New Betty Crocker Cookbook Giveaway

This last week has been insane for me.  My girlfriend and I have been canning like crazy people and making all sorts of goodies.  I had an ad up on craigslist looking for apples and got so many it was crazy.  We even got a bin full of pears from one woman who had a giant pear tree.  Kris's Grandparents also have a plum tree so we had a bucket of plums as well.  We started out just with good old applesauce and went from there.  It was a whirlwind few days, hence my absence here, and the amount of goodies at the end of it was amazing. 

All it cost us was the sugar, pectin, and seals.  We made 30 liters of applesauce, 16 liters of juice, and almost 50 small jars of jelly's.  We made plum preserve, pear preserve, vanilla pear jelly, spiced pear jelly, ginger lemon pear jelly, and apple butter.  Its exhausting to just write that lol.  We are both beyond exhausted and our houses were disasters.  I have to tell you though it feels pretty amazing feeding my kids free and healthy natural foods that I know exactly whats in them.  Not to mention the Christmas gifts I now have stockpiled in my cupboard :)

Brandon was in his glory.  We started out making salsa, I can't even remember, maybe two weeks ago.  Brandon squeezed 30 lbs of tomatoes and got all the seeds out and still wanted to do more.  With the apples he peeled tons of them, he loves being in the kitchen and helping us make anything and everything.

When I cook I either have to do it with my girlfriend, shes an amazing cook, or I have to use a recipe, and if its an easy recipe all the better.  I can't just wing it and guess, go buy taste etc.  I can't do it at all.  When I heard about the the latest addition to the Betty Crocker cookbook collection: “The New Edition of the Big Red Cookbook” I couldn't wait to check it out.  You don't even have to wait until you run to the bookstore either.  There are 85 of the 1500 Big Red Cookbook recipes on the Life Made Delicious site!  You can check them out before you run to the store to get your hot little hands on it!  You can pick it up at Amazon, Indigo and Chapters, BettyCrocker.com and Wiley Publishing.

Even better - One Canadian reader will win a copy of the Betty Crocker cookbook collection: “The New Edition of the Big Red Cookbook”

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Tell me your favorite recipe from the cookbook on Life Made Delicious
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