The Times News Cookbook and Recipe Contest is heating up. Have you submitted your original recipe yet?

Categories this year are: Appetizers; Salads, Sides, Vegetables; Main Dish; Cooking with Kids; Health Conscious; and Desserts. There will be a winner in each category. A grand prize winner will be selected from those six winners.Send recipes to Times News, P.O. Box 239, Lehighton, PA 18235, Attn: Donna Hall; or email

dhall@tnonline.com. Deadline is 11:59 p.m. Oct. 2.