*Another Giveaway* !

Hello lovely readers -

Summer has been filling my garden and kitchen with some delicious bounty, and I've been having such fun cooking lately and posting the recipes.  I thought  it would be nice to sponsor a giveaway - not of my own goods this time, but from CSN stores. You have probably seen some other giveaways from CSN stores around the blogosphere - i normally don't like to get commercial or cheesy on this blog, but they've been gracious enough to offer a $50 giftcard to one of my readers valid at any of their jillion (over 200) online stores.  I'm poor, so i like it when people give me $50 =  why wouldn't you?? I've ordered things on Amazon and had them come from CSN stores - they always do a good job packaging their items, and their prices are very reasonable. They carry everything from doggie beds to dinnerware, cooking utensils, and even green houses!

Delicious locally caught, kaffir marinated trout with salsa and pupusas (recipe to follow)

So, to enter the GIVEAWAY:

Visit my handy dandy recipe page, explore, and choose a favorite.  If you've cooked one of my recipes, and would like the chance to win some free dinnerware to serve your delicious meal on, or just about anything else - post a comment below with a link to to that recipe and any feedback on how it turned out. If you haven't tried one of my recipes and just think something sounds good, comment on why you might want to make it and who you'd serve it to.

For a bonus chance, grab my badge (found in the right hand column) and post it to your blog and add an additional comment with your link OR become a follower of this here blog. I'd love to link up with more bloggers and see all the great info you're putting out there.

I will choose a winner (via some creative random choosing method) on August 17th: my BLOGVERSARY! Have at it, comment away: i'm looking forward to hearing which of my recipes you all like best (hopefully any!).

****A Winner has been chosen! Thanks for all your entries****

Simple Living on the Web

I love sharing tips, ideas, skills and comraderie with other like minded people on the internet - makes me feel a little less isolated in my little suburban house where i spend my days. Please check out all the great bloggers involved in the new 'blog hop' known as "Simple Living Thursday." This post is a day late, but i hope they'll cut me some slack since i just found out about it!

Quoted from Diana at "A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa," here are the participating host blogs:

1. A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa
2. Sustainable Eats
3. GNOWFGLINS
4. Culinary Bliss

Wherever you choose to post, it will show up on all 4 sites!  I can't wait to dive in and learn from all of you!  As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that's gardening, raising urban chickens, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies... we want to know about it!  If you're into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally... we want to know about it!   If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm... we want to know about it!

 For complete 'rules' visit GNOWFGLINS. I think my first post to the group was a little off topic, but i'll be better next time, promise! I posted yesterday's multiplying onions giveaway - which has fewer tips than i oft provide, but those onions really do make onion gardening simple - they do all the work for you!



So, come on all you resourceful simple living folk - join the hop!