Lauren's Kitchen: Halftime, Day 2

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Halftime, Day 2

Good morning!

First, I want to thank you all for helping me get as far as I have in the Superbowl Snack Throwdown. When I first started this, I figured I'd ask you all to vote for me each week and that'd be it. But you guys go way past that - you solicit YOUR friends and family by posting on Facebook, on your message boards, whatever... and there's no way I would have won even a single week if not for that. So THANK YOU!!

The site is doing a "halftime" week this week. There will be no cooking, so there's no voting this weekend. However, all week they will be posting little challenges where my competitor and I can earn points. The person with the most points at the end of the week earns a point in the overall scoreboard, AND can pick next week's ingredient!

Yesterday, I won the quantity part of the contest by ONE. I had ONE more comment than Kate did. WAHOO! Thank you!

Today's challenge is to select a cookie cutter. Go here and select the cookie cutter that you think will be the most difficult to connect to a holiday - it needs to really be a stretch for a baker to figure out how to incorporate it. Then, visit HighLowAha and post your choice in the comment section. Make sure you add that you are commenting on behalf of the Holiday Armadillos!

(A cookie cutter can only be posted once, though, so the earlier you do this, the better.)

Many, many thanks to everyone!!

1 comment:

EmilyNovember 4, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Good luck with everything this week! This sounds like a challenging one.
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Before my wedding in 2003, my idea of cooking was Kraft mac and cheese. My mother and my mother-in-law even left me several boxes of the blue box on my counter the day we returned from our honeymoon. I believe a few showed up in the wishing well at my bridal shower, too.

Once I became a Mrs, however, I figured I'd need to step it up in the kitchen.

I rarely prepared anything from scratch, though; it was frozen stuff chicken and rice in a pouch all the way.

About a year (and 20lbs) later, I decided that something needed to change in the kitchen. I went on a diet and lost the weight, but knew I needed to lose the habits too.

Armed with Rachael Ray cookbooks and the internet, I slowly began to expand my repertoire. I joined an online cooking forum and subscribed to about eleventy billion cooking blogs.

Cooking remains a challenge, however, as two sweet little boys joined our family over the last few years. Coupled with my full time job, I look for meals that are healthy and easy.

I also discovered a love for photography along the way, and while I'm about as unprofessional behind the camera as they come, I really enjoy honing my skills on my dinner - mainly because it can't run away like my two wild boys can.

I love maintaining this blog, and I hope you like visiting.