The Gourmet Grilled Cheese Cookbook Review and Giveaway! (U.S.) Ends 1/16 (Rafflecopter) #ChristmasGiftGuide

 My family and I love cheese! We especially love sandwiches with all types of cheese in them! We made some ham for Christmas Day dinner, and we have been using it in as many things that we can think of. Last night, we made mini ham and cheddar cheese sandwiches on rolls! The kids ate them up! My husband thought it was such a great idea, that he made some for himself later last night when he was hungry. We had a late lunch, so we all ate dinner at different times last night, which happens once in a while.

Grilled Cheese sandwiches are great comfort food for some of us. They are especially good when it's cold outside. It's winter right now here in Tennessee, and boy is it cold! Any food that is nice, warm, and easy to fix is what's on the menu for dinner in our home.

Below is some information about the book:
They say anything is better once you put cheese on it. Kit Graham of The Kittchen, a popular blog out of Chicago, knows this all too well. She is finally sharing her obsession with cheese as she launches her new cookbook, The Gourmet Grilled Cheese Cookbook.

Grilled cheese is the ultimate comfort food. It can be simply made from bread, cheese, and butter, or it can become a gourmet meal with the addition of more sophisticated ingredients. The goal of The Gourmet Grilled Cheese cookbook was to create recipes that transform the humble grilled cheese into something ‘more’.

This full color cookbook features 20 original recipes for gourmet grilled cheese. The recipes are divided into four sections: Vegetarian, Meat, Seafood, and Add Ins. The Add Ins section is where cheese lovers will find stand-alone recipes for items that are used in some of the grilled cheese recipes. The Add In recipes are referenced in the grilled cheese recipes, but can be enjoyed on their own and in other dishes too:

• Artichoke Dip (This creamy cheesy dip with chunks of artichoke)
• Honey Roasted Walnuts (Sweet honey roasted walnuts with just a hint of cayenne pepper)
• Marsala Poached Pears (Pears poached in rich Marsala wine and butter)
• Poached Pear, Honey Roasted Walnut, and Homemade Ricotta Grilled Cheese
• Roast Beef, Mushroom, Brie, and Caramelized Onion Grilled Cheese
• Calvin’s Crab Rangoon Grilled Cheese 

It is so much more than bread and cheese!

About the Author
Kit Graham writes thekittchen.com, a food site focused on original and practical recipes. The Kittchen has been featured on Refinery 29, Eater, The Frisky, and The Urbaness. Kit grew up in Kennebunk, Maine and currently resides in Chicago with her husband.

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2013 Airplanes and Dragonflies Holiday Gift Guide: One Bowl Baking (Cookbook) Review and Giveaway! (U.S.) Ends 11/10 (Rafflecopter)

School bake sales are coming up soon, along with Fall festivals, events at church, Thanksgiving, Christmas parties, Christmas, New Year's, and more! One Bowl Baking is the perfect cookbook for anyone who loves to cook, and for those who don't! One Bowl Baking streamlines the baking process by mixing everything in one bowl! You don't need to use your hand mixer or your big mixer with the metal bowl and all of the fancy attachments, unless you want to, of course! So don't go to your local grocery store to purchase something for a bake sale or party, just open up the One Bowl Baking cookbook, and whip something great up from scratch! I can't wait to make and try the Rocky Road Fudge Cake, the Apple Crisp mix-in-the-pan Bars, and the Crispy Brown Sugar Shortbread cookies!

Recipe developer extraordinaire Yvonne Ruperti’s new book, ONE BOWL BAKING: Simple, from Scratch Recipes for Delicious Desserts (available from Running Press) is now available to purchase.

Yvonne Ruperti has been baking and cooking for over 15 years, in professional kitchens, test kitchens, and her own bakery. You may recognize her from her three seasons on the Emmy-nominated hit PBS cooking show, America’s Test Kitchen. She is also a writer and currently pens the weekly Chocoholic column for the James Beard award winning food site, Serious Eats.

Over the years, Yvonne realized that when she baked at home, she often condensed steps in a recipe in order to make the process easier, and to avoid washing unnecessary bowls and equipment. Her new book, One Bowl Baking, is all about simplifying baking—not by using cake mixes, but by eliminating extra steps, extra appliances, and extra bowls. No electric mixers, food processors, or other fancy equipment required (perfect for busy moms!). Most of the recipes can even be assembled and in the oven in 15 minutes or less. Some don’t even require a bowl—they’re mixed directly in the pan!

Recipes cover all areas of baking: breakfast muffins and scones, cupcakes, cookies, layer cakes, cheesecakes, tarts, and more. From Sour Cream Breakfast Biscuits to Sweet and Salty Pretzel Crunch Cupcakes, One Bowl Baking is the go-to resource for both classic and unique recipes made from scratch and using just one bowl.

You can purchase One Bowl Baking: Simple from Scratch Recipes for Delicious Desserts, on Amazon.com and it should be available for purchase at bookstores nationwide. Or you can enter to Win a copy below using the Rafflecopter Form! (Giveaway open to Residents of the main 48 continental United States only.) This cookbook would make a great Christmas gift for your mother, aunt, grandmother, friend, or someone who really loves to bake!


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Earth Day Giveaway #1: "Homemade with Love: Simple Scratch Cooking From In Jennie's Kitchen" (book/cookbook) Review and Giveaway! (U.S.) Ends 4/26

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Earth Day, April 22nd, 2013

I had to copy and paste the info below this paragraph, that came in the email to me because I feel that it explains more than I could about Jennifer's book: Homemade with Love: Simple Scratch Cooking from in Jennie's Kitchen. This is MORE than a cookbook. You can read along in every section about Jennifer's life and how she came to enjoy cooking. There's also a section of pages that list the basics to stalk up your kitchen with to help you to make the basic, simple recipes in Jennie's cookbook. I recommend this book to everyone. It's a great read, and a great recipe book. I especially recommend it to people who want to cook for their family and friends, but they don't know where to start or how to do it. This book is a MUST have for Everyone!

My favorite recipe is the Homemade Cheese Crackers. My five and a half year old son lives on goldfish crackers. I would love to make some homemade ones for him, and try to sneak things in them over time, if I could convince him to try them. He has some sensory issues, and food is a big problem for him, and us. I also want to make Jennie's Pumpkin Apple Cake, YUM!

Some of you are thinking, why would I make this cookbook part of my Earth Day Giveaways, and I say, why not! Making food that is grown, organic, of our earth is good for us and great for the earth. Cooking for your family and friends with fresh foods is better than spending money on overly processed food.

While working at some of the most prestigious restaurants in New York City, Jennie Perillo credits her boyfriend - Mikey - with convincing her to take a chance and become a personal chef.  When she became a mom, Mikey who was now her husband, was by her side again encouraging his wife to pursue her love of food and share it with the world by becoming a writer. Jennie’s talent for writing, authentic voice and recipes eventually landed her a position as a contributing food editor to Working Mother magazine, and at the same time, she launched In Jennie’s Kitchen, which has become one of the most popular food blogs on the Internet.

What Jennie didn’t expect was that her love of cooking would also prove to be the therapy she needed most following a devastating tragedy that forever changed the course of her life. In 2011, Mikey died suddenly of an undiagnosed auto-immune disease, called Good Pasture’s Syndrome, while teaching their daughter how to ride a bike. 

Shattered by her husband’s passing, and left as a single mom of two young girls (then ages 3 and 8), Jennie found support from family, friends and the community of readers around the world who lovingly made Mikey’s favorite dessert, creamy peanut butter pie, as a tribute to him, Jennie and the deep love they shared, (#APieForMikey).

Jennie shares poignant and heartwarming stories behind all of her delectable dishes from drop biscuit chicken pot pie to vanilla blueberry waffles. A lifelong Brooklynite, Jennie began cooking for her family at age 15, when her father died. Now, more than three decades later, she’s developed hundreds of easy-to-follow scrumptious recipes and prepares everything from scratch - from homemade breakfasts and spreads to salads, mains and sides, snacks  and desserts. While it may seem daunting to re-create recipes that appear to come straight from a world class restaurant, Jennie breaks it down step by step so that anyone can create a meal that truly is a labor of love.

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