My Gift To You
Ready or not, the holidays are fast approaching and I don’t know about you, but I’ve already started jotting down gift ideas for friends and family. Coming up with unique goodies can be difficult, so over the next few weeks I’ll share with you some of my favorite finds for the cooks and food lovers in your life.
But today I’m feeling really in the spirit, so instead of just giving you an idea, I’m giving you the chance to win a present from me! Yep, today I’m announcing my first ever giveaway!
One lucky reader will receive a 1-year subscription to Cooking Light magazine that you can keep for yourself or use as a gift.
To Enter: all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post telling me the dish you look most forward to eating during the holidays. For me it’s either my mom’s cornbread dressing or my aunt’s sausage and rice casserole. Mmmm, I can’t wait for Thanksgiving!
You can also increase your chances to win by twittering about this giveaway. Just include the link to your tweet in a comment on this post as well. Contest ends this Thursday, November 12th at midnight (CST) when a winner will be randomly selected. Just check back here on Friday* to see who the lucky winner is!!
(Contest only open to residents of the US & Canada)
*Be sure to check the blog on Friday, because if the original winner doesn’t respond within 24 hours, an alternate will be chosen.
Ooo what fun! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday (all that yummy food coupled with the anticipation of Christmas season) so I have to say I always look forward to my father's deep fried turkey. SO good!
Thanks for your blog Beth; it's one of my faves!
My favorite favorite favorite holiday dish is my MawMaw's chocolate pie. It is the best! We go through… a lot of them during the holidays. It's kind of embarrassing.
my favorite thanksgiving dish and something i crave almost year round is my mom's cornbread dressing. it's my grandmother's recipe and it is so incredibly delicious.
Since I grew up in Ecuador, we didn't really celebrate Thanksgiving with the typical American food. So this Thanksgiving, because my entire family will be with us in Nashville to celebrate it for the first time, I am looking forward to preparing my very first turkey and beginning a new family tradition that we will continue for years to come. (I tweeted about your post @marciatruitt.)
The dish I look most forward to eating most is my tias' homemade turkey taquitos and guacamole. Thanksgiving night, all the women in my family pick that turkey dry of the leftover meat and the next day we make taquitos and homemade guacamole and put out all the other leftovers. We usually don't eat much turkey on Thanksgiving so we can have more taquitos!
The dish I most look forward to eating is actually the appetizers! While my mom takes care of the main event, my cousins and I all handle the appetizers and snacks for throughout the day. They change from year to year, but two that we ALWAYS have are spinach dip and cream cheese with pepper jelly. Yum!
One of my favorite dishes is my mom's homemade cranberry sauce! I know it isn't the most extravagant, especially for a foodie like me, but it makes me appreciate the homemade goodness that I have grown up in as so many people take shortcuts on dishes like that. The real deal is so much better and the fact that everything at the table is completely homemade is something I appreciate so much!
I have two so I can't choose. One being my mother's sausage / mushroom stuffing. It cooks for hours on low in a cast iron skillet allowing the aroma to fill the room! And the other is Walnut Pumpkin pie! Yum! I am hungry already!
my favorite is stuffing! i can't get enough of it! my family also always has a rice & broccoli dish called green rice that we love… but most of all i look forward to the hours of cooking with my mother and sister – truly a bonding time!
In Peru we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so when we moved to Florida, our dinner always included a mix of both Peruvian and American food. The dish I LOVE is my mom's Papa a la Huancaína- a typical Peruvian dish. My American choice is the sweet potato casserole my husband's grandmother makes.
My Grandma's dressing! She made it, my mama made it and now I make it. I could eat nothing but that and be happy.
As if I DON'T subscribe to enough… it would be GREAT to win this!
The best part of the holiday's for me is just getting to spend time with family and sharing all the comfort foods that each one has been making for years. Broccoli/Rice & Cheese – Green beans, turkey with cornbread dressing like Granny made, Pecan Pie and good ole mashed potatoes!!Mine dish happens to be my nieces favorite – sausage casserole!! It won't be long now, my mouth is watering :)
I can't wait for my moms cranberry mold, and for the first time, I'm going to try and make it for a second Thanksgiving I'm going to. I wait all year for it!
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/anidoll/status/5628877951
Have I ever told you the story about my grandma's green bean casserole?? It's famous…seriously. Oddly, though, it's not the one I make for Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to the whole holiday meal experience….as long as there's pumpkin pie!
I tweeted, too!
http://tinyurl.com/yfx9wde
Cooking Light and "Hot Chocolate Fudge Cakes" just don't seem like they belong in the same sentence. Definitely time for me to get my hands on this magazine, again!
I can't wait to keep the tradition of making Autumn Morning Muffins
and watching the Thanksgiving parade! My mom has been doing this
for years, waking up to these cooking in the oven is how I knew the
holiday season was beginning! Oh what fun!
Since moving to California and spending a few Thanksgivings with my in–laws, I have introduced them to Sweet Potato Pie! This deeply decadent dessert has been a favorite in the Johnson family for years. If anyone is interested in the recipie, I will happily post it on my Facebook page or forward by email. I don't Tweet! Sorry!
I always look forward to my Mom's traditional polish dish of homemade pierogis!
Since it is just me and my mom…we will either go out or hopefully get invited to someones house…I hate to make her cook for just us…I do remember her cornbread dressing though…Carol
When I walk through the doors for Thanksgiving family gathering, I am looking for my MaWink's fried chicken and my mother's mash potatoes…and thennnnn homemade corn, green beans, it could go on and on and on! Happy Gluttony!
My favorite thing at thanksgiving is the casserole made of green beans and cream of mushroom soup. About 6 years ago, living in California, my husband and I were unable to go home for thanksgiving. It was the night-before, and I got homesick, with a mad craving for those beans! We went to both the local grocery stores and couldn't find a single can of soup. He said to me, "You're a good cook, can't you just MAKE the soup?" and I said, "Well, I guess I could…" I did. It was the best version of that casserole I'd ever had. By December, I'd enrolled myself in culinary school, and the rest is history! All for the lack of a can of soup!
I have to agree with my sister Beth in that I look forward to the homemade cornbread dressing, but coming in a close second would be our late grandmother's green beans. They are canned in sugar (yes, our family has a sweet tooth) then cooked with grease and are so tender. I have tried and tried to re-create them but mine never taste the same.
Ohhh, I love this one. Well . . . when my dad remarried four years ago, I got not only a wonderful step-mother, I also received a new favorite holiday food – delicious cranberry/orange relish. I'm not sure exactly how to make it, and I don't want to know because I want to keep it special for the holidays. It has fresh cranberries, orange rind, ground pecans, and it's just heavenly. It's the ONLY other than just plain that I'll eat cranberries – I hate that jelled canned mess. :)
I'm totally being shameless and posting for this giveaway! I love our traditional Thanksgiving with my family. We make fancy cranberry sauce but it just isn't Thanksgiving if we don't have cranberry sauce with the can lines on it!
I have to say I always look forward to my father's deep fried turkey. SO good! Work from home India
Since moving to Nashville 4 years ago, my husband and I celbrate Thanksgiving at a friends house with 25 or so other guests. I always bring the sweet potato casserole and it is yummy! It's my favorite Thanksgiving dish and I only eat it once a year, which is good because it's not a low calorie dish!