Daiquiri Dick’s is sponsoring its first recipe contest to inspire – and entertain – our clients, local cooks and perhaps future cooking stars.
The deadlline for entries is October 4 at midnight.
COOKING CONTEST RULES:
- Contest is open to home, amateur and professional cooks, over the age of 16 (Employees of Daiquiri Dick’s are not permitted to participate)
- Contestants may submit up to three entries
- All entries must be submitted by midnight Oct. 4, 2010, and can be submitted by email through the website DDPV.com or delivered to the restaurant or The Deli.
- All entries must include a photo of the contestant and the finished dish
- All entries must include cook’s personal contact information (email address, telephone & mail address)
RECIPE REQUIREMENTS:
- All recipes must use fresh, seasonal, locally grown and/or readily available ingredients.
- All recipes must make 4 to 6 servings
- All recipes must be original and not already published in any public forum
Six Semifinalists will be selected from the submitted recipes. The semifinalist recipes will be prepared by the Daiquiri Dick’s kitchen staff and presented to a panel of judges and a selected group of Daiquiri Dick’s diners. The winners will be announced November 10, 2010.
PRIZES:
- The first place winner will receive dinner for 2 (or a gift certificate to Daiquiri Dick’s for a value of $100 US)
- Second place will receive a Daiquiri Dick’s gift certificate for $75 US
- Third Place will receive a Daiquiri Dick’s gift certificate for $50 US, and Runner-ups will receive a copy of the Daiquiri Dick’s Kitchen Workbook.
Winning recipe(s) will be featured on the Daiquiri Dick’s website and presented as menu specials during the season, with the cook’s name noted.
Originally cantinas were Italian wine cellars but as the concept migrated to Mexico, they first appeared as upper class Spanish wine bars but soon merged with lower class pulquerias into havens exclusively for men until 1982, when the law banning women from entering cantinas was lifted. This law may be gone but the attitude remains; single men in cantinas are hungry.
O’Rourke’s World Pub & Shisha Garden has a lot of possibilities as a watering hole in Old town. From the street, it looks simple, even a tad tacky, but inside it comes alive. When you first enter, it is a traditional bar, nothing special, nothing to make it noticed. Then, if you keep walking you enter a magical garden where comfort and pleasure are obviously the goals. The food at O’Rourke’s is good. It’s a little on the high side in cost, but you can’t miss on the quality. The same can be said for the drinks. Most mixed drinks are 55 pesos. Shots are from 30 to 75 pesos. Wine is 40 to 55 pesos. Beer is 24 for Corona, etc to 48 a liter of draft and 35 to 42 for microbrewery and up to 65 or so for assorted imports like Guinness and then on to assorted British brands at up to 82 pesos. Irish coffee is 55 pesos.