Reading the comments on the The Fresh Girl’s Guide to Easy Canning and Preserving giveaway made me so hungry. You guys eat well during the wintertime!

The winner is commenter #163, Jason Sandeman. He’s also known as the Well Done Chef and he said, “My favorite by far is chicken cacciatore made with my own canned tomatoes, dried porcini mushrooms, and roasted peppers from my garden.”

Sounds really fantastic, Jason!

My thanks to all of you who took the time to enter the giveaway. I don’t have another one planned for this week, but I’ll be back soon with another fun giveaway.

Related Posts:

• Microplane Gift Basket Winner
• Eat Boutique Jam Box Winner
• Wusthof Vegetable Knife Winner

Many thanks to everyone who took the time to enter the Cuppow giveaway and share your morning beverage ritual. I loved hearing about all the different ways that you all start your mornings!

The winner of the Cuppow is commenter #917, also know as Annie S., who said, “I have only recently fell in love with Mason Jars. I now use them for anything I can think of. Storing leftovers, esp! Kids now drink from them-they think the small jelly jars are made just for them  Drinking coffee in one would be a dream come true! Great work on the Cuppow people for serving a need!”

Congratulations Annie! You’ve been notified by email.

For the rest of you, I’ll have another giveaway on Monday, so stay tuned!

Related Posts:

• Fresh Girl’s Guide Giveaway Winner
• Giveaway: The Fresh Girl’s Guide to Easy Canning and Preserving
• Cuppow Review and Giveaway

Thanks to all of you who took the time to share the home canned products you’ve most enjoyed so far this winter season. It was such fun to read about all the things you made last summer and fall and have been eating recently!

The winner is commenter #370, the blogger behind the site Plateau Gardening. She said, “The canned blackberry pie filling is heavenly on a cold winter day!” Sounds positively delicious!

Related Posts:

• Fresh Girl’s Guide Giveaway Winner
• Microplane Gift Basket Winner
• Eat Boutique Jam Box Winner

Thanks to all of you who took the time to share your Christmas wishes (both the tangible ones and the intangibles) in the comments section of the Microplane Gift Basket giveaway.

The winner is commenter #906, Kim. She says ” I know it’s cheesy to say, but, I LOVE cheese!! We eat it on EVERYthing… really, I’m not kidding! I just recently started juicing, but want a REALLY nice juicer than the simple one I have now. Do you think cheese can be juiced?? : P.”

Sorry Kim, I don’t think cheese is juiceable!

I’ll be back later today with some featured photos from the Food in Jars Flickr pool.

Related Posts:

• Fresh Girl’s Guide Giveaway Winner
• Microplane Gift Basket Giveaway
• Eat Boutique Jam Box Winner

Thanks to all of you who took the time to leave a comment on the Eat Boutique Jam Box giveaway and share the many creative, handmade things you’re giving as gifts this holiday season.

The winner of the giveaway is Jennifer, who left comment #61. She said, “My parents and sister are getting my homemade jam & pickles, as well as my hand knit lovelies!”

Lucky parents and sister!

For all of you who didn’t win, take heart! I’ll have another giveaway for you all tomorrow. The goodies are of a different stripe, but I think that they’ll be popular nonetheless!

Related Posts:

• Fresh Girl’s Guide Giveaway Winner
• Microplane Gift Basket Winner
• Eat Boutique Favorite Jam Box Giveaway

All good contests must come to end and this one wrapped up yesterday just before midnight. Our lucky winner is commenter #62, Michelle Wands, who said,

“My combination would be apple cranberry for this time of year. Strawberry Rhubarb would be refreshing in the spring.”

Sounds delicious, Michelle! And for the rest of you, I’ll have another fun giveaway coming up soon, so stay tuned!

Finally, in an attempt to make this post a little more interesting, I want to point your browsers in the direction of Pasplore. It’s this very cool website that creates photo mosaics out of the food photography of others. I submitted a couple of recipes, as did food bloggers from all across the internet. Click the screenshot below to check out the real thing.

Related Posts:

• Cuppow Winner
• Takeya Fruit Infusion Jug Giveaway
• Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It Winner

We have a winner! My apologies that this is 12 or so hours later than promised, but I’m currently in Austin, TX, waiting for my younger sister to have her first baby, so I’m a bit off my game at the moment.

Random.org has selected #912, which is commenter Kerry. She said,

“My favorite autumn vegetable is butternut squash and I make a mean scalloped squash casserole although the recipe is different every year.”

Kerry, I love the sound of scalloped squash casserole. How delicious that must be!

Thanks to all of you who took the time to leave comments and share your favorite fall produce!

Related Posts:

• Fresh Girl’s Guide Giveaway Winner
• Microplane Gift Basket Winner
• Eat Boutique Jam Box Winner

Goodness. There sure were a lot of you hoping to win Ashley English’s Homemade Living series! Deservedly too, as these books are truly excellent resources. Sadly, I have but one set to give away and random.org has selected #927. That’s the comment left by Shelagh, who said,

“I am in the process of transforming green beans (purchased from a friend’s tiny organic farm) into dilly beans, which will get us through the long, cold Maine winter. “Canning and Preserving” would be welcome reading material as I plan next year’s garden.”

Shelagh, here’s hoping that these books help you plan your plot for 2012! For the rest of you, I do encourage you to seek out Ashley’s books going forward. Whether you were interested in Canning & Preserving, Keeping Chickens, Home Dairy and Keeping Bees, treat yourself to a copy or request one from the local library. They are most definitely worth reading!

Related Posts:

• Fresh Girl’s Guide Giveaway Winner
• Microplane Gift Basket Winner
• Eat Boutique Jam Box Winner

Last week, I offered up nine half pints of jam in the hopes of raising a bit of money to contribute to the fundraiser for Jennifer Perillo. I asked that people make a donation of at least $25 and then come back to tell me about it. Each person who many a donation and reported back would be entered for a chance to win these nine jams.

When I initially published that post, I was full of nerves. What if no one participated? Happily, my fears were unfounded. When I closed my ersatz auction on Monday, 31 people had given, for a total of $1162.97. I am delighted by the generosity that so many of you displayed.

I have consulted random.org and it selected contributor #3 as the winner. According to my spreadsheet, that’s Alana Chernila of the blog Eating From the Ground Up. Congrats lady!

My huge thanks to all of you who have given to Jennie’s fund, whether you did it through this blog or a different one. Every little bit helps.

Related Posts:

• Nine Jams For Jennie
• Peanut Butter Pie for Mikey (and Jennie too)

And the winner of Karen Solmon’s fantastic new book Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It is commenter #681, JJ. She said, “I’ve made quick refrigerator pickles many times, and want to tackle fermented sour pickles this summer. Waiting semi-patiently for our cucumber vines to really get going…”

Congratulations JJ!

Related Posts:

• Chocolate for Breakfast Winner
• Cuppow Winner
• Canning Kit, Book and Jar Lifter Giveaway Winner