From the page of the Mail in her column Food For Thought, most know Lori Stephanishion knows her way around the kitchen. Her recipes and thoughtful stories are popular with readers.
Now, she has one more reason to be proud of her work. She is the winner of the Get Grilling contest in the Taste of Home Magazine. Her winning recipe was her grilled rack of lamb with mint pepper jelly.
“I call it my $500 rack of lamb because my prize was $500,” chuckles Stephanishion, who learned she won last fall.
This was not the first time she appeared in the magazine. Her recipes have been published, including a section called Cocktails for the Cure, where her appetizers were featured.
“I am part of Taste of Home Magazine as a field editor. I have been in quite a few of their magazines and their published cookbook,” she tells the Mail.
She entered the contest last summer. She explains the adjudicators select the recipes and then try them out.
“I know they like not having too many ingredients, they don’t like really complicated recipes,” she said, adding she was told by one of the editors she “blew away the test kitchen people.”
She said the secret to her recipe is its simplicity and the herbs she uses in the marinade.
“The sauce is fresh mint mixed in pepper jelly. I’ve been doing that for years with lamb, it’s a good combination with the intense flavor of lamb.”
As a field editor for Taste of Home Field, she previews recipes and submits her own. She also contributes to its Facebook page where they share recipes. She says, with this win, she is not allowed to enter a grand prize contest for a year.
Her recipe will be featured in the June-July edition of Taste of Home.
