We are coming down the home stretch of Gooseberry Patch week and a celebration of 101 Soups, Salads and Sandwiches, a Gooseberry Patch cookbook publication. Please check out the recipe for Sausage and Bean Soup and the review of the cookbook plus a recipe for Spicy Cabbage – Apple Slaw.
You have a chance to win this cookbook before it even hits the shelves! Gooseberry Patch cookbooks are dedicated to favorite recipes, family and wonderful memories. In celebration of the Christmas season and in keeping with the Gooseberry Patch theme of capturing memories, leave a comment describing your favorite Christmas memory to be entered into the contest. The memory can be a childhood memory or recent memory and can involve gift giving or receiving, food, family, shopping or anything that makes you smile.
The comment must be left in the comment section below, and not on Facebook, in order to be entered in the contest.
Please share this post with as many people as you would like.
The winner will be announced on Wednesday, December 14, 2011.
Good luck and may the best memory win!
Daina Chamness says
Cabbage is the perfect veggie for this time of year! Enter me for the cookbook contest. I wanna see more!
julie weber says
I love the Christmas eve service with my family each year.
Sharon says
My best Christmas memory is making and eating Christmas fudge with my family.
Jane says
Love Gooseberry Patch cookbooks- and your blog as well! I clearly remember Christmas, 1989. We’d had a tough six months, with family members’ illnesses and my father-in-law’s death and my starting/learning a new job, so we were hoping for a spirit-lifting holiday. That morning, I opened the drapes that covered the French doors in our dining room, and there, in the snowy backyard, were about 2 dozen Evening Grosbeaks at our feeder! What a glorious sight- they are not commonly seen in this part of Virginia, except in the heavily wooded areas. We fed them heartily, of course, and they remained for about six weeks. I’ve only seen one since then, but will never forget that flock.
Jean says
Love Gooseberry Patch!
Beverly says
I’ll be making the Sausage and Bean Soup before the day is over. Perfect for this cold weather. Maybe I should just wait and eat the book.
Beverly @ Beverly's Back Porch says
The Sausage and Bean Soup will be cooking on my stove before the day is over. Thanks!
Crystal Allen says
My favorite….having two girls on Christmas Day! 1988, & 1998! What a special blessing God gave me! I am forever grateful! Sharing Jesus’ Birthday! Best Christmas gifts I’ve ever received! 🙂
Crystal Allen says
Well, my IPhone has mind of its own….Dates are 1989, & 1998! Last couple of years, they’ve wanted their own Birthday Cakes! Understandable….Good Luck to all…would love to have cookbook, to add to my collection! Lol I have so many, and I live them all! God Bless, & Merry Christmas! 🙂
Celia Winters says
Love singing in the church Christmas musical that brings a large group of people together in one voice. We begin tonight and twice tomorrow. Then the final touch for Christmas is the 11 pm Christmas eve service that ends shortly after midnight – a very touching/inspirational time to be a part of and leave with a smile on your face and in your heart.
Ann says
One of my favorite childhood memories was going to my Grandma’s house on Christmas morning after we had opened our Santa. Grandma always had a small cedar tree cut from the woods and decorated, with a gift for everyone under it! “Everyone” included her six children, their wives and at least three children each!! It was never very much, there were “girl” gifts and “boy” gifts for all the grandchildren. We were as excited to be there opening our little gifts, in the midst of all our cousins and aunts and uncles as if Santa himself had showed up! Then we would have a huge Christmas dinner that every family made their best dishes for – it was just a wonderful, warm loving family time!
JMom @ Cooked from the Heart says
My best Christmas memory is always the time spent with my family. One that I always looked forward to was the look on their faces on Christmas morning. Now that they are older, I relish the time we spend in the kitchen. They are now the instigators of the ‘Christmas experiment’ which is usually the one dish that we’ve never had before and trying for the first time for the Christmas dinner.
terri says
The delight in my grandaughters eyes seing the first lights and decor of the season. Priceless!
rebecca stringer says
very nice!
Jerry Ann Gregory says
I love the cabbage slaw recipe. Love anything from Gooseberry!
Julie says
I love soup but never know where to start with the base beside chicken stock. I would love to win this so I could begin my soup repertoire.
Danny Taylor says
Always looking for a cooking aid..this one looks like a good one!!
The Sausage and Bean Soup is a must do for the cold Holiday Season…no doubt about it!
Thanks for sharing!
Cindy says
Christmas Eve when all of my children and grandchildren are at my house and we open presents together. That’s my favorite memory of all! Looking forward to making more memories with them this year.
Joyce says
I love it when all the kids, gk &ggk come over for 2 days of Christmas – one night we open
gifts & I have mostly finger foods and sweets, then on Christmas day I fix a big pot of seafood
gumbo & potato salad & rice & that’s it – I make enought so everyone gets to take some home-
by Christmas we are tired of turkey & ham – the best I remember is when we took the WHOLE
family (18 all together) on a cruise – everyone still talks about that as none except hubby & I
had been on one – not only that I finally got a picture of the whole family together – good
memories & good food – dh loves soup & the sausage & bean soup looks great-
Sonya Miller says
My favorite memory is eating Christmas lunch with all of my extended family as a child – parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles. Must have been 30-40 of us at different tables spread out throughout the living room and kitchen! Today is my birthday and hoping that it’s my lucky day to enter and win the Gooseberry Patch cookbook. I’ve always wanted one and never gotten any.