My Current 3 Fave Things! Giveaway!

I tell people this one all the time:

I flipped an entire Belle Helene crepe onto my lap at a tiny cafe table when I cut into the tableless edge of it.

Napkin in the lap, y’all! Not a bit spilled onto my lap; I flipped it back onto the plate and went right back to eating.

When I was little, my grandparents owned a steakhouse. I loved going there and having the waitresses bring in the lazy-Susan packed with fixings for the baked potato. They let me have as much as I want. Steak and baked potatoes are still among my favorite meals.

Wow, what an awesome giveaway! I too obsess over coconut oil, but I can never be bothered to pay for extra-virgin.
One of my favorite food memories is pulling homemade candy with my mom when I was younger. Have you ever done it? It’s extremely HOT and she always made us do it around Christmas time as if it was a tradition…and my brothers and I hated it because it burned our hands.
Looking back now, I think it’s kind of funny.

One of my favorite food memories would have to be learning how to make my first ( and still sought after) apple pie in home-ec class in 8th grade. I still have the very rumpled and dirty sheet of paper with the original recipe.

All three look awesome!! i have been wanting one of the reusuable cups AND looove lemon scent!

ive been dying to try coconut oil for-e-ver! and that tumbler would also work brilliantly as a breakfast smoothie transporter! and i already use that hand lotion, and it feels and smells just like lightly whipped lemon frosting!

i love love love breakfast on christmas morning. everything about it is just magical! you are with your family, the house is decorated and warm and there’s a fire in the fireplace, you’re about to open presents, christmas music is playing…and even though its early morning, the spread is kindof a breakfast/brunch hybrid – christmas eve dinner leftovers as sandwich fixins, egg casserole, fruit salad, and coffee of course. i cant wait!!

My favorite food memory just occurred. My husband took me to Paris to celebrate my 40th birthday. It was my first time going. My birthday night we sat at an outdoor cafe drinking hot chocolate and cappuccino while feasting on the best cheese and bread plate. So stereotypical yes, but that has been my vision for years and to do it with the love of my life and ringing in a birthday was priceless.

this is a really cute idea for a giveaway. one of my recent favorite food memories is eating bbq at ok joes in kansas city with some of my besties. i also loved baking spritz cookies with my ma around the holidays when i was a kid. i need to get a cookie press!

OMGosh, I want that Tumbler!!!
My favorite food moment was cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner for my new family. I had just got married and I honestly cook everyday for my husband, then and now… I know right? Shame! Well, when we got married he was not a vegetarian and therefore lost a lot of weight eating my veggie cooking. So when his Mother saw him that Holiday she flipped out and blamed me for her son looking so “unhealthy”. So that Thanksgiving I went through at LEAST 8 sticks of butter just to prove to her that I could bring the fat… I must say Julia Child is so right… EVERYTHING taste better with BUTTER.
This Thanksgiving dinner is at our house again, I cant wait to show off all the things that I have learned from your blog. (I hope sucking up gets me some points)

Cheers,
kdRS,
http://kdrsblogs.blogspot.com

Tough call, but during my first trip to San Francisco I made a bee-line for Chinatown and embarked upon my first ever tea tasting. Delicious, educational, and humbling. Loved it!

My favorite food memory involves my Grandpoppy and my dad. Every year my dad would pack up the entire family into our van and drive us to Las Vegas where we would help Grandpoppy harvest apricots. We always would gorge ourselves on the fruit staining our clothes with the juices and once we had our fill we would begin the process of making jam. I loved skimming the foam off the top of the pot and placing it into a bowl. Once the bowl was full of foam, we would take it outside back to the apricot tree and pour it on the roots so it could have a “taste” and continue to have tons of fruit every year.

those are fun things.

my fave food memory is my dad making breakfast. he makes great banana french toast.

and i use coconut oil all over my body- do you know you can do that with it too? makes a great lotion.

a cliche perhaps, but licking brownie batter from a wooden spoon is tops

i love coconut oil too! it’s been my savior since baby decided to have a dairy intolerance. love the cream and tumbler too, yay for first giveaways!

Luv your website and enjoy all things shutterbean! Coconut oil, I’ve been considering using it. My friend Vicki feels the same way you do. She can’t ever get enough of it. I’ve considered buying some, good to hear the xtra virgin is the way to go.

My favorite food moment is my first attempt to make spun sugar (15 year old teenage) for my 4-H foreign foods project. I set my sights high, I planned to win a grand slam at our county fair in Nebraska and I knew what would do the trick -Croquembouche .
A traditional cake for weddings and christenings . Croquembouche comes from the French “croquant” meaning crackling and “bouche” for mouth. Thus croquembouche refers to the crackling in your mouth when eating this traditional dessert.
The croquembouche is often the dessert at a French wedding or christening. It features profiteroles (small creampuffs). Profiteroles are filled with pastry cream (creme patissiere) and held together with a delicate cobweb of caramel to form a breathtaking centerpiece.
The basic process is to prepare caramel syrup, coat the puffs with some of the syrup and then arrange them to form a pyramid. It is then decorated with “angel hair” spun from the same caramel syrup.

As a 9 yr old I learned to make cream puffs w/ my mother, so making those was a cinch. Working w/extemely hot molten sugar was the issue. Imagine my delight and confidence the first time, at 15 to master spun sugar- aka “angel hair” carmel threads/strands of sugar! I have the photos of me transporting my Croquemboche – fifteen miles to deliver the finished masterpiece for competition. And I did win my grand slam that year.

my mom and grandma were the cooks in my house, not my grandfather. so one day when I was home with him, he decided to make us stovetop kraft mac and cheese. upon tasting it, he decided it wasn’t cheesy enough and melted gobs more cheddar in there. That sooo impressed eight year old me who was already working on a pretty fierce cheese addiction. I have had many fine mac and cheeses since, but to this day, no mac and cheese, boxed, gourmet, baked, homemade, has ever tasted as good as the memory of that one.

Oooh, love your three favorites! One of my favorite food memories happened just this week. I’m splitting my first CSA this winter with my friend Rachel. After a busy day, full of work and classes, I went over to Rachel’s and was immediately greeted by a table FULL of fresh fruits and vegetables. I’m more into baking, which is often following a recipe, so it was cool to cook dinner by just throwing together the fresh ingredients at hand.

Thanks for the givaway- very kind of you! My favorite food memory would have to be the one that I made last week as my 20 month old daughter and I baked Martha Stewart’s oatmeral applesauce cookies together. (from her COOKIES book, which is great). It was out first baking experience together, and it just sort of melted my heart to have her sitting there with me, watching me in awe, and sticking her tiny finget in to lick the bowl. I really want to have her help me in the kitchen a lot as she grows, and I hope she love to bake and cook as much as I do. I figure if we do it together it will get her interested. She loved it, I loved it and the cookies turned out delish.

One of my favorite food memories was pouring fresh chocolates into a cup of steamed milk at a little cafe in Belgium. Talk about FRESH hot chocolate. MmMm.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! Pick me, lemon and coconut are my FAVORITE. Ok enough begging.

My best friend and I were determined to recreate zucchini-chocolate-chip (more emphasis on the chocolate, less on the zucchini) muffins while studying abroad, and we went to great lengths to convert our recipe to metric measurements and find all the necessary ingredients. She whipped up the batter, and I was simply responsible for the cinnamon sugar topping. We popped them in the oven, set out our butter to soften, and when they were ready, split the first ones open and popped them in our mouths….

… to discover a HORRIBLE SALTY DISGUSTING TASTE. Literally. Horrendous. I, of course, had lovingly covered our perfect zucchini and chocolate chip muffins in a cinnamon-SALT topping. Cutting the muffin tops off (the horror…) did nothing, since the salt had managed to permeate its way to the center. We had to throw them all out.

the meal I shared with my fiance just before he proposed. I didn’t know what was coming, but remember in the moment thinking how lovely it was and how the food, rich and warm, seemed to mirror our moods. It was intimate and lucky and I’ll never forget it.

It seems like so many of my favorite memories are related to food in some way, but one of my favorite food memories was eating the banana pudding that my grandmother would always make when we were coming over. She wasn’t what you would call a good cook– for instance, the biscuits that she would make seemed to grow in my mouth as I tried to chew them, but there were a few dishes that she made that were just delightful. Her banana pudding was one of those recipes. Lots of times, all I have to do is smell a banana and I automatically remember sitting around her big round table and being happy to be eating there.

Growing up my grandma always made pineapple upside down cake, it always looked and tasted beautiful. One day my dad and I decided to make her a pineapple upside down cake which somehow became a pineapple right-side-up cake. The cake wasn’t nearly as beautiful as my grandma’s but it was still pretty delicious and my grandma appreciated our efforts.

One of my favorite food memories is of my mom making her pan de sal (bread). She would get up really early in the morning to start the process. By dinner time we had fresh bread. She only made this at Thanksgiving and Christmas, so it was always a real treat.

I just wanted to comment… even though I’ve got coconut oil in my pantry! A recent favourite food memory is making Alden’s first pizza where he could eat the “cheese” and we could all feel like we were eating a real pizza and not worry about allergies.

Or any night of the week when we’re cookin’ and the little dude drags a chair in saying “helper, helper” and scrambles up to the counter to “cook”. Yeah, that’s my favourite.

My favorite food memory is one that I am making now… My husband and I have two baby boys, Asher 19 months and Jude 4 months, and every Saturday hubs lets me sleep in and he watched football with the boys and when I get up I make Pumpkin Spice Pancakes from Trader Joes (hubs’ and Asher’s fave) sunny side up eggs with lots of hot sauce (my fave) and lots of coffee and we all hang out together. This happens every. single. Satruday. and its my favorite time of the week and the best food memory I have as of late and I have a feeling it will be for a long long time 🙂

awesome giveaway!!!!

favorite food memory is a recent one. my husband, son + i went to orlando at the end of september. along with the whole disney thang we were sure not gonna miss harry potter land! i was most looking forward to trying butterbeer. i had built it up so much in my head though, i was sure i’d be disappointed. luckily, i wasn’t! i opted for the frozen version, which hit the spot on a hot, muggy florida day. it tasted like cream soda on crack…it was sweet, but not overly so, and was topped with vanilla butterscotch cream. i savored every sip and didn’t want it to end. i can’t think of a time i anticipated something sooo much and wasn’t let down. i can’t believe orlando is the only place in the world; i daydream about it quite a lot! will attempt to recreate at home, but know it won’t be the same!!!

i guess that was a beverage memory; hope it still counts 😉

Cooking dinner for my husband our first month of marriage. Sweet memories!

I used to make mints with my mom at Christmas – rather unconventional to make mints, but they were so yummy!

A food memory….making home made pizza with my boyfriend once a month. We try to do different recipes each time, and have so much fun with our creations! xoxo

My husband and I once cooked Indian food for twenty of our favorite people. It was so much fun! Then another time we had fondue night with a few friends and family for New Years Eve then we went out dancing. I can’t decide between those two.

I love reading all of your seggestions and tips! Both my husband and I are total foodies and love to cook too!

One of my favorite food memories is actually not so much about the food. Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday. I love the food, family, friends, and the feeling of the holiday season starting! Last year (2009) I got to spend my first Thanksgiving as a family of 4. I had my second son on November 18th 2009 (so, he will be 1 on Thursday). I had just gotten home from the hospital after having a c-section a couple days prior to Thanksgiving and by no means had the energy to cook a whole feast. So, my husband and I decided that we would order a Thanksgiving meal and share our first holiday at home as a family of 4. The food was nothing special but the memory of our first hoilday as our own complete little family of 4 made it perfect! We even put the in the baby in his bouncy chair on the table, so he could share with us!

Well, I was going to post a picture but I couldn’t figure how. Anyway, Happy Holidays from our family to yours!!

Jen

My favourite food memory is of my 3rd birthday; we had chiffon cake with buttercream icing and toasted sliced almonds. It has always been my favourite cake, and whenever I have chiffon cake, I always think of my childhood.

Mmmm – a steak the size of a coconut in Buenos Aires. Divine.

The food memory most recently on my mind is of last weekend, when I went to Nashville to surprise my boyfriend and instead he surprised me–with a homemade meal of spelt ravioli, homemade sauce, braciole and a big salad. He’d spent the previous night cooking for me, all while I thought he had no idea I was coming.

ooh! I’m a fan of these things! I discovered coconut oil and butter recently as well and I’m really enjoying it.
One of my favorite food memories is of visiting the kitchen for my grandmother’s catering business. I remember watching all the busy people cooking and scampering around. They were all very proud of the food they made and my grandmother’s leadership was pretty awe inspiring. The best part of each visit was sampling leftovers from various events and eating lunch with the kitchen staff. They would prepare a nice lunch and we would all sit around a big table in the front office area to eat together.

You wouldn’t think that a food memory would be so difficult to narrow down. I have so many having had the privilege of growing up with a mom who can C to the O to the O to the K cook! But if I read the directions correctly I have to come up with one memory. The memory I would have to choose is our annual tradition of picking up Hatch green chile and having it roasted. I grew up in NM so a kitchen without green chile is like a kitchen without a sink. We drive to Santa Fe each year and pick up a bushel and drive it back to Colorado to have roasted. The roasting process is like no other. It smells unbelievable and is a scent that brings me back to my childhood and having chile roasted with my parents. Now we bring our kids and they too are intoxicated by the smell. The smell carries with it all of the future recipes we will share throughout the year. Whether it is green chile burritos, huevos rancheros or just plain old chile chopped up with lots of garlic and salt to go on top of my cheesy scrambled eggs-I’m telling you the stuff is magical! It kicks up any dish a notch! I hope my kiddos can handle the spicy stuff soon so that they too can share in this amazing little fruit : )

When I was a little girl, maybe 5 or so, I went camping with my family. I woke up, and I asked my Mom about the heavenly smell that I had never experienced before. She told me it was bacon – my grandmother was making breakfast. To this day, every time I smell bacon, I remember waking up that morning and that delicious smell!

My favorite food memory would be dinner at Vesta Dipping Grill in Denver, CO. It was our first trip together and first dinner of our vacation. Very special.

Favorite food memory: juicing my first batch of wheatgrass that I grew myself. I felt proud of myself beacause it was so easy and so much cheaper than shots at the store.

Several years ago my family had a vegetarian Thanksgiving at my stepdad’s suggestion. I’m the only vegetarian, but we all had a great time trying Tofurky for the first time and my parents thought it was as good as real turkey!

My favorite food memory would have to be the evening I had a very late night at work. It was a rough day, but when I arrived back home I found that my husband had baked me chocolate lava cakes! Now the guy loves to cook, but bake? And something that adventurous?! It was a wonderfully sweet gesture in so many ways.

One of my favorite food memories is making enchiladas with my Ita (Grandmother). We made everything from scratch from sauce to tortilla. She was a self made fashionista with perfectly styled hair and painted nails even elbow deep in enchilada sauce. She rolled her tortillas in two even rolls and they always came out perfect circles. To this day mine still look like Texas, but I’m thankful for the recipe.

My favourite food memory was baking christmas cookies for the whole family at grandma’s house growing up. My cousin and I would eat so much icing till we felt sick!! Such sweet fond memories.

My current food memory is looking forward to fresh sticky buns on christmas morning!! Mmmmm num num YUMM!

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One of my favorite food memories is a Thanksgiving we had in our little apartment.
It was just Memphis, Jason, Me and my Ma.
It was so great.
The food was amazing (Jason is a GREAT cook…used to be a chef) and it was just so nice not to have to go anywhere for a change.
I can’t remember where my brother and his family were but they must have been doing there own thing.
I just remember smiling a lot and having great conversations and watching my Ma play with my daughter all day 🙂

My favorite food memory:
8 years old, wearing oven mitts that are too big, watching as my Babcia makes her mother’s recipe for stew.
Still my favorite winter dinner, it has soft orange carrots, warm yellow potatoes, and tender cuts of free range beef. The sauce is light and thinner then most stews. She taught me how to mix a little flour in a cup with the broth so that it would not be lumpy and how to stir in the right blend of herbs.
I always consult her when trying a new recipe because she is the one who taught me how to cook.

Love your blog. Great giveaways. One of my favorite food memories is my dad taking us out for pizza. We rarely went out for meals and it was a special treat. I suppose that’s one reason I fell in love with pizza early on.

Making french toast with my mom. It’s still our go-to special occasion breakfast. 🙂

My favorite food memory is going over to my Nana’s on Sunday afternoons for family dinner when I was younger and smelling the aroma of roast beef and mashed potatoes and gravy coming from the kitchen. Nothing tastes quite the same.

My number one ultimate food memory if I absolutely had to pick one would be helping my Nana peel potatoes for Sunday dinner when I was little and then gorging myself on mashed potatoes that afternoon.

What a coincidence, this is my very first time applying for a giveaway. Never understood what blog giveaways were really all about, but coming across these tempting items made me want to find out.

Anyways, my favorite food memory happened a couple of years ago when I was allowed to prepare the Thanksgiving turkey …it was magical. The fact that I was given such a task meant that my family had confidence in my cooking skills.

Even though I’m almost always sick when I get to eat it, one of my favorite things is my mom’s lentil soup. Any memory with that soup is automatically good.

one of my fav food memories is the first time i made tofu parmesan for the omni boyfriend. we both loved it so much and the boyfriend still talks about it to this day and how i ate my meal in 2 seconds flat.

Since it is close to the holidays I’d have to say I love any Christmas. My whole family gets together and my mom cooks and bakes all day. Mom’s food is always the best food/food memory.

OOooh this is a good one sistah!
One of my favorite food memories is Italian Night at my familie’s house. It was friday night. My dad would make pasta or homemade pizza on a rectangular cookie sheet….which was weird in the 70s. Square pizza??? Hmmmm we were dubious. But it tasted amazing. My folks would play Italian records on the hi fi and I was in charge of the chianti bottle with the dripping candle wax on it. I took my job verrry seriously, picking the perfect drippy candle each week in matching colors. haha.

My husband and I had our first date at a Korean restaurant in Seattle before watching The Squid and the Whale (worst first date movie ever!). We ate kimbap and bulgogi and I introduced him to soju- a super powerful alcoholic beverage that kept our conversation easy and fun while calming my nervous-talker tendencies. Three months later we moved in together. 🙂

At first I didn’t see *favorite* and I thought right away of a time I was taking a road trip with the women of my family to move my sister to another state and I accidentally swallowed a butterscotch candy whole- it was stuck in my throat for hours! Thankfully it eventually melted. I still avoid eating those candies but when I see them it still reminds me of the time I got to spend with my family and all the memories we created together!

I have fond memories of cooking “hobo stew” over the campfire at summer camp when I was a kid. Meat, potatoes, carrots and catsup wrapped in tinfoil and cooked until done. Did it take hours? Probably. Who knows, it was one of those magical childhood times, where the food tasted way better than the sum of its parts.

Eating Eggs Benedict with a good friend at our favorite cafe!

The Christmas season comes to mind when I think of fav food memories. It’s just that turkey stuffing with all the herbs that infuse the room when you cut the roast turkey open. And mulled wine, which we weren’t able to drink as kids, but loved the smell. But what sticks in mind are all the abundance of cakes and cookies which religiously had to be ready till Christmas Eve, but not to be eaten till Christmas Day.

When I was a kid, they introduced “Belle”, Snoopy’s girlfriend at a department store celebration. There were toys, balloons and of course, giant Snoopy and Belle “people” for photo ops for the parents. I remember, however… more than anything…pink icing cookies. These vanilla cake-like cookies, with a fluffy crispy-creamy pale pink frosting on top. I have tried and tried to re-create this food memory for years now. I have finally decided I just need a time machine, so I can go back to being 5 and eat one. 🙂

One of my favorite food memories was to wake up smelling a home cooked breakfast at my grandmother’s place. Biscuits and gravy, fried apples, eggs, bacon, the works!

I’d have to say making christmas gnocci with my mama when I was young. Mixing up the ricotta flour and eggs, rolling and cutting the gnocci. We didn’t indent them with a fork, but made them complete with an flick of the pointer finger, a precise light pulling motion that took me a while to get the hang of every year. One year in the boiling water the gnocci all stuck together in one giant pasta clump…and ever since, my mom has made lasagna instead!

This one is easy – hard shell Maryland blue crabs at the beach every summer. A bushel in the middle of the table set only with mallets, knives and newspaper and we were good to go.

One of my favorite food memories is such a simple one: When I was a kid, in the summertime, my 3 brothers and I would pack into our big green suburban with my parents and we would go on loooooong road trips across the country. To save money, we would stop at a grocery store at lunchtime and my mom would buy big white crusty rolls, chunks of cheese and apples.

I don’t know why this simple food, no condiments or veggies or anything, tasted so good but I can only think it was because it was part of a shared experience we had as a family. And usually, because we’d saved so much dough on lunch, we’d stop in the afternoon for ice cream in some tiny little midwestern town. Good times.

Cooking for with my Aunt and her sister for the holidays. We are three different people in the kitchen, but when together we made some awesome dishes. We each brought a little bit of something to each dish. OH and did I mention the homemade gnocchi? 🙂

One of my favorite food memories is learning to make homemade pasta with my husband – he loves making it as much as I do, and its something we can both do in the kitchen together!

My favorite food memory is my great-grandmother making family dinners on Sunday. I remember her bringing out the pot of spaghetti and I swear to this day that it was bigger than me. After filling up on her from-scratch pasta and sauce she would bring out the meat and then the salad. I would be so incredibly full by the time it was all over!

When I was little and my grandmother stopped by my house, I would insist on going back to her house where we would whip up some cupcakes. I loved spending that time with her and got to surprise my Dad with a cupcake when he picked me up!

Making funnel cakes in my Grandma’s kitchen, when I was probably 3 years old. I haven’t had a funnel cake in decades, but whenever I think of this, I instantly want one. Too bad fair season is over.

My favorite food memory was last Thanksgiving when I made a pumpkin roll for dessert and everyone in my family loved it. Believe me, that’s a hard thing to accomplish!

One of my favorite food memories: Sitting in the 90 degree heat in Turkey, eat the best and spiciest lamb doner of my life, and sweating buckets!

Being on vacation with friends and having a homemade ice cream throw down! There were no losers and lots of good ice cream on a hot July day.

Making fresh pasta with a countertop roller with Mom in the farmhouse.

When I lived in Manila, I used to visit my grandma in the province of Marinduque during the summer. One of her neighbors had sugar cane growing in her property, so we were able to try it out.
I remember chewing on that freshly cut sugar cane for the very first time. It was soooooo juicy and soooo incredibly refreshing.
I wish I could go back there right now.

Coconut oil is also an AMAZING deep conditioner. And that is my current fave memory. It happened this weekend. And now my hair is awesome.

favorite, just because i can now laugh about it…

when i was a teenager i was making a meal out of one of my mom’s cookbooks. you know, the red and white checkerboard one? well, i had it sitting on her flattop range and turned on the wrong burner. i walked away for a second and came back to a cookbook in flames. oops! my mom still gives me a hard time about it – although i’m now the better cook. 😉

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Oh, my favorite food memories is my mom making drop biscuits from pancake mix. My brothers and I would smell them baking and we’d long for them esp on cold winter days with lots of butter and jam…yummy!

My grandma would always serve canned peas with TONS of butter with dinner. And she would always serve them in her green bowl with flowers across the border, every time. She is in a nursing home now, and I grabbed that bowl when we were going through her things. I serve peas in that bowl too (with a lot less butter) it makes me think of her. My husband calls it my pea bowl! 😉

two words: festive special (canadians will know what i mean)!

Dinner on the beach, sun setting in the Virgin Islands

Ohhh wow this is a tough one…my family LOVES food! I think my favorite though revolves around homemade pizza. My parents always made pizza for my sister and I – my mom and dad would rotate, and my sister and I didn’t even know you could order takeout pizza until we were in middle school! One night when I was probably about 6 or 7, my mom was making the pizza and was getting really into it – ridiculous fake Italian accent, tossing the dough, the whole thing. The phone rang and my mom, thinking it was my grandmother (who always called around dinner time), picked it up and announced “PIZZA PARLOUR what can I get for you??!”.

Needless to say, there was a very long pause on the other end and my mother realized it was my elementary school principle calling about something rather important.

Oops! 😛

My favorite food memory was making and decorating my wedding reception cookies! Making the dough is so relaxing and cutting out 34 heart shaped cookies was too adorable. Then outlining and flooding then with pink rotal icing, too cute! And its sentimental as well 🙂

my favorite food memory would have to be making home made ice cream with my family growing up! we had an old school/hand crank machine so we would all take turns turning it. It seemed like it took forever but it was totally worth it!

Ooh, I meant to enter this the other day and I got sidetracked…but I remembered today, as I was lured back here with the promise of Brussels-Sprouts (yay!) This is an awesome giveaway, Tracy!

My favorite food memory has to be making pancakes with my dad every Saturday morning growing up. He’d make the Mickey-Mouse shaped pancakes, and he’d even make pancakes for my Barbies! I’ll always cherish those memories :o)

xo – Amy

PS – I can’t wait to smear myself with the lemon lotion, while eating coconut-oiled pancakes and sipping on some chai tea in the tumbler that doesn’t sweat…OMG…if I win! ;o)

This is my first time dropping by the site and I’m very excited about it 🙂

One of my best food memories was having Saturday dinners with the whole family every week for years. I loved it so much and it has shaped my life in a huge way.

I grew up on Long Island where there is a large Italian community. I used to eat pastina for breakfast. It’s little teeny weeny star shaped pasta (about the size of couscous–but way cuter). Whenever it started to get cold outside, Mom would make up a batch for breakfast. adding milk, butter and a pinch of sugar. Since I don’t live there anymore, whenever I get a small box in the mail I cherish it. Every time I make it now I get taken right back to Long Island.

Standing in the kitchen with my then-90-year old great-grandmother while she taught me her recipe for Honey Balls, which she hadn’t previously to shown anyone. It was the last time we cooked together and I still make them each Christmas.

My favorite food memories involve watching my mom bake cake. Though it was just out of the box, Betty Crocker style, as a young girl, I thought it was magic!

My favourite memory is my mum baking chocolate self saucing pudding and having it with ice cream. Another was stewed tamillos with ice cream. Thanks for the chance to win 🙂

Amazing giveaway!!!!

Well since its coming up on Thanksgiving the memory that comes to mind is the first time I attempted to make the whole Thanksgiving meal myself! I was like 19yrs old and didnt realize how much work it really is! I dont think we ate until around 9 o’clock that night haha!

One of my best food memories: cake, jello and watching Disney with my 6 brother and sisters while my mom put pin curls in my hair…
Debbie

Sneaking bites of my mother’s homemade bread dough as it was rising.

My grandma’s christmas cookies.. she had pretty bad rheumatoid arthritis which made it hard for her to use her hands, but she still made us the best cookies every year.

Oh, great recommendations! I have been looking for the perfect to-go cup that doesn’t sweat all over my desk. Thanks!

Oooh, I would have to say…probably eating fondue the night my husband and I got engaged, and the waiter, who was having a generally klutzy evening, spilled a cup of melted butter all over my husband’s suit.

Ok, looks like everyone’s putting up sappy memories (the fondue one just makes me laugh), so my other favorite memory is making Christmas cookies with my mom and sister every year.

my fav food memory was probably when my lil bro & i were kids and we would go to these huge chinese wedding banquets that would serve a 8-10 course meal. The table would seat 10ppl w/ a bottle of cognac & 2 liters of soda (7-up & coke) and 10 little bowls & spoons on a lazy susan. They start off the course with a soup (usually bird’s nest). As soon as my brother & i get our bowls of soup we would reach for the cognac to add a spoonful into our soup, not too much where it taste like a bowl of alcohol but just enough to give it a nice kick. This is all in the presence of adults mind you. hahaha. We didn’t be come future alcoholics but i swear we were all under 10yrs old those days but it would be our favorite meal @ the banquet.

Oh, hmm! I guess I’d have to say one of my favorite food memories is from a few years ago while I was living in Cleveland. My fellow Texan roommate and I decided to throw a Tex-Mex dinner party for our friends so they could taste the real thing. There were two kinds of enchiladas, borracho beans, guacamole, fresh-fried tortilla chips, margaritas, and a tres leches cake. We were STUFFED. Come to think of it, I threw a similar party in Baltimore. ha!

Thanks for the giveaway! I’ve been pining after one of those tumblers. And I have a black kitty, too! 🙂

OMG, I totally use to have coconut oil on my toast!! Its sooo good!! I need to start doing that again!!
By the way, I’m totally with you on that lemon handcream, it’s like smelling a freshly baked lemon pie!! Yum!! I’m all about the sweet smelling hand lotions. They are the best!!

Wow!!! Thanks for the opportunity to win! My favorite food memory is the first time I baked a cheesecake. I had baked cookies before and all sorts of other easier items, like Jello cheesecake, but never the real deal. I was terrified. And pretty certain the waterbath was going to soak into the cheesecake. But everything turned out great and the cheesecake was delicious.

My favorite food memory is every year when my girlfriends and I set aside a Saturday to do all of our holiday baking together. It’s so fun to see what the others plan to make and taste each other’s treats! The Christmas music is just a plus!

My favorite food memory – cooking a traditional Korean spread with my grandma, who is an amazing cook!

Hi! My favorite food memory is the first time that I took my husband out for sushi. He was very cute!

I grew up in a large family and there was lots of competition. One day as a joke my sister decided to elbow me out of the way for the mashed potatoes, only it was a lot more effective than she planned. She knocked me right out of my chair! goofy, but I love to tease her about it to this day.

When I was a little girl my grandparents owned a bakery. I remember vividly the smell and the taste of the buttercream frosting straight from the gigantic hobart mixer. My granpa also used to make doughnuts shaped like a foot–a cutter made from his own foot. I’ve always wanted to try coconut oil.

My grandma making “milk toast” for me when I stayed overnight. : )

My favorite food memory is fruit cocktail with my extended family for Thanksgiving… we all gathered at Grandma’s house and cut up fresh fruit and mixed it together in a 5 gallon crock and served it as an appetizer on Thanksgiving. (There were always 30+ so don’t let the 5-gallon quantity disturb you…)

I LOVE that lemon lotion! It’s so delicious, I wish I could just eat it.

My food memory would have to be making my first cheesecake and how great it turned out. I think we ate it within a matter of days. I’m currently concocting another cheesecake.

You have excellent taste! I love anything lemon flavored or scented.

My favorite food memory is having our wedding reception at our favorite pizza joint (Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinders in…Chicago). Friends and family gave us that goofy raised eyebrow look until they tasted the Mediterranean bread…and pizza pot pies…and homemade ice cream.

Delish!

anything my dad would cook! he put so much love into everthing.

Lemon hand cream sounds divine! I love finding small special things that make life fancy everyday.

My favorite food memory is eating grandma’s homemade chicken nuggets as a child. I remember looking up at her as she took apart the chicken, mixed the breading and threw it in the fryer. Certainly not the healthiest meal, but the smell was indescribable and I’ve never found anything comparable to the taste of a homemade nugget!

When I was a child we didn’t have a whole ton of money, we were comfy, and had a great family life. My mother used to be able to take a package of hotdogs, dice them up, made her own barbeque sauce and served them with mashed potatoes and veggies. Mmmmm, my brother and I loved them, and my mother was always worried that it wasn’t good enough. I love her. She is an amazing woman.

Thanks for the opportunity to win. I love your blog~

That lotion sound so great!!

awesome giveaway! i hate to be bothered by lotion too. but i sure do need it!
my favorite food memory is not one in particular. i just love sunday family dinners. we either have them with our small family of 5 at our own home. or at my grandma who lives up the street+ my parents, siblings, and nieces and nephew. or at my in- laws with any combo of 8-20 people! the memories made for us and now for my children are some of my most cherished!
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One of my favorite food memories is eating Christmas rolls every Christmas morning as we opened presents. The recipe came from my grandmother – basically, refrigerator biscuits that have been flattened and topped with brown sugar and chopped nuts before baking. They were delicious.