Want a chance to win $1000? Enter Phillips Seafood recipe contest

For your chance to win $1000 pick up a container of Phillips Seafood pasteurized crab meat and get working on that prize-winning recipe.

You can review contest guidelines and post your entry at www.ultimatecrabchallenge.com must be submitted by August 23, 2010 11:59 p.m.

After preliminary judging the top three finalists will participate in a cook-off on Saturday, September 11, from 12:30-1:30 at the Maryland Seafood Festival taking place at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, MD. The second and third place winners will receive $100 gift cards to Giant Food and Phillips Seafood Restaurants.

Good luck and get crackin’. Please call Phillips’ Marketing Department with questions: 888-234-2722.

Bistrot La Minette’s two nights in Provence

This month at Bistrot La Minette, Chef Peter Woolsey steers his culinary caravan towards Provence. Provencal cuisine draws from its rugged coastal landscape that finds grazing sheep and goat as well as the bordering Mediterranean Sea.

On Wednesday, August 18th and Thursday, August 19th a four-course Provencal dinner menu (detailed below) will be offered at $35, or $50 with wine pairings.

Menu:

1- Pissaladiere (Onion, anchovy, and olive pie, salad)

Wine: Chateau Beulieu Rose, Grenache, Syrah, Provence

2- Rouget aux Bohémienne (Red mullet, eggplant stewed with tomatoes)

Wine: VMV Cotes De Ventoux Rose, Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Provence

3- Tomate Farci (Veal and pork stuffed tomato, parmesan, tomato coulis)

Wine: Lulu B, Pinot Noir, Burgundy

4- Nougat Glace (Frozen Nougat, lavender honey, apricot sauce)

Wine: Muscat De Beaumes De Venise, Rousillon

Call 215-925-8000 for reservations or visit www.bistrotlaminette.com.