Posts tagged turkey day
Recipe Contest: Side Dishes That Steal The Show!
06 months ago
Thanksgiving dinner always revolves around one thing – the turkey.
We always feel bad for the stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, etc. … it’s almost as if we can picture the side dishes looking at the beautiful turkey and saying, “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!”
But not this year!
This year is going to be different because PMall.com is moving the spotlight over with the “Side Dishes That Steal The Show” Recipe Contest!
We’re asking you to share your favorite side dish recipe with us for a chance to win a prize!
All you have to do to enter is send an email to social@pmall.com with the subject line “Thanksgiving Recipe Contest” with the following information:
- Your full name and an email address that we can use to reach you if you win the contest
- The name and recipe for your favorite Thanksgiving Side Dish and a few words about why you love it so much.
And that’s it! Please make sure you send in your emails before the end of Thanksgiving Day on November 22nd, 2012. We will announce the winner here on our blog on Friday, November 23rd.
What are you playing for you ask?
Well the winner, who will be chosen by the A Personal Touch staff, will win their very own Give Thanks To The Cook Personalized Apron and matching Potholder!
That way you can cook in style the next time you’re preparing your favorite side dish!
We can’t wait to see all the recipes start rolling in!
Good luck!
Tell Us Why Your Chili is the Best & Win!
01 year ago
With National Chili Day being celebrated Thursday, February 23rd and with the winter’s “chili” weather hitting us hard, it seems like now is the perfect time for A Personal Touch to host a chili recipe contest!
People can be very particular and territorial about their chili. Depending on where you live, some people say that real chili isn’t made with beans, while in other parts of town they’ll say it’s not chili unless it has beans. And then there are the people who like to have fun with traditional recipes and add a new twist ingredient to them like cinnamon or even chocolate!
But no chili is complete without the main staples like meat, onions and tomatoes – all of which are ingredients that require a whole lot of prep work. That’s why the winner of the contest will be awarded their very own personalized You Name It© Bamboo Cutting Board so that they have a beautiful place that they can use to create their masterpiece!
Since all “chili purists” seem to claim that their masterpiece recipe is the best in the world … we want to hear why your recipe really is the best for the PersonalizationMall.com “My Chili is the Best Because …” Recipe Contest!
To enter, all you have to do is send an email with the subject line, “Chili Contest” to social@pmall.com with the following information:
- In a few sentences, tell us what it is about your chili recipe that sets it apart from all the rest.
- Please include your full name and email address so we know how to contact you if you’re the winner.
Just make sure to have your emails sent to us before the deadline at midnight on Thursday, February 23rd. We will announce the winner of the contest, who will be judged by creativity and uniqueness and selected by the A Personal Touch Staff, here at the blog on February 24th.
We look forward to hearing all your special recipes … our mouths are already drooling!
Good luck!
“What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?” Contest Winner Announced!
01 year ago
Thank you to everyone who submitted their delicious Thanksgiving Stuffing recipes to PersonalizationMall.com’s “What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?” Contest hosted by the A Personal Touch Blog!
After drooling over all the entries, the A Personal Touch staff finally narrowed it down and found our favorite recipe!
The winner of the most original “What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?” contest recipe is Michele Lange with her Sage Sausage Stuffing!
Here is the winning recipe for your enjoyment:
Sage Sausage Stuffing
Ingredients:
1 lb sage breakfast sausage (Jimmy Dean’s)
5 stalks chopped celery
2 medium onions, chopped
2 medium/large red delicious apples, diced
1 package Pepperidge Farm corn bread dressing crumbs
1 package Pepperidge Farm sage and onion dressing crumbs
2 - 32 oz boxes of chicken broth
1 stick of butter
3 eggs (beaten)
Directions: Fry sage sausage. When medium done, add chopped celery, onion, diced apples (do not peel), and butter. Finish cooking until sausage and cooked through, about 10 more minutes. Add dressing crumbs to sausage mixture and mix thoroughly. Add one box of chicken broth and mix. Add eggs and mix well. Add half to 1 full box until desired wetness. Spray non-stick spray in 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes covered and 10 more minutes uncovered. Serve with your Thanksgiving best!
This stuffing is fabulous because of the secret ingredient…sage sausage. It is also easy to make which is exactly what you want when you are cooking up a storm on Thanksgiving Day.
Thank you!
Michele Lange
We’d like to thank Michele and all of the A Personal Touch readers for sharing their secret ingredients with all of us … we can’t wait for Thanksgiving to come around again so we can try them all ourselves!
We hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving and don’t forget to keep checking in at PersonalizationMall.com for all your Holiday shopping needs. There will be great deals and sales on our beautiful and unique selection of personalized gifts throughout the rest of the Christmas shopping season!
Happy Gifting!
Tips to Put the “Thanks” back in Thanksgiving!
01 year ago
Thanksgiving is only a few days away … do you have your holiday to-do list prepared? With all the grocery shopping and cooking that comes with making a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner for your family, it can be hard to focus on anything else that day. That’s why we here at PersonalizationMall.com’s gifting blog, A Personal Touch, have prepared a couple easy Turkey Day tips for you to use in order to make this Thanksgiving even more special than years past!
Thanksgiving day is a great day for family photos, especially because people tend to include pictures taken that day in their family Christmas cards. It’s important to have the little ones looking their best, but it can be hard to put them in a pricey outfit knowing that it soon will be covered in gravy, cranberry sauce and stuffing! That’s why it’s a great idea to personalize our adorable I’m Stuffed© Youth T-Shirt for your son or daughter! You can have their first name personalized under our boy or girl turkey design on an infant t-shirt, infant romper, infant bib or toddler hooded sweatshirt, too! They’ll not only look festive and cute in their turkey t-shirt, they’ll be thankful they’re dressed in comfortable attire while they are running around playing with their siblings and cousins!
With all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season it’s important to make sure everyone remembers what Thanksgiving is all about.
We came across a great idea from Parents.com that offered the idea for this Turkey centerpiece project that can help remind children of the real meaning of Thanksgiving. It’s a simple project that you can do with your kids that also can be used as a beautiful centerpiece for your table.
You start by making the body of the turkey with a Styrofoam ball that you can paint brown or cover in brown yarn. Next you attach a smaller Styrofoam ball that you have already painted or covered in yarn and it will be the turkey’s head. Don’t forget to add the eyes, beak and red gobble neck! Then use different color construction paper to cut out feathers for the turkey. Tape toothpicks to the back of the feathers and leave one blank feather at each place setting on the table with a crayon or marker. Once your guests arrive, or when you’re sitting down for dinner, ask each guest to write down something that they are thankful for on their feather. Before eating, every one can go around one by one and say what they wrote down on their feather. Once they have announced what they are thankful for, they can stick it into the main turkey body so that by the time everyone has had their turn, you’ll have a beautiful and full-feathered turkey centerpiece! It’s a great idea, isn’t it?
We hope these tips have helped you plan for a special Thanksgiving Day with your family. Do you have any tips or Turkey Day projects you can share with the A Personal Touch readers? If so, please comment below … we’d love to hear them!
Happy Thanksgiving!
“What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?” Tell us & Win!
01 year ago
It’s almost Turkey Time! And you know what that means … pretty soon you’ll be sitting down with all your loved ones and gobbling up a delicious feast!
We recently asked our Facebook Fans which Thanksgiving dish they were most looking forward to - can you guess which dish the majority of fans voted for? Stuffing!
Stuffing is one of those scrumptious foods that is made from a recipe that people love to tinker with.
There are stuffing recipes that call for apples and cranberries like Paula Dean’s, or there are also some that call for cornbread and sausage like allrecipes.com, and who could forget the ongoing preference battle between crunchy or moist! With all the endless possibilities, PersonalizationMall.com wants to know, “What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?”
That’s right! We’re offering another recipe contest right here on the A Personal Touch blog! We want you to email your Thanksgiving stuffing recipe to social@pmall.com … don’t forget to include the secret ingredients that make your recipe stand out from all the rest!
The A Personal Touch staff will read all the entries and pick their favorite recipe and the winner will receive their very own Family Favorites© Personalized Recipe Box that they will fill with a set of matching Family Favorites© 4×6 Personalized Recipe Cards so that they can beautifully store their award-winning stuffing recipe!
To enter, please send an email with the subject line “Stuffing Recipe” to social@pmall.com before Midnight on Tuesday November 29th, 2011 with the following information:
- Your full name
- You email address for where you’d like to be contacted if you win
- Your stuffing recipe, along with a note explaining which item is your special ingredient
And that’s it! You should have enough time to find your favorite recipes (or borrow them from Mom at Thanksgiving 
) and enter them into the contest. The winner will be announced here that week. We can’t wait to hear all of your yummy secrets!
Good luck to everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!
