The “Win a Summer of Wild Salmon Recipe Contest” is officially closed. Thanks to everyone who submitted their delicious sounding recipes—we received 202 recipes that ran the gamut from Simple Steamed Salmon to a Salmon Ice Cream Sundae (with a savory ginger lemon grass ice cream)! Numerous recipes incorporated seasonal ingredients like rhubarb, nectarines, and strawberries. We also received several mouth-watering photographs and entertaining stories to accompany the recipes.

We now have our work cut out for us sorting through and narrowing down the top recipes. Tomorrow the top 20 recipes will go to vote, tapering it down to three finalists.

On Wednesday, we will cook and photograph the top three dishes. As soon as Ryan gives us the word that he’s done shooting, the panel of MarxFoods.com taste testers (that’s us—Justin, Katy, Ryan and Emily) will dive in and determine a finalist…the lucky winner of 15 Pounds of Wild Salmon! 

Check out what these publications had to say about us:

The Seattle Post Intelligencer

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette

The Star Tribune

To browse all the recipes click here. If you try any of the recipes entered, please tell us about it! We’d love to hear your feedback, comments, adaptations, etc.

Check back on Wednesday for the winning recipe! And stay tuned… a new recipe contest will be announced Friday.