ANNOUNCING... a new
Recipe Contest in our Contest Forums
here. Every month we will hold a contest that will end on the 25th of each month. Any kind of recipe can be submitted; dessert, main course, beverage, whatever, and our judges will decide the winner and that winner will receive
1000 Points and Prizes points.
The first contest will start Sept. 1st and will end Sept. 25th with the announcement on the 28th. Each new month will bring a new chance for a new winner. So warm up those recipes ladies.
Good luck everyone!!!!!
If you have any questions you would like answered, please let us know and we will help you as soon as possible. If it's an emergency, we'll get to it right away. If it's just a general question, then I'll put it in the next newsletter and maybe it will help out the next person who might have the same question.
Found this in last month
Good Housekeeping and thought it was a great way to get your kids to cook with you. It's a website for kids called
www.spatulatta.com It was a given an award in excellence in food journalism and it features two sisters, Isabella 10 and Olivia 8 from Illinois. Every two weeks they post a new video that teaches kids how to cook an entire meal. Check it out with your kids and maybe you can get them interested in cooking a meal a week for the family from start to finish.
Our
Get-To-Know-You question this month is
What's your favorite thing about Fall? If you have any questions you would like answered, please let us know and we will help you as soon as possible. If it's an emergency, we'll get to it right away. If it's just a general question, then I'll put it in the next newsletter and maybe it will help out the next person who might have the same question. All our hosts need to answer in the Leaders board along with the
P&P names so they can receive their points.
Our
Hostess with the Mostess this month is
RodeoNan, Hostess of
Help I need a Recipe and
Chatter's Cafe. Congrats Nancy!
This month's
Featured Forum is
Crockpot Cuisine. Since it's starting to get cool out, and those easy, warm meals are very satisfying LOL. So everyone check it out and warm up those bellies. Here's a link to help you find your way
here
Sept. 2 - National Blueberry Popsicle Day
Sept. 3 - Skyscraper Day, Uncle Sam's Birthday
Sept. 4 - Newspaper Carrier Day, Labor Day
Sept. 5 - National Cheese Pizza Day
Sept. 6 - Read A Book Day
Sept. 8 - National Literacy Day
Sept. 9 - Teddy Bear Day
Sept. 10 - Swap Ideas Day, National Grandparents Day
Sept. 11 - Make Your Bed Day, Remember Sept. 11th
Sept. 12 - National Chocolate Milk Shake Day
Sept. 13 - National Peanut Day, Positive Thinking Day
Sept. 15 - Make a Hat Day, National Hispanic Heritage Month Begins
Sept. 16 - Collect Rocks Day, Mayflower Day, Mexican Independence Day
Sept. 17 - Citizenship Day, National AppleDumpling Day
Sept. 18 - International Peace Day, National Play Doh Day
Sept. 20 - First Railroad Station Opened
Sept. 21 - Miniature Golf Day, World Gratitute Day
Sept. 22 - Dear Diary Day, Elephant Appreciation Day
Sept. 23 - First Day of Autumn
Sept. 24 - National Bluebird of Happiness Day, Good Neighbor Day
Sept. 27 - Crush a Can Day
Sept. 28 - Native American Day
We want to send out our thoughts and prayers to Jacey from the June '06 board. She just lost her husband in a car accident last week. Our prayers and best wishes are with her and her kids.
And to one of our favorite board members, JavaJill. Her son Brandon gave up his struggle after his stroke and has passed away. Jill was enroute to another one of her son's side after a catastropic car accident when she was given the news. Thankfully Nick is doing better and will hopefully soon recovery fully. All our prayers and good wishes go out to Jill and her family in this time of grief and sadness yet joy at Nick's recovery. It would be great that if you have some money that you could spare for her, we are taking donations to help pay for funeral costs and money that it's taken to travel back and forth for both sons. Please PM Sarah, Bubbly_1, for information about donation money for JavaJill. Thank you.
Please join in our thoughts, prayers, and good wishes for our SK families
Country Corn Bake
INGREDIENTS:
1 (15 ounce) can cream-style corn
1/2 cup butter
1 (8.5 ounce) package dry corn muffin mix
1 (8 ounce) package prepared French onion
dip 3 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 2 quart casserole.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine corn, butter, corn muffin mix, French onion dip, eggs, salt, celery, salt and pepper. Transfer the mixture to the prepared casserole dish.
3. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees oven for 40 to 60 minutes.
Makes 9 servings.
Submitted by JavaJill. Thanks Jill
'Stumbling On Happiness' by Daniel Gilbert
A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we're so lousy at predicting what will make us happy - and what we can do about it.
Submitted by JavaJill
We don't have an interim Community Director yet for Cooking Smart, so please contact any of the Community Directors here. We would be happy to help with any questions or problems you might have.
Here's a contact
list that you can use. I'm sure that someone will be named Community Director very soon and will be around all the time to help out. Please don't hesitate to let us know if there is something you need in the meantime.
September Cooking Smart Newsletter
Nancy!! 
