Stuffed Tomato Contest

August 2008

The Vicksburg Farmers’ Market invites you to share your favorite stuffed tomato recipe for a chance to win cash prizes. Do you stuff tomatoes as your mother taught you? Do you bake or refrigerate your creations? Share your recipe, and your story, with the market. Then, on Saturday, August 30 at 10:30 a.m., bring four of your about-to-be-famous stuffed tomatoes to the market information tent to share with our esteemed judges. Someone will be named stuffed tomato champion. Along with the accolades, we’ll offer a $50 cash prize and a basket of market tomatoes.

All recipes will be shared via the Vicksburg Farmers’ Market Web site, and the winning recipe will be printed on a special market recipe card and shared with shoppers on September 6.

Here are the rules:

• The deadline for recipe entries is August 23. All recipes must be in hand, or postmarked, or e-mailed by this date.

• There are three ways to submit a recipe:

1. E-mail vicksburgfarmersmarket@gmail.com

2. Mail your recipe to the Vicksburg Farmers’ Market, P. O. Box 150, Vicksburg, MS 39181, ATTN: Mary Beth.

3. Drop off your recipe at the market information tent on a Saturday morning (surely, you’ll shop the market for your practice round tomatoes, won’t you?)

• Include on the entry your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number. And, of course, don’t forget your story and recipe!

• Bring four stuffed tomatoes to market for judges’ tasting at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 30. Tomatoes will be judged on taste, creativity, and appearance. Prizes will be awarded at the close of the market.

• Those with great recipes who are unable to attend the judges’ tasting are still encouraged to submit written recipes by August 23. The market will award honorable mentions for particularly creative and tasty recipe suggestions, and all recipes will be published online. Only tomatoes submitted for judges’ tasting on August 30 will be eligible for the cash prize, but e-mailed recipes may receive honorable mention, guaranteeing local fame for the cook!

Want to enter the same recipe in multiple contests?

Luckily, here’s a concurrent contest that may interest you!

Questions about the contest? Email vicksburgfarmersmarket@gmail.com or call 601-634-9484