Official Rules

Attention, cooks: We’d like to share your best original holiday recipes with 2.8 million Texas Co-op Power readers and give you a chance to win cash prizes and the acclaim of your friends and family. All recipes must include pecans. Deadline for receipt of entries is September 10, 2010. Winners will be announced in our December 2010 issue.

Up to three entries are allowed per person, and each should be submitted on a separate piece of paper or in a separate e-mail (no attachments). The recipe page must be legibly printed or typed. Each entry MUST include entrant’s name, address and phone number, plus the name of your electric cooperative, or it will be disqualified. (The address and phone number will be used only to contact you with questions about your entry, to notify winners or to promote a Texas Co-op Power product.) Mailed entries may be submitted in a single envelope. Send entries to: Holiday Recipe Contest, Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, Austin, TX  78701, or fax to (512) 763-3408. To enter by e-mail (recipes@texas-ec.org), you must include “Holiday Recipe Contest” in the subject line and submit one recipe per e-mail (no attachments). No purchase is required. We will not send notice of receipt. Entries sent via e-mail must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. CST September 10, 2010. Incomplete, illegible or late entries will be disqualified.

Each recipe must include the sponsor’s product (pecans). Include a complete list of ingredients, including our sponsor’s product, with the exact quantities in the order they are used. Specific directions (in paragraph form) must include cookware size (example: 10-inch pie pan), cooking time and temperature and number of servings. Entries will be judged on originality, taste, ease of preparation, visual appeal and use of eligible sponsor product. Texas Co-op Power will test selected recipes to determine finalists. Recipes will be tested as submitted, so please check carefully for accuracy.

All recipes become property of Texas Co-op Power and will not be returned. By entering this contest, you grant Texas Co-op Power the right to edit and publish the recipe, with credit, in Texas Co-op Power publications, products and online services and those of its sponsors.

Entries must be the original recipe of the contestant and not previously published. Previously published recipes (such as those appearing in major cookbooks, in magazines, in newspapers, from food companies, publicized on the Internet and winners in national contests) will be disqualified, unless the recipe entered features changes considered significant by the judges. Decisions regarding qualifications of recipes are at the sole discretion of Texas Co-op Power.

Prizes will be given as follows: a grand prize of $3,000 and four runner-up prizes of $500 each. There will be no substitution or transfer of prizes, except at the discretion of Texas Co-op Power. Texas Co-op Power is not responsible for technical failures in entry transmission or for lost, misdirected or delayed mail. Winners may be required to sign a statement of eligibility and release of liability. This statement includes certification that his or her recipe is original and has not been previously published or publicized. Winners younger than 18 must have a parent or guardian sign the statement of eligibility and release of liability. Neither employees or board members of Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC) or their immediate families nor employees or board members of TEC member cooperatives or their immediate families are eligible to enter.

Contestants are wholly responsible for all costs incurred and any damage, loss or injury sustained during or resulting from participation in the contest. Winners must be residents of the United States at the time of judging. By acceptance of a prize, winners consent to the use of their name and/or photograph for publicity purposes without further compensation. Void where prohibited by law. All federal, state and local regulations apply. Taxes are the responsibility of winners. Names of winners and winning recipes will be published in the December 2010 issue of Texas Co-op Power.