Top 50 have been found!

We received the prescreening judging sheets, counted up the votes, and found our top 50 recipes for the 2009 Lentil Festival!!! In no particular order, here they are:

Smoky Lentil & Spinach Quesadillas with Chipotle Avacado Cream
Savory Lentil Pancakes with Ginger Tomato Chutney
Mediterranean Lentil Lamb Burger
Lentil Cocktail Cups
Lively Lentil Salad with Thai Flavors
"Lentil" Havana Lettuce Cups
Lentil Ravioli with Spinach and Cheese
Lentil Salad with Peas, Arugula and Tomatoes
Lentil Fritter Snacks
Quick and Easy Lentil Joes
African Stew
Pumpkin Lentil Soup
Rainbow Lentil Tacos
Super Duper Lentil Burgers
B-L-T Dip
Lentil-Rice Burritos
Indian-Style Lentils and Basmati Rice with Warm Cilantro Oil
Red USA Lentils and Spinach Chicken
Cilantro Chicken Jack & Lentil Quesadillas
Not Your Mother's Jelly Roll
Herbed Lentils and Rice
Jewel Lentil Salad
Lentil Lemon Linguini
Savannah's Sweet Potato Lentil Fritters
Legendary Lentil Samosas with Cilantro Mint Chutney
Summer Sweet Lentil Salad
Lentadillas
Lentil Sliders
Twice Baked Pineapple Lentil Enchiladas
Rhubarb Lentil Crisp
Spicy Lentil Sloppy Joes
Lentil Enchilada Casserole
Maple Chipotle Barbecue Lentil Pizza
Balinese Garden Peanutty Lentil Soup
Mystical Mediterranean Lentil Salsa with Pita Chips
Cherry Right-Side Up Cake
Fresh-Mex Lentil Wontons with Zesty Cilantro-Lime Dip
Lentilicious Pumpkin-Cranberry Scones
Creamed Goat Cheese Sweet & Sour Lentil Bruschetta
Summertime Stuffed Sweet Onions
Mediterranean Lentil Salad
Lentil and Yam Chimichangas
Turtle Cheese Wedges
Sweetey Pie
Animal Cracker Dip (Fudgy Chocolate Frosting)
Bacon Wrapped Lentil Stuffed Mushrooms
Lentil Hummus
Bombay Tacos with Mango-Yogurt Sauce
Carrot Pineapple Lentil Bread
Bowl Me Over Italian Lentil Soup

We are looking forward to tasting all of these fantastic recipes on the 30th of June! Once the recipes have been made, a group of judges will decide who gets to move on to the top 6! It will be a tough decision to make. The top 6 recipes will be featured at the Lentil Festival on Saturday in Reaney Park. The first 400 festival-goers will get to help judge these amazing recipes! Come hungry!!!

Full steam ahead!

Pullman's 4th of July celebration went incredibly well. Not as many were in attendance this year, but we are blaming that on the scorching heat. It was a gorgeous day on the Palouse. The fireworks were fantastic! Thank you to all of you that came out to support the event! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Now that the fireworks have been lit, its time for the Chamber to get going...full steam ahead! The Lentil Festival is just 43 days away! The cook off applications have all been turned in and are ready to be prescreened so we can find our top 50! This year, we had some technical difficulties with our new online forms, so we ended up with 93 qualifying recipies this year, which was a bit shy of the 125 submitted last year. Those 93 recipes came from 30 different states, which is absolutely fantastic! We are still hoping to reach our goal of getting a recipe from each state in the future.

All of the recipes submitted will be prescreened by a few select judges. These judges will narrow our recipes down to the top 50. Those 50 will be the recipes entered in the Lengendary Lentil Cook Off!! We are all very anxious to see who makes the cut!

Vendor, contest and parade applications are still available online if anyone is interested. We are hopeful that this year's Lentil Festival will be bigger and better than ever!!