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"  Grand Prize winner: Nancy Elliott of Houston, TX Winning recipe: Spiced Almond-Crusted Chicken with Roasted Red Pepper-Pecan Sauce Prize: The winning recipe creator received an all-expenses-paid trip to Napa Valley, including a cooking class at the Culinary Institute of America. The winning recipe will be printed on Diamond Nut packages. First-place prizes: Crispy Pancetta Cups Filled with Sun Dried Tomato Pesto, Goat Cheese, Arugula, and Toasted Walnuts from Beth Klosterboer of Miamisburg, OH; California Ceviche from Michael Cohen of Los Angeles, CA; Goat Cheese Stuffed Burgers with Peach-Pecan Glaze from Dean Fisher of Austin, TX. They each won a set of All-Clad cookware. Highlights and Details More than 800 recipes featuring Diamond nuts were submitted to the Diamond Recipe Challenge. The top 10 recipes were selected and prepared for final judgment by the staff of the Culinary Institute in Helena, CA, on May 29, 2009. A panel of judges, all of them professional chefs, graded each of the 10 recipes on creativity, completeness, and easiness to follow. The judges were Tina Salter, cookbook author and TV producer; Loretta G. Keller, owner of Coco500 and The Moss Room, restaurants in San Francisco; and Paul Canales, owner of Oliveto, a restaurant in Oakland, CA. Nancy, the winning recipe creator, said her recipe is a family favorite since the nuts add great crunch to the chicken. She used two of the Diamond nut varieties to create this dish: almonds to coat the chicken and pecans to flavor and thicken the sauce. For more information about Diamond Foods and the Diamond Recipe Challenge, visit diamondnuts.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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