Good Friday to you! Happy Friday! How are you doing? Big today in zesty land today. Mrs Zesty is heading out of province for a few days and zesty is holding down the fort. You know that only can mean chaos! Haha just kidding, I should be able to wrangle in the youngsters for 3 days and have fun!

Have you heard of MoVember? Where men grow a mustache and help raise money for cancer. Apparently I am on a team and going to be growing a duster on top of my lip. Now all be it, I will look a little awkward I thought it would be a fun idea for me to update my progress weekly on the blog and upload a pic of the stash. Good idea? I will also throw up a donate button throughout the month if anyone wants to donate via PayPal. You can check my MoBro page and follow the progress. Just between you and me, I want to raise the most money on the team. I was even thinking of dying my mustache a slightly different color once it fills in about 3/4 of the way. Good idea?

Anyway, enough about male facial hair but I did want to update you on the November task at hand.

Saybon Candy Winners

Alright folks we have 4 winners from the Candy giveaway. I used random.org to generate the lucky numbers and I will announce the winners below and just ask for the winners to send me their email addresses and i will pop them back an email with a printable coupon for a free bag of candy.

Kerry McDougall October 29, 2011 at 6:21 am
My favorite cookbook is The Barefoot Contessa. The first cookbook she wrote is an excellent reference that I use time and again. I have all of her cookbooks, but the first one is the one I return to most often.

Judy October 28, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Naming my favourite cookbook is a challenge because I love cookbooks.
I will say the Company’s Coming series.

From Twitter

theScorpioWoman -There is a Saybon Candy giveaway @zestycook zestycook.com/a-saybon-candy…

Carolyn H October 28, 2011 at 9:53 am
My favorite cookbook is by Chef Michael Smith – The Best of Chef at Home. So many great, delicious, healthy recipes that I’ve enjoyed sharing with family time and time again. I like his simplicity, and that I’ve had most of the ingredients of his recipes on hand in my cupboard, which makes using his cookbook enjoyable. I rarely have to go out and buy a bunch of groceries before making a recipe, which is a plus!

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It’s Good Friday!  I cannot believe it is Easter already.  I have been very sick the last few days with what I will call the Stomach flu that got Zesty but I am slowly on the mend as I type this post.  I don’t ever remember being so sick as I was on Wednesday of this week.  However, with that being said we have to move on and keep plugging away.

Do you ever wonder what one of my favorite snacks would be?  You may or may not.  If you had to guess what one of my favorite snacks would be  – what do you think you would guess?

• Potato Chips ( very good guess )
• Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies ( another great guess)
• Fresh Olives ( not so good!)
• Pita and Homemade Hummus ( a good guess indeed )

One of my favorite snacks of all time has to be…..

Homemade biscuits from the oven with a little butter, some homemade strawberry jam and a little slice of aged cheddar cheese on top.  Oh my stomach is growling right now as I look at these pictures.  I am in love with biscuits… as you have likely figured out from previous biscuit posts.  If you have a spare 10 minutes in your day – whip a batch of these up for yourself or your loved ones and you will be a happy person.

So now that you know one of my favorite all time snacks, I think we should get to the bread winners from Monday’s contest.  Below are the 4 lucky winners of Dempster’s Oven Fresh Baguette.

Comment 39:

claire says:

March 31, 2010 at 3:19 pm

I love jelly on bread for the sweet and flavored olive oil or hummus for the savory:-)cc

Comment 10:
Janette says:

March 29, 2010 at 12:38 pm

Nothing better then the smell of bread coming out of the oven, with just a swipe of margarine.

Comment 2:
ann marie says:

March 29, 2010 at 9:53 am

Oven cooked bread is the best thing in the world and my fave topping is garlic butter and mozzarella cheese toasted in the oven till all gooey and melted.

Comment 6:
Meg says:

March 29, 2010 at 11:55 am

mmmmm….I could eat some warm bread NOW! I love all sorts of toppings but some raspberry preserves sound yummy right about now!

Congrats to all the winners. For the winners, please send me an email and I will get the coupons sent to you as soon as possible. Enjoy the rest of your Good Friday and have a great Easter weekend.

Take care

zesty

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Happy Monday to you!!  I hope you had a great weekend and ready for another fun filled week in April.  As you may know, I am traveling to Jamaica in 2 weeks which I am really looking forward to.  However, if you heard the news today, I am slightly less excited.  The headlines read “Gunman holds Canadian plane, crew at airport in Jamaica” – this just came in about an hour ago as I was waking up.  This does make me a little concerned but hopefully everything will be alright.  Now on to today’s excitement.

We have some luck winners of some new Zesty Gear.  Are you ready for the excitement?

The winners of the Zesty T-shirts are:

1. Missy – from Missy Maintains

126. Missy (Missy Maintains) says:
April 13, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Great idea and such nice shirts!! I am linking back in my next post!

2. Elisabeth from the Joggers Life

61.  Elisabeth says:
April 9, 2009 at 2:33 pm
How fun!! I would totally rock the “Get Zesty.” logo!!

I just gave you some link love in a blog post (http://joggerslife.com/2009/04/09/keepin-it-real/)!

The winners of the Zesty Aprons are:

3. Laura

6.  Laura says:
April 9, 2009 at 9:04 am
I think this is such a fantastic idea! Your generosity certainly speaks for itself! I LOVE the aprons!!!!!

4. Erin from long island

164. Erin from long island says:
April 17, 2009 at 10:35 pm
This is a great idea….giveaways are a wonderful thing!

Congrats to all the winners!  Please email me to indicate the color of the zesty gear you would like and I will get them shipped off to you right away.

Boosting the Fundraiser

With that being said, now we have a lot of work today!  I would like to sell a lot of clothing so that I can give as much as possible to the food bank.  I really want to succeed at this fundraiser so I need your help.  To help motivate people to “BUY ZESTY”, for the next 5 days for every zesty clothing article that is purchased I will personally double the donation from each shirt or apron .

Yes, you read that correctly.  I will double the profits/donation for the next 5 days.  So if you were planning on buying one for you or a family member – let’s do it this week and make our donation to the food bank spectacular.  With teamwork and generosity we can make this a success.  Check out the clothing store for more information on the selection and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.  I would love to hear from you.

I thank you for your continued support of both myself (zesty) and of all the people out there that deserve to eat good food as well.

I will keep you posted with the progress throughout the week.  Have a great Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

Take care

zesty

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