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!
Tina Rollins says
My favorite Christmas memory is waking up on Christmas morning and finding a gift left on the landing of our staircase for us to open and play with till Mom woke up and this is a tradition that I continued with my own children.
Lisa says
As a child, I loved hanging a mismatched sock from my Dad’s drawer on his deer and elk antlers in the living room and wondering what Santa would leave for me. I also love gathering around the tree and reading Luke chapter 2 of Jesus’ birth.
Kimberly Hillman says
My favorite Christmas memory….When I was a little girl my family was a very close family,
Each nite from Christmas to New Years we would celebrate at a different aunts house each nite. Whos’ ever house we were at for that evening they would make their special Christmas foods, such as ham, kielbasi, pierogies, haluski, and a big verity of cookies. It was sooo much fun getting together with all the cousins every nite. No one cared that there was work the next day either. I wish we still had the family closeness like that.
Nan S. says
My favorite Christmas memories were when all the families met at my Grandparents house and we woke up Christmas morning and Santa had come. There was no place like Mamaw and Granddad’s house at Christmas.
Carrie Madden-Pohl says
One of my many favorite memories of the holidays is baking & icing & decorating sugar cookies! Everyone in the family gets involved and of course we love to sample them along the way! Yummmmmmy!
Karen Cunningham says
I have 101 Homestyle favorites, and would LOVE to add this to my collection!! Love gooseberry patch cookbooks and use them all the time. Please enter me in this giveaway!! Thanks and God Bless
Olivia says
I don’t always get to see my all of my grandkids at Christmas, but we put up their “stockings” just the same as though they were coming. That way, it still feels like they are part of our Christmas celebration.
Joyce Meinhardt says
Oh those wonderful old-fashioned Christmas trees from my childhood – the shiny, well-worn ornaments… the crinkled silver tinsel… and a sparkly star on top. Lots of cherished memories and a few captured in pictures. Happy Holidays to all!
Jonnie says
I intend on using as many recipes from this book for the holidays as I possibly can ! Please enter me in the contest. Thank You.
Jonnie says
Please enter me in this contest. I am looking forward to making as many of the recipes as I can ! Thank You !
Jonnie says
Please enter me in this contest. I am looking forward to making as many of these recipes as I can ! Thank You !
Britt says
Decorating my grandma’s tree; the smell of pine takes me back there.
DeNean says
I love baking cookies with my grandchildren. This is a great Christmas memory and I hope they remember it always. That’s why I love your cookbooks! Lots of recipes! Please enter me into your contest! I’d love to have your cookbook!
Gina Thomas says
My favorite Christmas memories were when my 2 children were growing up, every Christmas eve we would make roll out sugar cookies for Santa. This one eve, both kids were sitting on the table so to use the rolling pin, they started to fight over who’s turn it was and got into a flour and dough throwing fight. It was quite messy but a fun and special time. Now my daughter has started the same tradition with her little boy, Christmas eve making roll out sugar cookies for santa.
arlene Marie Pitts says
My favorite Christmas memories were when i was at home with my brothers and sisters. I love the smell of cinnamon and ginger and pine from a fresh tree that prevaded the entire Christmas season. I loved the sound of Christmas carols playing from my mother’s radio high on the shelf in the kitchen, and I loved especfially hearing all the giggles when we were guessing what Santa would bring for Christmas and what our parents would wrap and give us. I remember wrapping marshmellow santas individually for presents for my family. I remember the prickliness of the pine as we hung ornaments on the tree, and Oh the sparkling lights and the bubbling of the bubble lights on the tree. I loved too the smell of the attic from where the ornaments and decorations came from. I loved most of all the manger,made of sticks from our yard and a very very old Polish nativity made from paper mache, crude, but meaningful and I’d play with the figures all season long. And I love the taste of Christmas, the chocolates, the gingerbread the Polish duck soup. And best of all the feeling of love in the hugs and kisses passed between one and all. I love Christmas then and now.
Belinda says
love the idea of simplification and new ways to do sandwiches
Sabra Dodson says
I always love a good soup and sandwich..especially if it’s chilly outside…Enter me in please. 🙂
Denise McCrea says
Love cookbooks…Enter me please
Mary Holloman says
Favorite Christmas memories are the family gatherings. Everyone coming to eat and share gifts and just the talk and enjoy. We had a big family so it was especially fun to see everyone and watch all the young ones grow.
Laurie T says
My favorite Christmas memory is after all our gifts were opened, and turkey dinner was almost ready, my grandmother would arrive with a basket of homemade pickles and jams and a pair of knitted mittens for me! When I think back, I’m always amazed why I relish this memory the most, after all the other gifts I received, why were the mittens so important? Because my grandmother made them? Or because they were the last gift to be opened? Hmmm ….. Merry Christmas everyone!