Five Ingredient Fridays...Come Join The Fun!!!!

I am very excited to announce that starting Friday, Paiges' Place will be hosting a new blog carnival, 'Five Ingredient Fridays.'

Here's the story:
When my Husband and I first got married, I ran out and bought a ton of cookbooks. Some of my favorites were: Make It In the Microwave, 5 Ingredients or Less, One Pot Wonders, and of course, anything having to do with 30 Minutes or Less. Ralph used to tell everyone that I never made anything that took more than 5 ingredients and 30 seconds to make. They all laughed, but really, I did enjoy simple and quick dinners. With children, pets, work, Husbands, community service, etc., we can all use a little help in the kitchen.

So, starting Friday, please come visit and share your favorite 5 ingredient or less recipes. I will be choosing a 'winner' every week that will be announced the following Friday and the winner will receive a small prize from me. The 'winner' will be randomly selected from all participants for that week.

THE RULES:

• ~All recipes must include 5 ingredients, or less. But, you do not have to count water, salt and pepper, or other common seasonings in your 5.
• ~Please be sure to link to your post in Mister Linky and not the main page of your blog.
• ~Please mention and link back to this blog in your post.
• ~Please visit other posters' blogs and leave lots of comment love. We all love comments, don't we?

I hope to have lots of participants. Let's all share our easy, quick and simple favorites.

See you Friday!!!

~Nicole

Recipe Contest Winner!!!

Good Monday morning everyone!!!

First off, a BIG thank you to all who entered my recipe contest. You have some amazing recipes and I can't wait to try them all. I used random.org to pick a winner and the winner is....

LYDIA!!!

Here is her entry:

'One of my favorite crock pot recipes for this time of year is super simple ~Cut a squash in half, set in the bottom of crock pot, cover with butter and brown sugar, set on LOW overnight. Enjoy for breakfast in the morning.Mmmmm.'

In the near future, look for casserole, Holiday, dessert, etc. recipe contests. They will have fabulous prizes as well.

Thanks again for all the submissions!

Keep those recipes comin'

The response to my crock pot contest has been GREAT!!! The recipes all look wonderful and we will be trying a lot of them this weekend.

We experienced our first frost last night. Since we live in Southeast Louisiana, this is a bit earlier than we had expected. So, my husband and I went out at around 9 last night to cover up the garden with plastic. Aside from freezing, all was going well until.....

I was carrying the last board over to hold down the plastic and 'forgot' about the sunk in hole near the garden where a tree used to be. I, of course, stepped in it. I mean, I didn't earn the nickname 'Klutz' for nothing. The board went flying and I landed in a whimpering heap on the ground. You know that sound pants make when they are ripped? A sound similar to that came from my ankle/foot region with a lot of pain to go along. My wonderful husband, and all his infinite medical wisdom, came over and poked my ankle and said, 'It feels fine - I don't think you broke it.' Thanks!!!

It is still a little sore this morning. Not broken, maybe sprained. I am sitting here with a bag of frozen peas on it at the moment. So, keep those recipes comin' because they are keeping me occupied while I try to forget about the pain.

Crockpot Cooking Contest!!!

Tonight is another soccer night, which means another crock pot meal. I LOVE my crock pot. But, I am rapidly running out of crock pot recipes. So, on to the contest...

Help me with new recipes that I can make in my beloved crock pot and I will reward you with a lovely gift. To enter: email me with your crock pot recipe of choice. You may DEFINITELY enter more than once. (I can use all the help I can get) Please put 'Crock pot Contest' in the subject line of your email, or else I might mistake your entry for another one of my many admirers from Nigeria who wants to give me a bazillion dollars, and your entry might just end up in the trash folder.

The rules: Well, only one rule. As I reside in the middle of nowhere, please be sure your recipe doesn't contain any exotic ingredients.

Increase your odds of winning by posting a link to my giveaway on your blog. Let me know you did and I will give you 2 more entries. And, leave a comment on this post and get an extra entry.

So, 1 entry per recipe, 2 entries for linking to my giveaway, and 1 entry for a comment on this post.

Oh yeah, what's the gift, huh? For your hard work, I will be giving away a gift bag full of Avon products (worth at least $25). The winner will be randomly selected and need not have the recipe I like the best. I will try them all, though, so send me yummy ones, please!!!

Entries must be received by Friday, October 31 and the winner will be announced Monday, November 3rd.


Also, checkout the Bloggy Giveaways @ http://www.donttryit.com/bloggy_giveaways/2008/10/bloggy-giveaw-1.html