Giveaway Winners Announced!
I’ve got a handful of giveaway winners to announce today. If you won any of these giveaways, please email my by the end of the day Friday, January 13th with your mailing address so I can get the goodies sent out ASAP.
First, remember the $100 Serve credit giveaway from a couple weeks ago? I really enjoyed everyone sharing their holiday plans. It sounds like most of us got to spend the holidays relaxing with friends and family. The winner of the $100 Serve credit from American Express is: Elizabeth “Betsy” Kelley from A Dancer in the Kitchen who’s holiday plans included spending time with her in-laws and her parents!
I loved reading about what everyone has for breakfast every morning! Lots of you eat fruit, Greek yogurt, oatmeal, smoothies, or cereal. Others mentioned eating eggs every morning. And it sounds like a lot of you love peanut butter in your breakfast as well! The winner of the Peanut Butter and Co 6-pack is: Natalie from The Sweets Life who eats oatmeal with PB every weekday!
The comments from the autographed The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook giveaway were enlightening for me. Most of you told me you loved cookbooks that I already have or at least have seen. But there were quite a few comments about cookbooks that I had never heard of and I’m going to have to go check out. So thanks! Oh, and a lot of you said your favorite cookbook was a collection of family favorites or some other home-made cookbook. I love those kinds of cookbooks too! The winner of the autographed The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook is: Christina Chang who’s favorite cookbook is Hello, Cupcake!
For the MyCandyCrafts.com giveaway, I asked you guys about cupcake liners. I always gravitate towards plain colors that are bright and bold or brown liners for chocolate cupcakes. A lot of you guys love polka dots and festive prints as well! The winner of the MyCandyCrafts.com voucher is: Melissa Ward who loves solid colors!
And last, but definitely not least, for The America’s Test Kitchen Menu Cookbook giveaway, you guys shared a hugely successful meal that has happened recently. Depending on anyone’s level of comfort in the kitchen, hugely successful can mean a variety of things. From holiday meals serving 60 to trying a new recipe that turned out well, I loved to learn about your recent feats in the kitchen. Nice work guys! The winner of the autographed copy of The America’s Test Kitchen Menu Cookbook is: Emily from A Cambridge Story who successfully pulled off a big Christmas dinner with her mom!






I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 






My last huge successful meal is the crown roast from Bon Apetite magazine. I almost canceled making it when I found out how much it cost, but ended up making it anyway. I’m glad I did, everybody loved it!
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My last hugely successful meal was sundried tomato and artichoke stuffed chicken breasts for 60you people! I have never cooked for that many people at once but with the help of my Mom we pulled it off! 🙂
My last hugely successful meal was pad Thai for friends.
Thanksgiving
I’d have to say my Christmas Eve meal. Yummy pork tenderloin, baked cauliflower and my grandma’s spinach that was all on the table within 20 minutes of my planned dinner time. I’d call that a success!
The last hugely successful meal I executed was actually a cookie swap party. I asked people who RSVP’d to bring only a dozen cookies. Everyone brought so much more and brought snacks, too. I was so worried there wouldn’t be enough, I made too much just in case. Instead I had to have one guest make sure no one left without a good supply. And we helped each other set up trays for relatives in nursing homes, nursing home staff.
The spirit of the holidays was incredible and brought a bunch of strangers so much closer. (We’re all snowbirds in a campground in Mississippi)
I made slow roasted pork chops with apples and onions, scalloped potatoes and I baked Italian bread. So simple yet delicious!
I am a vegetarian, but I made Christmas dinner for our family and successfully made the ham. Everyone loved it, thank goodness! 🙂
Thanksgiving! Gluten free thanksgiving to be more specific 🙂