Cooking Contest

I need a videographer.  That sounds like a big word.  I really just need someone to hold my phone and videotape me.   I am thinking of entering a contest to get on a TV show that is a healthy cooking chef contest.  I don’t have much time.  The videos are due on Sunday.

I barely qualify since it is a contest for cooking professionals, but they say past cooking experience is acceptable and catering is one of the categories.  Recipe developers also count and since my original recipes appear in Durham Magazine and I have been paid for them that makes me a professional.

The main thrust of the contest is to find Chefs who can take regular recipes and make them in a more healthy way.  On that front I consider myself a master.  Who better than someone who spends their days trying to come up with ways to lose weight that still involves eating?

My big hope is that they are also looking for someone who can tell funny stories while slimming down a recipe.  That would put this contest right in my wheelhouse.  But I will never know if I don’t get someone who is skilled at filming, or at least has a steady hand to help me make this five-minute video.

I also have to come up with a dish I want to makeover from something fattening to something healthy and yummy.  It has been so long that I have thought about fattening food that I can’t begin to think of a subject to makeover.  The whole universe is open to me and I am drawing a blank.  I should have spent the day looking at cookbooks and not doing errands.  Something will come to me, but it won’t matter if I can’t tape it and send it off.

So send me suggestions of fattening dishes I can makeover and please let me know if you can help me tape.