We’re entering fall and this means it’s time for our quarterly Cooking Challenge. The last challenge was Shoyu Ramen, the iconic Tokyo Bizentei’s ramen featured in the documentary film Come Back Anytime. This month, we have a special theme for your participation.
This Month’s Recipe Challenge: Cook for Maui
The theme for this month’s challenge is Cook for Maui as part of our effort to help the ongoing recovery work for the displaced residents. For each of your entries, we’ll donate $5 to the selected charities (each 50% goes to the Maui United Way and Maui Food Bank). This Challenge would mean a lot to many of our readers who are from Hawaii, and I personally owe them for their many years of support, so I want to THANK YOU in advance for the joint effort in helping them. Select and make one of the 5 recipes below: Please take time to read the entire post and recipe first, before you head to the kitchen! If you have any recipe questions at all, please leave them in the comment section of the recipe post. If it’s related to the cooking challenge rules, please leave your comment below. We’re ready to help!
The Prizes!
Everyone who has completed submission for the JOC Cooking Challenge is automatically entered into the prize draw. Please note that we will NOT select winners based on the creations, but you need to make sure your submission meets the scope of the recipe.
How to Join the September 2023 JOC Cooking Challenge
JOC Cooking Challenge September 2023 Winners
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Congratulations! We contacted the winners via email.
The JOC Community Donated $696!
Since we pledged to donate $5 for each entry and received 139 entries total, we could put together $696! We, the amazing JOC Community, have donated $348 to the Maui United Way and $348 (plus the processing fee) to the Maui Food Bank! Thank you so much for participating in this cooking challenge!
Readers’ Recipe Submissions (139 Entries)
Past Cooking Challenge & Recipes
This is a quarterly online event on Just One Cookbook and we host the challenge in March, June, September, and December. We’d love for you to join us in each challenge! To receive the updates, be sure to subscribe to our weekly newsletter.
March 2022 – Mosaic Sushi June/July 2022 – Shokupan (Japanese Milk Bread) September 2022 – Shio Ramen December 2022 – Purin (Japanese Custard Pudding) March 2023 – The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House June/July 2023 – Shoyu Ramen September 2023 – Cook for Maui
