Bascomb ES Mom 'Squashes The Competition' In Recipe Contest

WOODSTOCK, GA — A Woodstock mom "squashed the competition" with her winning recipe during a school district contest.

Bascomb Elementary School mom Christen Winkelman won the Cherokee Schools' School Nutrition Parent Recipe contest with her entry of a casserole that bested 60 other appetizing ways to prepare squash, the Georgia Organics' Farm-to-School Month's vegetable of the year.

The recipe is a result of "a lot of trial and error" she said as she tweaked various vegetable dishes in an attempt to get her son Jaydon Young to eat his veggies. She found a winner with both Jaydon and then the judges with the recipe she submitted, which she entitled, "Squash-the-Competition Sweet Casserole."

The winning composition was served in Cherokee Schools cafeterias Tuesday to more than 23,000 students who eat a school lunch in Cherokee County schools.

Winkelman received a certificate and $100 in Kroger gift cards as her prize, as well as being the subject of her son's bragging rights in the cafeteria, as he proudly told the cafeteria staff about his mom's winning entry.

Christen's recipe is featured this month on the Cherokee Schools' School Nutrition website.