*This contest is now closed!*
I don’t know about you but I’m in desperate need of a good midweek pick-me-up! It’s rainy and cold here. That detail combined with the fact that my oldest kidlet is on Spring break means we are all going a bit stir crazy, since my four boys have about four hundred volts of energy right about now. My toilets need cleaned, I have about a month’s worth of saltine cracker crumbs underneath the kitchen counter where the kids had snack today, and we are going on four nights of grilled cheese for dinner thanks to my husband being out of town.
I can’t decide – is it a pick-me-up that I need or just some straight up motivation? Hmmm…I won’t pause to analyze that minor point. And neither should you.
In honor of my midweek doldrums and the fact that I finally have all the posts on this here blog updated with the right picture (since they were all missing when I switched over from my blogspot address to this dot com) and because I updated my About page with lots of useless info and because I have the best readers this side of the cooking blog world (yes, I’m talking about you!)…
I’m giving away FOUR yearly subscriptions to my most favorite, best loved, much used cooking magazine: Cook’s Country.
Oh, how I love this little mag. The recipes are down-to-earth, simple, delicious and pretty much no-fail. There isn’t another cooking magazine that aligns as closely to my cooking style as this one. I’m a fan! And I want you to be, also.
To enter, simply leave me a comment telling me what or where your favorite go-to place is to snag great recipes (I could use a few new ideas myself)!
Winners will be announced Monday, April 12th.
Just a note: Cook’s Country does not know I exist nor are they sponsoring this giveaway. It’s because I love YOU and I love their MAGAZINE. Case closed.
I have a whole bookmark folder full of sites I visit for recipe inspiration! The ones I use most: Your site, Pioneer Woman, Our Best Bites, and All Recipes. There are a lot of other ones I look at (ie Bakerella’s wonderfully fanciful creations), but would never make anything from.
Pick me, Pick me! I trust and love all your recipes so this has got to be a great magazine. Thanks for all your greatness!~
OH, sooo many good blogs. Yours (of course), Mindika Moments, Recipegirl, Tastykitchen,… just to name a few.
Generally my recipes come from the recipe book my mother compiled for me of all her recipes. If there’s something new I want to try, I usually consult http://www.allrecipes.com.
Your blog is awesome! I have made several of your recipes and they have all been a success so I frequent here when I am meal planning. Lately I have been finding a lot of simple and delicious looking recipes at BettyCrocker.com as well.
Thanks for creating such a wonderful recipe resource… you make my life easy!
honestly your site is one of them. I also LOVE allrecipes. I can search the categories easily.
If I’m ever looking for a good recipe I go to allrecipes.com. I love the reader reviews.
My favorite is church cookbooks, but my new favorite is this cool book i found called What’s For Dinner, so many recipes and so easy!
I love going to your site.. and Real Mom Kitchen. Oh, and Our Best Bites is awesome.. I love looking at recipes from real people that are easy but delicious!
http://www.ourbestbites.com/ has been a fun one for me to get recipes from lately.
I can always find something tasty on SmittenKitchen or Annie Eats blogs!
I love blogs! People are honest and the tips are great. I usually just search blogs or http://www.recipezaar.com because people can comment and rate the recipes. Plus most have pictures and LOVE pictures!
The site I use often is http://www.allrecipes.com. I love that I can submit certain ingredients that I need to use up and it will show me all the different recipes that I can make with those items.
And I of course love your site!
Allrecipes.com is my go to if I’m looking for a specific recipe. Otherwise, I use food blogs (like yours) for inspiration.
I’m so glad you commented at my blog and led me over here. Great giveaway! : ) Now I’ve gotta go look around at your recipes…
I always come to your blog first. I also like Taste of Home and Our Best Bites.
I love your recipes and blogs are usually where I get my recipes, and my favorites sites are recipezaar and food network.
I just LOVE to cook, and I’m a sucker for the Food Network! I watch or have-watched all of their shows. So, when searching for a recipe, I always check http://www.foodnetwork.com first–basically because I figure there will be several recipes from which I can choose. I don’t know if that makes me a sell-out or smart cook, but most of the time it works. When it doesn’t, I Google a recipe and go with the best recipe from the sites that turn up! HOWEVER, today is my first day on YOUR site, and I’ve already added you to my computer’s “favorites.” I look forward to trying SEVERAL recipes of yours!
I love your site for finding recipes for company. When I’m just eating by myself, I regularly go to http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/ as a gastric bypass person and http://www.101cookbooks.com/high_protein_recipes/ where I found the best recipe on the planet for pan fried corona beans and kale. You might want to try that one out if you are looking for good bean recipes.
I usually go to Taste of Home magazine or tasteofhome.com
I usually get my recipes from you or The Pioneer Woman. Occasionally I’ll get one from Simply Recipes or Smitten Kitchen. I’ve been cooking alot of yours lateley though. We love the baked ziti and the chili mac!
always – foodtv.com and anything by Ina Garten. Delicous!
Yes, I’m sorry it won’t help, but I get most of my recipes from your website! I just got a subscription to Cook’s Illustrated and I really enjoy that. There are only so many recipes that I can try one a week. They take more time and are more expensive to make usually, but if I have one good cooking day, I end up making simpler things throughout the week. So I can get my fix in without burning out!
Thanks!
Your blog is great! I found you through Recipe Rhapsody
My favorite go to sites would have to be The Pioneer Woman and Annie’s Eats, they both always have such versatile recipes that never fail me!
Well first I go to your blog to find a recipe. If I can’t find it there then I go to The Food Network. If I can’t find it there (which is very rare) then I just google it and jump from sight to sight. I would love and cooking magazine that brought me new recipes every month. I don’t usually make the same recipes over and over, I like to try new things. Except your recipes, I’ve made a few of them multiple times
My favorite go to place for an idea…YOUR ARCHIVES! NO kidding
This website has some delicious looking recipes. I just found it and have yet to try any of them, but want to soon! Thanks for all your hard work! You are one incredible gal!
I get tons of my recipes from your blog! I love http://www.recipezaar.com and http://www.allrecipes.com but most of mine come from blogs like yours, My Sister’s Kitchen, Good Eats, Pioneer Woman and Picky Palate.
I’ve been trying lots of your recipes (I just made the chicken cordon bleu last night!), as well as ourbestbites.com. I’ve also got tons of cookbooks that I don’t use nearly as much as I should. My favorite would probably be my Pastry Queen cookbooks.
Truthfully, I give out your blog anytime someone asks me for good recipes. I have REALLY enjoyed making your food. Besides yours, I like “A Bountiful Kitchen”, “Your Home Based Mom” and “Pioneer Woman”.
I just read my comment and realized that I didn’t put the web address in my comment, just in the website blank…so in case you can’t see the website I mentioned, it’s http://ellysaysopa.com/. Looks good! (And sorry that I’m leaving two comments…I PROMISE that I’m not trying to get more entries or anything. )
Are you kidding..is there any other site than yours. I have made dinner every night this week from it. I have a huge rotation now thanks to you. I have found some great recipes on kraft.com in the past for hamburger dinner ideas. I have a lot of that floating around in my freezer.
I love getting recipes online (your blog is great) or King Arthur Flour website. I also have a few family cookbooks that are tried and true.
I’ve heard a lot about Cook’s Country on other food recipe sites and would love to win! I’ve had a lot of luck with allrecipes.com. And sisterscafe.blogspot.com is a great one too!
I’ll join everyone else saying that your blog is the first place I go! But after that try Sisters Cafe and then Tasty Kitchen – I like how Tasty Kitchen has a bunch of recipes on the home page, you never know when one might inspire you!
Also, I like going back through my recipe folders and looking for recipes I tore out of magazines like Southerng Living and Cooking Light. Some I’ve never tried and wanted to and some are old favorites I had forgotten about!
hmm well your website is for sure the first place i go. but if i am desperate for an easy (not always healthy) meal i go to kraftcanada.com and you can enter 3 ingredients that you have on hand and a recipe will show up using those ingredients. the recipes arent always delish like yours are but sometimes it can be a saver!
I come here! seriously anything I make that gets a “make it again” or “yummy mummy” comes from this blog. The only other place I get recipes is from Annabel Karmels cookbooks.
A lot of my new recipes come from your website honestly. I have tried quite a few of your recipes and I am hooked! I also have some standbys that have either been handed down to me from people I know, or Awesome recipes my husband comes up with all on his own. I am always up for some new stuff though!
A few websites I check out besides yours is Tasty Kitchen, Sisters Cafe and Pioneer Woman. Not that helpful since I am sure you check out those places as well.
Lately I come to your website. I LOVE it. We’ve never had so many new recipes in a row. I’m also a huge fan of Pioneer Woman.
I like going to the food network web page. You kind of learn which cooks have your same tastes after a while.
I also like the Kraft page and the Williams Sonoma page- they have some great cake recipes.
Well, HEY! I consult melskitchencafe don’t cha know! This site is fabulouso! I really like ourbestbites as well. The other thing I do is call my friend Jody who is just starting the whole cooking blog. It’s called madesomethinggood.blogspot…….. just in case you’re bored some day.
I would love Love LOVE a subscription to Cooks Country! I also wanted you to know that I made the Hawaiian Haystack chicken gravy/sauce. I commented earlier on the gravy (I’m the Michelle with 6 kids) but didn’t let you know how MUCH we enjoyed it! My 18 year old son took his first bite and said, “WHOA. This tastes different. What is it? Whatever it is, ALWAYS DO IT.” So thanks Melanie!
I have been visiting King Arthur Flour a lot. Plus, they have an online chat thing so if you run into problems, you can hop on and ask them. I’ve done it and they are super helpful!
I come to your blog, Pioneer Woman or Tasty Kitchen! By the way, we are in LOVE with your white chicken chili. Which my hubby renamed “spicy chicken soup” because he believe chili has to have beef and tomatoes. Lol!
I mostly get my inspiration from blogs like yours. I won’t follow a blog until I’ve road tested a recipe… you had me with your fajitas
It’s a recipe blog written by a busy mother that consistantly posts artisan recipes that I respect the most. You’re at the top of my favorites list but here are the others also on the top.
http://simplyrecipes.com/ – hands down the best chicken and rice casserole (w/o the cans!) I’ve ever tasted.
http://threemanycooks.com/ – Pam Anderson is my favorite cookbook author of all time and her blog doesn’t dissappoint. Every recipe is posted with a story.
http://weelicious.com/ – I always need inspiration to feed my wee one. This site has great ideas on bringing healthy tasty things to the table that I’ll actually eat too.
Thanks!
I am a big fan of the Tasty Kitchen Web site, but I honestly get more recipes from your blog!
I visit your web site, the Sisters Kitchen, Real Mom Kitchen, the Pioneer Woman, and Tasty Kitchen when I’m looking for recipe ideas. I would love the Cooks Country mag … just heard about for the first time from a friend at an Easter get-together!
I go all over the place… I enjoy http://www.realsimple.com, http://www.marthastewart.com, http://www.everdayfood.com, http://www.americastestkitchen.com and of course I visit a bunch of food blogs who always inspire me too.
I’ll usually head to Allrecipes.com if I’m looking for something specific. Family cookbooks are always winners cause it’s usually right down my food alley, so they are go-to sources for sure. Food blogs (including yours, thank you!) always give me something new, or a new way to do something. (www.tasteandtellblog.com is a good one.)
One place I go quite often is yours. When I let the girls choose a meal for the week, one of them always chooses your Salsa Verde Tostadas and the Chicken Enchilada Pasta has also become a family favorite. Thank you so much for all of the wonderful recipes.
Another favorite of mine is Taste of Home.
Everywhere. I am sort of a recipe lover! I see them in a magazine in the Doctors office, I write it down, a friend cooks something I like I write it down, I see it on the internet, I write it down. I always carry a small little notebook in my purse for such things. I do go to all recipes, and your site, and the PW, and Google if I am looking for something that I just had at a restaurant and loved it. Thanks for all your hard work putting your favorite on here!
I mainly go to blogs.
Pioneer Women
Sisters cafe
Picky Palate
For the love of cooking
Smitten Kitchen
are just a few
Oh, and I love Taste of Home magazine and Cooking Light.
Honestly I come to your blog a lot. I love it! And I have a cookbook called Mormon Essentials Cookbook that I use. It has a lot of easy and good recipes. I’m all about those kind of recipes – easy and good.
tastykitchen
I love getting recipes from food blogs especially yours!
I frequently look through your recipes to find new ones to try. Where I go most is to the phone to call my parents and get the recipes to all of the yummy things I ate growing up!
Wow–what an awesome giveaway!! I have only bought this magazine a couple of times at Costco and I have always LOVED it too! Whenever I try a wonder dish no matter where it is–I ask for the recipe:) It is usually a compliment to the creater and they are happy to share. Although with restraunts I just google for the recipe when I get home. I can usually find several variations online for a knock off recipe to try out. I think that is the secret to a good cook–collecting good recipes! I get a lot of my best from this site here! Thanks Melanie!
Well, your blog of course! But I just found http://www.browneyedbaker.com/ it has some fun recipes.
You! ourbestbites, pioneerwoman, and smittenkitchen. You four are my favorite food blogs, and outside the blogging world, my mother-in-law.
What a fun giveaway! I usually go to recipezaar.com in search of recipes. Plus, I like to frequent the fabulous blogs that I read…including yours.
I love, love, love your blog and use it all the time! Most of my other recipes come from family & friends. But I do sometimes browse foodnetwork.com to see what I can find! Thanks for all your yummy recipes!
I am a recipe lover! I love reading recipe books – any I can get my hands on. I would love to win the Cook’s Country subscription. I have made several recipes from you blog – I loved the rice crispy treats you adapted from Cooks Country. Yummy!!
My two favorite go-to recipe sites are yours and Annie’s Eats! I love them both so much!
Food blogs are my favorite places to look for recipies, I love hearing comments and tips about how to make different things and have learnt so much. I also will sometimes check kraftfoods.com as they have some pretty good recipies. Friends and family are also great sources.
I love going on the Cook’s Illustrated bulletin board for both recipes and links. They have a very supportive and generous online community going on over there!
In all honesty I come here to see what you are making to get my ideas. Doesn’t help you much does it.
I like to see things in print more often than not, so a quick trip to a thrift store or used bookstore in search of a new to me cookbook is always helpful.
Thanks for a great give away!
I go to recipezar and I read a bunch of blogs to get great ideas! I love seeing the great pictures that go along with the great recipes that you post on your blog!
Honestly… I have never heard of this magazine… my Mom is a big Taste of Home magazine lover… I use the internet alot… I enjoy blogs like yours that give me recipes that have been tried and are delicious enough to share…
I recently shared a few o your recipes with my Mom because I tried them and loved them and I knew she would too.
Thanks for your blog and your giveaway!
Elizabeth
I frequent your blog and ourbestbites.com and always find what I need. thepioneerwoman also has some delicious stuff.
Well, since I am a big fan of YOU and your cooking style, this magazine is probably right up my alley!!
Besides you for inspiration (
) I like to go to the “manufacturers’” websites (i.e. Betty Crocker, Nestle, Pillsbury) and see what they have for using their product. I really like the reader-provided recipes though, they’re “true-life” recipes that I can easily adapt to our tastes.
When all else fails, I Google the recipe I’m looking for and go through the first page of results looking for what I can use!
I frequent blogs daily. Our Best Bites, yours, PW, Annies Eats, Sisters Cafe, and I like allrecipes.
I’m a huge fan of food blogs (clearly!). There’s nothing like someone recommending it and seeing comments about it. I also frequent allrecipes.com, as they usually have enough user reviews to tell if the recipe’s actually worth making or not.
I go to http://www.allrecipes.com, http://www.recipezaar.com, and http://www.tasteofhome.com. Sometimes I just search the internet and see what pops up.
Ooooh, that looks like a great mag. So a site other than yours? Hmmm, allrecipes.com, the foodnetwork, or my cousin’s Enlightened Homemaker blog.
LOVE your blog! I have an obsession with recipes and cookbooks. I get lots of inspiration and great recipes from the millions of food blogs, but every once in a while I comb the archives of oldies from older cookbooks and magazines at the library or my grandmas. Would love to win a subscription! Thank you for all of your great recipes.
I usually go to your website to to get new recipes, but lately, I’ve been checking out Google books. You can search for recipes from the 40s and 50s. It’s a lot of fun to see some really retro throwbacks. Go to Google books then go to advanced search. If you restrict your search by magazines you’ll get some wild, wild stuff (not to mention some amazingly hilarious/horrible reminders of gender issues back in the day).
I love to go to the website http://www.allrecipes.com Then you get the chance to see what others are doing and cooking and how they have “changed up” classic recipes!
I’m afraid I’m not much help on the recipe front….I use your blog more than anything else! Thanks for a fun giveaway!
omgosh, seriously, a giveaway too? not only are you my ‘lifesaver’ on a daily basis, YOU want to possibly give something to ME? wow, really seems like i should be sending you something!!!
okay, so here is where i check out….
http://www.allrecipes.com
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ (although i’m pretty sure that site may have come from you)
But to be totally honest…..I really mostly just stop here…your blog has become my new ‘one stop shop for recipes!!’
i absolutely *heart* it. your taco beef and the tortilla bowls are both on the agenda for supper today, and possibly your breadsticks also, since i will be having salad!! 
Tasty Kitchen, The Pioneer Woman’s recipe site has recently been a gold mine of great new recipes for me.
You are awesome. The funny thing is that next to this food blog, I get most of my recipes from the Sister’s Cafe. You guys also inspired me to start a food blog with my sisters that is for our 12 children.
This is actually my favorite but I do the recipezaar.com as well.
I either go to your site, For the Love of Cooking or http://www.allrecipes.com to look for inspiration. I was in a rut eating the same handful of dinners for nearly a year until I discovered recipe blogs. Now I am hooked! Thanks for all you great recipes!
Your blog is my go-to site. I always check here first! I also like allrecipes and bettycrocker.com. I have never tried something from your site that my family and I have not loved! Thanks for all the great recipes!!!
I get ideas from my friends, different food blogs and I like to watch some cooking shows- Cook’s Country is one of them! My family is very picky so I usually end up adapting alot of recipes to fit our tastes.
Besides your blog (which is my number one place), I have two other favorite places to find new recipes to try — The Barefoot Contessa (found on food network) and the Taste of Home magazines and cookbooks.
I’ve been using your site a lot lately, but I also use Pioneer Woman quite a bit and rely on many recipes handed down from family. And I do a lot of google searches for recipes, with sometimes good results.
I actually get so many of my recipes from you!! But I also love The Pioneer Woman (and Tasty Kitchen, which is part of her site), Kraft recipes, Food and Family and Beantown Baker. What an awesome giveaway!!
I probably go first to allrecipes.com for recipes. It’s easy to navigate through, and their recipes are rates with lots of comments. Ever since I met you at Evie’s house a few months ago, though, I’ve been checking your blog as well. THANKS!
Hi. My cookbook of choice is anything Cook’s Illustrated so I would be particularly excited about trying their magazine! The other food blog I check on a routine basis is http://www.simplyrecipes.com. The shrimpcake recipe is a very good one and simple-dimple.
Thanks for having such a great cooking blog! I like to visit this one and Joy the Baker’s, The Pioneer Woman and Machessemo….along with several commercial sites.
Thans for having the contest
I just finished my “free Trial” issue of Cooks Country AND Cooks Illustrated. I enjoyed both but especially the Cooks Country. I really enjoy recipes from Blogs, Allrecipes, and Paula Deen.
I look forward to receiving your email every day! I just love most of your recipes. I live in Wisconsin so a lot of my recipes come from family and friends. I also use the “All Recipes” sight for new recipes. I enjoy trying new things!
Your site of course, the sisters cafe and ourbestbites.com. For the love of cooking is also a good one.
Whenever I’m starving, want something quick to fix or wanting to elicit an extremely favorable response from my fiance, I come here or to allrecipes. I love trying out new things, even if they completely bomb. He still makes his “mmm so good” sounds and makes me feel like a million bucks. So thanks for the recipes!
Our recipes normally come from you, honestly. You’ve become “my recipe site” when my husband asks about a dish’s origin. Before hearing about your site, or now if a food item isn’t already addressed on your site, I end up at the foodnetwork.com site. There are a few chefs on there that I lean towards because they (like you) use ingredients I’ve heard of and probably own.
Oh, right now you are my fav. go to site..also been enjoy the Sister Cafe as well. My next fav. is just good o’l all recipes. Keep up the great work..I’ve loved trying your recipes. I’ve been wanting to subscribe to Cooks country..just haven’t..so hope I win.
kimben123(@)yahoo(dot)com
I am a checker and re-checker for recipes, so I use allrecipes.com, recipezaar.com, and your website, and a few others that I’ve found along the way. By the way, thanks so much for all the fun and awesome new recipes you do. We love them at our house!
My coworkers are all really talented in the kitchen, so I find that asking around work usually results in new recipes or gadgets. I also love the Pioneer Woman (who doesn’t?) and some of the culinary mystery novels. Especially when it comes to baking. Oh man, do I ever find good stuff in the novels of Joanne Fluke, Dianne Mott Davidson, Nancy Fairbanks (though I’ve fallen a bit out of love with her), JoAnna Carl, and….I don’t remember any more.
As for blogs ( you poor thing, getting a full laundry list!):
http://www.lifeisafeast.com/
http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/
http://willowbirdbaking.wordpress.com/
http://noblepig.com/
http://crepesofwrath.net/
http://www.jonesing-for.com/
Ok, I think that’s a good place to stop before I list favorite cookbooks.
I’ve been noticing I’ve enjoyed the recipes you’ve posted from Cook’s Country, so I would love to check out the magazine!
) My go-to source is my old battered copy of Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything.” My mom bought it for me when I started college, thinking the name was funny. It’s terrific, though – the recipes are great, and he explains techniques very well.