US only I presume? (I'm in UK)
This is NOT a U.S. only giveaway - anyone is eligible!
Based on the giveaway title, is this limited college freshmen? I couldn't find any rules indicating one way or the other.
Sue
I'm not allowed to post rules until the day of my giveaway, but it's not limited to college freshmen - HP just intends the laptop promotion to be oriented towards recent college grads and there are 15 units to be given away, so Freshman 15 seemed like a fun name.
So, to be clear, anyone regardless of age or country of residence will be able to participate in my giveaway. Full rules will be published on October 4th.
down for it, i'm going back to school for my materials science bachelors. it'll help if i win it.
All entries for the HP Freshman 15 laptop giveaway should be BELOW this comment and ABOVE the comment I leave ending the contest on October 11.
Remember, anyone can enter - just post a picture involving food and the have the phrase "cookingforengineers.com" showing in the photo. The phrase has to be there when the picture is taken - no image editing or photoshop!
One more thing.
Can a person have more than one entry? I have a couple of great ideas and was having difficulty deciding which one to go for.
Feel free to enter more than once.
I just removed the floor from my moms kitchen, so I decided to cut some of it out, then decided that would take way too long, so I just burned the rest, with sparklers and a blowtorch.
Nice, I was a bit surprised at first (looked at the picture before reading the whole comment) then I realized it was a kitchen floor and it had been removed (thank goodness)!
I have 2 different versions of the same type of food xD so can that count as 2 entry's?
Here is my entry into the competition.
Click here for a larger view. I have a posting on my friend's blog where I go into detail about each dish, and with more pictures. Visit
here for the juicy details.
I got to say, out of all the HP contests so far, this has been the most enjoyable one.
Richard.
It's not as elaborate as everyone elses, but with the minimal funds I have available, I did the best I could!
My entry (if it's allowed - I hope it's allowed!) is of a dinner I made for my wife and I. We're stationed in South Korea living off of the installation. Because of that, we don't have an oven or anything so I made do with what we have and made a pretty tasty dish.
It's Toasted Turkey and Cheese Sandwiches served with a side dish of Cream Soup with Mandarin juice.
I'd love to have made a more elaborate dish, but it was kind of impossible at the moment. It
was something I made myself though. :D I hope this qualifies!
you clearly stated that we cannot fake pictures in photoshop, but can we use it to correct the color or stuff like that?
These are all perfectly fine submissions!
Photoshop: yes, you can adjust levels, white balance, hue, clarity, etc. You just can't go in and paint the words "cookingforengineers.com" into it. You have to put the words have to exist in real life while you are taking the picture.
Here is a quick sweet dish "Banana Delight".
I have used Custard, Jelly, Bananas and lost of Cream.
Only WELL AFTER the salad was tossed and eaten did the realization strike us down, that to the technical eye...there is no "dot-com" in this salad. And shoot, what is this, if not a forum for technical eyes!
But we pitch... should one well up inside with tenderness for each and every pomegranate seed, as can happen from time to time, then surely it won't be long before, as happened to us, those pearly rosate pixels form into little digits, spelling out clearly what we left off...
spelled in Reese's Pieces
Abdur Rafay Zafar and Dani, since you guys didn't register, please e-mail me at cooking@cookingforengineers.com so I know how to contact you later. The same goes for anyone posting in the future without making an account - I need to make sure I can contact you in case you are chosen as the winner.
For those of us who like sushi :D
- Gustavo A. Pinto
heres my submission
my email is fritcb@gmail.com
here's my submission!
I used vegetables that were 'leftover' from our garden. The words are made from peppers and a tomato, the word "engineers" is carved into a zuchinni. The leafy stuff around the edges is basil.
This sign was made with some of my husbands favorite snacks-Cheezits (tobasco flavor) and Corn-nuts (Ranch style)...I had so much fun with this and only hope that it is good enough for this competition!!! (this was the only food available in our house...trust me!!! Thank goodness their was a sale at our local store for buy one bag-get one free...
:D
Here are two entries for your contest...
Entry #1: The cookie defense:
Entry #2: (And I must point out, you didn't say it had to be people food)
Rupert (our cat) just can't get enough of Cookingforengineers.com:
Hope you enjoy my entries... :)
Heres my submission...it was very hard to write!
twinjackienurse@gmail.com
Mandarin oranges and Ghiradelli chips.
You said, "by entering the contest, you're also giving Cooking For Engineers the right to use the photographs submitted in the future".
Care to elaborate on future uses of our photos? Plan on making a gallery of our pictures? Or something else? I've just curious to know.
I'm probably going to copy all the images, resize, and repost them on this thread so the images will stay up as long as Cooking For Engineers does. That way we can all look back on this fondly :)
Depending on if they work out, it's possible that I could do T-Shirts or something in the future. Any other ideas?
Here is my submission. I hope you like it because it was made with
love!
Contact: feliperm at gmail dot com
Cooking for an Engineer! Me! :-D
In the picture chicken with spices and cognac, rice and grape water.
Also a N95 showing cookingforengineers.com web page ;)
Just in case :-)
(Edit note: this doesn't look very good on the site because of the forum formatting. Go look at it there if you want all of the pretty stuff).
I'll do one better. Not only do I have a picture (two, actually) of something I've cooked, but I'll include a recipe! It's not a very "engineering" approach, nor is it formatted appropriately for the site, but what the heck?
Pictures:
More at
My flickr, cookingforengineers set
Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 Onion. I prefer red, but white or yellow work as well
- Half a head of garlic
- 10 white mushrooms
- 1 lb ground beef (90/10 or 95/5 beef/fat)
- 28 oz. canned diced tomatoes
- 28 oz. canned tomato sauce
- 12 oz. canned tomato paste
- Spices (pepper, salt, Italian seasoning, basil)
- Balsamic vinegar (optional, but tasty)
- 1 lb. pasta, your choice (Farfalle is my choice tonight)
- Parmesan cheese. Do us all a favor and don't use the stuff in the green can tonight. I buy grated three-cheese blend from the store
Steps:
Prep
Dice the onion into small pieces. Mince the garlic into the smallest bits you can within reason. Rinse and slice the mushrooms.
Brown the meat
Heat a large pot (5-6 qt.) over medium-high heat. Once it's hot, toss in the ground beef. Add:
- Half of the garlic
- Some salt and pepper (to taste)
- Italian seasoning to taste. I would guess I put in ~2 tablespoons.
Once it's started to brown, pour in ~2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar (if you're using it), the rest of the garlic and the onion. Continue cooking until the beef is cooked through.
Add the sauce
Reduce heat to medium. Add canned tomato stuff (diced, sauce, paste). Once it comes to a simmer, add in the mushrooms and some more spices. I'd suggest some more pepper, salt, and Italian seasoning. Go easy for now, you can always add more.
Once the sauce starts to bubble, reduce the heat to low. You want it to lightly simmer. On my stove, this is just a touch above the lowest flame it will give me.
At this point, the sauce is "ready". The more it simmers, the better it is. I would suggest half an hour as a good starting point. When you're getting hungry, make the pasta. I estimate 15-20 minutes for the pasta to happen (from starting the water to pouring into a colander).
Assemble
Toss a serving of pasta into a bowl, spoon some sauce on top, and sprinkle generously with cheese. Nom. Adding a slice of bread or two is nice, though it's adding more carbs to an already heavy meal.
Store
Unless you've got a big group to feed, this will leave you with a lot of sauce leftover. Spoon it into containers and freeze it in 1-2 serving portions. It thaws easily and reheats well in the microwave, or on the stovetop. There, quick dinner for several nights!
This is my entry ... a good italian Pizza :)
Who doesn't love a sunday with fresh strawberries, real whip cream, sprinkled with bits of walnuts and cinnamon and sugar ?
Thanks for the chance to win
fritcb@gmail.com
It would seem my pictures didn't show up when I checked later with deleted cookies
So here they are again!
This time 3 different versions of the same food and the last one is what I had for breakfast this morning! :'D
Here's my entry!!
Hope you like this one!!
here's another one!
almond biscotti
Cooking for engineers with awesomely hot little peppers.
Lots of fun :)
Always liked slice and bake cookies and it's much more fun when you make your own designs. A bit harder to do that many letters out of one recipe, but at least letters are fairly simple.
While I was at it took other pictures too, here's the in-progress when I started slicing:
http://img.movoda.net/ghktbpd5.jpg and all the extra letters I ended up with at the end:
http://img.movoda.net/x6itfxy3.jpg
Feeding the mind and your tummy:
I really shouldn't put a bowl of oats and cranberries on a bed and expect it to stay there:
I have a few more ideas that I'll try to add later. :)
some spanish food for us =D
Hello!
Here is my first entry into the contest. Since Halloween is approaching, I decided to make a spooky dinner:
Cheeseball bats served as an appetizer to the main course of meatloaf rats, served with mashed potato snakes.
Thank you, Cooking For Engineers and HP, for hosting such a fun contest!
-Beeb
bakahentai AT gmail.com
Here's my entry...
Home-made Indian Puries toped with Biscuits.
CookingForEngineers.Com is writen with Choco-Vanilla Icing.
Lots of Hard work put in this.
Its like a grand project for me.
My friends enjoyed eating it after I was done taking pictures.
Everything was gone in 10 mins. :)
*crosses fingers*
CSA and CFE,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
Community-supported agriculture and Cooking for Engineers have both changed the way I eat -- thank you! (And now it's even becoming normal to play with food....)
Here you can see it all
spelled out.
1500 mini M&M's later...
Hi!,
My entry for the contest is a home made cake; what we call a marble cake.
Please check the link below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31217512@N05/?saved=1
The hardest part was to write 'cookingforengineers.com' on the cake itself. By the way, the cake is as tasty as it looks.
Prashant
1500 mini M&M's later...
elizardkwik@yahoo.com
Here is my entry. These are the marshmallows I made using your instructions, and they turned out great. My little friend liked them too :)
I had a little trouble registering, so here is my email address:
shanawoodman (at) hotmail (dot) com
here is my entry for the contest
i hope you like it
thanks for the competition...
In the mood for some soul food?
Cooking beans & salsa for nachos:
Finished product:
Slightly different angle:
My engineer husband made these pancakes for me this morning...it's his favorite breakfast to make me. Our dog looked pretty interested too.
I took this first photo when the light was right, then realized I'd forgotten to put .com in and took another. Alas, the sun had moved, so it's not as good.
This is all produce from my garden, in my garden. Lots of good vegetables and herbs for cooking, even by a non-engineer.
I posted about it on my blog, too:
http://kittbo.blogspot.com/2008/10/cooking-for-engineers.html
Thanks for hosting the contest! This was fun to do. Love everyone else's pics. Some serious competition here!
Kitt
kittbo AT gmail DOT com
Ok, I had some trouble with my picture, too. 1500 M&Ms and two attempts later...
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0HkDmCHh5O8/SO6HKL7-uRI/AAAAAAAAAD
A/wgqOoGlqLwU/s1600-h/100_1185.JPG[/img]
Or, if that doesn't work, go here:
http://lizardpa.blogspot.com/.
Thanks!
elizardkwik@yahoo.com
Here's my entry for the laptop contest.
at ten o'clock we hadn't had dinner, but then we found avocado AND cucumber AND crab meat were all on hand....
with this mochi to split afterwards:
& weeping in our soy sauce that cfe week is coming to its end.
Here is one:
(In honor of Halloween)
Cookingforengineers.com is a sweet treat-
And here is two:
Don't be a DumDum, check out Cookingforengineers.com-
Hope you like these...they took some time to construct but it was fun. :D
What can I say, I really would love to finally own a laptop. And since we can enter many times...why not keep trying?
Here are two more entries by me:
Cookingforengineers.com is saucy-
(And anyone that goes to college knows-whether first hand or through friends-that the college experience includes alcohol, so...)
Cookingforengineers.com, knocking back the other website competition-
Here are two entries (I had to use my daughter's photobucket because I am not that tech savy. I did these so my daughter will stop bugging me to buy her a computer-- especially since I can't afford it with paying for my own college loans ...and yes, they are my loans; my daughter is paying her own.)
I couldn't come up with the dough to pay for a computer...but I did come up with some dough for this entry (ok, ok-- it's actually pie crust):
I thought I would try to spice things up a bit with this second entry:
this is my entry baked chisken mmmmmm. it was good
C:\Users\james\Desktop\0.jpg
This was taken as we were putting together our salads for dinner.
Not sure if my other half appreciated me digging through his salad to find the right size and shape items.
:P
I tried to register but had problems, here's my info.
shay_tx@hotmail.com
For my first entry, we dressed in black and managed to elude the crafty produce managers with our ninja-like stealth:
A close up (I now need to search this site to find out what to do with the spaghetti squash:
For my second entry, as a fellow engineer, I thought some pumpkin pi would be appropriate:
Danielle
djwain@gmail.com
CFE written in olive oil
CFE written in angel hair pasta
Cute kid with CFE written in pasta
Chicken Piccata from House of Annie
http://chezannies.blogspot.com
contact: lj_jensen88@yahoo.com
Since my husband is a computer engineer, we had to include this. Took a while at the grocery store to find snack items that would work as 1's and 0's. The end result: pretzel sticks and the pretzel circles from a few bags of chex mix.
-Christina
cmd277 at gmail dot com
HEre is my entry,
Now I can play with my food mom!
Well, I am the one who posted the picture of sushi and legos, I did not include any other text because i was kinda scared of posting on october 11th! (I posted 7 minutes before midnight!), anyway, I want to explain my picture: Whenever I think of engineers I imagine guys wearing those white hard hats and operating big machinery!, so we thought that itīd be cool to include those guys in the photo. I think the one on the excavator is stealing some sushi!
It was taken on my favorite sushi place on Wednesday night.
My email address is gonzalo_garcia@hotmail.co.uk
thanks. :D
Here is my submission for the Freshman 15 contest :) Incase it isn't clear, it's a pizza topped with pepperoni.
My e-mail is bridget_hoffman at yahoo dot com
OK, I hope I'm not too late. It isn't really fair if I am, because here in Texas, it is still early evening on Friday! So, I figured why not make my entry an engineering marvel. I ran out of toothpicks, so I just used gravity to turn food into a bridge!
Jace
JaceRoscoe@gmail.com
Here's
Cookies for Engineers:
Had to take the opportunity to make our favorite recipe from the site. They were devoured quickly after the photo was taken.
See the full size version here
I just thought you might like this one...
I tried to combine both elements of the website's name:
Cookingforengineers.com, a blueprint for success-
Enjoy! Oh, and it is still October 10th here is Ohio (it's 10:20pm) so I hope this still counts...I had to hurry and construct this as soon as I was off work.
Hello again!
Here is my second entry for the contest:
I was in the mood for some fall flavors, so these are Apple Spice cupcakes. I found the recipe here, if anyone else is in the mood for some Apple yumminess:
http://sassandveracity.typepad.com/sass_veracity/2008/09/apple-walnut-cu.html
When I baked these, I made some substitutions - I didn't have any Walnuts on hand, so I omitted those, and I also added more spices. I then used cream cheese frosting and a variety of sprinkles to pretty them up.
I have two more entries on the way, which I will post as soon as I pull them out of the oven. :)
Spencer
sspagnol@calpoly.edu
Here's my third entry, fresh from the oven!
Sugar cookies, sprinkled with tinted sugar. I made this using my favorite sugar cookie recipe, from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, circa 1963:
Ethel's Sugar Cookies
3/4 cup shortening (part butter or margarine)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. lemon flavoring or 1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups Gold Medal Flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp salt (which I always omit)
Mix shortening, sugar, eggs, and flavoring thoroughly. Measure flour by dipping method, or by sifting. Stir flour, baking powder, and salt together; blend in. Chill at least 1 hr.
Heat oven to 400 degress (mod. hot). Roll dough 1/8" thick on lightly floured board. Cut with 3" cookie cutter. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 6 to 8 min., or until cookies are a delicate golden color. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
Yum!
Here is my fourth and final entry!
But the impending invasion was thwarted...
The spaceship is a cake that I made from a recipe found in another Betty Crocker cookbook. This one is a little more modern - it's from 1972.
Dinette Cake
1 1/2 cups cake flour or 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (again, I always omit this, because I think it's gross!)
3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup shortening
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour square pan (or spaceship), 8x8x2 or 9x9x2 inches. Measure all ingredients into large mixer bowl. Blend 1/2 minute on low speed, scraping bowl constantly. Beat 3 minutes high speed, scraping bow2l occasionally. Pour into pan.
Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool.
I also added lemon flavoring, because I thought it would be nice. I frosted it with plain old Vanilla frosting, and added the alien, who flew down from outer space (OK, he actually came from the batch of Ethel's Sugar Cookies). There's a somewhat clearer picture of the cake
here, but you can't read the writing because of the flash. My camera isn't very well suited to taking food pictures, alas!
Thank you again for offering this fantastic contest. What fun! I spent half of the day in the kitchen playing around with these recipes - I love to bake, so this was a fun creative project! Thanks again for the chance to enter! :)
-Beeb
bakahentai AT gmail.com
How do you when spaghetti is done? When is sticks to the refrigerator door and you can spell stuff with it.
Wow, the response to this challenge has been overwhelming! The contest ends in a few more hours (I'm traveling - currently in Texas - and it's almost Oct. 11 here) - I'll wait until around noon here (12:00 noon Central Time) to end the contest. If I forget, then it'll end a little later.
So, get your last minute entries in!
I'll have to make the final decision when I get back to California so I'll contact the winners around noon on Monday and when I get responses from everyone, I'll post the winners.
Great response guys!
Dont know if you guys are familiar with TF2 at all, I made a spray of the website name, and just took a screen capture of the heavy eating a sandvitch underneath it. Thought I might try to be a bit different from the other entries ;)
mikehutch06@gmail.com
Here is my second entry, a bit less electronic. I make my own dill pickles every year, and it always looks like a small army on top of my cupboards. I would definitely be willing to give out the recipe if I win :)
mikehutch06@gmail.com
now i get to eat it!
my pumpkin swirl cheesecake that is!!
lights on!
lights off!!
Aloha, Nate
House of Annie food blog
http://chezannies.blogspot.com
Peanuts, fried and salted :)
Peanuts, fried and salted :)
saw this contest at the very last moment. Didn't have time to bake a cake or anything! Damn those 'e's were hard to get lol!
Whew! I just finished making a cake covered in fondant instead of icing for the FIRST TIME EVER. It was very interesting. I'll try to post some details after, but I want to get this up right quick before the deadline is posted.
Oh and the letters are made of gum paste--another brand new ingredient for me! I colored it with gel food colors then used molds to create the letters. I also dusted it (and the cake) with pearly dust (edible of course!) because I do love sparkle.
I've always wanted to experiment with fondant and gum paste and cake decorating in general, but never have, so I used this as an opportunity to give it a whirl. And it was so much fun! Thanks for the opportunity. :)
So here it is:
Registration wouldn't process correctly. I can be contacted via http://www.tiwtter.com/cmduke
Thanks everyone for participating in this fun contest! Any submissions that are received/posted AFTER this post are not qualified to win prizes (but if you've gone through the effort, feel free to post so others can enjoy your handiwork).
I'll be going through the entries when I get back to California and have my panel of judges pick out their favorites.
Thanks for playing - stay tuned for the winners!
Michael
**** CONTEST IS CLOSED ****
hello, did anyone noticed that some pictures are not displayed when browsing on IExplorer?
I advice you to use Mozilla FireFox, so that you can see the pics that IExplorer doenst show.
Thanks
Roof on the table and food over my head
Shane Joe Lazar
drsjlazar(a)gmail.com
Any word on who won yet?
The winner of the laptop is rtrieu for his multifood construction and detailed description of how he made each letter group.
The winners of the messenger bags are:
Dani - for the salad and cake contributions
djwain - for the gutsiness of spelling out cooking for engineers in a grocery store
Kara - for the geekiness of the ASCII binary entry
katherinego - for the carved pumpkin and it's timeliness to the season
I hate I missed the contest, looks like a lot of fun. There are some real creative minds around this place! Congrats to the winners.
I missed this one. The submissions were pretty creative, but I think alot of them were off from what you wanted. :P
