Giveaway Time: For Those Who Like To Cook (Or Want To Learn)

You know what’s funny about having too much stuff in your house? You sometimes forget that you have something, and then you end up with two of the same thing!

This happens to me a lot when I haven’t cleaned out my cupboards for a while. I’ll forget I have lots of, say, salad dressing, or a certain spice. So I buy it at the grocery store, only to end up with twice as much as I really need. I think this even happened at least 3 times with salsa, because earlier this fall we had 6 cans of salsa in the cupboard, since I kept buying it when it was on sale for buy one get one free. I’ve since been banned from buying salsa, and I think we’re finally down to only one jar.

Anyway, it happens.

And this week, because of our tendency to accumulate multiples of the same items, I’m going to turn it into a giveaway!

For a few years now I’ve had a great cookbook in my collection, The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, full of easy to follow recipes, in a durable spiral bound hardcover. You can read the reviews on Amazon, but I agree with them completely--it’s one of my top 3 favorite cookbooks I own.

Well, as you may know, my husband and I have been on a mission the past couple months to de-clutter our house, and have been actively getting rid of anything we don’t need. Recently we were cleaning out the closet in our 3rd bedroom, which was mostly full of my husband’s old boxes that he hasn’t opened in years. We’re talking ancient electronics, college textbooks, puzzle/mind teaser game things, about a billion random cables, and a copy of The America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook! Still in its shrink wrapping!

My husband claims to have no idea where it came from, and I am certain I didn’t buy it, but since we already own a well-loved copy in our kitchen, he gave it to me to pass along to one of my blog friends!

So here’s how you can get up to 4 entries to win a copy of this great cookbook:

1. Get 1 entry by following this blog and then posting a comment telling me how you're following it (through Blogger, subscribing through Google Reader, etc).
2. Get 1 entry by tweeting this: “I entered to win The America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook from The Handcrafted Life (http://bit.ly/HCLife)" and then coming back here and posting a separate comment with a link to your tweet (to find the link to your tweet, you can click the timestamp on the tweet, which will take you to just that particular tweet).
3. Get up to 2 entries by posting separate comments with your favorite recipes in it, and tell me why they’re your favorite. Max of 2 recipes can be submitted, with one recipe per comment (since I’m counting each comment as an entry). You can either write the recipe in the comment box, or just paste a link to it.
   

This contest will end at 11:59PM PST, Sunday, March 20th. I'll use random.org to choose the winner, and announce it on Monday, March 21st.

Good luck! I can’t wait to read everyone’s favorite recipes!