Are you a Food Ninja?

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Are You a Food Ninja *wink wink*?

I am sooo excited to announce the debut of an extremely FUN CONTEST! This is something that everyone (non-bloggers included) can get in on. My co-conspirators, whom I ever so lovingly dubbed, Fuji Ninja and Salty Ninja and I, Bella Ninja, have some serious tricks up our sleeves, and really, you don’t want to miss it!

What exactly is a Food Ninja you ask? *Rewind zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz* It all started a few weeks ago on Twitter when Linda from Salty Seattle {aka Salty Ninja } created a personal Twitter List and called it Food Ninjas! Linda decided that anyone who heats up the kitchen with smokin’ skills is a Food Ninja! Lurve it! In the interim, I had been lamenting over gyoza pleats and had been tweeting that Rachael from Fuji Mama was a gyoza Ninja Master because well she is {you see all this Ninja chatter coming together ;0} With all this Ninja talk it was only a matter of time before The Food Ninjas offiically teamed up. Then to make things even more interesting Rachael had the brilliantly ninja-like idea to host a contest so that EVERYBODY could get in on the Food Ninja Fun. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do!

Here’s how it will work…

YOU send us pictures, blog posts, videos or recipes of you exhibiting true food ninja skill, and we will post a roundup of these entries. You DO NOT have to be a blogger to enter- you just have to be a Food Ninja!

Have you ever wielded a kitchen torch {hello flambe or creme brulee’}, used Magyver like skills {you all know I’m a Magyver master in the kitchen, rolling out dough with wine bottles, cutting out gyoza wrappers with the top of a cocktail shaker – hello am I sensing a theme here LOL} or chopped with voraciousness using a chef’s knife longer than your forearm ; ) Or perhaps used chop sticks to pick up Chee-tos ; ) If you’re heating up the kitchen with these or any other smokin’ hot skills you are a FOOD NINJA!

Be sure to follow the hashtag #foodninja on twitter for breaking developments and funny news about the contest {It is after meant to be FUNNY} Oh, and if you’re not already, follow me, the Bella Ninja @bellalimento Rachael, the Fuji Ninja @fujimama and Linda, the Salty Ninja @SaltySeattle too.

After two weeks of amassing awesome ninja submissions, we will open the contest for voting in the following categories:

* ninja recipe
* ninja photo
* ninja video
* ninja blog post
* ninja wildcard

That’s right- YOU will get to choose the best food ninjas in all categories. It just doesn’t get any better. And with amazing PRIZES at stake including but not limited to a NINJA CHEF’S KNIFE and a state-of-the-art rice cooker, you are going to want to bring your NINJA A-GAME!

As a special bonus, everyone who submits gets to rock a super-exclusive Food Ninja badge on their blog {yes, that is JUST one of the options available above, you knew I’d have a  pink one didn’t you}. Get your thinking caps on- the contest will start this Thursday, October 7th and run until October 24th. Voting will take place between October 25th through the 27th, and we will announce the winners on October 28th.

In order to submit, starting Thursday, send an email with your photo, blog post, video, or recipe either linked or attached to FoodNinja@Saltyseattle.com. This is going to be so much fun!

We can hardly wait to see your Food Ninja awesomeness!

Bella Ninja, Fuji Ninja & Salty Ninja