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- Garden Gnome
- Ontario, Canada
- I am a wife, mother and grandma who enjoys the many aspects of homemaking. A variety of interests and hobbies combined with travel keep me active. They reflect the importance of family, friends, home and good food.
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
--Bobby Flay
--Bobby Flay
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- [March 19, 2020] - Effective Mar 17, this blog will no longer accept advertising. The reason is very simple. If I like a product, I will promote it without compensation. If I don't like a product, I will have no problem saying so.
- [March 17, 2020] - A return to blogging! Stay tuned for new tips, resources and all things food related.
- [February 1, 2016] - An interesting report on why you should always choose organic tea verses non-organic: Toxic Tea (pdf format)
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Sunday, August 01, 2010
Second Annual He Said/She Said Contest
Last year my husband and I ran a 6 week He Said/She Said Contest with recipes from Better Homes and Garden New Grilling Book, 2005 by Meredith Corporation. The rules of the contest is that each of us chose 6 recipes from the book, cooked them and then blogged about each recipe. In the end there was supposed to be a winner but by the end of the contest we were both winners because we had explored new recipes. This year's he said/she said contest will focus on exploring Company's Coming® Heart-Friendly™ by Jean Paré.
Jean Paré has been a favourite Canadian cookbook author of ours for years. We have several of her cookbooks. Company's Coming® cookbooks are published in Edmonton, Alberta. Her recipes are always top notch! This cookbook was a very generous gift to my husband from our kids. This is the perfect opportunity to explore another great Company's Coming® cookbook.
This year the contest will run from August 1 to August 31. It is a shorter time frame than last year's contest. In light of that each of us will choose 4 recipes from this cookbook, cook them and then blog about them. Each will be identified by a he said or she said notation in the title. At the end of the contest there will be 8 recipes total from the cookbook. I will run a poll for each of us followed by a final combined poll for voting. If last year is any indication this will be another great contest pitting husband and wife together. I hope you enjoy our little challenge and the recipes we come up with.
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2 food lovers commented:
Good luck! :)
Thanks :)
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