100,000 site hits ~ FREE Random Drawings*

Thank you so much for your support of

Once Upon a Plate!

It has been a pleasure to meet up with so many cooking enthusiasts both here on the blog and through emails. Thank you for your friendship, for taking the time to comment, and for sending your good wishes via email.

As my way of thanking you, and in recognition of approaching the first 100,000 blog hits I'm having a random drawing of three brand new kitchen/cooking related items.

Everyone is welcome to enter; whether you post regularly, stop by to read along, or it's your first time here! Please feel free to enter for a chance to win the drawings.

One (1) of the following three items will be awarded to each of the three winners (1 prize per winner):

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics:

Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients (Hardcover)

by Ina Garten (Author)

Product Description from amazon.com:

"Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites.

Ina Garten’s bestselling cookbooks have consistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made easy to delicious, simple home cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina truly breaks down her ideas on flavor, examining the ingredients and techniques that are the foundation of her easy, refined style.

Here Ina covers the essentials, from ten ways to boost the flavors of your ingredients to ten things not to serve at a party, as well as professional tips that make successful baking, cooking, and entertaining a breeze. The recipes—crowd-pleasers like Lobster Corn Chowder, Tuscan Lemon Chicken, and Easy Sticky Buns—demonstrate Ina’s talent for transforming fresh, easy-to-find ingredients into elegant meals you can make without stress.For longtime fans, Ina delivers new insights into her simple techniques; for newcomers she provides a thorough master class on the basics of Barefoot Contessa cooking plus a Q&A section with answers to the questions people ask her all the time.

With full-color photographs and invaluable cooking tips, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is an essential addition to the cherished library of Barefoot Contessa cookbooks. About the Author Ina Garten is one of the country’s most beloved culinary icons and the author of five previous cookbooks. She can be seen on Food Network, where her shows, Barefoot Contessa and Back to Basics, are among the network’s most watched. Ina also writes a column on entertaining for House Beautiful magazine.

Visit Ina at BarefootContessa.com."

William Bounds 8-inch Metal Pepper Mill

Product Description from amazon.com:

"This sleek Heavy Metal pepper mill from the William Bounds Professional line is as beautiful as it is functional.

This 8" tall mill with the patented three step milling mechanism that William Bounds is famous for allows you to easily twist for fine, medium or coarse settings. The sleek stainless steel is easy to clean and will provide years of beautiful use.

William Bounds' patented milling mechanism crushes rather than grinds peppercorns. This provides the freshest flavor of pepper and a consistent grind, and since there is no grinding of metal against metal, the mechanism will never jam, freeze or wear out.

William Bounds has been making the world's finest pepper and spice mills since 1964.

Product Features

8" Professional Stainless Steel Pepper Mill

From William Bounds

Crushing - not grinding - mechanism will never jam

Limited lifetime manufacturer warranty

~ Made in the USA "

NorPro Mini-Cheesecake/Tartlet Pan:

Product Description from amazon.com:

"Great for quiches, tartlets, muffins, coffee cakes, hors d'oeuvres and more.

Just fill these 12 petite baking cups with batter or crust for quiches, cheesecakes, tartlets, coffee cakes, muffins, hors d'oeuvres and more. Nonstick pan's bottoms remove for easy release of baked cakes. You can garnish each mini cake with fruit, icing, marmalade, fresh herbs and whatever else you choose.

The 2" dia. cups are 1 3/4" deep. 14"L x 8 1/2" W.

Dishwasher-safe. Product Features• Durable nonstick metal pan features 12 mini cups with removable bottoms• Stainless-steel handles are riveted for a secure, comfortable grip• Oven-safe • Dishwasher-safe• Includes mini cheesecake recipe "

Enter to win "Once Upon a Plate's 100,000th Hit" Drawing

• To enter for a chance to win one of the three items, please leave a comment under this post, simply describe your favorite dessert.

Note:

• Entry deadline will be November 28, 2008 at 9:00 PM Pacific time.
• The three winners will be announced on December 1, 2008.

Drawing rules:

1. One entry per household, please.

2. No anonymous submissions/entries.

3. NOTE: If you do not have a blog, please leave a screen name and your email address in your comment, using the following format:

"your email" AT "your mail server" DOT com

4. Winners must provide an actual street address for shipment, no PO boxes.

5. Drawing open only to US residents of the 48 contiguous states, per shipping constraints. (Sorry!)

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Privacy Matters: Only the winner's (screen) names, not actual identities will be shared here. Actual names and addresses will not be shared with anyone, except for shipment purposes from amazon.com

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* PLEASE NOTE:

Unfortunately the drawing is open only to U.S. residents of the 48 contiguous United States as items can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous United States.

One name will be drawn randomly for ONE of the three prizes. Sorry no choice of item you may win.

Good Luck to all who enter.

And thank you again for following along with me!

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