Try Pillsbury, You May Win Some Dough

Last call, all you competitive (and/ or cash-hungry) cooks, for entering the Pillsbury Bake-Off with its $1 million grand prize.

Saturday is the final day you can call 1-800-598-8753 to have an entry form faxed or mailed to you, although you may still find some sitting around the supermarket after that.

Entries must be postmarked by Oct. 16 and received by Oct. 20. And don’t forget to follow all the picky little rules, like putting your recipe on an 8- by 11-inch sheet of white paper; some early entries have been disqualified for failing to do so, the Pillsbury people report.

Feel your oats

Top prize is a piddling $10,000, but there’s still time to get in on the Quaker Oatmeal “Bake It Better With Oats” Recipe Contest, with categories for cookies, muffins/ breads and “just for kids.”

Postmark deadline is Oct. 31. For information, write to: Quaker Contest Rules, P.O. Box 1370, Barrington, IL 60011.

Winging it

A few fascinating facts about fryers, courtesy of the National Broiler Council and the Washington Fryer Commission, before National Chicken Month flies the coop:

Chicken is the world’s most efficient producer of meat protein, requiring less than two pounds of feed to yield one pound of food.

Fryer production in Washington state has more than doubled over the past 10 years, from 95 million pounds to 198 million pounds.

In the early 1960s, more than 80 percent of chickens were sold whole. Today, almost 60 percent is cut up into pieces to sell in supermarkets, and another 30 percent is processed into chicken nuggets, ready-to-eat entrees and other convenience products.

Greek grub

There’s a new look to the 60th annual Greek Dinner Festival next Wednesday through Friday at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1703 N. Washington.

The revamped dinner menu includes kapama (ragout of beef), pasta with browned butter and myzithra cheese, green beans with garlic and herbs, Greek salad, dessert and coffee.

Dinner is served from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. each day, and is available to take out. Cost is $8 for adults, $4 for children 12 and under.

Greek pastries and deli and import items will be sold at a bazaar beginning each day at 10 a.m.

Tickets are available at the church, at City Ramp Parking Garage, 430 W. First, and at G. Arger Co. Real Estate, 300 N. Mullan. For information, call 328-9310.

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