Calling All Cooks

Here is your opportunity to get in on the fun... Below is a form you can right-click to submit an entry form for our cookbook project. Much thanks to the following restaurants and eateries who have climbed on board: McGarry's, North Bay Grill, Showthyme, Split Rock Cafe, Rising Sun Bistro, and Grill 459.

We would also like to encourage all members of the community ( even those without culinary expertise!) to submit entries. Our goal is to cast a wide net and make this project as communally holistic as possible. You do not need to be an accomplished chef... just have a love for food and willingness to share your recipe with the Valley. Here is some information that will hopefully be helpful.

Our homeless shelter in Kalispell is compiling a community cookbook that will be a must for every household. It will be full of tasty recipes from area restaurants, markets, caterers, churches, and YOU, the closet chefs, who are famous for your sauces or pies or chicken done just so. We need your recipes, your tips, your tales of food sharing. This cookbook will be filled with beautiful full color photos, interesting facts about food, presentation and serving tips, food stories from the homeless shelter, local homeless statistics, how you can cook for groups both large and small and how to share and enjoy food as a language of love.


Announcing an incredible contest...


Here is your opportunity to prove that you can combine frugality with culinary excellence. Samaritan House is hosting a contest with one simple rule... Prepare a healthy, well-balanced meal for 4 people without spending more than $10. That's right! Can you wow the judges by creating a cheap but delicious meal for less than a ten-spot?


All recipes must be submitted by February 23 and the contest will be held on March 9th at the Samaritan House Administration Center. Grand prize will be your very own Samaritan House cookbook! 

What To Do


Gather your recipes for appetizers, soups, salads (and salad dressings), pastas, vegetables, meats, breads, breakfast dishes, and desserts or anything else that’s a hit with your friends and family. Request entry forms from our blog, http://homelessintheflathead.com/ or your local church. Mail entry forms to Curt Lamm c/o  Samaritan House 124 9th Ave W, Kalispell, MT 59901. Call Heidi Long with any questions at 261-2480 or Curt at 257-5801.

Deadlines


All recipes must be submitted by February 23. We’ll have a “Bake Off” to determine “Best Loved” recipes in each category and to select those to be photographed (participation in the Bake Off is optional and not required to get a recipe in the book-though it will be used to judge category winners). Finalists will be contacted by March 1st. Bake Off dates will be March 9th, and 10th and March 15th & 16th with entrants bringing prepared dishes (servings for 4 or more) to the Samaritan House dining hall at the Administration Center-1110 2nd St West in Kalispell. Residents, participants, and local chefs will determine the category winners. Photos will be taken of various entries.

Advance Sales


Prepaid orders for cookbooks will sell for $15 instead of the $20 cover price. To qualify for advance sales price, orders and payment must be received by April 4th. Mail in payment for number of books ordered to P.O. Box 592, Kalispell, MT 59903. Please make a note in the memo section of your check that payment is for cookbook advance sales order.

Please note the three different addresses above.

Spread the Word!  Below is the form that can be used to submit a recipe.  Save this form to your desktop and print from there.