Vote for Your Favorite Recipe in the Mrs. Dashionista Recipe Challenge!

On the top shelf of my spice cabinet, I keep a giant box of kosher salt.  You’ll rarely see me use this when I’m cooking though–it’s mostly for baking and creating fabulous, homemade salt scrubs.  I prefer to use herbs and spices to make food interesting and delicious (don’t be a slave to the salt!), so I’ve been a fan of Mrs. Dash for years.  You can always find their Original Blend in my cabinet, but the Extra Spicy is what I use most often.  I’ve also used the Chicken, Steak, and Onion & Herb versions, but I was surprised to find out that they have 15 different seasoning blends available!

I do like to make my own seasoning blends too, but I’m so busy and don’t usually have the time to plan and prepare meals the way I’d like to, so I rely heavily on Mrs. Dash.  The discovery that I have all of these new options was a very happy moment for me, and I couldn’t wait to experiment.  They’re seasonings, so you can use them in about a gazillion different ways, and I do, but I find them the most helpful on nights when it’s suddenly 5 o’clock and I haven’t had a chance to spend a single minute getting dinner ready.  That’s when I serve up a very easy, very healthy, very delicious dinner–and did I mention it’s VERY EASY?

Are you ready to learn my secret?  It’s dinnertime.  I haven’t made dinner yet.  People are hungry.  I’m stressed.  What do I do?  I pull out some thin-sliced chicken or turkey breast (it’s the one thing I almost always have in the fridge), sprinkle it with Mrs. Dash, and pop it into my countertop oven.  I microwave a pouch of organic quinoa & brown rice, and I steam up some veggies.  Voilà!  Dinner is done.  The whole process takes about 15 effortless minutes.

The whole family eats it up, and they don’t even realize that it’s a back-up meal.  Why would they?  It’s yummy and it’s complete.  Mrs. Dash is like a superhero to me, rescuing me from disasters.

Mrs. Dash recently held the Mrs. Dashionista Recipe Challenge where fans were asked to submit their own original recipes, featuring Mrs. Dash Seasoning Blends, for a chance to win a $5,000 Grand Prize and other great prizes.  The entry period is over, but from July 7th through July 13th, you can help decide the winner by voting for your favorite recipe.

Visit Mrs. Dash on Facebook to cast your vote for who you think should win the Mrs. Dashionista Recipe Challenge, and then head over to MrsDash.com/Recipes to find more fantastic recipes using Mrs. Dash.

I can’t wait to see who the big winner is!