Giveaway: A DOZEN (12) Chef'N VeggiChop manual food processors
Find it: Buy at Cooking.com, $29.95

We ate our first dish out of the garden last night - a green salad with chives and herbs -and now we can hardly wait to chop up our cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers into fresh salsa. To help you do the same, we are holding a truly fabulous giveaway today. Remember this Chef'N manual food processor, the VeggiChop? You can see a video demonstration here of this completely charming chopper.

We're giving away a full dozen! Read on for instructions on how to enter... More

Giveaway: Three Power Plant Minis from Prepara
Find it: Buy through Prepara directly for $39.99

We have a treat of a giveaway for you today. We have been looking forward to this ever since we saw this great product at the Housewares show in Chicago. We've already showed you the Prepara Herb Savor, which helps you keep your herbs fresh. Now they have the perfect indoor herb garden for all the apartment dwellers with nothing more than a windowsill and an airshaft.

To see how it works and for a chance to win one in today's Thursday Giveaway, read on... More

Gift: One green and white Mystic Garden pattern tea set from Yedi Houseware

Our giveaway this week is a spring garden tea set from Yedi Houseware and Classic Coffee & Tea. We are thinking this is a lovely way into your Spring Cure party, if you haven't planned one yet - why not a classic garden tea party? To enter, read on... More

Gift: Five copies of The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book by Barbara W. Ellis
Shop: Available from Amazon for $10.17

I keep one book in my gardening tote, Barbara Damrosch's The Garden Primer, and have done so for many years (this bible of gardening wisdom came out 20 years ago). But now there's a new kid on the block, and I might have to make room for it.

The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book (Storey, 2008) by Barbara W. Ellis, is a compact volume of answers to commonly asked questions about vegetable gardening, even questions that fairly seasoned gardeners like myself secretly harbor. More

Congratulations to elizb98, Flappy McGee, scsoccerchick6, shaldeman and chromiumman - all winners of our Tastebook giveaway last week! The family recipes they would include in a customized recipe book included yogurt dip, stupendous seafood gumbo, chocolate cake and more.

And if you're not among the winners, don't forget that there's a special offer and free shipping through May 4. Go back to the Tastebook giveaway post for more info.

Gift: Five customizable Tastebooks
Shop: Available from Tastebook for $34.95

Are you wondering what you'll give Mom for Mother's Day on May 11? How about a customized Tastebook with some of your own family recipes, and a few new ones from Epicurious or other recipe sites sprinkled in? We've talked about Tastebook's lovely and easily customizable cookbooks before, and today we're giving away five. Read on to find out how to win one and get it in time for Mother's Day!
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Giveaway: 5 copies of Cooking with Shelburne Farms: Food and Stories from Vermont
Authors: Melissa Pasanen with Rick Gencarelli. Published by Penguin Books.
Shop: Available from Shelburne Farms for $34.95

Shelburne Farms is a historic farm in Burlington, Vermont, that now offers inspiration to many with their educational programs, commitment to sustainability, and time-tested approach to food and farming. Cooking with Shelburne Farms is a celebration of their past and present, with one hundred recipes featuring ten basic Vermont ingredients—milk and cheese, maple syrup, early season greens, lamb, mushrooms, game, fish, pork, root cellar vegetables, and apples.

Read on to see how you can win one of five copies, and also see a marvelous spring breakfast recipe from the book. More

Congratulations to reader pasqual182 who won last week's Thursday Giveaway of a Linden Double Spice Grinder.

He said he'd like to put coriander on the other side of this double grinder. Watch later this week for another Thursday Giveaway!

Giveaway: Double Grinder from Linden Sweden
Shop: Available from Amazon for $62.99

As you've cleaned out your cupboards for the Kitchn Spring Cure, you may have realized that you need a real pepper grinder. Or you may have seen all the nice whole spices in the back of your cupboard, languishing until they're called for. Well, here's a tool for you. The Linden double grinder has two grinding ends so you can have fresh spices on call all the time. More

Congratulations to reader nknk who is the (randomly chosen) winner of last week's Thursday Giveaway - the Beard Award-nominated Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking.

And in a nice coincidence, nknk said in her comment that she would to know how to make okonomiyaki, the Japanese pizza-like pancake. Well she's in luck - we have a recipe for it coming up this afternoon!