During the Summer and Fall seasons here in New England it’s always a treat to shop at the local family-owned vegetable farm produce stands.

Fresh sweet corn season won’t be around too much longer!

To keep the economy going I like to support homegrown businesses in my area.

Many of the stands even have printouts of their favorite recipes for you to take home to try!

This is the Eddy Family farm stand in Newington, CT.

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TABASCO® Original Red isn’t just about heat for heat’s sake. It’s virtually what heat does to the seasoning of food. The ultimate combination of salt, red pepper, and vinegar are honed in a 3-year aging process that creates a hot sauce with the uncanny power to bring the best out of your food. Other hot sauces add their own particular flavor to food, while TABASCO® Original Red merely enhances the flavor of food.

First ushered in by the McIlhenny family back in 1868, Original Red remains to be their most popular sauce of 6 total sauces.

Original Red can be used on a multitude of foods.  Try it and see how it enhances the flavor of pizza, fritattas, salad dressing, mac and cheese, or good old-fashion eggs and hash! The possibilities are endless!

A popular recipe of ours is crockpot South of the Border Chicken Corn Tortillas.  Since it’s football season and the Super Bowl is right around the corner, make a double batch in the crockpot and use TABASCO® Original Red to also make homemade Chicken Pizza which will become a game day tradition!

TABASCO® Original Red is “So Much More Than Hot.”  TABASCO® Original Red unlocks or enhances the flavor of food so you can get the best of every bite.

Super Bowl Party Food

TABASCO® Original Red is “So Much More Than Hot.”  TABASCO® Original Red unlocks or enhances the flavor of food so you can get the best of every bite.

South of the Border Chicken Corn Tortillas

What You Need:

3 T canola oil
4 lg. chicken breast
1 (19 oz) can of enchilada sauce
2 (11 oz) cans cream of chicken soup
1 (4.25 oz) can black olives, sliced
2 dozen corn tortillas
1 lg. onion, chopped
1 (8 oz) pkg. taco style cheese
2 T TABASCO® Original Red

How to Make It:

Place a large skillet over medium heat and add the oil.
Once the oil is heated add the chicken.
Cook about 5 minutes per side.
Remove and allow to cool.
Once the chicken has cooled it can be shredded.
Cut the tortillas into 8 wedges per tortilla.
In a large mixing bowl combine the soup, olives and onions.
Begin layering in the crock pot with the enchilada sauce on the bottom.
Then add the tortillas, soup, chicken and the cheese in that order.
Continue layering in that order to the top being sure to end with the cheese.
Cover and cook on low temperature 7 hours.

Tip: This is best served in a bowl and topped with sour cream or guacamole.

Be sure to check out the Game-Day Party Menu for some simple ideas & recipes for food everyone loves!

For more Super Bowl Party Pizza ideas visit the Pizza Perfected TABASCO® Original Red page.

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Easy to use multifunction home scale – Perfect for cooks, dieters and families.

EatSmart Precision Pro – Multifunction Digital Kitchen Scale & Extra Large LCD

• Easy to use multifunction home scale – Perfect for cooks, dieters and families
• Max weight 11lbs; Displays ounces/lbs/grams/kgs; Graduation .05 oz / 1 gram
• Includes FREE EatSmart Calorie Factors guide – Portion control and calorie counting made easy!
• Tare feature eliminates the weight of a plate; 3 Minute Auto-Shutoff lets you prepare ingredients while maintaining battery life
• 2 AAA batteries included; 100% EatSmart Guaranteed Satisfaction
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 1.8 x 6 inches ; 13 ounces

Food Scale

The EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale is a versatile multifunction home appliance. Designed to be highly accurate and aesthetically pleasing, the Precision Pro is manufactured to the highest quality specifications. Weigh items up to 11 lbs quickly and accurately, with results displayed in four different units: grams / ounces / pounds / kilograms.

For cooks – Weigh food items directly on the scale platform or utilize the scale’s tare (zero) function, which eliminates the weight of a plate or bowl and makes cleanup a snap. The high resolution screen provides easy viewing angles on any kitchen counter and the five rubber feet eliminate sliding. Additionally the three minute auto-turnoff feature ensures that you will never again lose your measurement in the middle of your recipe prep!

For Weight Loss Goals / Disease Management – The Precision Pro is ultra accurate, precise to .05 ounce / 1 gram increments and perfect for calorie or carbohydrate counting. The scale now includes a FREE EatSmart Calorie Factors book for easy calorie counting (simply multiply the grams of food by the calorie factor in the book)! Stop guessing about portion sizes and start living a healthier lifestyle today.

Best of all, the Precision Pro’s economical price makes it a phenomenal value as well.

Available on Amazon

Moomette’s Magnificents is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of an EatSmart Weight Loss Package of an EatSmart™ Precision Digital Bathroom Scale w/ Extra Large Backlit 3.5
and EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale.

To Enter Visit: EatSmart Weight Loss Package Scale Set Giveaway

Contents Ends: November 14, 2010

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Frugal New England Kitchen is hosting a Giveaway for one Lawry’s “Get Grilling” Kit (ARV: $30) including a marinating dish, skewers, additional Lawry’s products.

Contest Ends: July 26, 2010

Enter at: Frugal New England Kitchen

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With Betty Crocker Suddenly Salad mixes, you can whip up a unique and delicious side dish in the time it takes to boil pasta. Each box of Suddenly Salad comes with ready-to-cook pasta and a seasoning packet.

Frugal New England Kitchen is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a “Suddenly Delicious” prize pack, which includes a sample of the newest variety, Suddenly Salad Greek, a storage container, a serving bowl and an insulated tote.

Contest Ends July 10, 2010

To Enter visit: Frugal New England Kitchen

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Recipes for a Happy (If Disorderly) Life

I was recently offered the opportunity to read Suzanne Beecher’s Muffins and Mayhem: Recipes for a Happy – if Disorderly – Life (Touchstone).  This delightful book makes it debut this June 2010.

If you’re a regular reader, you know that I always wanted to be a librarian.  One of my favorite things to do is visit independently owned bookstores and poke through the stacks.  My favorite place to get to several times a year is The Book Barn, in Niantic, CT.

Over the years I’ve had to clean out several homes of family relatives – and was always drawn to the handwritten recipes tucked away in cardboard boxes and such.  I’m finding that I take comfort in trying to relive memories of favorite childhood recipes by trying to replicate comfort food for myself. For that reason, the chapter “I Miss My Mother” perhaps affected me the most.

The author has owned a restaurant, founded and published a business magazine, established a non-profit program to feed the homeless, and home-schooled her youngest son.  This busy lady also writes a daily column for DearReader.com.

Muffins and Mayhem was inspired by a reader who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and was wondering how to leave a legacy to her children.  Suzanne suggested a recipe box filled with memories and family stories.  Helping this reader turned out to be a gift to Suzanne as well, and she decided to share the stories and recipes that help keep her grounded in today’s unpredictable world.

Put this thought-provoking book on your summer reading list!

Then bake up some of Suzanne’s blueberry muffins, pour a tall glass of iced tea or sweet tea and take some time to savor the days when all food was slow food and people came together to enrich the quality of eachother’s lives.

Suzanne has also launched a site in conjunction with the release of this new book.  Visitors can create their very own Cookbook of Memories and also sign up to receive a free, personalized and autographed bookplate from the author.

Available on: Amazon

• Hardcover: 233 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone (June 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439112878
• ISBN-13: 978-1439112878
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches

For More Information Visit: Muffins and Mayhem

Moomette’s Magnificents is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a copy of Muffins and Mayhem, along with an apron!

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Visit Muffins and Mayhem and leave a comment about another fact that wasn’t mentioned in this post.

~ One Extra Entry: Become a Moomette’s Magnificents Facebook Fan and leave a comment on our wall with your thoughts on this giveaway.

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Moomettesgram’s Recipes is holding a Giveaway Contest

Try Yoplait Frozen Smoothies today yourselves to make at home and save $1.25 off one package. Moomettesgram’s Favorite Recipes is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a Yoplait Frozen Smoothie gift pack, which includes a blender to make the fruit smoothies.

You should read the whole article and enter at moomettesgramsrecipes.com Jan 2009

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Moomettesgram’s Favorite Recipes is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a Tackle the Taste” gift pack that included two free cans of Green Chiles, as well as a football-shaped ceramic serving platter, two sets of football-themed plates, cocktail napkins, and a themed table, Old El Paso Chiles Tackle the Taste, Jan 2010

You should read the whole article.

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Moomettesgram’s Favorite Recipes  is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be two (2) winners of a coupon good for 1 FREE package of Nature’s Peak  moomettesgramsrecipes.com, Premium Frozen Fruit, Jan 2010

You should read the whole article.

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Ideal No Calorie Sweetner

Earlier this spring I was all about dusting off my treadmill and getting ready for Summer  and bikini season.  Perhaps my days of wearing a bikini may be over, but my swimwear of choice has become the tankini.

If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know I really enjoy going to the beach, and recently spent 5 days camping with my grandkids.  We have another camping trip coming up, as well as a weekend trip planned to Ogunquit, Maine.

We took plenty of pictures while at the seashore, and that was reason enough for me to become determined to try to become healthier, and perhaps lose 5 more pounds before the Maine trip!

I recently had the opportunity through Mom Fuse to review Ideal No Calorie Sweetner.

It’s been several years since I’ve used sugar in my coffee or tea, and when I’m dining out in restaurants normally grab for those pink, blue or yellow sweetner packets.

In independent university taste tests, Ideal was preferred over sugar for sweetness, flavor, and overall liking!   Ideal No Calorie Sweetner is more than 99% natural, and is

• made with xylitol, which is known for its health benefits
• Measures cup-for-cup like sugar when baking
• FDA approved!

Some of those health benefits include:

• preventing tooth decay,
• reducing ear infections,
• reducing the buildup of plaque on teeth (all of which are important to moms!).

Ideal is also suitable for diabetics, pregnant women, and kids and a delicious way for anyone to cut sugar and calories from their diet.

I really enjoyed the more natural taste of Ideal and use it in my morning breakfast cereal and coffee.  Now I keep my own box in my desk at the office.

The corporate lunch room has a coffee station, but doesn’t stock any Ideal No Calorie Sweetner yet.  I’m going to suggest to the Coffee Fund Chairperson that they try it, and start stocking it.

For More Information Visit: Ideal No Calorie Sweetner

Moomette’s Magnificents  is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (3) winners of one (1) set each of 50-count box of Ideal packets, a 10.6 ounce baking bag of Ideal and coupons.

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Visit Ideal No Calorie Sweetner and leave a comment about another fact not mentioned in this post, and why you’d like to try the product.

Now for extra entries (each task will get you 1 extra entry):

~One Extra Entry: Add my banner button to your sidebar or add me to your blogroll, and come back here and leave the link (I will be checking)

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~One Extra Entry: Tweet about this contest (Retweet button at bottom of post), and come back to this post and leave the URL link to the Tweet so I can check. You may Retweet once per day until the end of the contest, but please leave a separate comment for each Retweet, along with the permalink

~One Extra Entry: Blog about the contest on your blog linking to my blog and the site

~One Extra Entry: Favorite Moomette’s Magnificents in Technorati and leave your name (I will be checking) in a separate comment  (the link is on my right sidebar).

Make sure you comment separately for each task after the required entry task so you will get credit for each one ~ and leave your e-mail where you can be contacted.

This contest will run until July 29, 2009 at approximately 11:00 pm.

Winners are chosen by Random.Org, if you want all your chances counted, make sure you leave individual comments, not all of them in one!

*Winner has 48 hours to contact me or another name will be chosen.

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