Free Cookbooks and Relaxed Cooking Recipes!
Spring has sprung, has made me happy and put me in a generous mood.
Once again it’s time for my favourite thing: a no-work-no-strings-attached COOKBOOK GIVE-AWAY!
I was able to source fifteen hot-off-the-presses celebrity cookbooks for my foodie community courtesy of Random House.
All Foodie-file subscribers are eligible to win a Cookbook, you do not need to be a new subscriber. If you are not subscribed all you have to do to get in on the fun is click the word e-mail under the e-mail icon 
on the Foodie-file blog page.
In honour of fast approaching Mother’s Day, my first Cookbook selection is a chef who’s popular with the ladies,Curtis Stone’s newest cookbook Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone . Wouldn’t you love this as a Mothers Day gift for yourself? Or it would be a great treat for any lady in your life.
Once a week for the next five weeks I will give away a copy of Curtis Stone’s cookbook to five lucky subscribers that have been randomly drawn from my list of subscribers, there is nothing more for you to do but read and find out if you’ve won!
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Relaxed Cooking Featured Recipe
I will be featuring my own choices for relaxed recipes over the next 5 weeks from the Canadian Living repertoire. My first choice is for Slow and Easy Java Ribs. An easy rub over these ribs and refrigerating overnight develops tons of flavour. Cook these ribs slowly for meltingly tender results. You may think coffee is a strange ingredient but it’s perfect in a meaty marinade – try it you’ll like it!
Keep reading the Foodie-file, I have ten more copies of two other fantastic newly released celebrity cookbooks to follow the Curtis Stone give-away!
Good luck and I look forward to meeting you at the Foodie-file!
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Christine, what fabulous news! I look forward, as always, to reading all your posts! I love coffee so I don’t think it’s a strange ingredient at all! Can’t wait to try the recipe.
Tomorrow is my husbands birthday and he is looking forward to ribs and wings. I’ve just printed out the recipe for “Slow and Easy Java Ribs”. We will let you know how they turn out.
If I can’t have Curtis Stone come to my house and cook, I would like to win his cook book!
June can have the book. CanI have Curtis?
No,seriously, I would love a copy of this one also.
Hi Christine,
Next week it’s my birthday and Curtis is my favorite chef, I always watch his show” take home chef” on TLC, I love it…Please, Please, I would love to win his book!
I look forward to readng the Foodie-File.
Thank you
Hi Christine:
I, too, look forward to reading all of your posts and hope that I may be lucky enough to win one of the cookbooks to be given away!
Hi Christine,
I enjoy your newsletter and thank you for giving away great prizes. I am a cookbook collector. There is always room for more. When my daughter-in-law comes to visit she picks out a cookbook and reads it like a book. as a matter of fact so do I. Keep up the good work
I love watching Curtis on “Take Home Chef”. I have made several of his recipes and they were simple and delicious. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that I win his book
What a great giveaway !!Im so hoping I win one !!
Awesome givaway…would lv to win one.
Here’s to hoping.
Laurie VF
Coffee and ribs yummy. I love both. Hope I win too!
Christine; you never cease to amaze me, you always seem to know what is current and the passions of many of us. I’m afraid that I might be close to being a Cookbook-aholic. I find it difficult to pass by a cookbook wherever it may be found -and yet I’m always looking for that next great recipe. By the way does anyone have a good recipe for slow cooker chicken with a little kick to it?
Wow! that Curtis I just love him – a fantastic personality, good looking and he can cook – I just love his show – I wish he would come to small town Ontario. he could cook for me any day!!
I loved watching Curtis on ‘Take Home Chef’. What a doll! Would love to try his recipes. My fiance and I really enjoy cooking together and for eachother. We are always looking for new recipes as we rarely make the same thing twice.
I would really love to win one of your cookbooks
Im excited its finially starting to feel like spring, the birds are singing and my flowers and herbs are starting to bloom. I love reading your column and hope someday i will be choosen as one of your lucky readers to win something. One can never have to many recipes or cookbooks.
hi christine,
i would be thrilled to have my name drawn for this cookbook,lorna
I love ribs and I am always willing to try new ideas, keep them coming!!!!
Holly
Coffee as a marinate I can hardy wait to try it. Hope I win this cookood as wel. Thanks
Recipe sounds great! Can’t wait to try it! Cookbooks sound great, too.
Hey as one of few male great cooks here at work I’d just love to add to my “repertoire” of cooking presentations to my almost all female co-workers
Hope I can win a copy.
In any case it is fun to read your recipe, to copy some and all
I love this site – I love the recipes
I love all the wonderful recipes and info.
Would love to win a book too!
I can’t wait to try these recipes and read the cookbook. I am currently recovering from extensive throat surgery for cancer so am not eating yet but love recipes and anticipate eating them in a month or so
Thanks for brightening my day
I would love to win one of your cookbooks. Thanks for the opportunity!