Today, after a fierce and lengthy deliberation, we're excited to announce the winner of our first-ever Salon Kitchen Challenge, in which we asked our resident foodies to come up with their most imaginative creation using Thanksgiving leftovers. 

And the inaugural champion is ... Open Salon's renaissance-Quebecois blogger Juliet Waters -- whose Anglo-Indian mulligatawny really made our mouths water! You can check out her winning post on Salon, here.

Francis Lam has a roundup of other fantastic entries (you can check out all of the submissions here) along with this week's challenge, which I've reprinted below:

 "Inspired by Lauren Garfinkel's "Feast for Bush" project, this week's challenge is for you to create a dish, buffet or menu commemorating (or condemning) a political event from your lifetime. All entries must be edible, so no smearing yourself in ketchup. Besides, Paul McCarthy's got that one covered.

Be sure to tag your post: SKC political feast"