Submit Your Recipes to the Cook'n Magazine

The new Cook’n magazine is looking for your submissions! This reader-based, high-end, drool-worthy, incredibly-photographed cooking magazine is inviting you to share your favorite recipes.  If your recipe is selected to be in Cook’n, your blog address will appear along side of a beautiful photograph of your recipe and we will sent you a copy of the Nov/Dec holiday issue of the magazine. 

To see what Cook’n has to offer check them out at http://northridgepublishing.com/magazines/cook-n-magazine.

Submit your favorite recipes for

1.      Healthy Holiday Meals

2.      Quick Winter Meals

3.      Cranberries or pumpkin recipes

4.      Holiday Meats

5.      Holiday Side Dishes

6.      Hors d’ oeuvres or finger foods

7.      Holiday desserts

Please submit your recipes along with clear instructions and tips in a Word format file to cookn@northridgepublishing.com.   Deadline for submissions is June 1^st.

Pinterest and Meal Planning- This week DONE!

Today I looked at my FOOD Board~ http://pinterest.com/pamallen68/food/ and I'm going to try 4 NEW Recipes.  I was able to plan ahead, woohoo!  That's big for me, usually at noon I check freezer see what kind of meat then about 4pm see what we have in cupboard and then whip something up!  Not always the best plan of course.  Family is used to my cooking so this week I want to SHOCK them!

Tonight:

Go to Mama Loves Food for the recipe

Tomorrow:

Go to Foodie Bride for the recipe

Wednesday:

Go to My Recipes for the recipe

Thursday: 

Go to Blog Chef for the recipe

Thank you Pinterest for all the recipe links and lets see what my family will LOVE/LIKE/HATE!

Review: Cook'n Recipe Organizer

Cook'n Recipe Organizer

The Easiest Way to...

• Find the Best Recipes on the Internet
• Capture and Save Internet Recipes
• Enter Your Own Personal Recipes
• Sync Recipes with iPhone, iPad, & Android
• Print a Family Cookbook
• Analyze Nutritional Values
• Make Menus, Shopping Lists & More!
• Get Free Cookbook with Purchase

If you want to get 50% off this program use this code during checkout: mb-pinkmama  at http://www.dvo.com/gcookn.html

My Review:


Search:  I can do a search on the Internet and find recipes I want and click CAPTURE and there it is in Favorite Recipe or my Go To Cookbooks!  You can name your own cookbooks.  Plus I can input the ingredients I have in the house and it will bring up all recipes for those ingredients- how cool!


Organize:  This is the coolest part!  If you are like me you have recipes in the kitchen, on the desk, in a file folder, saved somewhere on the computer but can you find "that" recipe when you need it?  Not me!  This program saves everything in one place.  You can organize by different cookbooks.  Right now I have Pam's Fav's and Pam's To Go cookbooks.  But I do plan to add more. I love this program!


Edit: Let's say I need to double a recipe or triple (bake sale stuff) so I pull up the recipe and add how many people this needs to serve and guess what...it does all the math for you!


Menu: Plan ahead- what is that?  Well I can do it now with hardly any thinking.  It allows you do it weekly, monthly,and 3 months.  I'm going to really enjoy this feature this week since it's shopping week.


Shopping list: This is probalbly my favorite part- it creates a shopping list for each recipe.  I can print the list or save on the computer and send right to my phone. Plus it gives you all the nutritional info too and now that I'm eating healthier this is very important.


Manually Add Recipe:  I have some recipes that go way back and are on index cards and now I can input them on this program and this helps me by keeping ALL recipes in one spot!


Print: You can print out recipes, menu plans, and cookbooks.
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Overall this is a WONDERFUL program that I think every household should have!  It also has tons of recipes already in the program plus they have over 100 cookbooks to buy! I have used it every day that I have cooked.  


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IT'S WORTH IT!


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I received this product mentioned above for free.  Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Thanksgiving Stress-Just NOT Having It!

Well it hasn't hit me yet....wondering why not.  Usually I'm all panicked that my house isn't clean enough or I'm not that good of a cook so what is people going to think of my food!  That's a lot of pressure to put on someone and I guess at 41 (yes almost 42) I'm getting to the point of I know I can't stress or I get sick!  Wow I'm so happy I'm finally beginning to see the light.

My house will look lived in- not messy nor extra extra clean.  Really with a 8 & 6 yr old kids what good is it to spic and span the house when in an hour something is going to get messed up anyways.  Lived in is just fine for me.  Now when my mom comes in Dec maybe I'll do a lil extra scrub here and there but I'm not busting my butt.  My hubby will be happy that's for sure.  I usually have a list of 10 things for him to do and maybe he gets 2 done- so that eases that stress of getting upset with him too. 

As for cooking...hell after all these years I think I got the basics down!  Simple menu and all the usual thanksgiving suspects (turkey, mashed potatoes, mac/cheese, greens beans, rolls.....).  I'm no Martha Stewart so why try to be!  Part of me wishes I was more into decorating but hey I keep that for Halloween, Christmas, and Easter. 

Simple this year people SIMPLE!  That means lil stress on me than I'm all for it! 

So THANKFUL!

Are you ready for THANKSGIVING?

Biggest question is AM I?  Heck no but next week I'm all about it.  The carpets are getting cleaned on Wednesday.  My house is in good condition so I don't have to do much in house cleaning but I do want to go through and declutter.  I've been doing lil baby steps with fly lady so I guess that's where my decluttering is coming from LOL!

I am going to do my menu and shopping list next week too!  I have to stay I HATE GROCERY SHOPPING!  We moved last year and the neighborhood grocery store is horrible.  I get all stressed out when I have to go shopping there so guess what I did the other day...I shopped ONLINE!  I made my list and ordered from Safeway.com ( free delivery and $15 off- for 1st time) and let me tell you it was AWESOME!  I got to pick what day/time they would deliver and it was very smooth.  I was a little worried about produce/meat so I didn't get too much but what I did was perfect.  The only complaint I can say was my milk jug was dented...oh my :)  I'll be doing this again and again. 

My cousin is coming from Arizona with her son and we are so excited!  Hubby is thinking about doing a "smoked" turkey and I say go for it, more room in the oven for me.  Now lets hope and pray I don't burn anything! 

What are your favorite Thanksgiving Tips/Tricks???

I burnt Hamburger Helper...OMG

Now I know I suck as a cook! Yesterday, was a bit rough so my mind was just not on cooking. I FORGOT to turn it down to simmer and left it on high....ugh! I went upstairs for 10 minutes to spend some time with my hubby while he was watching the news. I came downstairs, yelled TIME FOR DINNER then went into the kitchen to make the plates. Turned around to the stove and looked in horror that the burner was still on high! Picked up the top and opps all burnt to heck. Damn Damn! Why does this have to happen to me....I almost cried. Ugh, had to call the Pizza Man because it was already 7pm. Hubby and Kids were not happy they had to wait longer. I didn't have anything else to make. Tuesday is grocery day so our fridge/freezer was empty. I can't believe I burnt hamburger helper! We don't even buy HH that much but it was a new flavor...Chili so I wanted to give it a shot. Well I guess next time. LOL!