CHUsday and Soup Weather’s Here

Tina, who posted a comment on the CHU blog, Bread’s Baking in the Oven, is October’s CHU giveaway winner with a recipe she tried from The New American Plate: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life.   The recipe, Roasted Red Pepper and Corn Soup, was a hit at her house.  Tina says “it’s…

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CHUsday: Flexitarian, Vegetarian, Vegan and Carnivore

So, do you know what kind of “eater” you are?  Or have you ever even wondered.  Maybe you grew up with fried-green tomatoes, ham biscuits and red eye gravy.  Maybe you grew up with brown rice, tofu and bean sprouts.  Or maybe your family was eclectic and ate a little of this and a little of…

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CHUsday: What Will You CHUse To Make This Month?

Congratulations to Nancy Badertscher, who won last month’s CHU giveaway by trying a vegetarian broccoli quiche to feed her visiting vegetarian children. Nancy used a recipe from Pillsbury’s Easy Vegetarian Meals, and I’m providing the link to the same quiche, as well as the cookbook. 

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CHUsday’s Winner and Herbed Oven Crisp Chicken

We completed August with some great entries in the CHU giveaway.  Random.org chose Lee Ann’s entry–which was actually the first–a selection from the cookbook, Adventures In Cooking, from the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana and submitted by a Mrs. G.V. Swigart. The book came to Lee Ann from Great-Grandmother “B,” and Lee Ann chose…

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Our Fourth Winner in the Great Pie Giveaway

Today our fourth and final pie prize box heads off to one lucky contestant, and it includes the pictured cookbook from one of my favorite Shenandoah Valley restaurants among many other goodies.  Find out who won at the end of this post. Sorry you missed the contest?  You didn’t.  Don’t forget there’s still the grand…

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Third Winner in the Great Pie Giveaway

Giving away prizes?  Almost as much fun as the entries I’ve gotten.  Today’s winner (you have to read to the end) receives the third of four boxes.  Inside?  A porcelain pie bird (for venting pie crusts) and a pewter pie charm.  A signed copy of Sunset Bridge, a pie top cutter, a Wanda’s Wonderful Pies apron, Key…

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Wanda’s Lasting Legacy: Snickers Brownie Pie

“‘This is your Christian day of rest,’ Janya said. ‘You bake pie all week, and tomorrow, even if Wanda’s is closed, you will be there preparing for Tuesday.’ Wanda stared out the narrow rusty window with its view of scrub and one screeching blackbird. ‘Wanda’s Wonderful Pies? That’s work. But creating a new pie in…

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