You All Are So Smart
And really good looking, too.
I never do giveaways because I never feel like I have anything worthwhile to give except my book and the only ones of those I have left are the Navajo Quilt Edition. I could knit you some socks but it would be next year before you got them and that sort of negates the whole Immediate Gratification that one associates with the Blogosphere.
However, since you asked for it AND since I have no idea if it's even legal to ship relish and pickles around the country...Announcing the Relish My Relish Giveaway! Just leave a comment and...well, let's see...you all know everything about ME, maybe tell me a little bit about yourself. OR just tell me what you'll do with the tomato relish and pickles. Or just tell me how you found my blog, if you remember. Leave some sort of comment by next Friday, September 4, 2009 at midnight EST. I'll use one of those bloggy number widgits and choose three winners at random.
I'm so excited! I love the idea of sharing my garden's bounty and I love the idea of getting to know my fantastic readers. Let me know if you're a knitter and maybe I'll throw in some yarn. And/or my book.
I never do giveaways because I never feel like I have anything worthwhile to give except my book and the only ones of those I have left are the Navajo Quilt Edition. I could knit you some socks but it would be next year before you got them and that sort of negates the whole Immediate Gratification that one associates with the Blogosphere.
However, since you asked for it AND since I have no idea if it's even legal to ship relish and pickles around the country...Announcing the Relish My Relish Giveaway! Just leave a comment and...well, let's see...you all know everything about ME, maybe tell me a little bit about yourself. OR just tell me what you'll do with the tomato relish and pickles. Or just tell me how you found my blog, if you remember. Leave some sort of comment by next Friday, September 4, 2009 at midnight EST. I'll use one of those bloggy number widgits and choose three winners at random.
I'm so excited! I love the idea of sharing my garden's bounty and I love the idea of getting to know my fantastic readers. Let me know if you're a knitter and maybe I'll throw in some yarn. And/or my book.
Comments
About me? Ummm, I knit, I homeschool my 6 (almost 7) year old son. I just cleaned his toy pit and threw away a ton of plastic toys.
And I knit! And I have been to Texas and New York so that counts for something, right? And I am jealous of your garden ... I am a gardener only in my mind.
My girlfriend and I have been making organic grape jelly from the orchard of a friend of hers. Last year her husband realized how much they were worth, implying that it was the last year we would be getting them for free, so we make enough grape jelly to last at least two years. My children flew through the peach, the russian olive berry, an the blueberry jam, barely touching the grape from last year. I just got an email that we are getting the grapes again, only they have cut down some trellis so we should expect at least double what we had last year! HOLY GRAPES!
Didn't know you had written a book, congrats!! Would love to have a copy. Oldest daughter is a liberian and I would have to share!
Bethany (mom to Cameron)
PS - If you need another reason to take pity on me, I can never get my google account to work, so I have to post anonymously.
PPS - If you want to save on shipping, I'm sure my mom could meet you somewhere in town. (And I'm sure she and my dad, a real gardener who can't garden anymore since he moved to a tiny wooded patch of land in your town in 1987), would love some tomato relish, too.
Um, let's see. I started reading your blog when my SIL forwarded me one of your "So the thing is" emails. This was a couple months before you decided to move -- I think?
I have never had tomato relish, but I would relish the opportunity! Although maybe I should win the pickles since my last name is Diller.
As for what I'd do with the pickles and tomato relish, well, that's easy. The butcher shop in our neighbourhood makes amazing bison burger patties. I would cook them up, & serve them on toasted whole wheat buns, garnished with the pickles and relish. And, of course, real mayo. Ideally, I would do this in the company of fine friends, while sharing a bottle of wine and laughing a lot while we enjoyed that captured taste of Summer and Real Homegrown Vegetables. There would be a toast to you. And then maybe some ice cream.
What I would do with the relish - I make a dish called Magistrate's Muffins. One of the restaurants I cheffed for in Australia was called Petty Sessions - so named because it was down the street from the local courts.
The muffins were English muffins, halved and toasted, then spread with a chutney or relish, then topped with a ix of - mixed dried herbs, smalled diced red and green capsicum (bell peppers), and grated tasty cheese. Then under the grill (broiler) until bubbly.
These are the standard veg. version - you can also add diced ham for the meat lovers.
For years, all I could knit was scarves, but thanks to my M-I-L I learned to make a few baby hats for Direct Relief International. Could I learn to knit a sock? It took me 4 years to knit a sweater.
Love your blog, but I don't know how I found it.
I have followed your blog ever since. I even was thinking about making my own sweet pickle relish -but we live in PA and since you posted the recipe, the weather has been hot/rainy so all of my cucumbers remained yellow and non-ripe.
And also, I NEVER leave comments!
Ooh! If you find a big enough box, I bet you could squeeze Thomas in there with the pickles and relish!
So, about me ... my boss has been telling me to practice an "elevator speech" (because I need one). And I can't figure it out.
I'm no closer to summing up my "real" life either. That makes me confused - with 1 dog, 2 cats, a new-to-me Dude and lots of yarn.
Glad to see that your crop hasn't been consumed by the blight like most of the rest of the country.
Barb, I don't remember how I found your blog - probably through a comment you left somewhere else, I'd guess. It was a few months ago, I guess. I put you on my google home page, so I don't miss anything. . .
I don't knit, and I haven't crocheted in YEARS - and even then, it was mostly the doily-curtain-lace variety. . .
Do love the puppy though!
Me not so much, but this would mean I don't have to go and buy any. ;-)
Love you honey. Thanks for the comments and support over the past year on my blog.
And I should make you some socks. I'm averaging one a year. lol
It was either just before or right after your move to NY. I thought, "oh I don't think I could be brave enough to move to a whole other state that is so far, far away." Haha - here I am a year into OUR move from Texas to Mass. and I am still wondering how you did it with such grace and an outstanding sense of humor.
If the random number thingamabob were to choose me I'd have to defer though.
I just want to say that you somehow help me find my Elvis every time you post something new.
And also...I really want to try some tomato relish!!! I don't know what you DO with it, but I love tomatoes!!
Oh - and I'm a knitter! And a reader! And a lover of pickles.
;-)
You deserve every one my soul sista/girlfriend - you rock!
Anyway I've been reading your blog for (just over) 2 years, from the first time Edward went missing. Course you know I'm pretty sure it'd be illegal to send me pickles (not to mention expensive) being as how I live 3000 miles away across an ocean but I am a knitter and a reader ( and I have a dog a lot like Scout )
I stayed because you're such a good writer and also because you're so darn funny... and well... I have to admit it... because of Edward.
AND I have a Texas connection...lots of relatives and a showing in a gallery there in 2010...does that count???