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!
Sheila Dewey says
After my husband & I were Blessed with our 2 girls, Most Christmas Eves his parents stayed with us overnight so they could be with our kids Christmas day.( he is an only child) Many times my Mom would be with us too. I had a sister,so Mom would sometimes be with my sister & her family in southern AL. We lived in MI . Our parents have passed on and I miss them so much, but I have so many special memories of our times together. I was very young & so far away from my family.He & his family welcomed me into their hearts so my life in MI (33 yr) was a good.
Danny Taylor says
There’s a wonderful book right here on this page. Reading these memories posted here give me warm and loving feeling for those days past. I pray that everyone is fortunate enough to continue to build these memories for their kids and grand kids to call on in the years to come. Gathering around the table for some great food and fun is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to keep this country in the good grace’s of God. Thanks Jackie and everyone for their contribution!
Jackie Garvin says
Danny,
I couldn’t agree with you more! I’ve enjoyed reading each and every comment. 🙂
Val Burns says
Great Christmas memories from a tradition started with friends to do Christmas eve dinner at one home followed by church service and then dessert at the other home. Wonderful evening!
amy bromley says
Goose Berry Patch helps you make new family traditions that feel like they have been in place for generations! Well…..they have been family traditions for generations and that is what makes them so special! There is nothing better than knowing that the recipes are “no-fail” and your family will love them!! Thank you Goose Berry Patch for bringing us home for the holidays!
Robin Coxon says
My favorite meal is either soup and sandwich or soup and salad. I would really love to win this cookbook so I can create some new meal ideas.
Lynda McCormick says
Oh, do I still have a chance? I would love to win this!
The Spicy Cabbage ~ Apple Slaw sounds wonderful!
LyndaLoo
Kaye Evans says
I have a salad and soup or Salad and sandwich just about every day for lunch so I would love to have some new idea’s.
Kaye
Debbie KW says
My favorite memories were cooking and baking alongside my grandma. She left her recipe book to me when she passed away. I still love to make her recipes. 🙂
Cassie Blankenship says
I Love Gooseberry Patch cookbooks!!
Jeanine Knight says
I love soup and sandwiches for a cold winter night! 🙂
Susan E. Gooch says
To me, Christmas is a time of making wonderful memories with the family. Making it as magical as possible for the little ones and adults. It’s also a time of remembrance of those no longer with us. The placing of a beloved ornament on the tree, can bring me back to memories of being a child, back home at Mom and Daddy’s house. The foods that I cook also bring back wonderful memories. Each Christmas, when I cook Mom and Gramma’s recipes, I feel they’re still there with me. The smells of the foods cooking, the tastes of the foods. Yes, the foods that I cook are one of the biggest parts of what makes Christmas so very special in the kitchen and our home. MERRY CHRISTMAS, Susie 🙂
Susan H. says
My favorite Christmas memories are of going to my Grandma’s house and getting to spend time with my cousins. We would decorate the tree with paper chain garland, string berries and popcorn and have wonderful family time. And my grandma would have her dining room buffet loaded down with every kind of homemade cake imaginable. I miss those simpler times.
Megan Goodman says
Making homemade gifts and treats for family and friends!
Peg says
Having my family all together to celebrate Christmas. Maybe not on Christmas day, but on the one day during the season that everyone can be there. Lots of memories shared during the day on past Christmas celebrations.
Pam Thompson says
My favorite memories of the holidays is my three brothers and I waking up in the middle of the night, to sneak out to the livingroom to see what Santa brought us. We’d get to the edge of the hallway and hear Dad yell GET BACK IN YOUR BEDS! To which we would all scamper back to bed, only to wait a while then try again. This would go on over and over until Mom and Dad gave up and let us go see what Santa brought us! Many years later and all the children are adults with kids of our own, we are remembering this story and wonder how mom and dad always knew. Mom chuckles, saying we would all have the ‘theater whispers’ (loud whispers) saying ‘ssshhh don’t let mom dad hear us’ etc!!! That story STILL makes me giggle!
Patricia Raugust says
I collect cookbooks…and yours are my favorites!!!
Shannon Owen says
One of my favorite Christmas memories was probably 15 years ago or so; my brother & I both got bicycles from Santa. And for the first time I could ever remember, it was actually warm enough in Michigan to ride them that day! We put on spring jackets & rode our bikes up and down the street for hours. I’ve been thinking of this more and more as there is still no snow in my part of Michigan yet this year! I hope everyone has a blessed and Merry Christmas this year!
Katharine Haro-Stroud says
I love to cook, this time of year and all year long….we rarely go out to eat, I always have leftovers that I can make into other dinners or lunches or breakfast even. I would love to win this cookbook.
Ruth Naylor says
I was born in the Philippines and came to the states when I was still very young, almost 4. The first time I saw snow was a few years later and I remember my grandmother and I went out to collect some for snow cream and she always told me don’t pick up the yellow snow. It took me a little while to understand why! Lol!
Cindi Bailey says
I would love to have this cookbook. Not only am I a fan of Gooseberry Patch but I try to have Homemade soups on Sunday nights and would love to try some new recipes.