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.
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The winner will be announced on Wednesday, December 14, 2011.
Good luck and may the best memory win!
Cindy McGraw says
My high school friends and I sang in our church youth choir. We had about 60 kids in the choir. I love the Christmas program that we participated in that was held outside in the Sunset Acres shopping center that was across the street from our church. Nothing like a little cold air and Christmas music to set the spirit for the season.
Judy says
Favorite Christmas memories are of Christmas Eve Candlelight services and church and then gathering with my family at my parent’s for a wonderful time full of laughter
Lori Peterson says
I have so many great Christmas memories. My favorites are watching my mom put up decorations, helping my mom bake cookies, going to my grandma’s to help put up the tree and other decorations and helping her make cookies and candy then going to my other grandma’s to help put up her tree. All of these happened every year. So much love and memories. I can still remember my favorite ornaments on each of my grandparents’ trees.
Tammi Delancy says
My favorite Christmas memory was always decorating the tree and the house to the Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee Christmas CD’s .
My best Christmas present was my set of homemade ceramic Frogs with pistachio paint on them. Mom made them. I am a true believer in Christmas ought to me homemade gifts.
Please enter me into the contest I would love to win this book.
mary fanara coleman says
Learning how to bake my Mother’s Hungarian pastries as a child in our little little kitchen at home. I now teach my daughter.
Vicki Chambliss says
I love to cook and always have given teachers at school and church food for Christmas. It is nice now that my two daughters, 16 & 13, get in the kitchen with me and we cook things together to share with our friends, family and teachers!
Janice Marra says
My fondest memory as a child was waking up with my sister, dressed in matching P.J’s and running out into the living room all excited to open up Christmas presents and being greeted by these bright lights coming from my fathers Super 8 home movie camera.By the time my grandparents would arrive the spots in our eyes created by the lights that accompanied my fathers movie making exploits were beginning to fade sufficiently enough for us to navigate our way into the kitchen and view the welcome sight of the traditional pancake breakfast my father would prepare gracing our kitchen table.A tradition that continues today.
Ginny Sargent says
My dad was a carpenter and there was always an ebb and tide with finances. One Christmas I had my second surgery on my right leg. I was in a cast hip to toe. My heart’s desire was a new bike (my first one was a rusty used one) …a pink sting ray bike with the high handlebars, a white basket, streamers and a banana seat. Because I had a growth problem as well, my parents were really trying to talk me out of getting this bike until the summer when I could actually sort of be fitted one. It was the only thing I wanted, the only think I asked Santa for. Much to my glee, Christmas morning, my pretty pink sting ray was beside the very chair that Santa ate the cookies I left for him! My parents got the bike on faith, knowing that I couldn’t even use it (we lived in the New England snow AND I was in a cast for another 4 months) and prayed that it was the right size. It was perfect, and so was the memory because as I got older I realized that my parents were in a tough situation financially and to go out and risk that kind of money on something they didn’t even know I could use for another 5 months, was a pure act of sacrifice and love. It created a memory that 45 years later is treasured and kept dear and always close in my heart.
Asabi says
My favorite Christmas memory is of my mom baking multi-colored candy cane cookies and sprinkling them with crushed candy cane powder. Yummy!!
Brittin Elise says
My favorite Christmas memory was the Christmas of 1984 and my sister was just 2 weeks old…I got a Fisher Price record player along with a Micheal Jackson/Paul McCartney 45 record I wanted…it was Awesome!
Jane A Bratton says
My memories of Christmas are of family – and how our celebration changes and grows as our family does. As an adult, I cherish the story my mother tells of frantically running around town on Christmas Eve looking for roller skates for all four of us kids. She had discovered that almost all of the neighborhood children were getting skates (the old-fashioned metal kind that attached to your shoes) and she knew how disappointed we would be if Santa forgot any of us. Late that day she found what she describes as “the last pair of skates in town” and Santa came through. Of course, I didn’t hear this story until many years later! I honestly don’t remember getting skates for Christmas but I do remember hours and hours of fun skating around the neighborhood with my friend.
christy howald says
My fondest Christmas memory is of sitting at the kids’ table with my cousins. We weren’t together for meals too often, so we always had a blast. I also have warm memories of my family’s wacky tradition of drinking a shot of whiskey when another group would show up or call on the phone on Christmas morning. (I really come from a good Catholic family, really) They had a special toast that they would say and then shot them back. Us kids would have ginger ale. Some (my father included) would try to time it out so that they would be the last to arrive.
Connie Lee says
I have a lot of favorite Christmas memories. Some of the earliest was going to church and seeing the Christmas play, and afterwards the church gave everyone a “paper poke” of goodies, such as oranges, apples, nuts, candy bar, and chewing gum. There was the Christmas of the best present of all, Santa brought me a blue and white bicycle with a basket on it. It took a few skinned knees, but I finally learned to ride it. Mom always had the best food around Christmas. She would make her fruit cakes, coconut cake, pound cake, pineapple upside down cake, oatmeal cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, apple pie, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, and I don’t know how many other things. Christmas dinner was the best, pork chops, ham, roast beef, cannied yams, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, coleslaw, squash casserole, biscuits and rolls, coffee and tea. The best memory of all was all the family being together and sharing a good time.
Kae Hovater says
My favorite Christmas memory, was Christmas 2003. I just had my first child, for whom I had been praying for a long, long time. My husband and I didn’t exchange gifts that year but, as cliche and corny as it sounds, we truly had the greatest gift of all that year!
C says
That would be the night we put up the Christmas tree every year when my beloved grandparents came over and we had munchies (like RC and Chickin n Biscuit crackers!) as we decorated it while Christmas music played — what memories!!
c says
Putting up and decorating the tree every year with my beloved grandparents while listening to Christmas music!!
Brenda Turner says
I remember seeing my daughters with their newborn babies sitting under the Christmas tree, and how beautiful they were!
Kathy Anderson says
I would love to be entered in the contest for the Cookbook. I have a sister that I would like to teach to cook and think this Cookbook could really help her out. I wish everyone in the family enjoyed cooking as much as I do.
Patti Keil says
My best Christmas memory was when I was 7. I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. There was a nightlight on in there because our Grandma was visiting so I didn’t need to turn on the “big” light. As I was doing what I got up to do, I glanced out the window and could see the glow of Rudolph’s nose all over the backyard. I then looked up the hallway as I left the bathroom and could see a red coat on the back of a chair in the living room. I knew for sure then that Santa was in my house!! I hurried back to bed so fast and pulled the covers up over my head because I knew if he saw that I was up, I wouldn’t get any presents! No one ever believed me but this is totally true…I was not dreaming or sleepwalking either!
Joan says
One of my best Christmas memories is the year our daughter and son were very young and they awoke to what we called red Flintstone Cars with yellow tops. The smiles on their faces were pricless as they sat in those cars amazed and happy.Those little feet took those cars many a mile until they finally out grew them. They then passed them on to a sister and brother that lived near us who also traveled many a mile by food power.
Cheri Emery says
My favorite memory of the holidays would have to be the smells eminating from my mothers kitchen. She was an amazing cook, but her baking skills were unsurpassed. At Christmas, she made her famous cinnamon rolls for everyone she knew, including doctors, friends, neighbors and, of course her children. The smell of yeast and cinnamon always takes me back to my momma’s kitchen, and the memory of delivering those sweet, gooey cinnamon rolls to very appreciative recipients.