Recipe to Riches

Hey everyone:

So, if any of you have the food network or shop at Fortinos, probably have seen Recipe to Riches around.

If not, it’s a TV show on people from all over Canada making their own recipes to become a President’s Choice product. Each week is a different category and the judges choose 3 of the best recipes.  Those three people have to then make that same recipe fro the judges except…with 200 servings! Then one person gets cut and the two remaining contestants basically do product research on their recipes by giving out free samples and asking questions and advertising and all that.  If you live in Toronto, you probably saw them around.

Then the CEO joins in and helps judging the winner of $25 000.

There are 7 categories and after all the categories are done they will have a $250 000 winner.

What’s awesome is every week they are going to come out with a version of the product we can buy.

I’m going to be buying the product (depending on whether or not I can eat it i.e. nuts or not) then making the recipe as they post the top three recipes on the website.

***SPOILER ALERT***

The first week’s category was Sweet Pudding and Pie, winner was Glo McNeil with her Luscious Lemon Pudding.

Here’s what it’s supposed to look  like:

Lucious Lemon Pudding

Here’s the packaging:

This is one serving frozen….pretty small for 330 calories :(

Now to pop it in the microwave for 60 seconds:

And looks the same…pretty much, now to taste:

So it’s not really a pudding.

The PC version is more like a cake with it’s lemon filling sitting in a puddle at the bottom.  There’s something not quite right about the taste. But the cake is fluffy and wonderful…the weird taste comes from the “pudding” I think. However, it does have a lot of potential.

I’ll be making the recipe tonight.  It’s so simple, I’m pretty sure I already have all the ingredients!

Oct 24. 10 Notes.

Notes

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