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!
Megan Watson says
Love Gooseberry Patch and soups.
Molly says
My favorite Christmas memory was definitly making gingerbread cookies with my mom to put on the tree. It was so much fun!
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Krista@Everyday Mom's Meals says
Love GBP! Love Soups, Salads etc. OMGosh, would love to add this to my collection 🙂
My favorite Christmas memory is the year I got my kitchen set from Santa. We have pictures of the look on my face and I hope I can give my son that same feeling!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!
Michelle W says
My favorite Christmas memory is the first Christmas for both of my kids!
Molly says
When I was 10, mama made a concoction (probably from one of her “ladies” magazines) from tide soap and who know what else and we put it by hand on the tree to resemble snow. Looked ok, but the scent was not pine!!
Betty Jackson says
Perfect time of year for soup & sandwiches, we love them. would love new receipes. Please enter me
Cheri Emery says
My favorite Christmas memory would have to be the smell of yeast and cinnamon that eminated from my momma’s kitchen. She was an amazing cook, but her breadmaking skills were unsurpassed. Every Christmas she made dozens of her delicious cinnamon rolls to give to her friends, neighbors, physicians and of course her family. I remember going with her to deliver these gooey treats and the expressions of gratitude from her recipients. Though momma has been gone for many years, the memory of her Cinnamon rolls lives on, especially during the Christmas season. I have continued the tradition to the best of my ability, but nobody bakes cinnamon rolls like momma.
Debbie says
My best christmas memory is making candy of all sorts with my mom. she came from a large family, she always made sure that each one had a gift of homemade candy and cookies. we’d start about a week before christmas as we cooked she’d tell stories of her childhood and how much cooking and family meant to her. As a little girl she instilled in me the love of christmas and a love for cooking we didnt have alot but when we got in the kitchen the gifts didnt matter there was love and a spirit of christmas that i hope i have passed on to my children. My mom has passed now and baking isnt the same but when i do bake and make candy for the holidays i remember her and I feel as if shes there with me. its the little things that make christmas special..
Debbie Rhoades says
My favorite Christmas memory was a long, long time ago. When my sisters and I were little, my mom and dad would pile us into the car and we would drive 2 hours south to my maternal grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve; we would sing Christmas carols and we would take presents and everything down there to spend the night on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, when we would wake up, my cousins, aunties and uncles would come over to Grandma’s house and open presents, and then we would have Christmas dinner. I can only remember us doing that 2 to 3 years, and then we started staying at home for Christmas, but those memories are sweet to me.
Patti says
I love trying all kinds of soup and sandwiches. I am getting tired of the same old things, want to try something new and this book would be terrific!!
Linda Dubbelman says
Please enter me into your contest. I’d love to win the Gooseberry Patch cookbook. 🙂 My favorite Christmas memory is going to church Christmas eve with my parents & brother & sister & opening presents Christmas Eve.
Linda Lundmark says
My favorite christmas memory is my dad coming out for Christmas for many years after I married. We will ask him to come around 9 or so, and he would be there at 7 A,m, knocking on the door, because he couldn’t hardly wait to make the 20 mile drive to our house. I would fix he and my son and husband and I a huge breakfast and then we would open gits, then I would prepare a special lunch. He passed away tragically at home at the age of 68. He lay dead in his home for 2 days before anyone discovered him. I have never gotten over his death completely. The holidays are very hard for me, as I also lost my first baby right before christmas 32 years ago. Miss them both being at my house for the holidays.
Sharilyn Howie says
Thank you for the chance to win a great Gooseberry Patch Cookbook.
Favorite thing at Christmas is baking for family and friends.
Erin Parker says
I love decorating with my mom. Always special.
judy glass says
My favorite memory is of going to the Christmas play at church most of the time me snd my fsmily were involved in it, after the play Santa would come down the aisle hading out goodie bags filled with fruit, nuts, and candy.
Joyce Wallace says
Our greatest Christmas memories are that of our family sitting around the Christmas dinner table, and sharing food from our Polish heritage. Polish kiełbasa, parogies and fried onions, stuffed cabbage, poppy seed bread, nut roll just to give an example. We also take part is another Christmas tradition of passing the Oplatek (the Christmas wafer). The word “Oplatek” derives from the Latin word “Oblatum”, meaning sacred bread. Made of unleavened dough, it first began to be used in the lOth century as a liturgical wafer, with a religious motif engraved on a side. In Poland the tradition of baking wafers in engraved metal forms, and of using these wafers for sacral and secular purposes dates back to the Middle Ages. The wafer-sharing ritual is accompanied by mutual wishes of health and prosperity in the coming year. At Christmas time, it is now also sent to absent members of the family and close fiends in foreign lands, who, in their loneliness, partake of it and so, are in communion with their Ioved ones. They dream that they are seated with their family at the Wigilia table, enjoying blessings, forgiveness and warmth of those under the parental roof.
HILDRED TYLER WATKINS says
Being from the South, we are kinda laid back and this is something we could live on 6 days a week!
Betsy Rugen says
I’m making my family’s traditional Christmas candy this afternoon- fudge, chow mien noodle candy, peanut brittle, and peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate. I fondly remember the times I’ve helped my mom and even a cousin make these for family get-togethers.
Carol says
The very best thing about Christmas is family being together! That’s when all the wonderful memories are made. Sharing, eating, ,loving..God is good…
Shampa Davie says
I love having soups and sandwiches during the busy holiday season in between all the shopping and baking. One of my fondest memories was watching “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer” with my sisters after we played out in the snow. Hot chocolate was a treat and we got to warm up by the fire. I still try to keep the tradition to this day with my family. I would love to add this cookbook to my collection.