2012-08-25

the holidays are over giveaway

I'm joining in for the - well I find it a rather dpressing reason - back to school give away blog hop that Michelle from the Quilting Gallery is hosting.

I laways enjoy entering give aways but I do feel a bit guilty doing so wihtout offering a chance in return.

So I still have holidays, sort of, officially, in a way ...  which means at the moment having even less time to do the things I wanto to do. So I didn't make anythign myself for this one.

Back to scholl blog op party and give away

Anyway - what do I have on offer - nothign special really, it's an embroider your own shopping bag kit. It's still in it's original wrapping, so all the parts are still together. I'm not much of an embroiderer myself, I only go as far as to stitch my lables by hand. Ohh and some chocolate if you want, I was home recently and I couldn't resist a trip to "Ritter Sport" and now the fridge is full of chocolate .. dark mousse au chocolate, winter crisp, crisp flakes, white nut ... molten chocolate still tastes like chocolate - for all those in still warm parts of the earth.

chocolate
the white wrapping means try out chocolate varieties for the winter season

The rules etc  (I really enjoy making up rules)
* the one loop you have to jump through I would like to know a traditional dish for the area you come from (I think that is fair)

* and as usual a second entry if you can give me a convincing reason (sorry following me on FB doesn't count I don't have a page there)

* international entries are welcome

* the give away runs from post publishing date (I can't be bothere to find out what time noon EDT is in my time zone) until September 2nd late evening (I'm leaving for a trip on the 3rd and I wouldn't want you to hang in the dry for days not knowing who made the draw)


Leo


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89 comments:

  1. Woohoo I am the first follower to comment. I love your style of writing! This looks like a fun bag to embroider and woohoo some chocolate - a FAB giveaway in my eyes!!

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  2. Traditional dish from where I (originally) come from would be pancakes with yummy locally produced Canadian Maple syrup. I prefer waffles because the butter and syrup can sit in each dent and my sister likes blueberries in her pancakes - but the maple cyrup is the key here :)

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  3. I can't believe one person can have that amount of chocolate inside her fridge. Are you sure you didn't take a photo of the shop shelves?! Well, if that giveaway is meant to me you can have it all as I don't eat chocolate. ;-)

    Typical dish of my area is "arroz con costra" with roughly translates as crusted rice. It's some kind of paella cooked in the oven covered with egg. I don't eat it because the meat used in it is rabbit, but people here (and family) say it's delicious.

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  4. If I had that quantity of chocolate in my fridge it would not be there for long! As a child I lived in the same village as the Cadbury's chocolate factory! cycling past it every day was wonderful and we always got lots of samples!

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  5. A traditional dish for my area would once have been elvers - baby eels fried in egg and bacon fat! these days they are scarce and mostly exported to the Far East!

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  6. I love the chocolate. Well, my country loved curry. We have all sorts of curry and my mum good in making curry fish :).

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  7. Woo hoo! Love the bag but I also adore Ritter's chocolate. Traditional food from where I live is wild meat and berries. When I first lived here I lived for a while with an older first nations couple. She was a good cook of traditional food and I learned to really like fried fish guts, stuffed moose guts and boiled meat. I didn't cotton onto singed, then boiled, porcupine though. It smelled disgusting.

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  8. You should give me a second entry because I follow your blog faithfully and really enjoy reading about your life and your sewing.

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  9. I love blog hops! Thanks for joining this one. I find so many interesting blogs! We are barbeque fanatics in my part of the world! Pork, mutton (lamb) and chickens are cooked all the time around here on big open pits! Yummy!

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  10. A very traditional dish around here (Southern USA) is fried catfish, with hushpuppies. I was never keen on it growing up, but I'll eat it as an adult, especially with Tabasco on it. :)

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  11. I think I could use a 2nd entry, because I'd be happy to send you some Tabasco (if it's allowed), or barring that, a recipe for catfish and hushpuppies. :) Just holla!

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  12. I come from Utah does that mean I like green jello with carrots in it? ICK don't make me eat it.

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  13. I think you should give me a second chance because I am a guy and while we need a lot of help. Trust me just ask my wife. Oh and I am a new follower.

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  14. I'd have to say something with grits on the side, or fried chicken and collard greens.

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  15. Wow, I'm down for some chocolate! LOL, the kit is also cool but I'm so in love with chocolate that it almost entices me more! I guess a traditional dish for where I'm from is anything fried! Haha, Yep, I'm from the South.

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  16. A convincing reason why I should win?? I think the chocolate would be good for my heart! Ha!

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  17. I'd love to win the bag kit, thank you.

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  18. I think you and I would be bestest friends if we met in real life, cos I love your fridge!

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  19. I would really enjoy embroidering/stitching that bag. Durban is known as the curry capital of SA. Thank you for the lovely giveaway.

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  20. I have never seen so much chocolate in a fridge!!! Would love a taste! lol.. I'm following now.

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  21. Drooling over that chocolate... :)

    We eat chicken and waffles- homemade waffles with chicken and gravy poured over the top. It is really good!

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  22. Look at all that chocolate in your fridge!!!! Fish and chips with a 'chip butty' (chips in a buttered roll) is traditional here! x

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  23. Wow! That's a LOT of chocolate!
    I'm from GA so grits are a traditional breakfast dish here. We love them!

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  24. Traditional for my family get together's was always bringing German potato salad. Personally, I can't stand the stuff. I'd much rather go for the sweets table.

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  25. A traditional dish here in Texas is country fried chicken ! Every time I fix it my son and husband say, MMMMmmmm which puts a big smile on my face. My grandmother was from Scotland and my grandfather was from England. I'd love to receive something from across the "pond". Thank you for giving me that opportunity .

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  26. Our most famous local dish would have to be the fisherman's rolls that they sell out of a net hut in Hastings Old Town. Freshly caught, cooked in the open air and eaten in an instant. Delish.

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  27. oh, and I am, of course, a follower of your fab blog

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  28. I live in California USA and in an apple growing area. I love baked apples! Somehow your fridge reminds me of mine, lots of chocolates, let's trade!

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  29. fried potatos for the south thanks

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  30. Oh gosh.... I live in Minnesota... I guess wild rice would be a regional thing. Didn't know what wild rice was until we moved here back in the 70's.

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  31. I'm a new happy follower and look forward to reading your posts!

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  32. G'Day from Australia! A local dish here: meat pies. I'm making one tonight for dinner.

    Deborah
    homemakerhoney @gmail. com

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  33. I follow via Google Friend Connect.

    Deborah
    homemakerhoney @gmail .com

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  34. All that chocolate is making my mouth water. I am afraid it wouldn't stay in my fridge for long.
    A traditional food would be anything that is fried, especially fried potatoes. I live in the south.
    I love to do embroidery so thank you for a chance to win.

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  35. A traditional dish here where I'm now living is pea soup.

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  36. My convincing reason is that it's getting colder here and I live close enough that the chocolate wouldn't melt on the way!

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  37. Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee drinks. Good thing I love coffee. As for a food probably fresh crisp Washington Apples. And what about all those chocolate bars. Yum Chocolate!

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  38. Yum Chocolate Bars in your fridge. We use chocolate bars like those for our ultimate Chocolate Cookies.

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  39. We live near Pennsylvania Dutch country and one of my favorites is ham and green beans with corn and potatoes. All simmered together.

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  40. Thank you for the giveaway, and yes I do love chocolate too!!! One of my favourite traditional meals is fish and chips with lots of salt and vinegar eaten hot out of paper.
    ks(dot)eyles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

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  41. My convincing reason is that because I am an unselfish person I would hate for you to put on weight and then feel bad about eating the chocolate, so I will happily take it off your hands. I also take all of my own fabric bags to the supermarket as it is better for the environment, so I would enjoy adding your bag to my collection.
    ks(dot)eyles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

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  42. Thanks for the chance to win! I do love to embroider and I REALLY do love chocolate!! ;-) A very traditional meal here in south Alabama is Southern fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and homemade biscuits, and for dessert, apple pie with vanilla ice cream! :-)

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  43. Here is my attempt to convince you that I need an extra entry: Right now, we're under a hurricane watch for Isaac-- and I really need something to keep my mind of the weather-- so maybe I can just keep thinking about how delicious that chocolate would be! ;-) Thank you for the fun giveaway! :-)

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  44. Traditional is spaghetti and meatballs. I love chocolate and will love to help you eat that yummy stash. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  45. Traditional for my area is Lexington style barbeque . It's vinegar based and awesome. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  46. A traditional dish in Washington State is salmon. another one is blackberry cobbler.

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  47. I really would like to win. I need chocolate. I just had my second surgery of the summer and I need chocolate. we teachers always try to crowd everything into our summer vacation ;)

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  48. I am so curious about that chocolate! When the extended family visited from Germany (The Old Country!) they bring would bring chocolates to us. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen any longer.

    A regional dish? Tonight I made Reubens. I doubt that is traditional! I am in Indiana and apparently breaded tenderloins are not served anywhere else like they are here. Think schnitzel. It is piece of lean pork pounded out thin. Dip in egg and milk and then seasoned flour. Take it back to the egg/milk mixture and wet completely. Now coat with seasoned bread crumbs and fry. We like ours on a roll with mustard, onion, tomato and lettuce.

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  49. I was raised in Nanaimo. We have Nanaimo bar!

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  50. Interesting you should ask for a traditional recipie. My daughter (registered dietitian) and I were talking this weekend about how most Canadians have lost there food culture. Most young people don't know how to make traditional dishes.They don't have anyone to teach them traditional was of gardening, or preserving foods. Our young people are the first generation of both parents working. Cabbage rolls are a traditional Christmas food from my mom's German family.greetingss from Northern British Columbia, Canada

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  51. Hum...traditional dish?? I am a transplant to the area I live in so don't really feel connected to the food here. So, I will give you a traditional dish from my childhood. My mom is Polish and my Dad is Swedish.(don't know why I'm not in Europe!) Every year at Christmas, my mom would make traditional Polish cookies called Chrusciki. They melted in your mouth. My mom and her sisters would make pierogies. For my Dad, my mom made Swedish meatballs and pancakes with lingonberries.

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  52. You should give me an extra entry because I just became a new follower, one of my best friends just moved back to Germany after living in Hungary for 11 years and I really want to live somewhere in Europe!

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  53. I know this won't count as an entry but I forgot to include that my favorite candy bar is the Ritter Sport dark chocolate with hazelnuts!

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  54. Cranberries are grown in New Jersey so a traditional dish might be cranberry sauce.

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  55. sweet giveaway! Thanks! I live in oklahoma city (cattle country), and really the most traditional dish from my area is steak and potatoes.

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  56. in my region a typical dish is frico, it is made with cheese and potatoes. hugs from Italy (friuli)

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  57. well, here in Missouri,USA, a typical regional food would be barbecue. You have the Kansas City saucy barbecue on one side of the state, and the St. Louis dry rub barbecue on the other side.
    I do know that St. Louis tends to use more pork for their barbecue than beef. I prefer the beef myself.

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  58. Hmmm, I think I deserve a second entry because I am crazy about chocolate, all kinds!
    And I just became a new follower via GFC as VettekLisa

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  59. Where I was born and raised we enjoyed Pa Dutch cooking, pork and saur kraut, shoo fly pie, chicken corn soup and chicken pot pie.... where I like now is deep south and they like boiled peanuts, greens and grits... Not me..

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  60. I live in Washington state, in the US, and "local" flavors here are salmon, all kinds of berries, hazelnuts, greens and root veggies, and apples.

    winterwrens at gmail dot com

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  61. I had to laugh reading your post (and am so glad you have no FB page!)... please take this in the nicest possible way, but I've recently been reading Winnie the Pooh to my boys and the voice of Eeyore slipped into my mind just after I hit the "nothing special really..." part of your post.

    winterwrens at gmail dot com

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  62. Im from UK so probably a cream tea with jam, scones and cream but am living in France so anything with cheese :)

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  63. Hello :)
    My Hungarian traditional dishes are Goulash soup and Gundel pancakes-yummmy :)

    thank you for the chance !

    porcukorborso at gmail dot com

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  64. Pretty bag! That chocolate looks yummy. ;)

    I just moved to Washington state so I have no idea what type of foods are local. I'm still getting to know the area. I just moved from Arizona, though, and Arizona has a LOT of Mexican food and tamales.

    Happy quilting!
    Cassandra

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  65. Since Nova Scotia has many blueberries a favorite traditional dish would be blueberry cobbler , so yummy . I am a new follower and look forward to reading more . Thanks

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  66. Let'a see here in Michigan - Pasties are Huge!!! It appears the alot of miners from your side of the pond to our state via the Hudson Bay and Ellis Island.

    We also the Traverse City Cherry Festival with anythng made of cherries albeit sweets or tarts. They had the big attendance this year.

    Thank You for the wonderful chance to win that beautiful tote kit and Oh yeah Chocolates too. Winners!!

    Sincerely,
    Tricia

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  67. Your giveaway gives me the giggles...too cute...I live in Washington state, USA where we love Salmon and Dungeness Crab and Apple Pie

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  68. I live outside a town of Germans, so they like their cabbage rolls, krautranza, strudel, sausage, kuchen, and beer! I prefer wine and chocolate!!! Awesome giveaway, thank you! I am a follower!

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  69. We cook lots of BBQ Salmon where I am from. your blog is fun and I will be following you.

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  70. This is my first blog hop and I am having a hard time moving from one blog to the next. I got stuck on your blog for over and hour reading and generally poking around. Thank you I am now a follower so I don't miss anything.

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  71. Boy oh boy, that's a lot of chocolate! And what yummy flavors. Your sweet tooth appears to be almost as big as mine! *grin*
    The "traditional" dish in my family is manicotti, even though we're nowhere near Italian... we even eat it on Christmas Eve.
    Thanks for the opportunity to win! :)

    sarita0818 at comcast dot net

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  72. Wow,,that's my kind of fridge! A traditional dish for my area is poutine, It's a gross sounding (and looking) concoction of french fries, smothered in gravy and topped with cheese--preferably cheese curds, but some people just use shredded. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  73. Hmmm. A convincing second reason? International goodwill of course! A package full of chocolate, AND fabric & thread from Germany to Canada? Imagine the goodwill this Canuck would share with all she knows? (And you never know when that package could have a reciprocal effect. And to think, world peace & goodwill could start with you & I. Now, how's that for a convincing second reason? Thanks for the chance to win.

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  74. Hello there. I am a loyal follower.
    And we do love that fried chicken here in the southern U.S.

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  75. oh DROOL! I miss Ritter sport! I'm from Denmark but have lived in the US since 96 now, married with 3 kids. I miss licorice too- got some Haribo from a friend who flew thru germany 2 weeks ago.
    In denmark we like danish meatballs with red cabbage and potatoes.

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  76. I live in Newfoundland, Canada. A traditional dish from here is Fish & Brews also fried cod tongues - Mmmmmm!!!

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  77. Hi I live in Holland, and a traditional dish here are Poffertjes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poffertjes But I prefer chocolat, although I would never put it in my fridge...........

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  78. I live in Colombia and a traditional dish here are arepas. Fixed many different ways but always delicious. And...I think you would love to give me another chance just because my new granddaughter is here!

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  79. I'm from Michigan. I can't think of a traditional dish, but we have cheeseburgers on the grill once a week :)

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  80. If I win you'd better include some of that chocolate in the tote kit!! sweet!

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  81. Por favor como puede conservar tanto chocolate?
    Plato típico ,es la carne a la parrilla.Puede parecer fácil pero no.La carne debe cocinarse lentamente no sobre el fuego sino sobre las brasas.Cariños.

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  82. Chocolate
    European chocolate!
    Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    Chocolate
    Sigh!

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  83. Love chocolate, too. Dark is best! I don't know about specialties, but with all the fresh veggies around right now, I love to fry up some tomatoes in a little bit of butter, add onions, peppers, zucchini, celery, or anything you want in there, and let it cook for a while (Will almost be like a pasta sauce when done.) Even the kids love it now, finally. thanks.

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  84. http://australianfood.about.com/od/bakingdesserts/r/Lamingtons.htm
    This is the link to a true Aussie recipe using chocolate. It is traditionally prepared with stale cake as it makes it easier for the chocolate to stick.
    Hope you enjoy it.

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