New Crush Birds Of A Feather | Best Food Recipe

Those of y'all familiar alongside competitive yellow crush carving know how intense these contests tin get, as well as an resultant I lately co-hosted alongside Allrecipes inwards Seattle was no different. The tension was as well as then thick, y'all could've cutting it alongside a swag-bag paring knife.

This battle royal took house at the determination of BlogHerFood weekend, as well as an exclusive grouping of foodies were invited based on their blogging experience, passion for edible art, as well as to a much greater extent, their availability.

The topic of the twenty-four hours was centered on my mascot as well as lifelong friend, the crush bird. After regaling them alongside the strange as well as generally truthful story of how it came to be, as well as demonstrating how I brand the bird, our honored attendees laid to piece of job creating their ain renditions for fun as well as fabulous prizes.

Despite bottomless Mimosas, I idea the birds these “gordiators” produced were extraordinary. Here are a few of the highlights.

I alone had my jail cellular telephone phone to direct keep pictures with, as well as then the blurry shots are mine. Thankfully my friend Irvin at Eat the Love was there, as well as graciously shared closed to of the pictures he took.

The winning plane was from Michael Procopio, the blogger/food author behind the ever entertaining Food for the Thoughtless. The classic combination of huge account as well as fabulous lid proved irresistible to the judges. More subtle was the upright posture, which gave the plane an close violet stance.

In add-on to beingness a crush plane boss, the hilarious Mr. Procopio also gives expert Twitter, as well as then last certain to check him out there. By the way, last prepared to expect materials upwards on Wikipedia.

Speaking of fabulous, the inimitable Linda Nicholson, aka Salty Seattle, was also inwards attendance. As y'all tin see, she was clearly trying to distract the competitor alongside her selection of footwear, which mimicked the bird’s brilliant orangish feet. Did it work? Not really, but who cares? Look at those boots!

Her crush birds were close every bit striking. The saline siren attempted an ambition scene consisting of what appears to last 2 crush birds trying to province on the same rock.

Unfortunately, during the luncheon break, closed to mayo from her sandwich must direct keep fallen on the birds, as well as she was disqualified for violating Chapter 3, Section vii of the official rules, which covers inappropriate piece of job of condiments.

Many attendees utilized "hair" as well as other eye-catching accessories to brand an impression. Sean Timberlake from Hedonia tried to describe off the rarely seen cock’s comb/toupee combo; as well as DPaul Brown from dpaulbrown.com's follic affectations non alone dressed upwards his entry, but also helped signal what sort of cigarette was inwards the beak.

Another favorite was this submission from Andrew Wilder at Eating Rules. I idea it was a smart approach to brand the plane expect similar it was bending over feeding.

We assumed Andrew was trying to exhibit movement, although he did pass a lot of fourth dimension making certain everyone saw but how anatomically right the tail cease of his creation was, as well as then in that place may direct keep been ulterior motives.

Anyway, nosotros actually did direct keep a non bad time, as well as I desire to give thank y'all everyone who participated. Also, a huge thank y'all to my friends at Allrecipes for hosting as well as organizing such a fun event!

If y'all desire to larn how to brand your really ain crush bird, check out this video, as well as every bit always, enjoy!

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