April 4, 2013
5-Ingredient Recipes: Contest Results + Masterlist!
My go-to 5-ingredient recipe: sardine and tomato spaghetti.
Two weeks ago, I wrote about Jules Clancy's fantastic new book, 5 Ingredients, 10 Minutes, and offered to give away three copies as prizes in a 5-ingredient recipe contest.
You collectively submitted nearly 140 five-ingredient recipes, all of which sound fantastic and provide a fascinating glimpse into your personal tastes and appetites. It's been very difficult to pick just three -- ...
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March 19, 2013
5 Ingredients 10 Minutes: A Giveaway!
{See below about winning Jules Clancy's newly released book.}
I've been a follower and an admirer of Jules Clancy's Stonesoup for years. Not only does she provide inspiring minimalist recipes and gorgeous, bathed-in-Australian-light pictures, but she also strives to innovate on the classic food blog format and keeps coming up with great projects and ideas, such as her virtual cookery school, her e-cookbooks (such as 30 Dinners in 30 Days or Th...
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January 29, 2013
Garlic: To Press Or Not To Press (+ a Giveaway!)
{See below about winning the garlic press to end all garlic presses.}
Over the years, I've gone back and forth on this burning issue: is it a good idea to press garlic?
The question sparks surprisingly violent debates, and often there's an undercurrent of judgment ("real cooks just chop") that I find out of place in any cooking discussion: there's no single right way of doing anything, just different skills and circumstances.
As far as I can...
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October 16, 2012
Desert Island Dishes (Contest Results)
Many thanks to those of you who participated in the Desert Island Dishes contest! It was a treat to read through your entries.
It was hard to pick just three, but it had to be done, and Thomas Blythe and I narrowed it down to the following, which showed inventiveness and common sense, and just plain made us hungry. Their authors will receive a Desert Island Dishes cookbook and a Maldon seasoning box....
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October 3, 2012
Desert Island Dishes: A Contest
You've likely heard of Maldon sea salt, an English salt that comes in large, pyramid-shaped, flaky crystals, a format that makes them both very pretty, and easy to pinch and crush and sprinkle.
The Maldon Salt Company is a fourth-generation family business that's celebrating its 130th anniversary this year, and they've invited me to participate in the Desert Island Dishes campaign* they've launched to mark the occasion.
The idea is to ask che...
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January 24, 2010
6th Annual Menu for Hope: Raffle Winners!
The winners of the Menu for Hope fundraiser/raffle have been announced. Thank you all for your generous participation!
Alice Boussicaut, Tamsin Ballard, Katarina Tierer and Leah Bevington, please get in touch with me to collect your prizes!...
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December 14, 2009
6th Annual Menu for Hope
Today marks the beginning of the 6th edition of Menu for Hope, a fundraising campaign created by Pim and championed by food bloggers all around the world. The funds raised will benefit the United Nations' World Food Programme: it is the world’s largest food aid agency, working with more than a thousand other organizations in over seventy-five countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people become self-relian...
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January 15, 2009
Menu for Hope V: Raffle Results
The 5th Annual Menu for Hope campaign has raised over $62,000 in support of the UN's World Food Program in Lesotho.
Thank you for your support and generosity, and head over to Pim's to check the raffle results and see if you've won.
And if you're the winner of one of my three prizes (EU09, EU10, or EU11), please get in touch to collect it!...
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December 15, 2008
5th Annual Menu for Hope
Today marks the beginning of the 5th edition of Menu for Hope, a fundraising campaign created by Pim and championed by food bloggers all around the world. The funds raised will benefit the United Nations' World Food Programme and more specifically, their school feeding program in Lesotho, which provides breakfast and lunch to primary school children; we have chosen to support the same program as we did last year, for which -- hang on to your bo...
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December 10, 2007
4th Annual Menu for Hope
For the fourth year in a row, food bloggers around the world are answering Pim's call to participate in a fundraising campaign that will benefit the United Nations' World Food Programme and more specifically, their school feeding program in Lesotho, which provides breakfast and lunch to 137,000 children across the country.
This fundraising works as a virtual raffle. Every US$10 you donate will buy you a raffle ticket to win one of the prizes c...
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December 12, 2005
Pastries for Hope
Image courtesy of Heidi Swanson
For the second time now, Pim has put on her fundraiser hat and enrolled us food bloggers to help: in this new Menu for Hope campaign, she is organizing a virtual raffle to raise money for the earthquake victims in Northern India and Pakistan, who are still in dire need of help. The funds will be collected by Unicef through the First Giving website (and no money will pass through our hands).
How does this work? E...
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