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Proscuitto, Sour Cream & Feta Stuffed Cucumbers- Summer Fest

July 27, 2010
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Summer Fest is back for its 3rd year! And we’re happy to be participating again thanks to Margaret Roach and Deb Puchalla, the creators of Summer Fest.

This great annual cross-blog event celebrates the peak harvest season where we all share recipes or growing tips for all our harvest fresh ingredients and produce. Everyone is encouraged to participate  by sharing a recipe or tip each Wednesday’s specific theme the the event ends.

Summer fest is a community celebration of shared cooking and gardening tips. All you have to do is contribute a…

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Eating & Shooting Boulder, CO + Chefs Catalog Giveaway

July 2, 2010
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It’s been a heck of a few months and to round off our busiest shooting season ever, we landed in gorgeous Boulder, CO to teach a food photography workshop with Jen and Helen. The mountain scenery was to die for and we polished-off some of the best food that Boulder offered (at least a hint of it in a short 3 days – so much great food there), all in the company of great people and workshop attendees.

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Food Blogger Seminar, Camera Giveaway & Winner of Citrus Giveaway

March 24, 2010

Thank you to everyone who have joined the Food Blog Forum community in the past two weeks! It’s been a huge success and all the conversations on the forums have been fantastic. So much information is being shared, it’s hard to figure out where to start!

There’s only a few days left to enter the awesome camera giveaway. To enter, become a member and participate in the forums. That’s it. The winner will be announced at our Food Blog Forum Seminar in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 27 from 10am-5pm.

You can order tickets for the Food Blog Forum Seminar…

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Garden Blood Orange Giveaway- or maybe tangerines? kumquats?

March 19, 2010
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Thanks to the heart-warming emails about our last blood orange margarita post, we think about all you blogger folks in the colder parts of the country that don’t get much sunshine, let alone fresh citrus. We’re spoiled because we get to bathe in warm sunshine and drink ourselves silly with fresh blood oranges from the tree.

So that we don’t seem selfish or caddy to rub our blood orange collection in front of everyone, it’s time to share. Blood orange giveaway!!!

That’s right, you read it correctly. We’re sharing the love and giving away fresh blood oranges from our…

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Black Garlic Noodles – Umami blast

April 20, 2009
Black Garlic

Black garlic has been on my list of ingredients to cook with and now thanks to my friend, Jaden of Steamy Kitchen who had a package of black garlic cloves sent to me via David of Earthly Delights,  black garlic is gently perfuming my kitchen with it’s mild pungence. I grew up with fiercely fermented, powerfully pungent foods, so the offer of finally trying a much anticipated aged black garlic was welcomed with open arms and drooled saliva on the kitchen floor.

Since childhood, the pungent strength of aged foods has always…

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See’s Candies Giveaway Winner

February 20, 2009

It’s time to announce the winner of See’s Candies Giveaway! Thank you to everyone who left such endearing comments.  You’re clever turns of phrase and witty humor made picking a winner incredible difficult for the kind folks at See’s Candies. At first the comments were all so wonderful, that the people at See’s were stammering at the task of choosing the “worthiest” comment for a winner.  But they tightened their belts, pulled out the hankies, buckled down and chose a winner for this giveaway.

In the torturous style of beauty pageants around the world, rather than…

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Peanut Brittle Cookies & See’s Candy Chocolate Giveaway!

February 11, 2009
Peanut Brittle Cookies

It’s almost Valentine’s day, so raise your hands if you like chocolate! Our hands are raised extra high now because we’re holding a fabulous $25 gift certificate to See’s Candy!

See’s Candy has always been one of our favorite family chocolates for a number of delicious reasons. It’s one of the best qualities of chocolate that we can get for our money and the variety that See’s offers is diverse enough to satisfy everyone in our family. Every time we need to send a gift of chocolate out to special family and friends, we send See’s candy…

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Tamarind Shrimp and “Secrets of the Red Lantern” cookbook Winner

February 1, 2009
Tamarind Shrimp

This gorgeous cookbook has a new owner and it’s Pam!! Congratulations Pam and we hope you enjoy this beautiful cookbook.

Thank you to you all for your amazing input and thoughts on what you love in a cookbook. We appreciate all your fabulous comments on this  cookbook giveaway!

This was the most amazing forum of wonderful ideas that we’ve ever had. Reading all of your wonderful, insightful comments was inspiring and informative. We’ve never been so thrilled as were were with your participation in this giveaway. As always, it’s always…

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Tamarind Crab and Secrets of the Red Lantern Cookbook giveaway!

January 23, 2009
Tamarind Crab

It’s not often that I can get excited about a cookbook enough to want to snuggle with it on the couch and to read it cover to cover.  Most of the time, I’ll scan through a cookbook and bookmark particular interesting recipes that jump off the page. But I found one book that not only had me hooked from the very first page, but had me laughing, crying and stomach growling at the same time. If anyone saw me, they’d think that I was an emotional, starving wreck who just got…

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Video #14- Winner of the “Art of Food Photography” Class!

January 8, 2009

Thank you to everyone for participating in this  “Art of Food Photography Class” giveaway! All of your enthusiasm and excitement for learning more about food photography was amazing. Although we received 176 enthusiastic entries, the hardest part is always having to draw the name of only one winner. But the best part of it all is letting everyone know that this amazing resource is still available online and we want to thank The Perfect Picture School of Photography, Ron Goldman and Kathleen Clemons for their generosity!

For all of you who aspire to learn more about…

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Giveaway – Online “Art of Food Photography Class” !!!

December 29, 2008
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All photographs : courtesy of Ron Goldman Photography

We are so EXCITED about this giveaway!  The title says it all…

  • Do you want to learn more about food photography?
  • Improve your food photography skills for your blog?
  • Fill your blog with drooling, beautiful and awe inspiring photographs?
  • Or just learn some great techniques and info about photography?

The wonderful and generous folks at The Picture Perfect School of Photography and professional  photographers Ron Goldman and Kathleen Clemons are giving away  a spot to take their online food photography class- “Art of Food Photography “!


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Menu For Hope V and Artisan Steak Tasting pack of 8 rib eye steaks!

December 20, 2008
Grass Fed Beef

Dear Friends,

We’re sure you’ve all heard of this fabulous, annual fund raising campaign that supports the UN World Food Programme.  Started by Chez Pim five years ago to support worthy causes world wide, this yearly event is hosted by food bloggers from around the world.

It just doesn’t end there. As Pim explains, it goes beyond all borders for everyone to participate, “Each December, food bloggers from all over the world join the campaign by offering a delectable array of food-related prizes for the Menu for Hope raffle. Anyone –…

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Four Spice Liver Pate w/ Vietnamese cinnamon + winner(s)!

November 11, 2008
Liver Pate

pate with pickled okra & persimmons

Thank you everyone for showing your love and interest in Vietnamese Cinnamon! The enormous enthusiasm was beyond our expectations. Our Vietnamese Cinnamon post and giveaway drawing drew over 200 entries and that was more than enough proof to show just how prized this amazing spice is.

We were just enthralled to read all your comments, insightful information and interest on this post. But the thought of giving away just one prize amongst so many excited cooks was just….depressing.

So after much discussion and…

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