For someone who loves giving unique gifts for weddings, birthdays or anniversaries, I was in awe when I came across this amazing gift website, Xperience Days. From in-home cooking classes to skydiving lessons and wine-tasting dinner cruises, I can “gift” an experience to someone with just a few mouse-clicks.
I’m excited to give my first “Xperience” Gift to someone, but I’m even more excited to give away a $50 gift card to Xperience Days to one lucky reader of The Organized Cook! To enter the giveaway, simply enter below.
And in the meantime, check out these fabulous gift experiences that you can shop by city or by experience like:
Slow-cooker dinner recipes are among my favorites, which is why I’m so excited about this week’s giveaway from The Organized Cook. Two lucky winners will receive one of two Hamilton Beach Slow Cookers including the new Stay or Go Portable Slow Cooker.
Slow Cooker Hearty Beef Stew Recipe
Enter the giveaway below, then check out my favorite Slow Cooker Recipes from The Organized Cook.
Stay or Go® 6 Quart Portable Slow Cooker
With folding handles, this Slow Cooker is perfect to take your favorite recipes to potlucks or parties. We have a staff appreciation luncheon coming up at our school, so I’m sure my Stay or Go Portable Slow Cooker will be going with me.
Hamilton Beach Stay or Go Portable Slow Cooker
Deluxe Set & Forget® 6 Quart Slow Cooker
This “smart” Slow Cooker has three choices for programming including the probe method. Simply program your cooking and let this Slow Cooker do the rest.
I recently asked readers about their New Year’s Resolutions in “What Made Your List?“. Not surprisingly, the comments I received back include goals of getting into shape, saving money and eating healthier.
With a high protein value and creamy-rich taste, Greek yogurt, like Oikos Greek Yogurt, is the perfect snack food to have handy when hunger strikes. And did you know that you can easily substitute Greek yogurt into many recipes for a healthy alternative? Check out these light and delicious recipes from The Organized Cook using Oikos Organic Plain Greek Yogurt, and be sure to enter this weeks giveaway from Stonyfield.
Oikos Organic Plain Yogurt Recipes from The Organized Cook
This week we’re giving away some awesome prizes from Stonyfield:
Grand Prize:
Hamilton Beach personal smoothie blender
Stonyfield Organic Yogurt Cookbook
Organic Oikos coupons totaling $50
Colander and Cutting Board from Preserve Products
More Winners Will Receive:
1. 5 Sets of Organic Oikos Coupons
2. Organic Oikos Apron
Don’t miss out on the chance to win one of these fabulous prizes from Stonyfield. Enter here:
I wrote in my New Year’s Resolution post “What Made Your List?” about how many goals for 2012 can relate back to family dinner time, whether it’s saving money, eating healthy or finding ways to free up your time for working out or learning a new language.
This week Rubbermaid is helping keep New Years Resolutions on track with a giveaway of the new Glass Easy Find Lids 8-Piece Set.
The Giveaway
Winner will receive the Rubbermaid Glass Easy Find Lid 8-Piece Set. Entering is simple:
If your family is like my family, they don’t like to eat leftovers. So what you’re left with at the end of the week is a lot of food to throw out.
Not only do I use my leftovers, I actually plan my weekly family dinner menu so that I intentionally have leftovers. For example, when I saute chicken to make Chicken Madeira, I’ll cook more than I need and store the extra cooked chicken to use later on in the week for another recipe like Tomato Basil & Chicken Penne or Chicken Enchiladas. I slice up leftover London Broil and store to make French Dip Sandwiches the next day.
By reincarnating my leftover food, dinner takes just a few minutes some nights. Cooked food should be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. The Rubbermaid Glass Easy Find Lids 8-Piece Set are perfect for storing my food and keeping it fresh. Plus, the easy-to-find lid system makes it simple by eliminating the search for the exact size lid… and we all know how much I love to save time!
Here are some examples of ways to “reincarnate” your leftover using the Rubbermaid Glass Easy Find Lid Set:
Homemade Chicken Tenders
Leftover Homemade Chicken Tenders can be stored and used later in the week for a delicious, easy dinner like Buffalo Chicken Wraps or Chicken Parmesan.
Homemade Chicken Tenders
Buffalo Chicken Wraps
Buffalo Chicken Wrap Recipe:
Ingredients:
leftover cooked chicken tenders, diced
buffalo hot sauce (like Frank’s Red Hot Sauce)
iceberg lettuce
blue cheese crumbles
tortillas
Directions:
tossed diced chicken tenders in buffalo sauce
place chicken in center of tortilla and top with lettuce and cheese
fold tortilla
Chicken Parmesan Recipe:
Ingredients:
Chicken Parmesan made from Leftover Homemade Chicken Tenders
leftover chicken tenders
marinara sauce
parmesan cheese
dried parsley
Directions:
Place leftover chicken tenders in long baking dish
cover with marinara sauce
top with shredded parmesan cheese and sprinkle with dried parsley
bake at 350 degrees until hot, approximately 25 minutes
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