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Editors' Picks -- Week 42
Any food52 member is welcome to help us test our Editors' Pick candidates, so go call dibs on the recipe you'd like to test in the comments section below! Don't forget to email us your notes (about 100 words) to editors@food52.com by next Tuesday at 5pm.
We'll collect your comments, decide the official list of Editors' Picks and publish your evaluation in the headnote if the recipe is selected as an Editors' Pick (with credit, of course!). And even if the recipe you test isn't chosen as an Editors' Pick, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!
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- Editors' Picks (these are the ones we've tested -- congratulations!)
- Freedom Pork with Sticky Greens and Mop Sauce
- Oven Barbecued Pork
- Chinese American Pork Roast
- The Perfect Three-Sugar Sugar Cookies
- Chewiest Sugar Cookies
- Orange Sugar Cookies
- Brown sugar cookies
- Snickerdoodles
- Orange-Cardamom Sugar Cookies
- Editors' Pick Candidates (these are the ones we'd like you to test)
- Pink Peppercorn Sugar & Spice Cookies
- Sassy Sugar Cookies
- Just Right Sugar Cookies
- Fairy Dusted Sugar Cookies
- Stick to Your Teeth Chewy Sugar Cookies
- Chewy Sugar Cookies #1
- Cuban Pulled Pork Tacos
- Matilda, Maple & Garlic Pork Shoulder with Crispy Skin
- Roasted Pork Shoulder with Mustard Ginger Sauce
- Slow and Low Roast Pork with Ginger Sriracha Barbecue Sauce
- Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder with Fennel, Onions, Teeny-Tiny Potatoes and Garlic
- Caribbean Pork Roast with Pineapple Lime Salsa
We've also added some incentives to reward your hard work and make things interesting. The three people who test the most Editors' Picks candidates by June 1, 2010 will be entered in a drawing to win one of these fabulous prizes:

- 1. A weekend stay on a small-scale working family farm with Feather Down Farm Days
- 2. A snazzy food52 tote from L.L. Bean
- 3. Three selections from Rick's Picks' line of delicious pickled goods
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Comments (26)
about 3 years ago KelseyTheNaptimeChef
Bummer - too late! But am looking forward to the asparagus round. I think I'll be trying some of these yummy cookies and the pork recipes anyway! :)
about 3 years ago monkeymom
I think I'm too late to the party as well. But, might I suggest to others to test the finalists and add comments? All four look awesome and I'm sure personal taste tests are in order. We definitely want to send the best forward to do battle. Go food52!
about 3 years ago Food52
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Brilliant suggestion, monkeymom! We wholeheartedly agree.
about 3 years ago cheese1227
I'll take the Slow and Low Roast Pork with Ginger Sriracha Barbecue Sauce
about 3 years ago cheese1227
Oops, I see that has already been taken. I don't beleive there are any more, are there?
about 3 years ago Food52
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Correct -- sorry about that! They went fast this week. Hopefully you can snag one next Thursday. And, as always, feel free to post your notes in the comments section of any recipe you try out.
about 3 years ago MrsWheelbarrow
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I take Chewy Sugar Cookies #1? YUM
about 3 years ago Food52
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MrsWheelbarrow, it looks like drbabs already has that one covered. If you do make them, please feel free to post your notes in the recipe's comments section.
about 3 years ago MrsWheelbarrow
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Ok - how about slow & low roast pork from WinnieAb?
about 3 years ago Food52
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Sounds perfect, thanks!
about 3 years ago ENunn
I'll do the Just Right Sugar Cookies, gladly.
about 3 years ago Rosemont_Farm
I'd like to do the "Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Fennel, Onions, Teeny Tiny Potatoes and Garlic" but I'll one up it with my own Hazelnut Finished pork shoulder...
:)
about 3 years ago MrsWheelbarrow
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
oh boy. i'd love to try that pork. the pork around here is acorn-finished.
about 3 years ago WinnieAb
Not that I need to make or eat any more cookies in the near future, but my kids are always up for more, so I'll try the fairy dusted sugar cookies!
about 3 years ago solmstea
I'd love to do the stick-to-your-teeth sugar cookies...
about 3 years ago mariaraynal
I'll try the Roasted Pork Shoulder with Mustard Ginger Sauce -- sounds delicious!
about 3 years ago drbabs
Barbara is a trusted source on General Cooking.
Greetings from Hawaii! (Truly gorgeous here.) Thanks for the honorable mention and congrats to all! I will test chewy sugar cookie #1 while recovering from jet lag!
about 3 years ago mrslarkin
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Aloha Dr. Babs! Hope you had a wonderful trip. Have fun with this cookie. I just made the lemon/ginger version yesterday. Very yummy!
about 3 years ago drbabs
Barbara is a trusted source on General Cooking.
Aloha, MrsLarkin! Just got home and took the butter out of the freezer. I'll get these baked and written up before the deadline tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes--- and congrats on being a finalist!
about 3 years ago Loves Food Loves to Eat
I'll take the Caribbean Pork Roast por favor!! You had me at "pernil."
about 3 years ago annalea
I'll take the sassy sugar cookies.
about 3 years ago CatherineTornow
I'll take the Matilda, Maple & Garlic Pork Shoulder with Crispy Skin!
about 3 years ago melissav
I'll take the Pink Peppercorn Sugar & Spice Cookies. I've been eyeing these for months and I finally scored some pink peppercorns.
about 3 years ago arielleclementine
yahoo! thanks! hope you like them :)
about 3 years ago AntoniaJames
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I'll take the Cuban pulled pork tacos, please!! (Wow, it's hard choosing. So many good ones!!) ;o)
about 3 years ago NakedBeet
Thanks for trying this out, Antonia. I think this one gets better in the following days, too.