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Someone’s going to get a seriously amazing holiday present with this giveaway!

It’s true.  Today’s giveaway is a gorgeous Cooks Standard Multi-Ply Clad Stainless-Steel 10-Piece Cookware Set.  It includes a 1.5-quart covered saucepan, a 3-quart covered saucepan, an 8-inch and 10-inch open skillet, an 8-quart covered stockpot, and a universal covered steamer insert that fits both the 1.5-quart and 3-quart pan.

Better yet, its amazing multi-ply clad metal construction, the pans heat up quickly and super-evenly.  Its sleek design also includes special air-flow technology to keep the handles cooler.  And of course the stainless steel is beautiful and extra-durable — perfect for cooks who like to put pots and pans to good use!

Perhaps best of all, this Cooks Standard set features so many of the great qualities of other well-known expensive brand names, but at a fraction of the cost.  So if you’re in the market for some new pots and pans, or are looking for a high-quality starter set for someone you know, check out Cooks Standard.  And enter this giveaway!

***This giveaway is now closed.  The winner’s information is posed below.  Thanks for your participation, everyone!***

see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: cooks standard 10-piece cookware set

Last year at about this time, I was actually introduced to Beanilla by winning a giveaway myself.  And let me tell you….this company’s vanilla will change your life.  Or at least, it will definitely change your baking!!

For today’s giveaway, Beanilla is giving away some of their favorites:

• One (4 oz.) bottle 2X Mexican vanilla extract
• 5 Madagascar Vanilla Beans
• 5 Uganda Vanilla Beans
• One jar of 3-Fold Tahitian Vanilla Paste

I have had the great pleasure over the last year of cooking with Beanilla’s vanilla beans, extracts and pastes.  And let me assure you that the quality of their ingredients seriously makes a difference that you can taste.  (I will never go back to the dry, overpriced beans from the grocery store again!!)  Their beans are fresh, pliable, huge, and amazingly aromatic.  The extract is wonderfully rich.  And the paste is probably my new favorite vanilla ingredient!  It is packed with a zillion vanilla bean seeds and lots of great flavor — so fun to play with in recipes!  Such great products.

So all of you vanilla lovers must check out Beanilla!  And of course, enter the giveaway below!  :)

see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: beanilla vanilla gift set

Today’s giveaway features a favorite of mine – Nudo!

For those of you who haven’t still heard of it, Nudo is this amazing new company that allows you to adopt an olive tree, and then receive its oil.  It’s a collaboration between a group of small-scale, artisanal olive producers in Italy.  And the adoption program allows the farmers to use traditional farming methods, with 100% natural, high-quality, and locally-sourced ingredients (no preservatives!).  You can even go visit the groves whenever you want to meet the farmers and see where the oil comes from.

Amazing, right???  I love it.

Today’s giveaway is some of the delicious fresh oil from those groves — the “Emperor’s Herbs Box” trio of olive oils.  It includes garlic olive oil, thyme olive oil, and their signature classic extra-virgin olive oil.  All packaged, of course, in those adorable tins and shipped from Italy.

Read below to enter the giveaway, and check out Nudo’s other delicious products and adopt-a-tree program when you have a chance!

***This giveaway is now closed.  The winner’s information is posted below.  Thanks for your participation, everyone!***

see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: nudo olive oil trio

Look out, world!  The old-school blender has just been kicked up a notch.

Allow me to introduce you to today’s giveaway — the new “Blend & Cook Soup Maker” from Cuisinart!  It is literally a blender that cooks!  The nonstick cooking plate “lets you saute ingredients, simmer, and even boil soups, and then blend to the perfect consistency with the touch of a button”.  As you can see below, there are three temperature settings, a “stir” button, and a digital timer to help with cooking as well.  It’s also completely BPA-free, and comes with a built-in measuring cup that can be removed from the lid to pour ingredients directly into the blender.

Meanwhile, thile the 900 watt motor has the power to easily perform all of your normal blender functions for making smoothies, crushing ice, chopping nuts, making baby food, etc.  So from what I can tell it….pretty much does everything.

Brilliant.

I think I’ll go make some soup now, while you enter this giveaway.  :)

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see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: cuisinart blend & cook soup maker

Whoever wins this one is more than welcome to invite me over for dinner…  :)

Today’s giveaway is this beautiful “Italian Food Gift Set“, from the always amazing Williams-Sonoma.  It features the extraordinary Alfieri pappardelle pasta, Williams-Sonoma House Olive Oil, Peperonate (artisan-roasted yellow, green, and red peppers, golden onions, tomato, and extra virgin oil, to be used as a bright and flavorful garnish or as a simple dip for bread), and French Cook’s Spoon.

But my favorite ingredient has to be the Williams-Sonoma Artichoke and Lemon Pasta Sauce — “hand made in small batches with freshly harvested artichokes, leeks and green onions, then simmered with Chardonnay, preserved lemons and seasonal herbs including mint, chives and parsley.”

Um, yes please.  :)

Definitely a wonderful gift to give this holiday season, or a perfect gift for yourself to have a gourmet (yet 15-minute!) homemade meal at home.  Check it out at Williams Sonoma, and read below for details to enter the giveaway!

***This giveaway is now closed.  The winner’s information is posed below.  Thanks for your participation everyone!***

see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: williams-sonoma “italian food gift set”

Years ago, my mornings were forever changed when I was introduced to Harney & Sons “Hot Cinnamon Spice” gourmet tea.

Holy moly.  I grew up in a family of hot tea drinkers, and had tried hundreds of teas over the years.  But my first sip of this spicy, cinnamony deliciousness pretty much sealed the deal that this would forever be a favorite.  And years later, I still adore it.  (And the gorgeous tins from Harney & Sons — perfect in your kitchen, or for keeping around for planters or decor afterwards!)

So I am thrilled about today’s giveaway — both for those of you who know and love Harney & Sons gourmet teas, and especially for those of you who have yet to savor these amazing blends!  The lucky winner will get to enjoy beautiful tins — their famous Royal Wedding, Jane’s Garden, and of course, Hot Cinnamon Spice teas.  I promise that your tea time will be forever changed.  :)

***This giveaway is now closed.  The winner’s information is posted below.  Thanks everyone for your participation!***

see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: harney & sons teas

The Gimme Some Oven giveaways continue today with this sweet 6-quart Red Roaster Oven from Nesco.

What does a roaster oven do, you might ask?  Well, it pretty much does everything your oven does except broil.  It bakes (with adjustable temperature controls up to 425 degrees F), steams, and of course, slow cooks.  Amazing!  You can use it to make everything from roast beef, to stews, to seafood, rice, veggies, lasagna, meatloaf, desserts, and even bread.  My kind of multi-tasking appliance.  :)

So read below for how to enter the giveaway, and continue checking back each day during “25 Days of Giveaways”!

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see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: nesco roaster oven

Look out…this “25 Days of Giveaways” event is about to get steamy!

Today we’re giving away this 3-Tier (9.5 quart) Stainless-Steel Digital Food Steamer from Deni.  The picture already makes me hungry.  What an amazing, gorgeous, and healthy way to prepare your food!!!

This lovely little steamer does everything from steaming vegetables, rice, seafood and meets, to hard-boiling and poaching eggs, and more!  Its auto keep-warm, auto shut-off, and digital timer are also great features for the multitasking cook.  And the steamer’s removable parts are easily cleaned by hand or in the dishwasher.  I love it!

Steaming is such an easy and healthy way to prepare food.  So for those of you who have never tried it, or for those who want to upgrade to this gorgeous model, enter today’s Deni giveaway!

***This giveaway is now closed.  The winner’s information is posted below.  Thanks for your participation, everyone!***

see recipe for 25 days of giveaways: deni stainless steel food steamer