A Monday Giveaway

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Updated almost daily. I am a mama of two, part-time event coordinator and aspiring food writer who is passionate about families spending time together in the kitchen. This space is a hodgepodge of recipes made for and with my children. Also included: cookbook reviews, fun party ideas, giveaways and much more. I live in Toronto, ON.

***Congratulations to LizInScotland - you've won the book! Please email me at mixingbowlkids@gmail.com with your mailing address and I'll get it out to you right away.

Don't worry, friends. We haven't finished the A to Z feature yet, but I thought it might be more fun to do a giveaway today instead. Not for any particular reason, but just because it's Monday and it seems like a great day to do a giveaway. What a fun way to start the week, don't you think?

So, a few weeks ago I received a copy of Hungry Monkey, by Matthew Amster-Burton. The book was for me to review, and I finally had the chance to read through it over the past week and let me tell you, I loved it. Loved. It. It was laugh-out-loud funny and an easy, great read.

Amster-Burton, a Seattle food writer, is witty and charming, humorous and smart and completely and utterly devoted to his daughter Iris, the true charmer of this story. I love my children more than anything, but I would love to have an Iris, too. Any little girl who enjoys only one certain brand of bacon (which she knows by name) and who once-upon-a-time played with packages of chili peppers as a toddler, is my kind of girl.

The story is a tale of "A food-loving Father's quest to raise an adventurous eater", and boy, did he succeed. Filled with great recipes (I have many, many dog-eared pages in my copy of the book that I hope to try) and tips on how to have and create family meals, this story will not disappoint. Even if you don't have young children, I'm sure you'll want some by the time you finishing reading this book, if only to feed them some of the incredible food that Iris eats. Not to worry though..older children and adults will enjoy the recipes just as much a Mom's trying to put dinner together for their families.

So, now that I've got you wanting to read this book, I'm going to give away a copy today. Just leave a comment, any comment and I'll announce the winner tomorrow am.

Have a great day!

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I would love to win this book!!

Posted by: tricia | September 28, 2009 at 09:01 AM

Here is my comment, any comment, and I would definatly enjoy this read. :-) Happy (sporadic?) Monday! :-)

Posted by: Stoich91 | September 28, 2009 at 09:06 AM

That is such a great cover...

Posted by: AppleTree | September 28, 2009 at 09:42 AM

I would love to read it.

Posted by: Trisha N | September 28, 2009 at 09:50 AM

This is on my list to read and I would love to win it!

Posted by: Christine | September 28, 2009 at 09:53 AM

Thanks for the chance to win - sounds like a super read!

Posted by: meg | September 28, 2009 at 09:58 AM

i haven't commented before, but enjoy your blog. i have two children who are pickier than i'd like--a husband too! this book sounds really interesting and hopefully would give me some great new ideas toward raising more adventurous eaters!

Posted by: mel | September 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM

Love your site. Would love to read this. Thanks for all the great ideas.

Posted by: Aim | September 28, 2009 at 12:03 PM

Thanks so much for the chance! This book sounds awesome! XO

Posted by: Ginger & Pickle | September 28, 2009 at 12:43 PM

I see you have a blog now too...hurray! I look forward to many visits
there.

Posted by: Jan Scott | September 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM

I would love to read this book -- I love cooking and eating with my toddler and husband and we sure aim to do just that: raise an adventurous eater. Some weeks go better than others . . .

Posted by: Susan | September 28, 2009 at 01:14 PM

Sounds like fun - I've got 2 picky eaters myself. An 8 month old who will only eat what she herself can put in her mouth and a 2 year old who regularly proclaims that she will eat "NOTHING!" at dinner tonight.

Thanks for your blog - I've forwarded it on to many friends.

Posted by: rachel | September 28, 2009 at 01:27 PM

I'd love this... thanks so much! Maureen (jnomaxx at hotmail dot com)

Posted by: Maureen | September 28, 2009 at 03:08 PM

I want to win this for this book for my friend, who talks about making our boys non-picky eaters. (and I always chuckle thinking that is an impossible task, until my son was eating swiss chard off her plants like a dinosaur last week...)

Posted by: Lane C | September 28, 2009 at 03:20 PM