Winter is beginning to lose it’s grip on us.
Lauren got the chance to call last night and I told her I had begun to count the weeks. She said “You can count the days – 39!” So today it is 38. Have a peaceful, blessed day my friends.
Sunday
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Winners and a lazy Saturday morning
After a leisurely morning, perusing yet another perennial catalog [Bluestone Perennials – love their stuff]and enjoying a second pot of coffee, I turned to my trusty Random Integer Generator to choose winners for my Pay it Forward giveaway. Cam, Cynthia and ELK will each receive a copy of the print, which will be shipped directly from the lab. Please email me at dlynk at htva dot net with your mailing address and they will be on the way.
Naturally ladies, this means you need to pay it forward it yourselves – be sure to come back and tell me when you do because I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
And now I am off to make some pretty Valentine’s cookies to blog on Tuesday – go buy some red and pink sprinkles so you’ll be ready!
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Parmesan Spread
I had a couple of slightly testy emails after last Saturday’s English Muffin Bread recipe, getting on my case for holding out on y’all. They were talking about the pretty little dish of spread in the last photo: “what is that?” “it looks good!” “you are going to give us the recipe, right?”
So, being the responsive blogger that I am – this is Parmesan Spread. I worked at this cute little gourmet restaurant in my hometown for awhile after both of the girls had started school and I got this recipe from the chef there, Lisa. I don’t know where she got it but she used it as a melted topping on a particular sandwich they served. Unless the employees had pounded it all down on baked potatoes, toasted croissants or bagels. It is sinfully good and very easy to make. No foufy-poufy hand-grated or smashed-and-minced ingredients either. It’s all straight out of the store packaging for this one.
In a small mixing bowl place
8 ounces softened cream cheese [the lowfat kind is just fine here]
4 ounces softened butter
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 1/2 teaspoon paprika [smoked or regular]
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
5-6 grinds black pepper
Beat until thoroughly combined.
Let sit at room tempurature for a couple hours to blend the flavors. Keep refrigerated thereafter. It does get quite hard under refrigeration, so you need to take it out to bring it back to room temp before serving.
Then you can spread it on just about anything to your heart’s content.
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Pay It Forward – A Giveaway!
So, the other day, I was checking out Country Girl’s blog. And she mentioned a giveaway on Char’s blog. I went and entered. And for the second time, Kate sent me to a giveaway that I won. Is she good or what? Or maybe I am. I don’t know. But I was thrilled because among the prizes Char offered was one of her very own photos. I chose this one:
bowl of sunshine
Originally uploaded by CharlaneG
But here’s the thing – I get to pay it forward to three [that’s 3!] other bloggers! And I have just the thing – each winner will receive an 8 x 10 print of this photo:
I chose this one because I have seen it printed already and I know it looks nice. It’s done on metallic paper so that the grass has this really pretty golden undertone.
So – to enter:
1. I guess you must have blog, because you need to pay it forward on your blog.
2. Leave a comment answering this question – What is the best part of the month of February?
3. You must be willing to pay it forward if you win and have a giveaway, awarding 3 winners on your own blog
4. US addresses only, one entry per person
5. No family members will be eligible – if you are really nice to me, I might send you something anyway though.
Contest open until Friday at 9:00PM EST Winners will be chosen by the Random Integer Generator and announced Saturday morning.
And while you are entering things – go on over to Cold Climate Gardening, Kathy Purdy’s blog and enter to win some seeds from Botanical Interests. I entered and if I don’t win, I will be ordering my choices on my own, because now I can’t live without them.
I have a little collection of photos by other bloggers that feature orange or yellow flowers and this one will go in there very nicely. Thanks Char!
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