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!
Margaret Scott says
Just love cabbage and all things made in the country style. Please enter me to win the cook book.
Nancy Wilkinson says
My brother is a Marine and doesn’t get to come home often. But when him and his family get to come home, it is such a blessing.
Kelly Marriott says
I remember going to the Ryssby Candlelight Services and listening to my father sing “Oh Holy Night” in his beautiful tenor voice. I cried every time because it brought so much joy into my heart. Love you Dad! Merry Christmas everyone!!
Lisa Durst says
I was just wishing this morning how I would love a recipe book with just soups and sandwiches! Best memories: Christmas Programs I participated in at Church, Riding around looking at Christmas lights and the large red teddy bear I got for Christmas when I was four years old! It was as big as I was! I cried when I was about 14 and my mother had to throw him away, he just couldn’t go back to the teddy bear hospital one more time, he had been loved to death!
Lynne Zoller says
I could have soup every day. Love new recipes. Enter me.
Melissa Mains says
As a child, my father would always say that he heard santa’s sleigh bells, and then send me off to bed, where he would read me a vintage copy of Twas the Night Before Christmas. I would then make him read me his special version of the story that was told to him as a child. It’s the story with the words jumbled up in a silly way (“and the sash threw up” or “a mouse not even a”) it always made me laugh uncontrollably! To this day, I still have to read both versions and can’t wait to start the same tradition with my own children!
Rachel says
One of my favorite Christmas memories is of my mom making her famous “snowball” cookies and pecan cups for a special treat. Now I cherish my own tradition of making sugar cookies and decorating them with my children!
Melissa Mains says
My favorite Christmas memory begins on every Christmas Eve when my father would proclaim that he heard Santa’s sleigh bells and off to bed he’d send me. He would then proceed to read me a vintage copy of Twas the Night Before Christmas, a beautiful flocked book with equally beautiful illustrations. After the story I would always beg him to read me the “version” he was told as a child. A silly version of the traditional story with all the words jumbled up in different order (“the sash threw up”, or ” a mouse not even a”) I would laugh uncontrollably, and I still insist on reading both versions to this day and look forward to continuing the tradition with my children!
Sandra W says
My favorite Christmas memory is of watching my kids’ faces light up one Christmas morning when they were little and their Christmas gifts were handmade. My son received a miniature log cabin and my daughter a rocking horse, both wooden and made by their dad. They still have both – and they are 32 & 35 yrs. old. Store-bought toys rarely last a lifetime,
Denise B. says
One of my best childhood memories would be when we went to my grandmother’s and the whole family was there. We went in the woods and cut down the tree. Spent Christmas eve opening gifts which included alot of gag gifts.
Yvonne Bagley says
Goossberry is my very favorite and yes I keep you in business I have many of your cookbooks , I have a friend whom I play bunco with and we always bring stuff out of your books we compete to see which book we use!!
Eileenrn says
My favorite Christmas memory is going to Christmas eve service at church, coming home to open one gift and going to bed to await Christmas morning.
Jen Taylor says
My fondest Christmas memory…
Dragging down a dozen totes from the attic every year, decorating and hauling them back up the stairs only to drag them back down again a few weeks later and undecorate! 🙂 strangely enough I enjoy it!
betty keppy says
having ferned,bacon and jello for chirtsmas eve supper. and after opening present we would make the remainer batch of ferned into coffee cake for chirstmas morning breakest.
Lisa G. Durst says
I sent a previous comment, but I don’t think it posted! I was just wishing this AM for a recipe book of soups! This would be a great surprise! Love Gooseberry Patch!
Favorite Christmas Memories: Singing in Church Christmas Programs, Riding around looking at Christmas lights, and getting a red teddy bear, that was bigger than I was when I was 4!
Merry Christmas!
Jill J says
It’s a Gooseberry Patch cookbook – how can you go wrong?! I would love to be entered to win 🙂
deanna heale says
Each year baking and decorating Christmas cookies with my children.
Linda Storer says
Favorite Christmas memory is making candy and giving plates to neighbors.
Jane Roberts says
When I was in about the first grade and my brother, sister and I had gone to bed I remember hearing my mom start up the sewing machine and my dad would go out in the garage getting homemade gifts ready for us for Christmas. That year I got some homemade doll clothes and a refinished piece of furniture. I wish I had the doll clothes and the piece of furniture now. And, I look forward to seeing Mom & Dad again one day!
Rebecca Woloszyk says
My favorite Christmas memory is of when I was 5 or 6 yrs old. I came downstairs and found black soot footprints leading from the fireplace to the stockings, then to the tree, then to the cookies and milk (which were gone) and finally back to the fireplace. That convinced me for years that Santa was the real deal. If that wasn’t enough to convince me, under the tree I found the most perfect present, my Suzy Homemaker oven along with pots and pans and extra boxes of cake and cookie mixes. I think it is still my all time favorite gift. It’s great to have cars, diamonds, electronics, and trips but nothing can ever take the place of my Suzy Homemaker oven. I still have it. Good times!!!