Category: Giveaways
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Friday, May 10
Epic May Giveaway! {Canon SLR + Epiphanie Camera Bag!}
First off, as a fan of The Vampire Diaries (don’t judge), I am delighted that I get to use the word “epic” on my blog today. We’ll consider it an homage to Stefan and Damon.
Today’s giveaway is truly EPIC! And we are not using this word flippantly like the vampires do. It really, really is!
I’ve joined forces with some of my most FAVORITE blogging friends in the whole wide world to give away a Canon Rebel T4i SLR camera (with two lenses!) and an Epiphanie camera bag (the Charlotte in metallic chevron). First off, I’m totally jealous because this camera is better than mine. It’s got a big ole swivel touch screen and does amazing things with photo and video. And the bag…the BAG. Seriously, does it get any cuter than that? And you know how I love Epiphanie bags. They are the best!
Wanna get this sweet package to kick off your summer right? Here are the details!
- To enter to win the Canon SLR Camera + Epiphanie Bag you MUST enter using the rafflecopter entry form below. No other entries will be counted.
- The giveaway runs May 10th through May 24th.
- One winner will be chosen at random and notified by email once the big give is over. The winner will have 48 hours to respond before another winner is chosen.
- You can get extra entries galore – just check out the entry form. And you can feel good following all of these people on the interwebs…they ROCK.
- Giveaway is open worldwide!
Here are the amazing blogs that I’ve teamed up with. Seriously, every last one of these women is amazing and talented.
- Christine of Boston Mamas
- Allison of Petit Elefant
- Kami of NoBiggie
- Marie of Make and Takes
- Audrey of Mom Generations
- Kristen of Rage Against the Minivan
- Rachael of Todays Mama
- Meagan of The Happiest Home
- Heather & Whitney of Rookie Moms
- Pinterest You Are Drunk
- Eat Blog RunNow go forth and enter the giveaway. GOOD LUCK!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 9:57 am 28 Comments
Categories: fab faves, Giveaways Tags: canon, epiphanie, giveaway |
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Thursday, May 2
Green Lunchbox Giveaway Winners!
Time to announce the green lunchbox giveaway winners! (Sorry I didn’t post them yesterday, I was too busy riding the teacups at Disneyland!)
Lisa D, who said: Would love to try these green products!
welcome to our wonderland, who said: Love your blog
Maybe it was the use of smiley emoticons that got them the good luck!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 12:07 pm 1 Comment
Categories: Giveaways Tags: giveaways |
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Wednesday, April 24
Green Lunchbox Giveaway!
This giveaway is now closed. Thank you!
Yesterday I promised a giveaway so today I offer a giveaway. A very cute, very green giveaway!
Want to get your hands on some of those awesome Little Green Pouches and LunchSkins?
TWO lucky, randomly-selected winners will each win a Green Lunchbox Giveaway Pack, which includes:
- One LunchSkins2 set, which includes a sandwich bag and a snack bag in your choice of girl-themed, boy-themed or gender-neutral colors
- Two Little Green Pouch 4-packs (8 pouches total), 4 extra caps and a dispensing funnel
As usual, just leave a comment to enter! There are also three chances at extra entries!
- Follow Little Green Pouch on Facebook
- Follow LunchSkins on Facebook
- Follow This Week for Dinner on Facebook
Be sure to leave SEPARATE comments for each extra entry. All comments must be posted by Midnight PT on Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
Good luck with the giveaway! Big thanks to LunchSkins and Little Green Pouch!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 9:28 am 323 Comments
Categories: Giveaways, the goods
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Tuesday, March 26
Libby’s Giveaway Winner
Time to announce the Libby’s giveaway winner, who will be receiving an assortment of Libby’s goodies and a Le Creuset Ink Grill Pan.
Kelly D, who said, “I love new veggie recipes. Thanks!”
Congratulations, Kelly! Thank you, Libby’s!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 11:32 am No Comments
Categories: Giveaways
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Tuesday, March 19
Ginger Candied Vegetables {and a giveaway from Libby’s with another chance at some Le Creuset!}
This giveaway is now closed, but there is other good stuff in this post, so keep reading…the glaze on these veggies is yum!
Today’s post is chockfull of great stuff. A recipe, helpful resources AND a giveaway. Are you ready? Let’s go!
I cannot believe that Passover and Easter are NEXT WEEK. Where does the time go? I blame the Daylight Savings Fairy.
Libby’s® Fruits & Vegetables recently contacted me about creating a side dish recipe for Easter and/or Passover that uses carrots, peas and corn. I thought and thought and decided candied vegetables would taste pretty darn good, especially with a little ginger thrown into the mix. So Little Chef Anna and I hit the kitchen and started creating. She looked into the big container of brown sugar and exclaimed in disbelief, “Brown sugar and salt and pepper?!?!” I assured her it would be delicious. Once she took a bite, she agreed!
The glaze for these veggies would be delicious on a host of vegetables, not just carrots, peas and corn, although carrots lend themselves very nicely to this treatment. Feel free to experiment with your veggies! I like the salty sweet flavor and the ginger adds a nice layer of flavor. This side dish would be a nice complement to all kinds of Easter feasts!
Libby’s, the company sponsoring today’s giveaway, has two new fabulous resources for you that help make the meal planning process easier and more inspiring. We wanted to share them with you today!
- Libby’s Digital Recipe Box: The Digital Recipe Box application just launched on Facebook. It houses more than 100 recipes and allows users to share, like and print recipes to their heart’s content. The app also allows you to plan meals by dish, ingredient or type of gathering. You will also find the recipes featured on the…wait for it…
- Libby’s Pinterest Page: The Pinterest page is also brand-spakin’ new, featuring recipes, family activity ideas, nutrition tips and more!
Now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Giveaway time! And we have MORE Le Creuset to share with you!
One lucky, randomly-selected winner will receive a variety of Libby’s® Fruits & Vegetables product as well as a Le Creuset 10.5″ Oblong Grill Pan in Ink. Oh how I LOVE Le Creuset’s Ink.
Here’s how to enter!Leave a comment on this post. That’s it!Additional entry: Follow Libby’s on PinterestAdditional entry: Like Libby’s on Facebook
Be sure to leave separate comments for each additional entry. All comments must be posted by Midnight PT on Monday, March 25. (Prize must be shipped to a U.S. address.)Good luck with the giveaway! Big thank to Libby’s! And, without further ado, today’s recipe!
Ginger Candied Vegetables
From Jane Maynard, This Week for Dinner
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 15-ounce cans Libby’s Gourmet Baby Carrots, drained
- 1 15-ounce can Libby’s whole corn, drained
- 1 15-ounce can Libby’s all-natural peas, drained
- (This glaze would be good on other types of veggies, too. Shoot for 3-4 pounds total of vegetables if you mix things up. Blanched or steamed vegetables would work very well.)Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Once butter is melted, add brown sugar, ginger, salt and pepper. Stir and cook for a few minutes, until sugar crystals are mostly dissolved (about 3 or 4 minutes total). Add veggies, stir and cook until vegetables are heated through. Serve immediately. Makes about 10-15 servings.
This post was sponsored by Libby’s – payment was received for services rendered.
Posted by Jane Maynard at 11:17 am 175 Comments
Categories: featured recipes, Giveaways, Recipes, side dishes, simple side dishes, the goods
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Friday, March 15
Land O Lakes Giveaway Winner
Time to announce the randomly-selected winner of the Land O’ Lakes giveaway, which included butter (of course!), the orange Le Creuset cast iron skillet and the Anthropologie goodies!
Comment #100 was the lucky winner! Emily, who said, “I have always wanted a cast iron skillet!!! But I have never had one!” will now get to try her hand at the skillet. Congratulations, Emily!
Thanks to all who entered and thank you to Land O’ Lakes!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 1:26 pm No Comments
Categories: Giveaways
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Friday, March 8
Cast Iron Skillet ‘Call for Recipes’ {and a fabulous giveaway involving butter, Le Creuset and Anthropologie!}
This giveaway is now closed, but please make sure you read through the comments for all the great cast iron skillet recipes!
People who use cast iron skillets swear by them. I know these skillets are supposed to be awesome, but here’s my “true confession” of the week: we received one as a wedding gift and then used it all of ONE time. Then it ended up buried in a box for a few years. And then I found it during this move all covered in rust and looking sad and ruined. Poor, neglected iron skillet that never got to live up to its potential!
I just received a brand, spanking new, rust-free Le Creuset cast iron skillet, compliments of Land O’Lakes®. I have decided to turn over a new leaf. I am going to use my BEAUTIFUL skillet and I am going to let it do its job of making delicious food! But I need your help…hence today’s Call for Recipes! Please share your favorite recipes that use a cast iron skillet! I’m ready to get cookin’!
And now for the giveaway portion of our program!So, why is Land O’Lakes giving me a skillet? I recently participated in a webinar with Land O’Lakes and a lovely group of fellow food blogging friends, including Ree and Maria. The topic was food trends, including meatballs and popcorn! As a thank you for participating, Land O’Lakes sent me a beautiful gift package, which we are also giving away to one of you lovely people (see below)!
Land O’Lakes also shared with us two of their new products, Sauté Express® Sauté Starters and butter Half Sticks. I have yet to try the Sauté Express (I was planning to for this post, but time got away from me! Ree said it was delicious and her boys gobbled it up). But I CAN tell you that I love the butter half sticks. They are so handy and have already been useful in my kitchen!
Giveaway time! One lucky, randomly-selected winner will receive one each of the following:- Full-value coupon for any Land O’Lakes Butter Half Sticks
- Full-value coupon for Sauté Express Sauté Starter
- Le Creuset Cast Iron Skillet (WOOHOO!)
- Completely adorable Anthropologie kitchen goodies, including the atom art serving bowl, half-stick painted amaryllis butter dish and pop-print measuring spoons
To enter the giveaway, please leave a comment on this post by Midnight PT on Thursday, March 14. Winner will be announced on March 15. Prize must be shipped to a U.S. address.
Please share your favorite cast iron skillet recipes! Thank you!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 10:37 am 313 Comments
Categories: call for recipes, Giveaways, Recipes, the goods
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Tuesday, February 12
Love Your Heart with Sodium Girl: Roasted Garlic and Fingerling Potatoes
I’ve met some amazing people through this whole blogging thing. Jess Goldman Foung is one of those people. She is the embodiment of sunshine and I am so grateful to know her.
Jess has a food blog called Sodium Girl, not because she eats sodium but because she doesn’t! Due to health reasons years ago, Jess had to cut salt from her diet and reduce her sodium intake significantly. Instead of moping she embraced the challenge and is now a low-sodium genius. Jess just published her first cookbook, Sodium Girl’s Limitless Low-Sodium Cookbook. It is beautiful, full of great food, well-designed and organized, easy to ready, informational and fun. It is a fabulous resource if you want to learn how to reduce or cut out sodium.
To celebrate the book launch, Jess has organized a Love Your Heart Recipe Rally, where a group of food bloggers re-create a favorite recipe without using salt. Be sure to click through to Jess’s rally post to read more facts about sodium and see the other featured recipes!
Jess is also hosting a giveaway. You could win a Vitamix. You know how I love super, duper, powerful, knock-your-socks-off blenders. You need one, so you should totally enter the giveaway! (See the Rafflecopter entry form at the bottom of this post to enter.)
So, on to my recipe makeover. Let me begin with this: I love salt. A lot. (I blame my low blood pressure rather than weak will power.
) But I also love Jess a lot, so when she invited me to be a part of the rally, I had to accept. But, I must admit, the idea of taking a deliciously-salty dish and figuring out how to make it salt-free was intimidating.
I thought long and hard and decided I need to try to make a potato dish with no salt. One of the reasons I make such good potatoes of all kinds is due to my liberal use of salt. I honestly did not believe I could eliminate this crucial ingredient and still make a good potato dish. This was my chance to try!
Here was my thought process:
- I decided to do roasted potatoes because I normally I just use salt and pepper. No salt would certainly be a challenge!
- I chose to use fingerling potatoes. Since they are smaller, I thought the ratio of potato to flavorings on the skin would be well-balanced. We’re looking to maximize flavor, here!
- Roasted garlic is magical. Tons of flavor but {surprisingly} not over-powering. I decided if roasted garlic smeared on bread is good all by itself, then it would probably be good smeared on potatoes, too.
- Balsamic vinegar packs a big flavor punch and goes great with garlic.
- Olive oil is heart healthy, flavorful and complements garlic and balsamic vinegar well.
The potatoes ended up being delicious! Great texture and flavor. Cate and Owen kept going back for seconds, which means success in my book. I must admit that I sprinkled a smidge of salt on a few of mine, because I just couldn’t help myself. Of course it tasted mighty fine with the salt, but honestly, the salt wasn’t necessary.
Here is the recipe!
Roasted Garlic and Fingerling Potatoes
From Jane Maynard, This Week for Dinner
- About 20-30 fingerling potatoes
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 10-15 garlic cloves, skins removed
- 8 teaspoons balsamic vinegar (read the label to check for sodium content!)
- Parsley (dried or fresh chopped)
- PepperPreheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Place 4-5 of the garlic cloves in olive oil in a small, oven-proof dish. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until cloves are soft. Remove from oven and raise oven temperature to 400 degrees F. Smash up garlic cloves in the oil and let cool. Whisk in balsamic vinegar until oil and vinegar are well mixed.
Toss potatoes along with the rest of the garlic cloves in the oil and vinegar mixture. Spread evenly on a foil-lined pan and cook in the 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes, until you can pierce the potatoes with a knife.
Remove potatoes and whole garlic cloves from the pan and discard the foil (the vinegar/oil/garlic mixture will get all dark and sticky and gooey and sorta burned in places on the pan – that’s okay, but you don’t need it anymore at this point). Toss the cooked potatoes and whole garlic cloves with a bit more balsamic vinegar, parsley and pepper to taste.
If you would like to enter the Vitamix giveaway (and you should!), use the entry form below! (Giveaway begins at 9:00 am PT Tuesday, 2/12 and runs through 12:00 am PT Monday, 2/18. Giveaway rules can be found at the bottom of Jess’s Recipe Rally post.)
Many congratulations to Jess on her beautiful book! So happy for you, Jess, and excited for you to share your healthy message with the world!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 8:41 am 12 Comments
Categories: featured recipes, Giveaways, Healthy Eats, Recipes, side dishes, the goods
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Thursday, February 7
KitchenAid 13-Cup Food Processor Winner
Wow, the KitchenAid processor giveaway was POP-U-LAR.
We need a serious drumroll to gear up for the big announcement…everyone get tapping…
Comment #539 was the winner! Meghan Finley, who said, “I totally want to make pizza now. And thanks for the awesome giveaway” and Meghan’s extra entry came through for her. Congratulations, Meghan! I know you’ll love your new kitchen friend!
Thank you everyone for the kind comments and blogiversary wishes! And big thanks to KitchenAid!
Posted by Jane Maynard at 9:03 am 1 Comment
Categories: Giveaways
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Thursday, January 31
Happy 6th Birthday, TWFD! And a KitchenAid Giveaway to Celebrate!
Today is the 6th birthday for This Week for Dinner! Happy Birthday, Blog!
It’s funny, looking back so much has happened in that time: two babies, a few moves, career twists and turns, lots and lots of food. It almost feels like it’s been a good decade or so! I have loved writing this blog and I look forward to many more years of doing so! I also want to thank all of you for your support. A blog is a unique thing because the readers actually take part and truly shape the blog’s personality. I am thankful to you for your comments, conversations, interactions. And, if nothing else, I get to steal your menu plan ideas every week!
In celebration of the blog’s birthday, I have a spectacular giveaway for you today! One of you VERY lucky, randomly-selected commenters will win a KitchenAid 13-Cup Food Processor! You even get to pick the color! (Retail value $249.99. U.S. shipping address only, please.) It’s wicked cool (shout out to you New Englanders!), with externally-adjustable slicing, a second 4-cup mini bowl, ultra-wide mouth tube with 3 size options, and three speeds. Bottom line, it’s the top of the line. It’s beautiful. It’s awesome.
I have been wanting a food processor forever but never pulled the trigger. The other day when I was watching the America’s Test Kitchen homemade pizza episode, they recommended the KitchenAid as their favorite food processor. I was SO happy that’s the one they picked cuz I gots friends at KitchenAid. I went a-begging, telling them I wanted to do something FUN and BIG for the blog’s birthday. Next thing I know I have a beautiful, empire red food processor in my kitchen and another one to give away! A very happy birthday, indeed. Big thanks to KitchenAid!
I did in fact make the America’s Test Kitchen pizza (more on that tomorrow) and the food processor was fantabulous. (Side note: Spell check accepted fantabulous as an actual word.) I have a new pizza sauce recipe that I can’t wait to share with you tomorrow (that post is now published, click here!). It will be the perfect recipe for you to try out on your new food processor…but you have to enter the giveaway first!
Here’s how to get yourself in the running!
- Leave a comment on this post. That’s it! You know I like to keep it easy.
- For additional entries, you can do any of the following, just make sure you leave separate comments for each to get the extra entries: Like This Week for Dinner on Facebook; Follow This Week for Dinner on Twitter; Follow This Week for Dinner on Pinterest; Like KitchenAid on Facebook
All comments must be posted by Midnight PT on Wednesday, February 6.
Good luck to everyone and thanks again to KitchenAid!
Now, go eat some chocolate. That’s how the blog wants us all to celebrate. It is the blog’s birthday, after all. We should listen.
Posted by Jane Maynard at 11:22 am 1,195 Comments
Categories: Giveaways, musings, the goods
Hello! My name is Jane Maynard and you've landed yourself on my blog, This Week for Dinner™. Every Sunday I share a weekly menu...and then count on you to share your own! You'll also find other deliciousness that I hope you'll enjoy!
