2011 August — A Southern Fairytale

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3:30 PM ByRachelFiled UnderGiveaways

Where oh where did last week go?

The birthday give back was simply amazing, we had the most wonderful sponsors and it was so wonderfully-fantastically-exciting to have all of those goodies to give to y’all!!

So, I know y’all are dyin’ to know who won.
Without further ado

The winner of the Allora Handmade $25 Gift Certificate is – Cherie
The winner of the Lisa Leonard $50 Gift Certificate is – Bama Mama
The winner of the Mabel’s Labels Ultimate Back to School Combo is – Amanda, at Four Against Two
The winner of the Gussy Sews $50 Store Credit is – Lillian P
The winner of the Canvas Press Gallery Wrap is – Sherry, from Paper Scissors Keyboard
The winner of the Red Letter Words Giveaway is – Briana
The winner of the Storkie Express $50 Store Credit is – The Chatty Mommy
The winner of the Hip Hostess & Lily Fields Photography Giveaway is – Jamie, at Jamie Delight Photography
The winner of the Design Chicky $100 Credit is – Kacee at You Had Me at Scrap

and Finally -

The Winner of the Purple Paris from Epiphanie is -Amy from My Chicken and Cheese

All winners were chose via random.org or Comment Contest Plug-in. Check your email if you won and remember you have 24 hours to get back to us or another winner will be chosen.

HUGE Congratulations to all the winners and THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this week so amazing!

A huge, massive thank you to our amazing Sponsors – please check them out in the sidebar and go show them some love!!!! This wouldn’t have been possible without them. They made our birthday week that much more special and thanks to each of you who entered and wished us Happy Birthdays!

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Dippin’ Dogs

5:16 AM ByRachelFiled UnderMain Dishes, Sponsored

Each recipe must fit these requirements: 10 ingredients or less, can be made in under 45 minutes and feed a family of 4. This is all to help give y’all new ideas for great back to school dinners. By the end of this challenge, y’all will have 32 new recipes to choose from! Every day during this challenge you have the opportunity to vote on the Meal Maker Back to School challenge Facebook page for your favorite blogger. The top 2 voted bloggers will get to go head to head in a live cook off challenge in San Antonio on August 28th at H-E-B!! The cook-off will be presided over by George Duran!

This week’s Secret Ingredient

Hebrew National Franks

Once again, I called in my secret weapon team, the brilliant minds behind the Peanut Butter, Bacon, Apple and Honey sandwich, Monkey and Princess.

We discussed Octopus dogs, baked franks casseroles, franks and fries.. and more.

The kids decided that they wanted to make bite sized dippin’ dogs. My kids, like most, love finger foods and finger foods that you can dip — even better!

We took one pack of Hebrew National Franks and two tubes of chilled refrigerated croissant dough. We cut the franks in half, rolled out the croissant dough, each croissant triangle gets one frank half – and fixings if you like them – we added 1/2 slice of cheese to some, a couple of peperoncini to some of the others, rolled them up and baked them for about 20 minutes. (Use or save the leftover croissant dough)

While they were baking we made some beans and some little bowls of dipping sauces – ketchup, mustard, bbq sauceand for Nathan and me — a chili garlic sour cream sauce.

We had fun sitting around the table, dipping the franks into the sauces, and watching the kids talk about how much fun they had and how proud they were of the meal they’d made.

Dippin’ Dogs

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Approximate Time: 35 minutes

Yield: 14 dippin dogs

Dippin’ Dogs

Delicious hot dog bites. Pair with your favorite dipping sauce and sides for a fun, quick family dinner

Ingredients

1 package Hebrew National Franks
2 tubes refrigerated croissant dough
mustard, ketchup, bbq sauce ....
sliced cheese, peperoncini's etc.. for accent fillings, if desired

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 375
Open a package of Hebrew National Franks and cut them in half diagonally
Open the croissants and roll them out, place a frank half on the wide end of the croissant triangle and roll.
Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes, or until the dough is golden brown and fully cooked.

Variation

Place 1/2 a slice of cheese, some peperoncinis or your favorite accent filling inside the croissant along with the frank, roll up and bake

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Want to make these Dippin’ Dogs? or your own favorite meal involving Hebrew National Franks? HEB and ConAgra want to make that even easier for you this week with their in store Combo Loco. From Aug 3rd to August 30th – buy Hebrew National Franks (11-12 oz), get PAM for Grill (5-6 oz) and Hunt’s Ketchup (24 oz) free with in-store coupon!

Follow all the H-E-B & ConAgra Meal Challenge Bloggers on twitter with the #HEBack2School hashtag.

Thanks for coming and linking your deliciousness up with me every Monday, I love seeing what y’all are sharing with your friends and family!
Follow all the H-E-B & ConAgra Meal Challenge Bloggers on twitter with the #HEBack2School hashtag.

Thanks for coming and linking your deliciousness up with me every Monday, I love seeing what y’all are sharing with your friends and family!

If you’d be so kind – take a moment and go vote for me on the Meal Maker Challenge page

For my part in this Meal Maker Challenge, I am being compensated and have received some products (some of which you can win – more about that later) All opinions, recipes, thoughts and ramblings are completely my own.

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Domestic Chicky Giveaway

12:00 PM ByRachelFiled UnderBirthdays, Giveaways

Happy Birthday, to me! Happy Birthday, to Me! Happy 33rd birthday to MEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Okay, I’m not giving Domestic Chicky AWAY

How could I? I mean look how gorgeous her Design Chicky talents makes my blog look!
And just look what at the gorgeous custom Subway art that she made for Nathan and me (ignore the grey parts -those were my kids’ real names)

That piece of awesome up there: $25. That’s right. CUSTOM Subway art made expressly for you – ONLY $25. You get the custom subway art delivered to you in a digital file.

I love and adore Chicky, she was one of my roomies at my very first BlissDom in 2009 and she’s got one of the biggest hearts and most creative minds of anyone that I know.

She is SOOO generous, that even though this Birthday Give Back is in celebration of HER birthday, TOO! She’s offering one of y’all a $100 credit to her site – which can be applied towards Blog Design, subway art, button creation and more!

Told y’all, she’s full of awesome

HOW To Enter to Win the $100 Design Chicky Credit:

MANDATORY ENTRY:

Visit Design Chicky and tell me what you’d use the $100 credit on

BONUS ENTRIES:

Tweet this giveaway and leave the Tweet URL in a SEPARATE comment

Facebook this giveaway and leave the FB URL in a SEPARATE comment

This giveaway & ALL of the birthday Give Back Giveaways end tonight at 11:59 PM CST)