Happy Tuesday and hope everyone had a great weekend. My apologies for another delayed announcement for this week’s Foodie Freebie. I’m still feeling a bit icky and had a doctor’s appointment yesterday. Thankfully things are looking better and I’m starting to get some energy back… which is a good thing. I’ve got a huge Thanksgiving party I’m hosting and catering so I’m back in the kitchen this week whether I like it or not.
With a big cooking task ahead of me, having time management skills is key. One way to make things easy is to have some tools that will help save me some time so I can focus on more complex cooking and baking tasks. A tool that I’ve found super helpful in the kitchen is a mini prep food processor. It allows me to prep ingredients for dishes all throughout the year and comes in even more handy during the holidays. So this week, a lucky reader will be receiving a Cuisinart Mini Prep Processor.
The Cuisinart® Mini-Prep® Processor is the perfect kitchen helper for your small food preparation tasks. This compact processor occupies minimum counter space yet offers major advantages: more power than other choppers, 2-speed operation, large 21-ounce capacity and several colors to choose from.
21-ounce work bowl
2 speeds for precision processing
Patented reversible blade
Dishwasher-safe parts
Stainless steel blade with sharp and blunt edges
Spatula
Instruction/Recipe Book
Limited 18-month warranty
– Giveaway is only for those who live in the United States – my apologies to my international readers!
– You must check back on my blog on Friday to see if you’ve won so you can claim your prize!
To enter the giveaway, leave a comment answering:
– What’s your favorite Thanksgiving food?
Deadline: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 12 midnight CST.
ONE WINNER will be randomly chosen by Random. Org’s Interger Generator based on the number of your comment and will be announced on Friday, November 20, 2009. Good luck!
Oh, Joelen I just LOVE your blog.
My favorite Thanksgiving food is a Turkey Terrific Sandwich the next day…White bread, turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and lots o' mayo! Yum!
Di
Mashed Potatoes, definitely!
My favorite is stuffing, without a doubt. 🙂
Glad to hear you are on the mend! I love cornbread and sausage stuffing.
I love the turkey! Hmmmmm, I can't wait!
Glad to hear that your energy is making a comeback!
My favorite thanksgiving food is the green bean casseroles. Or the stuffing. Or the sweet potatoes!
Do I have to pick just one?! 😉
fave thanksgiving food would be – stuffing and for dessert – choc. pecan pie
Dessert! A cranberry pear tart (no traditional pumpkin pie at our house!)
Gravy! Great Giveaway!
My favorite food for thanksgiving is stuffing and sweet potato casserole!
I am a carb girl all the way…
stuffing and mashed potatoes tie for my favorite.
Candy Sweet Potatoes!
Stuffing!
Well, I may have to agree with the sandwich idea. Left over yeast rolls, smoked turkey, mayo, cranberry sauce or cranberry/jalepeno jelly……
or turkey tetrazzini…….
green bean casserole
dressing with lots of mushrooms.
Do I hafta chose just one?
My mom's stuffing. 🙂
Dessert! Apple and Pumpkin Pies. I could eat a whole one of each.
Ohhhhh! I need one of those babies!
My favorite Thanksgiving food… yam ranks first then green bean casserole. 🙂
Favorite Thanksgiving food – definitely stuffing!!!! 🙂 YUM!!
and what a great giveaway, I was just saying how I need one of these things! 🙂
Oyster Dressing!
With sweet potatoes as a close second.
Fried turkey!
My favorite thanksgiving food is stuffing (preferably with apples & sausage). I can't wait!
What a great giveaway! **fingers crossed**
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is definitely the turkey and my Grandmother's gravy. I don't know what she does to it, but it's perfect!
Fried Turkey.
My favorite?? My mom's mashed potatoes.
She makes them with the instant flakes, but also with canned condensed milk. So creamy. So far from gourmet.
My favorite Thanksgiving food is… I don't know! I like it all!
Pumpkin or apple pie. For some reason I only make them twice a year. For Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Stuffing and cranberry sauce YUM 🙂
I'm all about the turkey!
I would have to say pumpkin pie!
Has to be the YUMMY Stuffing!!
I can eat a whole pumpkin pie for dinner and not regret a thing!
Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
shen[dot]margaret[at]gmail[dot]com
Stuffing!! I make baby bella and sausage stuffing sooo good. Could really use this little guy. Thanks for the great giveaway.
Leftovers the next day!
Southern cornbread stuffing! It's so good.
Pumpkin pie! Or any kind of pie really.
Stuffing! It's the only time of year my mom makes it and I LOVE it!!
Definitely apple or peach pie!
I'm glad you're feeling better.
I love dressing with cranberry sauce. I don't need anything else.
Hmm…. everything! If I had to pick one, I guess I would say stuffing. Followed closely by pumpkin pie.
I love mashed potatoes and gravy! Believe it or not, but I don't own a food processor, so this would be perfect!
evitawylie at hotmail dot com
I love everything about Thanksgiving but if I had to pick one thing it would be Apple Pie!!
What's your favorite Thanksgiving food?
Mine would have to be the honey/brown sugar smothered baked ham that my grandma always had. Then it would be the green beans (cooked all day with ham hock in salted water). Wow, I could actually make a long list of my favs.
This ones a toughie- but if I had to choose, it would be my aunts delicious stuffing!
MASHED POTATOES!
My mother ALWAYS makes gravy from scratch, so the gravy is always great even if the turkey isn't 😀
turkey dipped in the mashed potatoes & gravy!
Pumpkin praline cake!!
My favorite Thanksgiving food is the sweet potatoes. Baked in goodness and topped with marshmallows! YUMM
i would have to say candied yams to go with my turkey…. i love the combination of sweet and savory together.. yum, yum
Stuffing!
I'm a sucker for stuffing! YuM@
My favorite Thanksgiving food would have to be a good moist stuffing.
Sweet potato casserole!
Dark meat turkey ALL THE WAY!!
My favorite is the cranberry orange relish.
Glad to read you are starting to feel better!!
As for Thanksgiving food, I can't just pick one…Stuffing, Gravy, Sweet Potato Cassarole, Green Bean Cassarole….
🙂
Stuffing! Made using my great grandmother's recipe. A pretty traditional stuffing with celery and water chesnuts. I love this stuff!
Followed closely by everyone's favorite GBC (green bean casserole).
My mom's crescent rolls. I don't think there is anything in the world better than these rolls.
Pumpkin pie with lots of whipped cream….mmmmmm!
Mashed Turnips! But I haven't had them in a few years cause my dad is the only one who will take the time to peeel and cut them, and since they moved and I got married we don't always spend Thanksgiving with them!
Holly Lapidus
NJ
Mashed potatoes!
I'm not really into turkey, but I really love sweet breads. Yum! Pumpkin or cranberry loaves are my favorite.
Apple pie, hands down!
What a great giveaway…
Cranberry chutney is my fav
I love the turkey and dressing….yummm.
Butternut squash with butter and brown sugar……. YUM!!!
Cornbread stuffing and pumpkin pie with cool whip!
What a great giveaway. My favorite Thanksgiving foods are stuffing and butterscotch pie…yum, I can't wait.
No doubt about it… sausage stuffing!!! This year I'm going to make a sausage apple walnut stuffing…mmmm.
In my family, it's not Thanksgiving unless you're having scalloped oysters!
This southern girl loves her sweet potato pie! 🙂
I love turkey and mashed potatoes. Mmmmm, I can't wait!
Lobster!!!!!!!!!
For me, it's a side item that I think of as dessert! It's a sweet potato casserole that has no marshmallows. It is pureed sweet potatoes, baked w/ a pecan crumb topping. Yum yum yum yum yum
It's like dessert during dinner!
I love thanksgiving.. the turkey, sweet potato pie, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie– i can't name a favorite
I love it all! But if I had to pick, it would be the pull-apart bread we have–we only have it at Thanksgiving.
But I'm with some of these other folks, leftovers sandwich on that delcious bread is really the best.
My favorite is stuffing!
Mashed potatoes!
I love green bean casserole!!
I can hardly wait for pumpkin pie!
My favorite is pumpkin pie….but second to that is cranberry sauce…the smoothe kind =o)
Creamed spinach!! YUM.
Mashed potatoes made with ranch and yummy gravy!
My dad makes a FABULOUS smoked turkey!! Then there are the mashed potatoes and green bean casserole – yummy!!
I hope you get to feeling better before the holidays. There is nothing worse than being sick around this time of year.
My favorite Thanksgiving food would have to be Sweet Potato Casserole.
My favorite Thanksgiving food is the stuffing!
I can't wait for sweet potatoe pie!
Homemade stuffing!
Mashed potatoes and gravy!
Sarah
seavila26@yahoo.com
Homemade stuffing with gravy on top!
Roasted butternut squash chowder for sure!
I love pretty much EVERYTHING associated with Thanksgiving dinner. I really can't pick just one dish.
I'd have to say stuffing and pumpkin pie – two things I don't usually make or eat the rest of the year.
Chili is my favorite meal at Thanksgiving!
my grandmother's yellow turkey gravy..I just found out a few years ago that she puts in yellow food coloring because she didn't like brown gravy…but it's sooo good!
Hey, Joelen – glad you're feeling better 🙂
I'm surprised at how many people say stuffing is their favorite – it's mine, too! With lots of fresh sage and thyme. Mmm mmm good!
My favorite is green bean casserole. I love it and I only make it during Thanksgiving.
Stuffing stuffing stuffing! Though my grandma calls it "dressing".
Definately the stuffing!
Has to be the stuffing! One of those things that never gets made the other 364 days of the year, sadly.
Keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for your great giveaways!
Definitely dessert…any kind!
My favorite Thanksgiving food is definitely dressing! (with candied yams at a close second)
Pumpkin Pie – it's the best day of ht year to eat it… and usually the only day of the year I eat it =)
I can't decide! Either stuffing with gravy on it… or chocolate pie… or rice and gravy… or turkey… I love it all 🙂
Definitely my family's homemade stuffing! And yes, we do cook it in the turkey… one end gets filled with stuffing, the other gets filled with sausage, and it is the MOST. DELICIOUS. MEAL. EVER!!! 🙂
Our family recipe for pecan pie comes in at a close second.
Green bean casserole! I was asking for some today.
Candied Yam!! Yum, I can't wait, my mouth was watering yesterday when I thought about them, and how soon I would be able to enjoy them!
homemade cranberry sauce with orange zest and brown sugar. so good!
jess
jess.m.haley@gmail.com
Hands down stuffing, dressing, whatever you want to call it. I promise I could easily eat a whole pan to myself. I think it's delicious and am grateful its not on every menu because I would want to eat it everyday all day.
Favorite? So hard to choose!! Bread stuffing – love everything about it. Flavors, texture, smell.
Turkey!!!!
the turkey minus the gravy. can't wait.
Dressing and Derby pie (but we make that lots of time during the year)! I'm so excited about eating next week!
Definately the sweet potato casserole (turkey is a close second!)
Stuffing…love stuffing.
My mom's southern style chicken & dressing. Yum!
Definitely the mashed potatoes! With gravy, of course. 🙂
All year I look forward to the apple and snickers salad my aunt brings to dinner!
I love the cornbread stuffing that we make every year.
It's a even tie between the stuffing and the whole berry cranberry dressing
My favorite is definitely the stuffing, and it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without green bean casserole!
Green bean casserole…yum! And isn't it funny we could eat this stuff any time of year, but the only time we make it is for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter?
Pumpkin Pie!!!
The stuffing……crispy, and baked out of the bird! (and drowned in gravy!)
My absolute, most favorite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing. I could eat it every single day.
Sweet potatoes- with marshmallows and red hot candy. Sounds weird- but its how my grandpa makes them.
All of the side dishes…especially the crispy edges of the stuffing!
Stuffing!! Yummy!!
Cornbread stuffing – apples, celery, onions & pecans – so yummy with homemade gravy from the turkey pan drippings. Can't wait!
I'm a sucker for green bean casserole!
mmm…pumpkin pie…mmm
soup 🙂 i'm a soup lover, and my mother in law makes a great sweet potato soup!
definitely sweet potatoes, preferably under a crunchy pecan, brown sugar topping!
My Mom's dressing and gravy and my pecan pie!
I love my mamacita'a cornbread casserole! It is terrific!
I am doing my first thanksgiving this year for my boyfriend's family.. I am super nervous but I am sure everything will go great. Good luck on your turkey day get together and hope you feel better!
Thanks for the wonderful blog!
Ashley
the LEFTOVERS! 🙂
There's no way for me to choose a favorite. One I really like that isn't so common is tarragon greenbeans. A little bit of tarragon, vinegar, bacon, and greenbeans. I'm not sure what else my mom adds to these, but they're addictive!
Mashed Potatoes or Pumpkin Pie!!!!!
Creamed Corn Casserole! I eat it all year long now 🙂
My favorite Thanksgiving food is dessert – specifically pecan pie.
My mom's cranberry relish is my favorite.
It's a tie between mashed rutabaga (turnips) & my mom's stuffing — it's just not Thanksgiving for me without both of those!
(Sorry if this double- posts, there was a weird load error after I submitted it the first time.)
Stuffing
Cranberries! Love 'em any way I can get 'em…except out of a can.
My favorite Thanksgiving food would undoubtedly have to be stuffing smothered in gravy. And it doesn't matter if it is home made or from a box.
thanks much
Oooh, ooooh, pick me (picture an eagerly raised hand)! I love the Silver Palate stuffing made with three kinds of bread, sausage, apples and pecans. We tease my husband, saying that's why he married me – for the Thanksgiving stuffing. All that chopping can't be done without electronic help.
I LOVE my moms loaded mashed potatoes… nothing is better. I look forward to them all year long!
mac n cheese. hands down. my husband makes the best!
Hope you're feeling better!
I have to say my fave Thanksgiving food is my grandma's rolls. Delicious the day of and perfect for leftover turkey sandwiches. I've never had any other rolls like them!
Stuffing. Definitely stuffing.
Well, I already used my grandmother's pumpkin pie for the pie pan, so now I would have to say my fav. thanksgiving food would have to be a mixture of corn, turkey, mash potatoes, and my grandfathers top secret bread filling. Yes my family thinks its weird that I would prefer to eat thanksgiving meal out of bowl.
Definitely my mom's fresh cranberry sauce
mashed potatoes with gravy!!! yum, yum, yum….
Homemade stuffing! No gravy. Yumm!
Gravy – On just about everything on my plate! My family usually makes a double batch. For dessert – pumpkin pie.
My mother's pecan pie!
Stuffing! Even though I'm vegetarian, I have always loved stuffing. My mom always made it in a stone baking dish with chicken broth, so when I went veggie 10 years ago, she started using vegetable broth. It is my favorite food ever!
I can skip the pie and everything else, as long as there is dressing. Yum!
Mashed potatoes and gravy w/ turkey pieces! Yummy!
It's a toss-up between stuffing and boiled red cabbage.
Chestnut Dressing!!
My grandmother's stuffing.
Hi Joelen,
My favorite is stuffing and cornbread…yum!
See you at the feast 🙂
My favorite is mashed sweet potatoes with the toasted marshmallows on top. Yum!
I don't think I could pick just one thing because it is a mariad of things that actually make a Thanksgiving dinner. But I do ike getting a little gravy, potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing and turkey together with just a little cranberry with each bite. Yum-O!
mmmmmm… stuffing, oh but the mashed potatoes are delish too!!!!! counting down the days till Turkey day!!
My favorite thanksgiving food is sweet potato pie.
My favorite Thanksgiving food is my dad's stuffing recipe, make with Challah bread.
Its a toss up between mashed potatos and stuffing! Both delicious!