Pssst…..
He wants to share something with you….
And he’s really happy about it.
I know, I know! It’s been almost a year since I held a giveaway and I felt like this time, it should be something fantastic. I’m actually going to give away two books I am DYING to have myself, but have yet to purchase. You can have all the glory, just let me know how you like them! I love to give and it’s high time I started doing it on my blog, giving back to my loyal audience.
I am not going to make you do ridiculous things for this prize. I will not make you tweet, e-mail, blog, digg it, journal, etch into a tree, carve into stone or spray paint on buildings. I will not make you tell 1,459 of your friends about this giveaway so that you have one more chance at winning, and I won’t even make you beg, plead and cry.
I simply ask that you leave a wonderful comment at the bottom of this page telling me why you deserve to win these prizes and don’t forget to leave me your e-mail address so I can inform you of your prize! I may pick a winner randomly (using random.org) if there are an overwhelming number of deserving responses or I will pick the winner myself based on the amount of humour/sympathy/tears/etc. that come through in your comments.
So what am I going to giveaway you ask?
These fine specimens:
Now I am only holding this giveaway to tide you over until I can squeak out a decent recipe in the 3.5 minutes I have to make dinner every night…so hold on tight!
Contest Rules:
1. Leave a comment telling me why you deserve to win this prize. Spelling and grammar count…;)
2. Contest open to residents of Canada and the United States. Sorry other countries, I’m not made of money!
3. Contest closes July 29th at 12 a.m. Pacific Time.
4. Winner will be chosen at random by me.
5. Once winner is chosen, prizes will be shipped directly from Amazon.ca or.com, depending on winning country.
6. Good luck!
PS. I just realized I have been blogging for one year…..so I guess this is kind of a one year anniversary party as well. Whoo hoo!!!
I would love these books! I read cookbooks like they are novels, and am not fully comfortable using them until I’ve gone cover-to-cover, fully understanding where the book stands on levels of technique, principles, and flavour expectations. Another reason: Marissa (I work in Organic Fair’s store) told me about your blog, and I have learned a lot from it. The importance of good quality photos of food is definitely one, as a fellow shutterbug. I have also been working through reading your long series of recipes, and really like the way you lay out everything and the food itself is fantastic. Bonus: I collected the eggs and packaged the vanilla beans you used in your ice cream recipe! I would be excited to get this giveaway, but am just plain excited to have found your blog. Thanks!
Jenny´s last blog ..Tri-Berries mean Pie Berries!
I think you should pick me because I need a lot of help in the savory flavor department and I love sweets, well, because I am!
OMG, the flavor bible!!! I’ve been wanting that for so long! I don’t know a thing about the sweet kitchen, but hopefully it’ll help with the baking aspect of our kitchen, as it’s pretty much non-existent now
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I’m not sure I can quantify that I DESERVE to win any prize; ask my kids they would say no, ask my dogs on the other hand they would say YES but would also think half a cookie adequate!
I can say I would just LOVE the Flavor Bible; I mean a book about flavor with prayers in it, right?
And then one with sweets. No quip here; it is sweets; what more CAN be said.
To quote Meredith Gray, her of the good fortune to ‘pretend’ to make out with McDreamy, Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me!
Both books look great. I love reading your blog and seeing your recipes. Keep up the great worl!!
Hello! I think you should pick me to win these books because I love food. I love anything and everything to do with food. I am applying for a culinary arts program here in Nova Scotia next year and the more I read the better. I take my cookbooks to bed and read them at night…to the rolling of my husbands eyes. I recently moved to Nova Scotia from Vancouver Island and bought a house and money is tight so having these books would be a welcome gift! Baking is also a newer concept for me as I like to work with the savory parts of the kitchen, but it is something that I would like to learn more about! Thanks for considering me!
I love your blog as it takes me back home to the island when I read it.
buttermilk ice cream was/is amazing!!! mmmmmm summers tasty
Ahhh I have been lusting after those! After putting myself through school in New York, I have no money to buy the things that I really love (anything to do with food being one of those things), as my whole life revolves around my debt and loan repayments. I’d love to be able to treat myself to things like that, especially as being surrounded in coffee and chocolate and treats all day at work makes me want to explore making them more at home!
I am always looking for new ways to make my recipes taste even better and I can definitely do that with these two books! I would love to have them!
oooo, books I love books, and I love food. So books about food are the best.
Now, I can’t say that I deserve more than others to have these books, but I have to say I’ve been dying to get the Flavor Bible! I like to call myself a foodie, but I have no actual culinary experience or background – aside from my grandmother, who measures nothing
For me, it’s all been trial and error and I’m so anxious to learn more! And as for The Sweet Kitchen – I’m not a baker by any means and it seems ridiculous that I can be intimidated by baking but will jump to make risotto for 15!! I Want to learn, I NEED to learn, and I would FOREVER be grateful! Plus I’m super local – low shipping! And I’ve secretly wanted to be a red head most of my life – make me stand out a little more and go with my personality! AND, thanks for not making us jump through the endless hoops! Heartfelt message should be enough 
Since I already have The Flavor Bible on my bookshelf (one of my most useful cooking-related books), I ask you to count me out for the giveaway (though I will be putting In the Sweet Kitchen on my Amazon wish list). However, I wanted to congratulate you on one year of blogging. Not only do I enjoy coming to your blog for your inventive recipes, beautiful photos, and engaging writing, but I am so pleased to have met you in person in May. You are a down-to-earth, kind person with adorable kids to boot (I still picture Cohen chasing those chickens around the yard). Here’s to many more years of fabulous recipes from you.
The books look fun, for some reason I am unable to read anything besides cookbooks! All of you recipes look and the ones I have tried taste AMAZING! Thank you for sharing your life and recipes with us! Im on the edge of my seat waiting for more
Alright Liz! – congratulations on the blog anniversary! It is so interesting to follow the journey of your life as is being recorded through the photos, the background info, and personally adjusted recipes that you post. Just as your recipes seek to help us create food from simple flavour through to complex, layered flavours, the blog reflects the simple pleasures you find in your life that make it so rich and flavourful. Do I sound like I could really use that book on flavour or are you going to just let me muddle on on my own with trying to figure out if I can make a much northern mayonesa that would work for the last recipe?
Cooking and cookbooks have become a huge part of my life. My mother is in the last stages of a fatal disease and curling up in a comfy chair in the evenings with a “deserving” cookbook has been a wonderful escape. Your humor, your zest for trying new things has been in inspiration to me. Reading your blog makes me feel very lighthearted. I would enjoy adding either of these cookbooks to my collection. Keep up the good work.
Why do I deserve to win these cookbooks? I don’t know if I “deserve to win” but I would like to be selected for this prize for several reasons. Growing up my mother did not cook, she made reservations! My interest in cooking came to a head two years ago as a senior at Syracuse University. Up to this point I was able to make eggs (scrambled even if they were supposed to turn our differently), pasta, and I was an expert at baking chicken nuggets (7mins of each side). Then I found out I had high cholesterol (not a sob story just a fact of life) which I found hard to believe as I was always active playing sports or chasing girls (not a formal activity more of a hobby). With this being the case, I changed my eating habits drastically, no more fried foods, limit the cheese, the whole nine yards. Eating out and healthy was really expensive so I started to cook, learning from my roommates (not the one who loved fluff and hot dogs mixed with macaroni and cheese). Grilling chicken and vegetables was where it started and my passion and interest grew from there.
Today, I am still very limited with my knowledge and cooking abilities but I was still able to successfully (I base this on no one getting violently ill) make a dinner for 10-12 people on several occasions. I feel that these cookbooks will enhance my knowledge and new found passion for cooking while giving those around me more then a few dishes that they have come to expect when I invite them over (usually grilled chicken, sweet potato fries (baked), grilled eggplant and baked asparagus). So, this cookbook will not only benefit me and help me expand my cooking horizons but, I am sure my family and friends will appreciate the wider array of food that I will ultimately cook or at the very least a different seasoning for the chicken.
Lastly, thank you for your emails I enjoy reading them and learning methods and seeing how different things can go together.
Congratulations on becoming a mother, again.
Corey W.
PS. Now when I make eggs I have a say in how they come out…practice makes perfect and a little oil in the pan never hurts.
I admit it, I’m one of the lurkers – I read your blog all the time but am too shy to comment. But I love your pictures and your writing! I would love the Sweet cookbook, I only own very basic baking books and I don’t have recipes for anything more unusual. I love books that explain the process of baking, and this one looks amazing. Also, my roommates would thank you dearly for giving me an excuse to bake even more. congratulations on the anniversary!
Happy Bloggoversary! Good luck to all!!
PS> Love your system. One day I’m going to pick whoever the heck I want. =)
Aimee´s last blog ..Three 3-Minute Chilled Soups
Pick me, pick me, pick me. I could use all the help I can get for Pete’s sake.
Why, even though we work all day we are faced with the age old question, “What’s for Dinner” when we walk in the door. I suppose since I have never changed a flat tire, my spousal unit considers turn about fair play. The difference being I’ve only had about 5 flats in my entire life and dinner is expected 365 days of the year. My goal is the same as many, to spend minimal time in the kitchen so I spend my time off enjoying my life with the Big Tuna (same significant other).
My mom ran a catering business on the side, but my family members relegate me to peeling potatoes and washing dishes since they deem themselves better around the stovetop then me. My friends however are the first to belly up to the table for seconds and proclaim they have never left our house wanting for more. I started a blog in hopes of in pulling things together for a meal and make you a rock star with your family and friends without driving yourself over the cliff. The most important thing to remember is to enjoy the company and pour yourself a glass of wine before commencing. Let the games begin
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Happy one-year Blogiversary!!!! I would absolutely be thrilled to be the winner of your contest! I read cookbooks like others read novels….. I am seriously addicted to buying them!!!! Please, please, please choose me!
I am a pastry chef and a fellow food blogger who has lusted after these two books for a long time.
Dawn´s last blog ..July Fruit Preserving Roundup
I think I deserve this prize because after a hard day at work I love to come home and crack open a cookbook and create a tasty homecooked meal!!
Happy one year of blogging Elizabeth!
I would love to win a copy of The Flavor Bible. I’m a food enthusiast who loves to cook but I don’t have many cookbooks. For the past few years, my Dad has taken to giving me first edition copies of Martha Stewart cookbooks as birthday and Christmas gifts. I love my father but I’m now up to a total of eight cookbooks including the crown title of the collection Entertaining. In full Martha Stewart glory, this book has some of the most useless recipes for entertaining like a Russian buffet for twenty-four or a clambake for thirty. Seriously!
Please help round out my cookbook collection with one of your giveaway books. I will be a dedicated reader forever if I win.
Melody
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Melody Wey´s last blog ..Salad Days of Summer
I’d like to win, so I can wish you a happy anniversary by offering you one of the two books to keep for yourself. I’ll post recipes from one book and you can post recipes from the other book.
But i’ll be wishing you a happy anniversary win or lose!:)
Ethan @ tastesbetterwithfriends.wordpress.com´s last blog ..Homemade blueberry waffles Family time Gold A lot of dog
I do NOT think you should pick me. I say this because I ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY love both of those books, and I already own them both. I think they should got to well deserved homes that would appreciate them as much as I do!
They are both invaluable tools (I consult with the Flavor Bible ALL THE TIME and it was integral in a pie I just won an award for).
I have an earlier edition of the In the Sweet Kitchen and the deep chocolate pudding is fantastic, not to mention the amazing resource it is for ingredients if you are a baker If you don’t win these books, I highly recommend you go and buy them. They are worth every penny.
I would like to wish you a happy blogoversary! I wish I would have found your blog a year ago to have grown with you over the last year.
I am a struggling non-chef surrounded by foodies. I deserve a darn chance and a descent way to compete with them by reading these books. I may not have mad cooking skills now but I can with these books make a start at playing with the big boys in my family. My brother is a food scientist and my husband is the store director/chef for a Whole Foods Market. I love chemistry and isn’t that a lot of what baking/cooking is about put that together with the right flavor profile and “Bam” as Emeril would say an amazing dish or inspiration appears. The books look amazing especially the Flavor Bible with my new knowledge of flavors and my bros access to a food lab maybe we could invent the next must taste popcorn or something together who knows.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Happy Anniversary Mrs. Guilty! We have sure learned a lot about this blogging thing in the past year. And a huge thanks to all of My lovely wife’s readers. A day doesn’t go by when I come home from work and Mrs. Guilty shows me something someone has sent her, commented on or told her about.
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