Cooking For Others: Win a Trip with BGSK!

what this beach needs is some homemade food

As our readers know, we mostly cook from the confines of our tiny kitchens. We don’t think our food suffers for being made in closet-sized regions, but that doesn’t mean we don’t jump at the chance to go cook in larger kitchens whenever we get the chance. We love catering in part because we get to take advantage of someone else’s marble counter space, and we make pilgrimages to our parents’ houses not just to see them but also to use their ice cream makers and looong dining room tables.

So though we don’t say no to any old cooking getaway, what we’re about to describe happens to be a particularly exciting excursion.
We’re inviting one lucky reader on a four night, five day tropical cook-a-thon with us. We’re headed to a big cottage on St. Thomas, in the Caribbean. The cottage isn’t huge, but it’s right on the beach, and, more importantly, it features an enormous, fully equipped kitchen. Since the cottage is small and the kitchen big, we’ll all be sharing a room. But to make up for that, BGSK will commit to making you breakfast, lunch, and dinner from our archive of tropical recipes, and we’ll be working to expand our repertoire of frozen drinks as well.

this could be you sipping a BGSK-made frozen mojito
We’re really excited about this opportunity to alternate cooking and basking in the sun, but we’re even more thrilled that we’re able to invite one of you to come along! We’ve already started to figure out what we’ll be serving, and here’s one of the menus we can’t help but share:
Breakfast
Coconut Pancakes with Passionfruit Syrup and Strawberries
Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice
Lunch
Chorizo and Grilled Vegetable Tortas with Chipotle-Lime Crema
Pineapple Sorbet
Dinner
Crab Cakes with Chipotle Mango Salsa and Cilantro-Cashew Chutney
Poached Lobster in a Truffle Butter Demi-Glace
Caramelized Corn Pudding
Papaya Panna Cotta
To win, tell us what meal you’d cook for us if you were on our Caribbean cooking retreat. Then stay tuned-we’ll announce the reader tomorrow in our newsletter. (To sign up, enter your email here.) The rest of you don’t have to worry too much about losing though-we’ll be live blogging every moment of the vacation, complete with photos and recipes, on tumblr and twitter.
Good luck!
From our kitchen, about to migrate south, to yours,
Cara and Phoebe, THE QUARTER-LIFE COOKS

Originally posted on Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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