Ever thought of becoming a star chef and having your recipe published in the Golden Recipes limited edition cookery book? Now is your chance, as local master bakers Golden Harvest, is giving you the opportunity to participate in their monthly competitions, with a chance to have that special recipe that is a hit among family and friends published in a professional cookery book.

Golden Harvest will be hosting a total of 5 monthly competitions spread over 3rd June and 27th September 2013. During these competitions, Aroma chefs, Manuel and Aaron together with the Golden Harvest master baker and consumers via Facebook, will be voting for the final top ten recipes which will be published in the cookery book. Entries will be judged on taste, presentation and originality. Recipes must be original and not published in any other public fora.  Participants can enter one recipe per competition but may participate in more than one competition.

The first competition for the best ‘sandwich fillers’ was launched last Monday, 3rd June and will close on 14th June. Participation is easy. All one has to do is, like Golden Harvest’s Facebook page, register and upload a photo of the sandwich together with the method and ingredients used. In preparing their recipes, participants are free to use any of the wide selection of Golden Harvest loaves together with any ingredients of their choice. Other competitions to be launched in the coming months including, appetizer, starter, main course and desserts recipes.

Speaking about the launch of the competitions, Golden Harvest, CEO, Mark Aquilina said that “the launch of these competitions form part of our commitment to engage our consumers and invite them to share their creativity with others. Their recipes will then be used to publish a one of a kind Maltese cookery book, which I am sure will be an instant hit with local consumers. The launch of the recipes competition and cookery book also coincides with the 50th anniversary of the French sliced loaf, for which we wanted to create this special event for the benefit of our customers and the local community.”