CULINARY CLUCK!

CULINARY CLUCK is a recipe and wine pairing competition with a Twist. As well you might expect!

An entry to CULINARY CLUCK includes a recipe, a Twisted Oak suggested wine pairing, and a picture of the finished product.

Your recipe must either

a. be a recipe that contains (real) chicken; or,
b. be a recipe that looks like a (rubber) chicken when prepared.

Your wine pairing suggestion must be for a Twisted Oak wine from any vintage.

And by "picture" we mean any visual presentation: a single photo, a drawing or painting, a slide show, an album, or a video. (You can have a soundtrack but it isn't required.)

The ideal visual presentation of the finished product either looks like a rubber chicken in presentation (as noted above) or contains an actual rubber chicken somewhere in the picture. Here are some examples:

Here the Rubber Chicken is actually the food.
Try to imagine this is a roast rubber chicken with all the trimmings.
Try harder.

 

Here the rubber chicken is attempting, poorly, to present the food.
(I'm sure you can do better than the chicken salad shown here.)
Imagine that bottle is a Twisted Oak wine bottle.

And here a dessert is made to look like a rubber chicken.
(OK, so it looks a little like rubber chicken roadkill.
OK, a lot like it. But you get the idea.)

Please note that you are just creating a fun picture of your recipe, and there is NO reason to actually roast a rubber chicken for two hours and burn the house down! Also note there is no limit on the number or size of rubber chickens (or rubber chicken parts) (EW!) used to show the finished product.

Entries must be posted on a publicly accessible and visible web site, such as (but not limited to) Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, a blog or other personal web site. While you may include the recipe itself and pairing in a slide show or video, please also provide them in printable text form.

Once you have posted your entry please contact us and let us know where it is (tastingroom@twistedoak.com is a good way.) Please include your name, birth date (21 and older only please), and a contact phone number.

If you do not have a web site for posting your entry, please email or deliver your entry to tastingroom@twistedoak.com and we will post your entry on the Twisted Oak Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/twistedoak) for all to see.

Finalists will be chosen by a public vote of all entries - links and summaries of all entries will be posted on several Twisted Oak web sites to facilitate the voting (for example Facebook, our new Posterous blog, and El Bloggo Torcido.) (Twisted Oak Winery reserves the right to decide the number of finalists, and to pluck one or two additional Finalists from obscurity.) Twisted Oak Winery will choose the winning entry from amongst the finalists.

One winning entry will be awarded for the combination of the best picture, for the yummiest recipe (yes, we will prepare them in our Twisted Test Kitchen!), and for the most inspired pairing. Obviously, humor and originality as well as the rubber-chicken-ness of the visual presentation will be very important!

By sending your entry to Twisted Oak, you agree to let us publish the contents on our web sites and publish the contents in any printed matter. And by doing so you are assuring us that you have the right to grant us that permission - in other words, the images and recipe are yours, and you are granting us permission to use them. We don't expect this permission to be exclusive, and we can't and won't transfer that permission to anyone else without asking you first. And when we do publish your images and recipe, we will always give you full credit. That's forever.

Twisted Oak Winery reserves the right to disqualify any entry that does not meet the spirit of the event, does not follow the rules and guidelines, or that constitutes plagarism (please do not copy recipes! We don't need Martha on our butts!) We also reserve the right to disqualify any votes that are determined to constitute ballot stuffing. Play nice!

Obviously, this is all void where prohibited. And we can only ship wine where we can ship wine. But you knew all that!

We are accepting entries now, and will do so until 12PM PST on November 9th. At that time voting for the finalists will begin. The voting ends at 11:59PM PST November 16th. And the winner will be announced November 30th.

UPDATE: Oh yeah, the rewards! The best entry will receive, as compensation, a $250 Twisted Oak Gift Card! (More on those gift cards soon.) We may also choose, at our discretion (though we are so seldom discrete), to honor other entries with lesser compensations. (You know, kind of like Miss Congeniality. Only different.)

Now get cookin'!!!

Comments

[Patrick Berry]

Not to be a bastard, but what are the prizes? :)

[el jefe]

There will be prizes! I'm saving that for the public announcement this week. ;)

ps: I knew I could count on you!

[Shana Ray]

You just gave me another excuse to try a tofu product I have never tried! TOFU CHICKEN... That counts, right? :)

[el jefe]

No problem with tofu chicken, as long as it's YUMMY!

But another helpful hint might be... if I would have to drive 3 hours from the foothills to find an exotic ingredient, it might not happen!

[Heather in SF]

How anyone can top that pastry rubber chicken, I dunno, but I've got my thinking cap on!!!!

[El Jefe]

I have faith that you will come up with something!

[The Beer Wench]

I'm brainstorming my theme.

The Spaniard may be my vino of choice (after all, Don Quixote is going to be the star of my dish)...

[El Jefe]

Most excellent! One wonders, however, if Don Quixote will be merely involved in the dish, or committed ;)

[Lynn Upthagrove]

WoW! So many ways to participate. We use your rubber chicken for identifying one of our rental properties out in the country, we got it from TO. I suppose we could cook our mascot icon.