Votes Are In -- Breakfast Frittata Italiano is America's New Family Favorite Recipe

Votes Are In -- Breakfast Frittata Italiano is America's New Family Favorite Recipe

From World Cup Soccer to the Kitchen, This is the Year for Italian Inspiration

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- After weeks of simmering anticipation, America has decided -- Jenny Flake's Breakfast Frittato Italiano is the new family favorite recipe. The makers of Borden(R) Cheese have selected Jenny Flake of Gilbert, Arizona, as the grand prize winner in the national "Elsie's Family Favorites Recipe Contest."

From the more than 1,800 recipes submitted, judges carefully pared the cheese-filled creations down to 25 finalists ranging from savory salads to after-school snacks. Recipe lovers were invited to cast a vote for their favorite cheese-inspired recipe at http://www.elsie.com/ during the month of July. Close to 14,000 votes poured in and at the end of the voting period, Jenny Flake's Breakfast Frittata Italiano won with more than 3,000 votes.

Now the Flake family will receive a special treat -- a visit from one of America's favorite celebrity chef, Curtis Aikens. Chef Aikens has hundreds of television credits to his name including appearances on Food Network's Food in a Flash, CNN, Oprah, Entertainment Tonight, and NBC Nightly News. Chef Aikens continues to entertain and delight home chefs with dynamic cooking demonstrations and simple meal ideas and is currently working on a television project, Cooking Fresh, a 13-part series produced by Alabama Public Television. His show takes viewers into the kitchen, as well as out into the local fields to see where his tasty ingredients are harvested.

Chef Aikens will go to Flake's home in early September to cook up a big family meal. While in town, Chef Aikens and the Flake family will stop by a local food pantry to deliver a supply of Borden cheese donated by American Dairy Brands in honor of Flake's win. In addition, Flake's family will enjoy all of their family favorite recipes from the comforts of a newly remodeled kitchen. As the contest winner, Flake also receives a $5,000 kitchen makeover and a year's supply of Borden Cheese.

Flake, a mother of two young sons, says her grandmother was her true inspiration for learning how to cook. "I remember growing up watching my grandmother in the kitchen making us great meals. She always seemed to know how to cook and passed that knowledge on to my mom, who passed it along to me. I now cook with my four-year-old all of the time."

"We have found that even though today's families are busy, they are still taking time to make and enjoy special recipes," says Mark Korsmeyer, President of American Dairy Brands. "Elsie's Family Favorites Recipe Contest was created to celebrate the memories and traditions families share over food and passing down recipes from generation to generation."

Following is Elsie's Family Favorite Recipe. Visit http://www.elsie.com/ to find all of the finalist recipes to add to your recipe box.

Breakfast Frittatta Italiano

Ingredients
10 eggs
1/4 cup half-and-half
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. fresh-ground black pepper
2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup finely diced white onion
1/4 cup finely diced red bell pepper
1 cup chopped prosciutto
1/2 tsp. minced garlic
2 tbsp. thinly sliced fresh basil leaves
1 1/2 cups Borden(R) Six Cheese Italian Shredded Cheese

Directions

PREHEAT oven's broiler. PLACE eggs, half and half, salt and pepper into a large bowl and WHISK until well combined. SET aside. PLACE olive oil in a large 12" nonstick ovenproof skillet over medium heat. When oil is hot, ADD onions, bell pepper and prosciutto. SAUTE for 3-5 minutes or until prosciutto is crisped and vegetables are tender. ADD garlic and COOK for 2 minutes. ADD egg mixture and COOK until just starting to firm up, but still loose in center, scraping down sides to evenly cook. SPRINKLE with basil and cheese. PLACE skillet 5" to 6" under oven's broiler and COOK for 3 to 5 minutes or until eggs are firm and cheese melted. TRANSFER frittata to serving plate, CUT into wedges and SERVE.

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 3 minutes

***Recipe photo available upon request.

About the Borden Brand

Owned and operated by the Dairy Farmers of America ( http://www.dfamilk.com/ ), a cooperative consisting of 23,000 dairy farmers, the makers of Borden(R) Cheese take pride in providing their customers with the highest level of quality and freshness available. Elsie, the Borden(R) Cow, has been one of the most famous -- and favorite -- cows in America for more than 60 years and is the perfect symbol of the dairy-fresh goodness of Borden Brand Cheese. Borden Brand Cheese products, including single wrapped cheese slices, natural shredded cheese, natural chunk cheese, string cheese and natural cheese slices, are available nationally at major grocery and mass merchandise stores.

Borden and Elsie trademarks used under license.

Source: The makers of Borden(R) Cheese

CONTACT: Wendy Bain, +1-314-995-3939, x110 wendyb@blickandstaff.com , or
Kris Brill, +1-314-780-1332, krbrill@swbell.net, both for The makers of
Borden(R) Cheese

Web site: http://www.elsie.com/
http://www.dfamilk.com/

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