Muy Bueno: Fiestas 
And the Winner is…
Do you remember the recipe contest for a chance to win the 2011 Muy Bueno Calendar? We received numerous emails with tempting recipes, but we couldn’t resist this salad of grilled nopal with carrot, jícama, and beet recipe by Kathleen. We loved that she used our calendar cover photo as her inspiration and really put some thought into her entry. She posted the recipe on her blog and Jeanine; our lovely photographer whipped it up at home and took some gorgeous photos of it and had this to say about it…
“This was a beautifully colorful salad to photograph, and I am personally a beet lover – but have never had them raw before, and they are great. Loved how sweet everything was and the contrast in texture to the grilled cactus…but you definitely have to stick to the (1) minute per side on the cactus to keep the crisp texture of it. Over all, it is sweet with lots of texture and tastes good – and healthy at the same time. FYI…be prepared to have pink hands from shredding the beets – it makes a nice dye as well!”
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Thanks to everyone who entered! We look forward to promoting more contests in the future!
Thank you for sharing your recipe Kathleen! Your Muy Bueno calendar is in the mail! ¡Felicidades!
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7 Comments on “And the Winner is…”
I just found you through Kathleen’s blog Cooking in Mexico. I’m based in Denver and would love to meet y’all. FYI, I’m working to get a meetup group started for food bloggers in the next few weeks (email me if you’re interested). Prospero Ano Nuevo!
Hi Andrea: Wow, a food blogger in Colorado…YAY! I’m so glad you found us and would LOVE to meet you. My sister lives in LA, and my mom lives in El Paso, but Jeanine (photographer) and I are here. Email me and send me details. I peaked at your blog and am off to take a second peak — LOVE what I have seen so far 😉
beautiful salad, I recently found Ksthleen site and loved it from the start!! Congrats to her, great pic! how exciting more contests!!
happy holidays!
sweetlife
This contest was really fun!!! It was exciting to read all the entries! We look forward to hosting more recipe contests in the future! Stay tuned for some of the cool prizes we have in store.
Thank you for selecting my recipe of Salad of Grilled Nopal with Carrot, Jicama and Beet as your winning entry. And thank you to Jeanine for her great photos! I can’t wait to see the calendar.
This calendar is special, as Muy Bueno Cookbook is giving part of the sales proceeds to the worthy Denver Foundation, a charity organization that will use the funds for their Strengthening Neighborhoods program.
Kathleen