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Blogtoberfest
Spring
De-stash day
Need to buy chocolate
Feeling like it
Blah blah blah)
Not me!
Just to get any lurkers out of the woodwork, thought I'd offer up a choice of:
a box of some sewing what-nots, buttons, trims, fabric, patterns, books, vintage linen etc
OR
a vintage Fisher Price dollhouse (only accessory is car in garage) - photos at the end of the post -
to a person who can share the tastiest salad recipe! Either link to a post in the comments, or tell us the ingredients! Strange way to win a giveaway? Yes, but I like that you have to work for it! Don't forget to tell me which pressie you want!
Not limited to Aussies, anyone can join in, postage schmostage! Will be drawn later in the month - let's say the Twenty-fifth - good a date as any!
Lots of other giveaways listed with the Blogtoberfest office here.
j
It's just so damn cute.....
j
30 comments:
OMG that house is amazing. Ok so I don't have the best salad recipe but I do have the best salad dressing recipe (although everyone probably knows it my mum thinks it's her special secret), not anymore I guess.
5 tbs olive oil
1 tbs balsamic vinegar
1 tbs lemon juice
1 tbs honey
1 tbs seeded mustard
Put it all in a jar and shake, shake, shake. Pour over all types of salads or dip some crusty bread in it. Don't refrigerate
Local lurker delurking here thanks to the lure of a competition :)
My all time favourite salad has baby spinach, roasted sweet potato cubes, lebanese cucumber and sliced ripe peaches in it with a balsamic dressing. Mmmmm, summer salads...
What a super dooper fabulous terrific giveaway! Now as I don't eat salad or veg, my recipe is not going to be very good, but I have found a way to make myself a salad that I can actually eat without wanting to vomit.
First I make a garlic and yoghurt sauce just using a small tub of greek yoghurt and a couple of teaspoons of minced garlic. Then all I do is take nice ripe tomatoes, some lettuce, and some cucumber and I cut them all up really really small. Smother the whole lot with the yoghurt sauce and then the salad is edible!
I just popped over to see what you were up to and you're having a giveaway! It's a great way to meet people isn't it?
I'm feeling completely depleted of salad recipes though! Unprepared...the only salad we have made this season has been our lazy daisy quick bbq/kid friendly variety. I shred lettuce, grate cheddar cheese, carrot and add corn kernels. It takes four minutes. Then I dust it with tomato wedges and voila! OH and the kids have to eat the lettuce because it's all 'coleslawed' into the rest of the things they love! Cheers - Jen
What an awesome giveaway!
My salad recipe is for tuna nicoise salad, it is so tasty and filling enough for lunch!
So get some mixed salad leaves, halved cherry tomatoes, and sliced mushrooms. Bung that all in!
Then get a boiled egg. I love to slice mine with the egg slicer!
And then you get a tin of tuna and drain it and chuck that in as well.
Mix equal parts olive oil and balsamic vinegar for the dressing.
Yummo!
I hope you enjoy!
(I would like to be considered for the sewing bits and bobs. Thanks again Button Beauty for a lovely giveaway!)
I would love to be entered in for the vintage goodness sewing stuff. I just bought that exact same fisher price doll house for 1.99 at my local op shop..great giveaway, happy spring, happy house cleaning...and happy hump day (well for me anyway)
Cheers Kyla
Hi there! I would love to win the first prize. The sewing lot! Thank you for holding such a great giveaway!
This salad recipe is my ABSOLUTE favorite!!!:
http://www.foodtv.ca/recipes/recipedetails.aspx?dishid=4112
It's a spinach salad with strawberries and a poppy seed dressing. It is to die for, and I promise, will not disappoint!
Thanks again for entering me in your draw!!!
Ooo! I'm first! This is the best salad ever- and perfect for summer (although not for those with a shellfish allergy)
Mango, prawn and avocado salad
1 mango peeled and diced
1 red capsicum sliced
1 yellow capsicum sliced
1 x avocado, peeled and diced same size as mango
1 x medium size cos lettuce, washed with core removed
1 punnet grape tomatoes cut in half
As many prawns as you like/can afford, cleaned
Lemon, lime and honey vinigarette
400ml white balsamic vinegar
juice of 2 lemons
juice of 2 limes
170ml honey
200ml vegetable oil
100 ml olive oil
100g capsicum, finely diced
sea salt and cracked pepper
Mix together all the ingredients for the dressing and then all the ingredients for the salad. Combine. Enjoy!
I am always up to a challenge so here goes. This is one of my favourite salads to eat.
FRESH SPINACH SALAD WITH STRAWBERRIES.
Make the dressing up and keep refridgerated until ready to serve the salad.
Do Not Pour On Greens Until You Are Ready To Serve.
Salad Ingredients:
1 Pound Fresh Spinach Washed & Torn Into Pieces.
1 Pint Strawberries
1/2 Cup Slivered Almonds, Toasted.
Sesame-Poppyseed Dressing
1/4 Cup Sugar
2 Teaspoon Sesame Seeds
1 Teaspoon Poppy Seeds
1/4 Teaspoon Worchestershire Sauce
1 1/2 Teaspoon Chopped Onion
1/4 Teaspoon Paprika
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil (I have substituted this with extra virgin olive oil with no problem)
1/4 Cup Cider Vinegar
Combine dressing ingredients in blender until smooth.
You may keep in fridge overnight if required. Shake really well before using.
Pour over salad ingredients just before serving and toss.
ok this is for the doll house and this the best salad ever and it's simple- the amounts are up to you so arrange to taste - rocket salad leaves - feta (crumbled) - pine nuts (sprinkled in whole) - Roast pumbkin (yes it must be roasted and cooled then torn into little peices and thrown in) and a basamic dressing any type will do and toss together thats it, yum
Hi Jess,
Found your site via curlypops and thought I'd pop in for a visit.
(and enter your comp whilst here).I would pick choice 1, the sewing things. The dolls house is very cute, but I haven't got a lot of space here :(
Salad recipe: Farfalle salad with sundried tomatoes and spinach. It is nice to serve at a barbeque.
Ingredients:500g farfalle pasta (looks like little bow ties), 3 spring onions, 60g sun-dried tomatoes (cut into strips), 500g baby english spinach,4 tablespoons toasted pine nuts, 1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano, I also add bocconcini cheese (the small ones).
Dressing: 1/4 cup macadamia oil, 1 teaspoon chopped fresh chilli, 1 clove garlic, crushed, salt and pepper.
Method:
Cook pasta, drain and rinse under cold water. transfer to a salad bowl.
Trim the spring onions and chop finely. Add to the pasta with the tomatoes, spinach, pine nuts, bocconcini and oregano.
To make the dressing:
Combine the oil, chilli, garlic, salt and pepper in a small screw-top jar and shake until well combined. Pour the dressing over the top of the salad, toss well and serve immediately. Voila, she is done!
I hope you like my recipe.
Cheers,
Sandi
how cute!
My fave salad is a bit of a no brainer but it's soooo yummy!
toss baby spinach leaves and baby rocket together (or for the easy option, buy it premixed) add some chopped up feta, cucumber and capsicum. Then throw a small tub of sundried tomatoes and olives in with the juice to dress it.
Oh and I would love some sewing odds and bobs.
Thankyou for hosting this givaway
Katie
I found your blog through Curlypops (loving Blogtober as I am finding some great blogs). I'd love to enter for the sewing bibs and bobs.
My favourite salad recipe (and it must be good as every time we have a family do, mum asks me to bring this salad!) is 120g baby rocket, 100g semi-dried tomatos, 80g roasted pine nuts. Dress with mixture of 1tbs balsamic vinegar and 1tbs olive oil. Sprinkle with shaved parmesan and enjoy!!!
I want that dollhouse... pity I'm not that into salad... I'll go find a link to a recipe I like the sound of and report back - will that do?
A local lurker coming out of the woodwork. Thanks for such a wonderful giveaway. I would love to win the sewing bits. Sorry its a long recipe :)
ROAST PUMPKIN SALAD
1 1/2KG BUTTERNUT PUMPKIN,PEELED AND CUBED
500G CHERRY TOMATOES, HALVED
OLIVE OIL
500G GREEN BEANS, TRIMMED AND HALVED
125G BABY SPINACH LEAVES
125G FETTA CHEESE, CRUMBLED
DRESSING
4 TBSPNS SHREDDED LEMON ZEST
2 CLOVES GARLIC, CRUSHED
2 TBSPNS OREGANO LEAVES
PREHEAT OVEN TO 200C. PLACE PUMPKIN IN BAKING DISH. PLACE THE TOMATOES, CUT SIDE UP IN A SEPERATE LINED BAKING DISH. SPRINKLE BOTH WITH OIL.PLACE THE PUMPKIN ON THE TOP SHELF OF THE OVEN AND THE TOMATOES ON THE MIDDLE SHELF.
BAKE FOR 30 MINUTES. REMOVE THE TOMATOES AND BAKE THE PUMPKIN FOR A FURTHER 25 MINUTES OR UNTIL GOLDEN. SET ASIDE TO COOL.
COOK THE BEANS IN BOILING WATER UNTIL TENDER. DRAIN. COOL UNDER COLD WATER AND DRAIN AGAIN.
TO SERVE, PLACE THE SPINACH LEAVES ON A PLATTER WITH THE PUMPKIN, TOMATOES, BEANS AND FETTA.
MIX THE EXTRA OIL, LEMON ZEST, GARLIC AND OREGANO LEAVES AND POUR OVER THE SALAD.
This is a bit of an indulgence salad but it has lots of veges so it counts as a salad in my book!
Beans with asparagus -
4 rashers bacon, chopped finely
2 Bunches asparagus, trimmed
200g green beans, trimmed
150g sugar snap peas or snow peas, trimmed
1 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved
1/3 cup flaked almonds, lightly toasted
1/4 cup olive oil
finely grated zest of one lemon
Heat nonstick pan and fry bacon until crisp.
Meanwhile blanch green vegetables for 1 minute in a large pan of simmering water. Drain and transfer to bowl of iced water. Drain well.
Cook asparagus mixture with tomatoes in frying pan used for bacon for 1-2 minutes. Add bacon and almonds, drizzle with combined oil and zest. Voila!
Yum, loving all these recipes! My recipe's coming, I've got to find it first...(rummages through box)...
Oh, my Bug would love the Fisher Price house- we borrowed an old FP school from the Toy library and he went straight to it every morning for the whole three weeks! So here's my salad recipe, the sweet soy dressing is amazing:
Zingy Spinach Salad
Ingredients
1 bunch of spinach
1 packet of Changs Fried Noodles
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 packet slivered almonds or pine nuts – toasted
SAUCE
½ cup raw sugar
¼ cup vinegar
¼ Cup Fountain garlic soy sauce
¾ Cup salad oil
Boil sauce ingredients and cool. Add salad oil and refridgerate.
METHOD
To finely chopped spinach , one hour before serving, add toasted nuts and sauce.
Mix through (this is easier to do with your hands) – sprinkle noodles on
top.
Serve- YUM!
My favourite salad is simple. I get one of those neat little bags of baby salad greens from the supermarket and throw in a few cherry tomatoes and whatever else I have in the way of salad veges. Toss them together with a little homemade vinagrette!
Yum
Spinach seems to be a bit of a hit with everyone.
I am loving chickpeas at the moment and made this one the other night!
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/669/pumpkin+and+chickpea+salad
I would have to say the first option on the give away - Can never have enough bits
Sewing what nots please!!
Veggie/Fruit Salad:
o Two heads of brocolli cut into smaller pieces
o Head of califlower cut into smaller pieces
o 1 Cup of raisins
o 3-5 celery stalks cut into small pieces
o Small bunch of seedless grapes
o Bacon bits(a jar worth), or bacon (cooked of course), crumbled up
o 1 TBSP lemon juice
o 2 TBSP Sugar (or Splenda)
o 1 Cup of either mayonaise or miracle whip
Mix together, put into the fridge for a bit or eat right now!
Options:
o Grated/sliced thinly carrots
o Smallish chopped onions,
o Smallish chopped favorite type of apples
o mini marshmellows
Okay, not I've got to go to the grocery and get these things to make this.....yum!
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Hello, lurker here.
Best salad:
green lettuce cut into halves or quarter + cut cooked egg (one or two)+ on butter fried sesame +
small pieces of cooked chicken meet + sweet corn
At the end pour over with mixture of
5 tbs olive oil + 1tbs mayonnaise + 2 tbs sour cream + apple vinegar
Oh a box of some sewing what-nots, buttons, trims, fabric, patterns, books, vintage linen etc would be lovely, thank you :o)
i would go for the sewing bits . . .
salad - well - lots of veggies in this, so maybe it counts?
summer salsa
start with a cup of salsa (you choose mild, medium, or hot)
add a can of black beans, drained and rinsed
add a can of corn, drained
add a peeled, diced avacado
add fresh lime zest and fresh squeezed lime juice to taste
serve with corn chips of your choice
enjoy
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The sewing what-nots sound very exciting!
I'm afraid my recipe is a bit of a rip-off of Bellgirl's. Its a nice crunchy dish, which unfortunately we can no longer eat here because the youngest member of the household is not allowed to consume sesame and nut products. Rats.
Noodle salad ...
Shred 1 Chinese cabbage finely and add 6 chopped shallots. Mix together with 100g packaged fried noodles. Combine 1/4 cup white vinegar, 1/4 cup caster sugar, 2 tbs soy sauce, 2 tsp sesame oil and 1/4 cup peanut oil. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the dressing (at the last minute, so the noodles stay crunchy) and toss.
Love the house, so cute. Ok recipe
Roast kumara, pine nuts, baby spinach, diced fetta with a dressing of chilli sauce, honey, lime and some olive oil. You can also use cashew nut and rocket if you feel the need.
What a great idea, lots of yummy recipes here!
I love chicken mango vietnamese salad.
I buy a half a BBQ chook, remove skin and shread flesh (or poach a breast, cool and shread)
1 ripe delicious mango peeled and sliced
Butter lettuce or that pre mixed lettuce leaves stuff
1 red onion finely sliced
1 lebanese cucumber finely sliced
1/2 bunch coriander ripped up
1/2 bunch mint ripped up
Mix all in bowl and pour over dressing
Dressing
1tbsp fish sauce
Juice of 1 lime, or a kaffir lime
1tsp sugar
1tbsp rice vinegar
3tbsp vegetable oil
oh and I'd love the sewing stuff!!
Emma
qotfu72@yahoo.com.au
I used to have the schoolhouse that goes with that house when I was a kid! But since I have no kids of my own, sewing items seem to be more my thing.
Anyway, my favoritest salad of all time isa variation on the typical spinach salad. I don't have any measurements, it's basically to taste...
Baby spinach
hearts of romaine
Blue cheese crumbles
candied pecans (you can use your favorite nut, pecans are mine)
mandarin oranges
raspberry vinaigrette.
Just toss it all together and dive in. Yum!
Alright, wasn't going to enter because I'm already up for PIF .... but
500gms cooked spiral pasta (large)
Red onion sliced
Sundried Tomatos (about 3/4-1cup cut in half)
Feta cheese cubed (200gms)
toss together with:
1/4 marinade of sundried toms & lots of chopped (not crushed) garlic (3-4 single cloves)
Toss in some pine nuts.
As you can tell, I'm not really one for accurate measurements, go by taste to suit really!
I'd love some sewing bits .... if I get drawn!
Oh, boy I hope Im not to late I forgot to include my salad recipe. Here is a link to it, it is yummy and her food is to die for:)
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/03/my_most_favorite_salad_ever_ever_ever_ever/
Kyla
Am I too late for this?? I LOVE random boxes of sewing goodies! :p
You HAVE to try my brown rice salad...it's AMAZING, even if I do say so myself. :p
http://miscellanyofme.blogspot.com/2008/04/mega-yummy-brown-rice-salad.html
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