Need the gift of TIME? Enter the CHEESESLAVE Menus by Mail GIVEAWAY – $68 Value!

Do you need the gift of more time in your life?  Are you sick of that never-ending question, “What’s for dinner?”

It’s been a while since the Cheeseslave Menus by Mail were first released.  As a matter of fact, they went into hiding for a while, but they’ve now been resurrected!

Ann Marie sent me a copy when it first came out and as I’ve said before, it feels like having Julia Child walk me through the recipes herself, only Ann Marie completely simplifies everything!

If don’t need any convincing, you can buy it now and skip the rest of my story, or you can read on for more…  Including how to enter the GIVEAWAY! 

(Don’t worry, you can still sign up now, and if you win, Ann Marie will just refund you.)

From the NOT-food cultured girl to food blogger…

I wasn’t raised eating all different kinds of foods.

My Mom worked full time and still cooked mostly from scratch (even with 5 kids!), but she wasn’t much into trying a variety of cuisines.  I believe that one of the reasons Ann Marie came into my life was so she could culture me on the finer things.  She has introduced me to many new and interesting tastes:

• Oysters (I love the fresh salty flavor, as long as I remember not to chew.)
• Fois Gras (Not “liver” tasting at all, just super flavorful and dreamy.)
• She and some other friends have even got me to like wine a more all the time.  Granted, I only like the sweet ones (“Kool-Aid” wines, as Kent calls them), but hey, it’s a start, and I already notice that I like them less sweet all the time.  One of my favorites on a menu the other night was even called, “semi-dry” – I’m really getting to be a big girl!
• And how could you not love someone who turned you on to the tastiest treat ever, bananas fried in bacon grease?!  Hey, don’t knock it ‘til you try it.  The bananas caramelize and become extra tasty.
• Read all about how she taught me to expand my palate when I visited her in L.A. a couple years ago.
  

Ann Marie is continuing to “culture me” with her menu mailer, thankfully, since I’m now a food blogger and all…

She’s teaching me how to make things I’ve never heard of like “potato dauphinoise”.  I love learning the new words, what they mean, and she even tells how to pronounce them.  Best of all, she keeps it simple.  In another totally different type of meal, she’ll give the recipe for a familiar comfort food, like chili dogs and cornbread.  (I can’t wait to try that cornbread, it looks so much better than the dry stuff we used to eat…)

No matter what it is, though, she takes the recipes and uses such nutrient-dense ingredients that they turn into powerhouse meals for your family’s health.

Everything I’ve made so far has been out of this world.

For example, I normally make my mashed potatoes with a lot of cream and butter, but Ann Marie kicks it up and uses even more than I do…guess what?  I’ll make it her way every time now.  (I thought I was going to pass out they were so tasty.)  We followed her recipe for “Perfect Roasted Chicken” and it was really good.  We soaked it overnight in salt water like she suggested and then basted while it cooked with butter – both things we had never done before, although we didn’t baste as often as she suggested.  We also added a little organic chicken broth to the bottom and a splash of vinegar to draw the minerals out of the bones as it cooked – that and the butter basting made the best gravy!

How will you use it?

You can use it just like she writes it, straight up for full meal ideas, or you can do what I do and use it for new tried and true nourishing recipes to mix in with some of our family stand-bys.  The tried and true part is especially nice, she tests all her recipes so you know they “work”.

Like a juicy magazine…

Each menu mailer starts out with a nice little intro where she teaches a variety of interesting facts about the recipes and it reads like a juicy magazine.  As I read I feel like we’re just hanging out and talking together about my favorite topic:  FOOD, of course.  I always learn something new, but yet never feel overwhelmed.

Ready to Buy the Cheeseslave Menu Mailer?

Read a little bit more about the menus and then I’ll tell you how to enter the giveaway…

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