The Cook with Us team, @offoodandart, @pandamama and @chefsteve, want to thank everyone for participating this week. We enjoyed all of your pies and tarts and we learned a few new tips and techniques while reading. Thank you! Each week we are so impressed with the level of work that you all share with the community. It seems that everyone is slowly mastering their craft as each week and month pass. Great job to everyone and we applaud you all!

This was the last week of season two and we would like to express our deep appreciation to everyone in our Cook with Us community. It has been such a fantastic second season and we were so happy to get to know all of you better along the way. The Cook with Us community has grown so much since our humble beginnings and we are always elated when new people join the group. It is all of you that make @cookwithus such a fun place to meet up each week to share our food and stories. Thank you! After the @docsmith knife contest we will be taking a vacation until the the beginning of October. Stay tuned to our newsletter for information about season three.

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As a reminder, the next three weeks are The @docsmith Handcrafted Knife Contest. Everyone is free to join but you must join in this first week. After this week the contest will be closed to new contestants.

Click Here to Enter

We politely ask that you resteem the contest announcement post to help spread the word. Thank you!

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OK, let's see who the winners are this week!

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In Second Place Is...

Chocolate Tart by @denissemata

Congratulations @denissmata you won second place this week! You will receive 3 SBD for placing second.

@denissemata, We really enjoyed your classic chocolate tart. It looks so rich and delicious! Thank you for sharing your dish with us!

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And The WINNER Is...

Vegan Caramel Apple Pie with Cranberry Coulis and Coconut Creme by @atmemestable

Congratulations @atmemestable you are the winner this week! You will receive 5 SBD for placing first and you will advance to the winner's circle.

@atmemestable, You made such a wonderful apple pie. It looked so pretty and we loved the way that you made your crust. Thank you for sharing your dish with us and congratulations for advancing to the Winner’s Circle!

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Third place in the Winner's Circle is!…

Apple Roses by @lizelle

Congratulations @lizelle, You won third place in the Winner’s Circle this week. You will receive 1 SBD as your prize.

@lizelle, We thought that your tart was beautiful and looked so delicious. What a cool technique to roll the dough with the apples. Thanks for sharing this dish with us!

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Second place in the Winner's Circle is!…

Raspberry Pistachio Tart by @foodforsoul

Congratulations @foodforsoul, You won second place in the Winner’s Circle this week. You will receive 3 SBD as your prize.

@foodforsoul, We really enjoyed your delicious combination of pistachio and raspberries with chocolate. We also thought that your presentation was beautiful. Thank you for sharing your dish with us!

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The Winner's Circle Champion is…

Vegan Apricot Nectarine Tart by @loveself

Congratulations @loveself, You are the Winner’s Circle Champion this week. You will receive 5 SBD as your prize.

@loveself, We felt that your tart was visually stunning. Your crust was complex with the mixture of seeds, spices and tahini. The crust when paired with the nectarine and orange blossom water filling was truly an original and delicious tart. Thank you for sharing your dish with us!

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The following, if participating in Cook with Us after the @docsmith knife contest, will be competing in the Winners Circle, including our latest 1st place winner @atmemestable. There will be three winners from the Winners Circle and the winners will be awarded 5 SBD, 3SBD and 1SBD.

• ground2feet

• loveself

• foodforsoul

• whattheduck

• deimus

• blackberryskunk

• cooknbake

• dianadee

• alansthoughs

• lizelle

• gladysstillwagon

• carolynstahl

• plantstoplanks

• pusteblume

• birdsinparadise

• foodflaneur

• rawadventuress

• saimondonata

• leelektrik

• yesslife

• slowcookingchef

• atmemestable

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Acknowledgements

Another donation has come in from @sneaky-ninja. Thank you very much! Huge apologies for giving acknowledgement to the wrong person - who copied the sneaky-ninja name without the hyphen. We appreciate this most generous gift to our rewards pool.

Thanks for the delegation of 50SP from @goldendawne who runs a weekly curation program and has acknowledged several of our contestants already. This is a very much appreciated delegation.

Thank you to @curie for voting for our wonderful contestants. This is a great privilege for us to see their posts being acknowledged.

@zord189 gave an interesting new sponsorship called Steem Basic Income, to @cookwithus winner @birdsinparadise. @birdsinparadise has a lifetime vote from Steem Basic Income to encourage her to keep posting. This generous sponsorship was in addition to the weekly 5 SBD award for first place. Thank you @zord189!

A donation also came in from @sneaky-ninja for the month of July and again for the month of August - thank you so very much and @jedau also kindly made a donation to CwU and gave us a shout out. You can read his shout out post HERE.

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.

Please show your support for @aggroed by voting for him as a witness.

Thanks to @docsmith for the generous donation of a beautiful custom-made knife specifically crafted for Cook with Us.

We are delighted with the caricatures made for us by @bazbiscuit. 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.

Thank you VIEWLY for the View Token prizes that we will give to our contestants who make a little video of their recipes.

Please follow @goldendawne,@DocSmith, @jedau, @zord189, @jznsamuel, @sneaky-ninja, @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.