Congratulations to pierino, whose The Case of the Promiscuous Romesco won the contest for Your Best Stale Bread! 

It's that time again -- help us pick the contest finalists for Your Best Pomegranates! 

Once again, we want to give a big thanks to all of our volunteer recipe testers for your thoughtful comments and for helping us continue to strengthen our recipe recommendations. You can read the winning headnote and tester's comments by clicking through to the Community Picks recipes — the comments are at the top. And even if the recipe you tested wasn't chosen as a CP, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!

Congratulations to Rivka, whose Vanilla Rooibos Tea Cookies won the contest for Your Best Vanilla!

Congratulations to aargersi, whose Bacon Bird with Turkey Neck Gravy won this week's contest for Your Best Thanksgiving Turkey!

We're doing something a little different with our Your Best Recipe with Vanilla recipe contest. Thanks to our friends at Heilala Vanilla, now in the Food52 Shop, we're thrilled to be offering our contest winner a gift bag of fantastic vanilla products -- beans, extract, paste, syrup, and sugar!