Time is running out to submit your favorite horseradish recipe for a new Horseradish Festival Cookbook.

Share a favorite recipe for appetizers, soups, salads, vegetables, main entrees, breads, rolls, desserts or beverages – as long as horseradish is the main ingredient.

Consider recipes using seafood or shellfish, beef, pork, chicken, eggs, cheese, beans, vegetarian products, fruits, vegetables, grains, and pasta.

The Horseradish Festival Cookbook is a fundraiser, the proceeds of which will go to the Horseradish Festival to cover the costs associated with future festivals. By submitting a recipe, the author/cook agrees to give permission to the Horseradish Festival Committee to freely use their original recipe in this cookbook, and any other future publications with no additional permission required.

Add any interesting horseradish quips and folklore along with the recipe. These additions should be no longer than 500 words. The committee is also gathering biographies on local horseradish growers, and these essays have a maximum of 200-300 words. Submissions of a horseradish glossary (a list of horseradish terms to know, grow, and profit from) will also be included. Submissions may be edited due to space restrictions.

Simply attach a separate entry form with each recipe submitted. Use the entry form below or stop by the Collinsville Chamber of Commerce Office for a form. Please type or neatly print each recipe on the front side of a piece of paper.

Please submit all cookbook entries with entry forms to:

International Horseradish Festival, c/o Collinsville Chamber of Commerce,

221 West Main Street, Collinsville, IL 62234

The deadline for recipe submission is APRIL 30, 2010.

For more information, please click the FESTIVAL EVENTS - CONTESTS link at

www.horseradishfestival.com.

The four brick arches in the west wall of Fifth Quarter look as if they were an original feature of the 120-year old building instead of the recent project of a work crew armed with hammers. The newly constructed arches now unite the original Fifth Quarter, 118 East Main, with the adjacent building at 116 East Main. A new bar, built and finished to mirror its historic counterpart, runs parallel to the old bar in the new space. Three additional rest rooms have been added and a new sprinkler system has been installed on both sides. A new tap system will feature 16 different selections of domestic and imported beer.

And if the renovation and clean-up continues according to schedule, Fifth Quarter will debut its new addition Monday, Feb. 22 – only eight days after the bar closed for the work.

“We still have flooring tiles to put in, shelves and the chairs and tables are on order,” said Roger Schuerbaum, who owns the bistro with his wife, Diana.

The new space, approximately four feet narrower and seven feet longer than the original space, will increase the seating capacity by over 100 patrons. The original side accommodates about 138.

“There’s nothing like it in Collinsville,” said Schuerbaum about the expansion.