Fix-It and Forget-It

Check this out: a Charlotte newspaper says that slow cookers are trendy again. We know we love our slow cooker for the heavenly smells, time-saving recipes, and easy family meals, but now we’re trendy too!
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On Wednesday, we posted a giveaway for a Hamilton Beach 5½-Quart Slow Cooker and a full set of the Fix-It and Forget-It cookbooks.

We asked: What’s the best gift anyone has ever given you?

And the lucky, random winner is…
#211 Kayla Sanchez

“The greatest gift i've ever received were my two children!”

Congrats, Kayla! We hope you enjoy your new slow cooker and cookbooks!

Contact prizes@fix-itandforget-it.com to claim your prize.

Where’s the balance between family favorite recipes and being stuck in a rut? On hectic days, it’s so easy to turn to familiar recipes that we know our family already likes. But it does seem like we’re just cooking with the same tomato sauce, pasta, and cheese over and over again. We’ve talked about this before.
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We do really love living in Pennsylvania for the four distinct seasons. We get to have hot summers, a gorgeous autumn leaf show, a chance of a white Christmas, and then the glorious surprise of spring flowers and leaves.
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One of our New Year’s resolutions is to break out of our familiar cooking rut a little and try a new recipe every once in a while. Mind you, we’re not deserting our tried-and-true recipes – we just want to challenge ourselves a little and find some new favorite recipes.

And look, here’s a fun way to find and share new recipes: The Local Cook has started a Back to Basics cooking series. She takes a topic a week and posts recipes and tips. At the end of the week, all the readers are invited to submit their photos and recipes for the week’s theme. We like cooking schools!

Last week’s theme was sauces, this week’s theme is soups . This is a great time of year to add to our soup knowledge and repertoire.

On Thursday, we posted a giveaway for three (3) 1.5-quart Proctor Silex slow cookers and one (1) 6-quart Hamilton Beach Stay or Go.

We asked: What brightens your winter days?
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Do you have a fast breakfast that you rely on? Cold cereal is fast, sure, but in the dead of winter it’s just so. . . cold. It was 28 degrees outside earlier this week as we scrabbled for breakfast.
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If there is a time of year that calls for cute and bright and fun, it is January. We’ve had unseasonably warm weather here in central Pennsylvania this winter until this week when it turned frigid, windy, and gray. Suddenly we remembered that this is not April, but, in fact, January!
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A few of us have lived in big cities and enjoyed ordering our groceries over the phone and having them delivered. So convenient! But Intercourse, PA, is much too small for such a convenience.
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On Friday, we posted a giveaway for a 6-Quart All-Clad slow cooker.

We asked: What’s your favorite meal to make on week nights?

And the lucky, random winner is…
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