{"id":5464,"date":"2012-10-15T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:15:45","slug":"phs-senior-wins-salsa-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5464","title":{"rendered":"PHS Senior Wins Salsa Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For receiving the honor of Chef's Choice Salsa senior Stephanie Moran is recognized by Plymouth High School. (From left to right: Principal Jim Condon, Stephanie Moran, and Mrs. Jyll McNeil) Photo by: Brandon Heims<\/p><\/div>\n

By Guadalupe Ortiz<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomatoes, onions, cilantro, garlic, and a whole lot of chiles blended together made an award winning salsa. For senior Stephanie Moran, a simple salsa recipe won her a lot more than just a spicy snack.
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\n\u201cGreat Bowls of Salsa Competition\u201d was hosted at John Glenn High School during the Falloween Festival in Walkerton. \u00a0Not only was this Moran\u2019s first competition, but this was also her first win. Moran said, \u201cMrs. McNeil told me that she had received papers for a salsa competition and she asked me if I wanted to do it and I said yes. I entered just because I like to cook and it was a way to get involved in different things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only was she presented with the 2012 Falloween Judges Choice Salsa Competition \u00a0plaque from PHS principal, Mr. Jim Condon, she also won a $3,000 scholarship to the Chef\u2019s Academy in Indianapolis, 3 pounds of bratwursts, $75 in cash, \u00a0a golf outing for four at Swan Lake Golf Academy that has a value of about $300, and a chance to be on a cooking show in Bremen with Chef Randy Z. The prizes, and the fame of being able to be on a TV show, was not the best part about winning the competition to Moran.<\/p>\n

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Senior, Stephanie Moran's love of cooking helped her receive recognition. Photo by: Brandon Heims<\/p><\/div>\n

She said, \u201cWinning is a great feeling but people saying your salsa is the best salsa that was even better. I was very excited, I did not believe that I had won judge\u2019s choice. I was not expecting that Mr. Condon would give me the plaque and I was not even dressed for the occasion and got a lot of pictures taken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moran said that the salsa recipe was from her mom\u2019s family. She also said that she did not come up with a name for the creation, so the man in charge named it \u2018Guadalajara Salsa.\u2019 Moran said, \u201cIt is not a very spicy salsa but it has a lot of flavors. It\u2019s soft at first and then you get that kick from the peppers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Guadalupe Ortiz Tomatoes, onions, cilantro, garlic, and a whole lot of chiles blended together made an award winning salsa. For senior Stephanie Moran, a simple salsa recipe won her a lot more than just a spicy snack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,9,6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-feature","category-local-news","category-school-news","tag-october-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9011,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/9011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}