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Recently I was approached by a dad at the grocery store who enthusiastically waved a handful of tattered pages of paper toward me: recipes from Mom’s Kitchen Handbook, printed out by his wife who’d sent him to the market to gather ingredients.
He thanked me for the recipes.
I’m the one who feels thankful, particularly as “Mom’s Kitchen Handbook” hits the two-year mark. The time has flown by swiftly, largely because it’s been so much fun. I’m grateful for this creative forum and the community that has sprung from it. I read and appreciate every comment, suggestion, and email.
So, I’m doing a repeat performance of the last year’s Gratitude Giveaway, only this time it’s your kitchen we’re glamming up instead of your wardrobe (last year it was all about jewelry). In honor of this two-year anniversary, my talented, pretty-as-a-picture, pint-sized friend Rae Dunn has graciously donated two favorite pieces from her collection of beautiful ceramics.
A set of darling hand-made porcelain plates
A pair of charming salt and pepper bowls
Rae’s work has been featured in the pages of Bon Appetit, Sunset, and Martha Stewart Weddings. If you haven’t discovered her already, have a peek at her website or scroll through her inspiring blog.
You can enter to win three different ways: 1) Leave a comment below saying anything or everything you are grateful for 2) Get onto my Facebook page and “like” it. 3) Become a subscriber by entering your email in the “subscribe” box on the right side of my home page.
I will count each as one “chance” for entry and pick two winners.
The deadline for entries is midnight PST Wednesday December 12. You must be 18 years or older to win and live in the United States.
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I am grateful for the love my husband and I have for each other after thirty years of marriage.
I am grateful to have stumbled upon your blog several months ago. It has inspired me to be more adventurous in the kitchen and more importantly, I’m starting to learn how to cook delicious, healthy meals for my family. Thank you for sharing your expertise, ideas and interesting recipes and articles. This time of year, I’m especially thankful for time with family and friends and time to pause and reflect on all of the wonderful blessings in my life. Happy holidays!
I am an email subscriber to moms kitchen handbook
I am grateful for my health and my husband and family
i am grateful to have enough…our family, our friends, a warm home, our jobs, our health, enough to eat…we may not be rich, but we are lucky.
I am grateful that my kids are healthy and (most of the time) happy! I am grateful for your website because it helps me feed my family well.
I have subscribed to your emails …. and I love them!
I am grateful for Michael Pollan, whose food rules (“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”) have helped me explain healthy eating habits to my kids in a pithy, memorable way.
I liked you on FB.
I am grateful for my loving family, the roof over our heads, the clothes on our backs and the food (healthy and delicious) in our bellies – we are truly blessed!
I am grateful for the good health of my children. I feel very blessed each day and am grateful for blogs like yours that help me create delicious, healthy meals for them! Thanks for all you do!
I am grateful for my husband and my kids. I am grateful that I have the chance to stay home with my kids.
I like you on Facebook.
I subscribe to your emails.
I am grateful my 10 year old daughter asks for “A Big Salad” for dinner.
I am grateful for my family, our health, and all of our friends. Thanks for doing this!
I am grateful for the good health of my family and for fantastic websites and blogs to keep trying new healthy foods and recipes to please them all!
I am a email subscriber and liked on FB as well.
I am grateful for the annual FriendsGiving tradition of my dear friends in Cincinnati, every year we get together and share a totally-from-scratch meal and hours of laughs and conversation. No matter where we are or have moved away, we all gather together. It’s the best holiday of the year for me!
I am GRATEFUL for sobriety and the opportunity to rebuild my life every day.
I am grateful for health in 2012!
I am grateful for my health and my family
Like you on FB.
Newsletter subscriber
I’m grateful for the rain, the wind, the sun, the moon and the love that we all share within us.
grateful for the time i get to spend with my son.
grateful for wonderful parents of my own.
liked on fb
subscribed
I am grateful for family.
so grateful for my son and my family, and for all of the beauty that is. and for finding this website…look forward to trying some of your recipes soon!
I’m grateful for my dad, who just turned 70 and was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I’m grateful for the gift of every new and precious day I get to spend with him.
I am grateful for my good health and my family. Thanks for the give away!
I am grateful for my happy (mostly) and healthy children.
pick me I LOVE Rae Dunn pottery.
I am grateful for my family, our health, my faith that sustains me, and the friends who I am privileged to share my life with. Oh, and that my 2 year daughter now officially likes one vegetable – carrots! Slow progress but I’ll take it!
I am grateful to have all that I need & more. I am thankful for good health, for having a rewarding career at which I am accomplished, for a loving husband, our warm & cozy home, to live in the U.S., & reading my Kindle!
I’m grateful for my health. After a recent injury, I have come to realize just how much we take good health for granted.
I’m grateful for Rae Dunn! Her amazing work brings much joy to my days!
I’m grateful for Rae Dunn! Her amazing work brings much joy to my days! (just liked on fb & subscribed.)
I’m grateful for every morning I wake up.
I’m grateful for the pilgrim soul in your approach to food. I have a bunch of old cookbooks that provide an interesting window on the kitchens of the 40s, 50s and 70s. I’m also grateful I didn’t lose my eye today when my daughter poked it with the broomstick at Ikea. And her tiny hugs.
Grateful for the best artwork I’ve ever made – my sweetest little love bug daughter, a partner that has stuck through the good, the bad and the ultra-ugly with me, and my treasure trove of amazing, dear friends whose creativity, wisdom and kindness inspire me everyday!
I am grateful for friends, family and the ability to cook with and for them.
Grateful for love given and received by family and friends.
I am grateful for my incredible family that fills my life with such joy, excitement and love. Thanks for the chance, Athena. Happy Holidays!
And I was happy to like you on Facebook!
I am grateful for my lovely husband who is always so enthusiastic about my cooking (even when I am bored with it!)
I am eternally grateful for my wonderful husband who is also my best friend!
I just hit the LIKE button on your fb page
I am so happy to become a friend : )
And I am super excited about your Rae Dunn give-away.
Thank you.
grateful for the feeling of hope and knowing love
I am grateful for the three part-time jobs I have in this economy.
I am grateful for the farmer’s market almost everyday of the week.
I am grateful for my husband, the 5 months of happy marriage we have been blessed with, and the hopefully many years we have to look forward to !
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I am grateful for the wonderful friends I’ve made since moving to a new state.
I am thankful to have come across your blog – has been a great addition to our kitchen!
I am a subscriber and I like you on FB. I am grateful for my wonderful husband who cleans up after I cook and for my lovely daughters who are mostly grateful for what I cook. My youngest requested your Vietnamese Chicken and Vegetables in a slow cooker tonight so I am also grateful that dinner will be ready when we all get home.
I am grateful for my family. I love watching my kids grow.
I am grateful for my family & friends, and the amazing recovery of my friend Sasha’s new baby Archer, who made it through emergency heart surgery last Sunday at just 10 days old. Big Smiley Face.
Adorable giveway!
I like you on FB!
I am very grateful for people who make things with their hands. And for people who want things made by hands. The world goes round, making and taking!
Beauty is in our relationships and I am So grateful for all the beauty around me – for my wonderful husband, children, family and friends.
I’m so grateful for all the nutritious recipes and inspiration you provide. I try to make almost everything you post and I’m never disappointed!
hello…
at the moment, i am grateful i serendipitously came across this lovely gratitude gift offer from you of the work of the fabulous rae dunn… just under the wire, but oh let it be me, please!
eternally, i am grateful to have married the best man in the world.
and to be raising a kind and generous little daughter.
and to have wonderful friends.
and to be able to make cool stuff.
etc…
tx!
I’m grateful for family dinners, of course!