It's that time of month again. The time when I veg-ucate you! Tired of that verb yet? I hope not. It's too clever. Last month we highlighted asparagus. This month, the ladies in our veg-ucation blog circle are focusing on cauliflower. Before you respond with the enthusiasm of Eeyore the chronically depressed and apathetic donkey from Winnie the Pooh, just hold yer horses. {Side-note: Eeyore is my favorite Winnie the Pooh character!}
Cauliflower is actually a super cool ninja vegetable. Not only is it healthy for you (lots of Vitamin C, K & Fiber), but thanks to its bland taste, cauliflower can transform into all different sorts of concoctions like rice and pizza crust. It's especially great as a low-carb substitute or replacement for folks who have gluten sensitivities.
Hello, foodies! I've been out of town petsitting and visiting family and friends back in Kansas City for the past ten days, so I apologize for the infrequency of posts. Now that I'm back in Dallas, though, it's time to focus on my first giveaway!
When I arranged several weeks ago to do a product review for ekoffee.com, they asked if I would be interested in giving away some of their coffee to my readers. By that time, I'd already sampled seven of their roasts so I was confident you all would enjoy them as much as I did. I gladly accepted!
However, I decided to space the product review and giveaway into two separate posts so my tips for making the best coffee, product reviews and gushfest over my stovetop espresso maker would get their fair share of attention. If you haven't read that post yet, I highly recommend you do!
With that said, let's get down to the giveaway prize--two bags of fresh roasted artisan coffee! While I'd love to force my favorites on you, eKoffee has kindly offered to let the winner choose any two bags of coffee (whole bean or ground) from their online marketplace.
Giveaway Details
Here's how it'll work. Once the giveaway ends, I'll randomly select a winner and notify them via email. They'll have 48 hours to respond before I choose another person. The winner will email me with their two coffee selections and I will contact eKoffee with the necessary information. Alternately, they can contact eKoffee directly after I've confirmed they're a winner. Within 1-2 days the freshly roasted coffees will ship directly from the roaster to the prize winner. That's about as fresh as you can get, unless you're roasting your own beans!
The Prize
The winner will hand pick two bags of freshly roasted coffee from eKoffee.com. Depending on the roaster, the coffees come in either 12 oz or 16 oz portions. The average price per bag of coffee on eKoffee.com is $13.50, so with two bags, the winner's prize will have an estimated retail value of $27.00.
Rules
The giveaway is only open to United States residents and ends on 5/28/13 at 12:00 a.m. CST.
In order to enter, you must leave a comment below on this post, then verify that with the Rafflecopter widget. The other Rafflecopter entry methods (liking on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.) are not mandatory, but they will increase your chances of winning.
You must have a valid, active email account in order to win.
The winner must respond to my congratulatory email within 48 hours. If not, they forfeit their prize, and I will select another winner.
You may tweet about the giveaway once a day while it's active for an extra entry; however any entries created from duplicate urls (copy & pasting the same tweet), will be deleted.
Any information you provide will only be used to contact you if you've won. The only exception to this is if you subscribe to my posts via email. In that case, my recipes and posts will automatically be emailed to you the day after they're published. I will not share anyone's personal information with the sponsor or anyone else unless I have permission.
For a complete list of Terms, see the bottom of the Rafflecopter widget.
All right, foodies...have at it and good luck!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
If you run into any problems, feel free to email me here:
elainanewton [at] therisingspoon [dot] com
Disclaimer: The giveaway prize will be provided by eKoffee.com free of charge. I was not paid to promote their products in this giveaway; however, I did receive several free samples of their products in order to objectively write my review post last week. All opinions are my own.
As much as I love roasting veggies in the oven, they taste spectacular straight off a charcoal grill with a hefty dose of scorch marks. It gives the vegetables so much flavor that you don't even have to season them, but I do anyway (force of habit, I suppose).
Unfortunately, I live on a second floor apartment and can't fire up a grill on my balcony. Otherwise I'd be grilling nine months out of the year! So when I fly home to Kansas City, I relish eating family dinners cooked on the charcoal grill.
Normally my step mom is the grill master and I assist her with prep. It's a real luxury to have someone else cook for you when you're used to doing it every night. However, this past weekend when I flew into town, she lit the charcoal grill and I did all the prep and cooking. I grilled bacon wrapped filets seasoned with lots of black pepper and garlic powder (using a technique similar to my seared & baked cast iron steak recipe), sliced eggplant, asparagus and chopped organic yellow squash. Per request, I left salt off of everything and didn't even miss it!
