Happy Friday!  Well the end of the week is here and I was debating on what to talk about today.  I tossed around a couple of dessert ideas with some strawberries and realized that I haven’t written a fun post in a long time.  Now my idea of fun may not be the same as yours but lets give it a try.

Name one food you hated as a child but LOVE now!  Leave a comment and tell me the food.  If I get 100 comments on this post – I win a bet with a friend and I hate losing so make sure you tell your answer!

For me it has to be “BEETS”.  I was totally against them as a child and never wanted to touch them.  I would see my mom making beet preserves and eating them all summer with everything from meat and potatoes to summer hams and roasted beet salad.  I wanted to stay as far away from them as humanly possible.  Then maybe 5 years ago, I tried mom’s beets and guess what… I loved them!  The texture and flavor was sensational and now I cannot get enough of them.  I pretty much clean her preserves out when I go over there for dinner.  Oh dear – sometimes I wonder about myself.

Enough about the beets for now.  I have to tell you some more news!  I was poking around today and noticed that I made a list of the top 25 recipe blogs of 2009.  I thought that was pretty neat.

Around the Blogsphere

• Gena delivers – A Very cool salad by Choosing Raw
• Heather reveals a very cool recipe for SourOat Bread
• Nate still keeps his readers laughing, check out his latest work.
• Jaden at the Steamy Kitchen shares a very cool drink

I am on the road next week but I have rounded up some guest posts for the week.  I will be in (what better be) “Sunny” Florida for the week on business but I shall return.  I will be fully active with the blog next week so feel free to  keep your comments coming.

Now do not forget – I want to know the answer to the question: Name one food you hated as a child but LOVE now!

Take care

zesty

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Holy Cow!  Did I ever tell you that I hate packing?  Well I hate packing. But I must say we are on the homestretch now and we are within a week of moving out of our place.  With that said, we still have a lot to do and the days seem to be going by at mach speed.

I am afraid this post may be slightly boring as I didn’t cook anything this weekend.  Nothing!  We had some pizza again, chicken wraps, left over pizza, out for breakfast and some left over pizza again.  Wow after reading that now I know why I may be putting on a little weight.

So in looking back to Friday’s blog makeover giveaway post – I want to thank you for being so positive.  I didn’t know what the feedback would be like so I was really glad to see the overwhelming response.

Big Question Time

I wanted to ask an interesting question that I have always tossed around in my head and at different times I come up with a different answer.  So here goes:

If you were stuck on a desert Island for a period of 6 months and you were only allowed to choose one food with unlimited supply with you – what would you bring?

I am dying to see your answer in the comments – and for me the answer would have to be BREAD!

Sorry for the lame post but i promise you – they will get better.

Take care

zesty.

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Happy Wednesday!  I finally made it to Tennessee.  Today is Zesty’s 100 post birthday, so to celebrate I thought I would have a fun little giveaway. I am thrilled with the success of zestycook.com thus far and I am really looking forward to the upcoming months.  I have a lot of new additions to the blog that I cannot wait to share with all my readers.  So by all means, subscribe to my blog and get your name in the hat to win a fun gift card in time for the holidays.

In keeping with the theme…100 - I would like to giveaway a $100 gift card.  See below for details.

How To Enter:

• New and existing email subscribers will automatically get an entry on draw date.  Note that only verified subscribers count. (+1 entry)
• Leave a comment about your favorite dish/food. (+1 entry)
• Earn an extra chance to win by linking back to this post on your own blog (if you have one). (+1 entry)  (please email me if you link back)

The Rules:

• Please only 1 comment entry / person (please enter a valid email address).  Your email will be kept private and never given/sold to third parties.
• The winner can pick between a $100 PayPal payment or a $100 Amazon.com (or Amazon.ca) gift card.

So let me know your favorite food or dish in the comments below!  A random generator will be used to pick the winner.  Contest will end at 5pm EST December 19, 2008.

I look forward to all your responses.  Have a great Wednesday!

Take care

zesty

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