Hello Friends,
You are in luck! I am giving you more chances to win this beauty and workhorse of a machine! Here’s how: Whatever means you use for social media, refer or tag a friend to my blog, have them leave a comment under the giveaway post and mention your name. For every person that does that, you will get an extra entry. If they follow me on my social media and blog, you will receive an additional entry for that person. How many friends do you have? Go!
I know…. You must be beyond excited!! Time for the happy dance! This is happening again thanks to Pleasant Hills Grain who is going to ship this all time favorite kitchen appliance of mine to one very lucky person! I love this company and they offer so many great products and are so great to work with. Whenever I have an issue, they have always been happy to do what they can to make me happy.
For those of you that are not familiar with the Bosch mixer, let’s just say it is the Rolls Royce of stand mixers! I had a professional series KitchenAid and it just could not keep with my baking needs. After 2 frustrating months, I got rid of it and bought this baby from Pleasant Hills Grain. I can mix and knead until the cows come home and it never overheats or gives up on me. So… yes… you could say it was beyond love at first “use.” This is a most permanent relationship. I love, love, love this mixer! I cannot endorse it enough.
I will announce the winner of this giveaway in three weeks. Saturday, December 14th to be exact! But don’t wait to enter… this is too important to procrastinate. Go now and here’s how!
1. Follow my brand spanking new instagram account jennyevansgatherings (I will be posting daily about food finds, products, eats, gatherings or inspirations from my food world.)
2. click on the pin, facebook and tweet buttons above
3. Follow my pinterest board (Jenny Evans)
4. repost on your instagram and tag @jennyevansgatherings
5. Sign up for my newsletter to receive my emails if you haven’t yet
6. And don’t forget to leave a comment below with your name and email and tell me what you did so I know how many entries to count for you!
So, that is up to 6 entries you can have! I want to give you as many chances as I can. Good luck!
Lisa and Summer from Lunchpailsandlipstick came to my Appetizer 2 class last week and we had a yummy-licious time! They picked two of their favorite appetizers they are featuring on their blog. Lucky you…. this time I will be sharing not one, but two recipes from this class. You should thank these two gals for that!
The first of their favorite appetizers is the Spinach Salad on Cheese Crisps. It is a light parmesan cheese crisp topped with a delicious Spinach Salad. Let’s take a quick walk through the process.
I used my microplane to finely grate fresh parmesan cheese and placed the mounds on a parchment lined baking sheet. As they bake in the oven, they become these light and airy crisps. They are such a great and tasty alternative to bread or crackers.
Next, I made a simple chopped spinach salad. This is pre-dressing of course! We tossed it in a delicious sweet and creamy balsamic dressing.
I suggest laying the cheese crisps on your serving platter before you assemble them.
Place a small mound of the salad on each crisp. Top each mound with some chopped, crisped bacon and an avocado wedge. Lot’s of great flavors going with these gems!
The hummus I taught was a favorite of most everyone in the class! Hummus is so easy to make! You just need to combine the right ingredients to make it out of this world good! I use my food processor but you can use a blender too.
Only fresh herbs and ingredients in here!
After a whirrrrrr….. there you have it…..hummus!
I showed the class how to make a beautiful hummus platter. First start out with a wooden board or platter. I used hollowed out bell peppers to hold the hummus, but you can also use any bowl. Make sure you pick bell peppers that lay flat on the bottom. Some are misshapen. Now that won’t do!
Fill the peppers with hummus.
Lay your veggies and pita chips around the Hummus, making sure to lay different colored vegetables next to each other (Don’t put green veggies next to other green veggies. Get it?) Did you notice the beautiful colors of my carrots? They are heirloom carrots that you can find at your local grocery store or Trader Joes. They come in a package with red, yellow, orange and sometimes purple carrots. They are beautiful and tasty. I scrub mine real good, slice off the tops and bottom and cut them into sticks. I don’t peel them. I like the rustic look of the skins. Who wouldn’t want to dive into this? It will be the star of the party for sure! For the full recipes click here and here.
Be sure to visit lunchpailsandlipstick to check out their post. They are also offering an awesome Williams Sonoma giveaway! Click here to find out the details to enter. Good luck and bring on the parties!
The two lucky winners of my Thanksgiving giveaway are…… Cathy Farrell for the Shelton Farm’s Turkey and Claire Mendenhall is the winner of the Boar’s Head sweet spiral sliced ham! Congratulations to the both of you! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I am so excited for this giveaway! Actually it is two giveaways! Two is always better than one when it comes to giveaways, right? For those of you that are local, you are going to love this one. El Toro Meat Market is a great source for natural turkeys and the best quality meat, poultry and seafood. The only place I have found locally that sells all natural turkeys that are not injected with a sodium solution and come from a local farm. The absolute best and most fresh turkey ever!
Below is the only turkey I use. Raised without antibiotics, no animal by products, free range and fed only certified organic feed. The taste of these birds are hard to beat! Especially when made with my special method.
I will be picking one winner for a 16 pound all natural fresh turkey from Shelton Farms. (Valued over $60.00) Oh heck… I will throw in my recipe to the winner. You will have an extra tasty bird this year!
I will also be picking another lucky winner that will win a 5 pound Boars Head Sweet Spiral sliced ham (Feeds 10-12)! You can have up to 5 chances to win:
1. leave a comment with your first and last name and email
2. Share this giveaway post on your Facebook page. Tag Jenny Evans
3. Repost on your instagram, tag @jennyleeevans
4. Share in Pinterest
5. Sign up for my emails (If you aren’t already) or share on your blog if you have one.
Make sure you let me know in your comment all you did so I can count all your entries! Unfortunately, this is for locals only as you will have to go to the store to pick it up sometime before Thanksgiving ( Be sure to meet Bob, the awesome owner). I will be picking a winner on Saturday! Good luck!
Kristin Neil!! Congratulations Kristin! I am curious as to how you found out about the giveaway and where you are from. Let us know a bit about you! Pleasant Hills Grain will be contacting you so be sure to check your emails daily. I think they give you two days to respond once they try to contact you. Enjoy this magnificent machine! You are one very lucky girl!
We thought it would be fun to have the winner picked from my Bosch mixer! My daughter wanted to be the one to pick the winner…. as you can see we got most of the family involved in the process!
We are excited to announce our first giveaway courtesy of Pleasant Hill Grain. It’s a brand new Bosch Universal Plus Mixer. (This is the mixer I use and absolutely LOVE!) Winner will be announced May 18th. (If you want to learn more about this awesome mixer, click on the Pleasant Hills link on the sidebar.)
It’s easy to enter! First of all, make sure you leave a comment here so I know who is entering! Here’s how (you will get an additional entry for each of the following) :
Ready, Set, GO!!
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