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Some Blog News

Posted by The Cooks Next Door in Blog, Blog Business and tagged with ,

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April is here and it’s arrival marks 6 months of The Cooks Next Door! Thank you so much for reading, commenting, and trying our recipes! It’s been a lot of fun and a lot of work for us. We have a few changes coming and we wanted to make you aware of them.

- We will change our posting schedule to Monday – Thursday.

- One of us will have a personal post every Tuesday – it may include recipes, farmer’s market or csa finds, gardening, preserving or other topics of interest. Heather’s will be called Counter Culture and Alaina’s is yet to be named. We are excited to welcome you into our homes and kitchens even more.

- We will continue to have Market Fresh, Off The Shelf, and Weekend Fare on a regular basis! We will also still offer holiday menus. magazine reviews, an assortment of other recipes, and occasional restaurant/shop reviews.

- We will also be featuring some guest posts in the coming months. We are looking forward to enjoying a new wife’s perspective, a newly gluten-free cook, and a grill master as well as others.

- May is a busy month for both of our families. Heather is expecting baby #5 at the end of April and will be taking most of the month of May off. And Alaina will be travelling overseas for the first part of May. While there will still be many posts, it may be less than usual. We will both be back hard at work for a summer full of wonderful produce and great recipes!

As busy moms of littles, we are always striving to find the balance. We thoroughly enjoy doing this blog and sharing our passion for cooking, baking, menu planning, entertaining, and seasonal eating. We try our best to answer all of your questions. We consider the recipe requests and try to include some of them in our posts but we simply haven’t been able to incoroporate all of them yet. We hope over the life of this blog that we continue to give you recipes that you enjoy!

If you or anyone you know would like to advertise on our blog, has products or books that need reviewed, or would like us to host a cooking-related giveaway, please don’t hesitate to contact us! We also really appreciate you sharing our site with friends and family through word of mouth, blogging, tweeting, and facebook!

Thank you again for making this a wonderful project. We look forward to continually improving and updating  our website!

Calendar Winner!

Posted by The Cooks Next Door in Blog Business, Giveaways

The random winner of our calendar giveaway is….MARY W.! Mary, we will send you an e-mail to get your  address and get it in the mail!

Thank you all for entering – we enjoyed hearing your goals and plans for this year! Look for another giveaway of the chocolate variety in February! Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy New Year!

Posted by Alaina in Blog, Blog Business

As we say goodbye to 2009 and hello to 2010, we wish to thank you for your encouragement and support of our website. Without you, dear readers, it would be a rather dull endeavor. We appreciate your comments, suggestions, feedback, and mostly for keeping us wanting to bring you new recipes.

We have many plans for 2010 – our first full year up and running. We look forward to continuing to bring you into our homes and kitchens!

May your new year be filled with family and friends, exciting ventures, and wonderful food!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Apron Winner

Posted by Alaina in Blog, Blog Business, Giveaways and tagged with

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the holidays and haven’t gotten around to posting the winner of the apron! The random winner is…Nancy L.! Congratulations! We will get that mailed out to you soon!

Hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas enjoying good food and making memories with your families!

Merry Christmas!

Posted by Alaina in Blog, Blog Business

A very Merry Christmas from our families to yours…

(I’m afraid the lighting was quite bad and there was a long line behind us but you get the idea…)

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

-Charles Dickens

The Winner!

Posted by Alaina in Blog, Blog Business, Giveaways

The random winner of the Paula Deen’s Kids’ Cookbooks is Gretchen! I’ve been slow to get things in the mail but all of the prizes from the past few drawings will be in the mail tomorrow! Enjoy and thanks for entering! We will have another giveaway this Friday!!!

Winner!

Posted by Alaina in Blog Business, Giveaways

And the winner of the Cookie Cookbook and Cookie Cutters is…KIM! Although you like to make anise flavored cookies, we decided that didn’t warrant a disqualification. :) My husband would like to stop by for your anise cookies – he loves them! Hope you enjoy the cookbook! I’ll also be contacting you via e-mail.