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The theme for Cook with Us #2 :

Three-Ingredient Dish

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Welcome to Cook with Us #2. We are stepping up the pressure for this week. Your challenge is to make a Three-Ingredient Dish. That's right, a dish with only three ingredients. Together we'll discover and learn from each other the beauty of using a minimal number of ingredients to create tasteful dishes.

With so few choices of ingredients, it will be critical to pick the right ones. You are free to add seasonings, spices and fats or oils to your dish as they will not count towards the three. Some great examples of three-ingredient dishes are a Caprese salad (tomato, mozzarella and basil), a simple apple tart (puff pastry, apples and apple compote) or Potato "Anna" or Pomme Anna (potatoes, thyme and garlic).

When you make a dish with many ingredients, it is easier to hide mistakes and inferior quality ingredients. This week, with only three ingredients to use, every ingredient will be key to obtaining a successful dish.

When sharing your three-ingredient dish with us, please try to explain any ingredients or methods that are unique to the dish. We really want to know the story behind your dish too or maybe how you ended picking the recipe or ingredients. Consider these or any other relevant ideas when making your post. The more we can share with each other, the more we can learn.

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

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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 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

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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 for clarity. 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 #2 – Name of your Dish. For example, Cook with Us #2 - Spaghetti and Meatballs.

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

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

• Submit a proof photo with the dish. The proof photo must include your Steemit name, the dish name and the date.

• 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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Don't forget to check out the Cook with Us calendar below

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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.

Please follow @Jacklimberis and @bazbiscuit @theywillkillyou @world5list @world-travel-pro @heyitshaas and @edenmichelle. 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.

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