiscuit, @edenmichelle, @theywillkillyou, @world5list, @world-travel-pro and @heyitshaas. We hope to add to this list of supporters of our competition. If you would like to be a supporter of @cookwithus, please contact us. We would love to hear from you.

Thank you to @curie and @hendrikdegrote for upvoting one of our South African contestants.
@gavvet please have a look at your fellow South Africans doing so well in our contest

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