Now that Thanksgiving is over, we are officially in the holiday season! And since I love you guys so much, I thought I'd celebrate by giving away some of my favorite things over the course of the next few weeks. I'll be giving something new away once a week between now and Christmas, so be sure to check it out every Monday.
I'm kicking things off by giving away a one-year subscription to one of my favorite cooking magazines. Cook's Illustrated is always one of the first places I look when I'm researching a new recipe. I love their scientific approach to cooking, and they have never let me down. I own several of their cookbooks, but I really love receiving the magazine every month as well. I'll be giving a way a one-year subscription to either the magazine or the website - winner's choice!
To enter, leave a comment telling me what you are most looking forward to cooking this holiday season. One entry per person. International residents will only be eligible for the online subscription. This giveaway is open until Friday, December 2nd at midnight.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 270 Newer› Newest»This is fabulous! Well, I can't think of anything in particular that I am looking forward to cooking this holiday season, but I can say this -- I am looking forward to cooking HEALTHIER! After a very (over)indulgent Halloween-to-Thanksgiving season, I am looking forward to getting my family back on the healthy track and cooking and eating that way, too.
I'm looking forward to making a cherry pie for my beloved!
Cookies!!!
I can't wait to make some fudge. I only make it for the holidays, since it's so crazy indulgent!
I'm ready for some gingerbread!
Yummmm... Gingerbread...
i always look forward to making Cinnamon rolls or an egg dish for brunch on Christmas morning!
Although it sounds so cliche- cookies! I love making holiday themed one's throughout December!
I am going to make a 6 layer salted caramel chocolate cake for Christmas!! Should be delicious!
I love baking Christmas cookies!
I'll be cooking a traditional Norwegian porridge, but I think I might try to snag an invite to Emily's. That cake sounds amazing!
I am looking forward to make some wonderful decorated sugar cookies and some Mud Balls, a family favorite!
I'll be making peanut brittle with my mom like we do every year!
I am most looking forward to getting together with my mom and two cousins to do some test batches of the jam I'll be giving as a favor at my wedding in August. It's not exactly holiday food, but it's certainly going to be a fun day!
What a great gift! I am looking forward to baking cookies and am still deciding what ones to choose.
At my school, we are able to pick ornaments off a tree to make Christmas possible for a child at our school. I am looking forward to shopping for the little girl my husband and I chose. We don't have kids, so I'm excited to go shopping for kid's presents together. :)
I'm looking forward to doing a huge Christmas dinner. I've already started planning the menu!
I have a new molasses cookie to try and hopefully some good apps for a cocktail party.
I am currently in Wyoming conducting my PhD dissertation field work and have been since May. Because of this, I missed Thanksgiving with my family. I only have two weeks of data collection left, and when I get home I am making a full on Thanksgiving dinner.
Baking cookies with my girls...they love it!
I am excited to bake Christmas cookies!
I am looking forward to cooking a big batch of Christmas cookies!
I am most looking forward to making my favorite pumpkin soup!!
cranberry chocolate torte.
I can't wait to make some cookie dough truffles! Happy Holidays :)
I'm excited to make pumpkin cinnamon rolls...again. I'm trying to get the recipe right!
I can't wait to try a candy nougat recipe I just spotted the other day, and the number one cookie I can't wait to make...Mexican Wedding Cakes.
What a great giveaway idea. (hope I win!) :)
Christmas cookies, but I'm using the opportunity to make macarons. I don't know if those are seasonal at all, but they're my challenge :)
I'm looking forward to baking my grandma's apple pie recipe and my repertoire of holiday cookies.
So generous of you and such a great gift.
I cannot wait to make my Memere's French-Canadian Tourtiere with my Mom for Christmas Eve.
My family's iced cut-out cookies, it's a holiday tradition!
I'm looking forward to baking treats for our neighbors with my little girl.
Cinnamon rolls
I am going to try baking cinnamon rolls for the first time. I am picky about my cinnamon rolls so I hope a pick a great recipe
I love to make cookies during the holidays. The rest of the year, not so much!
I have a pile of cookie recipes that I want to try!
I really want to make a cheesecake for the first time this holiday season :)
I'm really looking forward to trying a cheesecake recipe for the first time this season :)
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I can't wait to make apple cinnamon pie, with butterfly cutouts for the crust!
I can't wait to make apple pie! :)
I am excited to bake this enormous candy cake for the holidays!
I'm looking forward to snow!
I'm most looking forward to trying new Christmas cookie recipes! I have a few recipes that I make every year, but I get most excited when I try something new!
Filet of beef in brioche!
I'm most looking forward to the day after Christmas - all the hustle and bustle is over, and I can relax and enjoy my family!
I love to bake all year round, but even more so during the holidays because there are so many loved ones around, and what better way to express your love than through food? :)
Cinnamon rolls
Christmas candy...fudge, peanut brittle and almond roca! Every year since I was little with my dad!!
Anything and everything! My menu is ready :)Cookies, candy, fudge, morning brunch or complicated dinner menu. Yum!
I am looking forward to baking gingerbread men with our children for the first time! Thank you for the lovely giveaway!
Christmas cookies, of course! :)
Prime rib and cookies.
Great giveaway!! I am most looking forward to making cut-out sugar cookies and decorating them with royal icing. So fun!!
How generous! I'm looking forward to time off from work and time to play in the kitchen!
I am most looking forward to holiday baking. We will be moving into a new house and my daughter is almost 2 and really enjoying helping me in the kitchen!
I am looking forward to baking Yummy treats!
Soooo looking forward to baking Christmas treats: cookies, candies, you name it!
I'm looking forward to cooking Christmas dinner for the very first time... can't wait !
I can't wait to start baking Christmas Cookies!
Baking Christmas cookies!!! It's the best!
Making sugar cookies with my 4 year old and 2 year old - as long as I can convince my husband to clean up afterward!
I am looking forward to baking many different types of cookies!
peanut brittle
We are heading to the West Coast for Christmas so I'm really looking forward to cooking West Coast sweet potatoes. They're like white sweet potatoes, only my husband thinks they're better. We only get them a few times a year and they're best baked with just some butter, salt and brown sugar.
LOVE Cook's Illustrated! And my subscription just ran out:)
All kinds of Christmas goodies. My sister and I cook together every year for our friends and family, and we add at least one new recipe each year.
Candy Cane Cookies! I am the only one that likes them, they are annoying to make, but it just isn't Christmas without them!
How cool! I'm excited to try out cupcakes in jars this year :)
I'm excited to bake a wide variety of Christmas cookies!
I'm looking forward to spending some time with family-especially those I don't get to see often enough!
I'm looking forward to our new take on Christmas, less gifts and more focus on family and friends.
caramel corn
Peanut Butter Nutella Stuffed Cookies...so good I only allow myself to make them once per year!
I can't wait to bake some Christmas sugar cookies! Love it!
my children call it Christmas crack. it is white chocolate poured over pretzels, nuts,etc...
i make it and freeze it ahead of time.
I love making tamales at Christmas. Both savory and sweet. It is fun to get the whole family involved. Freeze the tamales and enjoy them all year long.
christmas cookies!
CDhristmas baking!
time with family
Looking forward to relaxing christmas day in pjs, sipping lattes with family.
Probably looking forward to cookies most!
How wonderful. What a great way to spread holiday cheer! :)
I am looking forward to baking holiday treats (already started), watching Christmas movies, drinking hot cocoa by the fire, and best of all--spending time with my family. Happy Holidays to you!
making cookies to send to family they look forward to them every year .
they tell me it's not Christmas untill my cookies arive.
Truffles to go in holiday gift baskets...I have a few new recipes I've been looking forward to trying out. :)
Baking Christmas Cookies!
There's so much to make, but I most enjoy making Christmas cookies with the kids! (Fudge is a close second!)
Even though you said cooking, this holiday season I'm most looking forward to getting my Christmas baking together. Buckeyes are my personal favorite :)
I can't wait to make my family's Christmas meal, especially the beef tenderloin.
Cut out sugar cookies!
Definitely looking forward to making our New Year's Day brunch!
I'm looking forward to making cookies. I usualaly try 3-5 new cookie recipes at the holidays and some of my favorites have come from this time of yeaar!
Definitely cookies and other food gifts!!
We have a tradition of baking cookies with all the girls in my family. I look forward to that day all year long!
I just want to say thank you for all your cooking posts. I am now staying home after having a baby and I am having a ball trying new recipes. My husband is enjoying them as well. I am looking forward to trying at least one new recipe a week from your site. Tonight is Greek turkey burgers.
I am looking forward to baking and decorating sugar cookies.
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i can't wait to do my cookie baking for my professors! I'll do oatmeal raisin, chocolate chip,and spice cookies.
Looking forward to watching my baby girl open her gifts and experience her first Christmas!
I'm looking forward to making some caramel-filled cookies for an annual cookie swap!
I can't wait to get started on Italian meatball cookies! Loaded with chocolate chips, walnuts, raisins, and more. Mmm.
I'm excited about cooking Christmas cookies! Here's hoping they turn out!
Great giveaway! I am most looking forward to making Christmas cookies to send to loved ones :)
Baked Brie!!!
I'm excited to make brunch for my family on Christmas morning!
I am most looking forward to baking an apple spice cake... or muffins... something along those lines sounds divine :).
Christmas Dinner, specifically my first turkey
My favorite thing to cook this time of year is sausage dressing. It's my fave corn/white bread dressing with the addition of sausage. What's not to love! We eat it for Thanksgiving AND Christmas.
Being a vegetarian, I'm going to attempt a nut roast for the first time this Christmas!
Iced sugar cookies and chocolate covered spiced nuts!!
Toffee! I got hooked on it last year & am dying to start making it again!
Christmas cookies!
Cookies!
I'm making braciole! Yum!
Sugar cookies!
the best part of baking during the holidays is the food gifts I give away to friends & clients. just the look on their faces is priceless.
Christmas dinner! It's only my second time doing it. :)
I am looking forward to making different foods for gifts to my friends!
My mom and I always have 2 big cookie baking days - we make several different kinds to give to friends as gifts!
I look forward to bake -a lot, a lot of cookies. More the better.
I am looking forward to baking lots of sweets--especially my all time Christmas favorite, anise cookies!
I'm looking most forward to baking some cookies!
I'm looking forward to the seafood feast on Christmas Eve. We get up early to start cooking and baking. Nothing beats time with family in the kitchen.
I am looking forward to baking cinnamon rolls and pfeffernusse ("pepper nut" cookies) -- two things that are annual Christmas traditions. :)
I am looking forward to cooking a turkey dinner for friends.
I am so looking forward to moving back home to Alaska, and spending Christmas Eve with all my dad's family.
Christmas cookies and candy
Cookies! Some tried and true recipes and maybe one or two new ones!
I just moved into my brand new home with my boyfriend, so for this holiday season, I am very much looking forward to experimenting in my brand new kitchen, with my brand new appliances, and oodles of counter space to play with!
There are so many recipes I want to try, and I can't wait to cook for my boyfriend and my friends this holiday season in my brand new kitchen.
cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning
I am looking foward to making some impressive edible gifts! I need some ideas!
I love making cookies with my mom!
Cookies
Truffle -- instead of cookies this year!
My love of ginger keeps growing more and more, so making real gingerbread cookies (icing decoration and all!) is at the top of my list.
I can't wait to make a rack of lamb. It is my first time and I am anxious and excited!
I love christmas treats! I cant wait to bake an assortment of treats and cookies!!!
I most look forward to hosting Christmas Eve at our condo and having my nieces running around with bells, singing their version of Christmas Carols. Then my husband and I started the tradition of making monkey bread on Christmas morning only :) It's the little things that mean the most to me!
Cookies! All of shapes and sizes and flavors.
I can't wait to make molasses cookies! They are the classic Christmas Eve cookie in my family!
I will be making cookies, fudge, truffles and anything else that catches my eye as I'm giving baked goods for presents this year!
Duchess Potatoes!
I'm looking forward to baking a cheesecake for the first time this year!
I can't wait to make candy!
I always look forward to cookies :)
I am looking forward to making fudge. I only make it once a year and it is my very favorite.
Unoriginal, I know...but I'd have to say baking Christmas cookies. :) Some of my fondest childhood memories include cutting out holiday-shaped sugar cookies and then decorating them in red and green icing with my mom and sister!
Yum, fudge.
Beef Wellington....I already have the recipe...just not the beef part...have to order and I'm a little fearful.
Cinnamon buns on Christmas morning!
I Can't wait to try homemade gingerbread cake!
What a fun giveaway, Josie! I plan on making Italian rainbow cookies...yum!
Cake pops and gingerbread houses with my students!
Making candy, caramels, cashew brittle, mints and toffee.
I always have a baking day with my mom. My favorites that we make every year are her marshmallow fudge and tea time tassies (basically mini pecan pie cookies.)
Love making my Hungarian Yeast Torte...yumm....ciao4now64@yahoo.com
i'm looking forward to making holly jollies with my son!
I look forward to baking cookies! Lots and lots of cookies!!
I'm looking forward to making my banana bread to eat while opening presents on christmas morning!
I'm looking forward to my annual holiday get together with my college roommates!
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i'm most excited about all of my christmas cookies! i absolutely love baking my traditional ones & of course, adding some new ones!
I'm looking forward to making my vanilla bean caramels. Yum!
I had a major pie crust fail this Thanksgiving..so I'm most looking forward to baking with my mom during Christmas and New Years..she's going to show me how to make a pie crust!
I love making your eggnog baked french toast every Christmas. Yummm!
Great giveaway! I am looking forward to making my traditional cookies - with a new recipe or two thrown in for good measure :)
I learned to make royal icing this year so I am looking forward to making christmas sugar cookies fully decorated for the first time.
Trying my hand at tamales this year. So excited!
Can't wait to make cookies....and lots of soup too!
Hi!!
What a wonderful idea! I think I am most looking forward to cooking the turkey, and baking up a storm:) Can't wait to make sugar cookies, ginger snaps and shortbread!!
Hi, I enjoy your blog and have used many of your recipes. I look forward to baking different kinds of breads (both savoury and sweet).
My new cooking obsession is cheesecake. I would honestly make it ever week for no reason, if my jiggly tummy would tolerate such a thing. Luckily for me, my family also enjoys a good cheesecake, so I'm looking forward to making one to share with them at Xmas!
I'm looking forward to cooking warm comforting soups and a nice roast beef. I also can't wait to get started on some holiday baking. Cook's Illustrated is awesome and they have really tasted til perfect recipes.
I look forward to Christmas baking the most, but please don't make me pick my favorite kind of Christmas cookie! :)
I am excited to bake cookies and bread for gift baskets. I also can't wait to bake with eggnog, I am already craving it!
I am going to make the sloshed fruitcake I enjoy so much!
And I am hoping to learn how to make proper fudge - candy thermometer and all.
I'm taking on pies this year...and cookie assortments for gifts!
Christmas dinner! My husband's family comes over a few days after Christmas to celebrate and I'm looking forward to making that meal... probably since it's the only holiday meal I'm in charge of all year!
Pie!
I am most looking forward to Christmas Cookie Baking with my mom and sisters!
The look on my daughters face when she opens her gifts and finds out we are going to Disney!
I'm looking forward to making Pizafrit on Christmas morning. It's a tradition in our Italian family to make this peasant dish (fried bread dough). This is my first year living with my boyfriend (& being away from family) so I'm excited to initiate him into the morning tradition. Happy Holidays!
Heather @ Find That Warm Fuzzy Feeling
I'm looking forward to making homemade marshmallows for our hot chocolate and to give as gifts!
I can't wait to learn how to make gumbo with my bf!
Holiday fudge!
gwyndill AT gmail DOT com
We spent the Thanksgiving holiday with my hubby's family, so for my 30th birthday (christmas eve) we are making the Thompson Turkey we make every year with my family. Can't wait!!
I'm looking forward to making gingerbread houses and men with my boyfriend!
Lots of holiday homemade candies!
My three sons will be home for the holidays. Looking forward to making their favorite crab cakes for our Christmas celebration!
I can't wait to make Christmas Candy this year ~ toffee, fudge, etc!
adb6{at}humboldt{dot}edu
We always have family over for Christmas and I always look forward to making the appetizers.
I can't wait to make my beef tenderloin for Christmas dinner! And, this is such a great magazine.....one of my favorites!
There are actually two recipes I can't wait to try, a salted caramel sauce and a bread pudding. Yum on both!!
I can't wait to make peppermint chocolate cake!
Xmas birthday celebration for my husband--something special which always includes oysters
Most looking forward to being still and enjoying family and friends...And Peppermint Ice Cream :)
I got an error message the first time so I hope this isn't posting twice!
Anyway, I'm hosting Christmas this year and looking forward to making my mom's famous lasagna :)
Amanda
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Making homemade cinnamon rolls...for the first time...for all the people I work with! Keeping my fingers crossed they turn out!
I've never made peppermint bark and have been waiting all year to try it. Somehow it's just not appropriate when the temperature is above 60F!
Truffles! I've bought the chocolate and cream, and am all set!
I'm most excited about making Christmas dinner because it means everyone will be coming to our house to watch my 1.5 year old daughter open presents. While everyone is having fun I get to fill up bellies! I also love this time of year because everyone loves my peppermint bark. I love having someone in the grocery store ask me if I've made a batch yet!
Every Christmas I host a cookie exchange and I always look forward to Christmas baking...not only for the exchange but for the whole season!
I look forward to cooking all my families christmas classics and getting in the kitchen with my mom. Favorite to cook is definately truffles!!
I'm most looking forward to eating my Mom's apple pie! OK, maybe I'll even help her bake it :)
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