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Italian Chopped Salad with Marinated Chickpeas + a Giveaway

Inspired by the famous Italian chopped salad at La Scala, this yummy salad recipe is packed with awesome ingredients and loaded with amazing crunchy textures and flavors thanks to marinated chickpeas, salami, artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, Asiago cheese, and a zesty red wine vinaigrette.

Salad might run through my veins like sugar does through those of a baker.

In fact, I’m not sure if I’ve ever gone more than 2 days without a salad in at least one of my rounds of eating. There’s always a side salad with dinner, it could be more fruit filled or sometimes there’s no lettuce at all. It’s a mix and match type of game more often than not.

But where I hit my real pleasure point is when I make a big daddy salad for a filling lunch or dinner.

Pack it with protein.

Add salty bits.

It definitely calls for a sprinkle of cheese.

And where would we be without the sharp tang of pucker-induced salad dressing?

And while we’re talking tangy puckers—not Tanya Tucker—I have a giveaway of over $250 worth of AWESOMENESS (jewelry anyone?) at the end of this post, so set your mouth, and your mouse, to scroll…

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Anderson Seafoods $300 Gift Card Giveaway

With only 2 more days until Veterans Day, 2 weeks ’til Thanksgiving and just 7 more Sundays to Christmas (whaaaaaat???) I say it’s time to get into the celebrating spirit with a $300 Gift Card Giveaway from Anderson Seafoods.

The first time I tried Anderson Seafoods I was nothing short of impressed. It’s the best quality seafood I’ve ever used as a home cook and since it was shipped overnight I’m pretty sure it was a lot fresher than what I can usually find at my local grocer, or even my fave seafood restaurant for that matter.

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We Love Our Readers Giveaway

How about we give a little hump day bump to this week with a “just because we love you” giveaway? Did I hear a collective gasp of, “YESSSS” and “Pass the chocolate chip cookies and wine, so we can get through this thing called life ’til Friday?”

Good to hear we’re in this boat together.

I’ve teamed up with a few blogging friends to offer you a break from the norm, something to add a little whirl to your kitchen and get your motors running toward a healthy and happy holiday season. Sorry to break it to you, but yes, it’s almost here.

We’re giving away not just one, but TWO Blendtec blenders to two reader fans, as our little way to say, thanks for being out there in the blogosphere, for reading our silly stories, sharing in our highs and lows and getting into the kitchen and making our recipes.

It’s simple to win, no big, drawn-out processes, and here’s how:

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The Best Grilled Chicken Breast Recipe

Sometimes I get all wrapped up in outdoing / improving / out-creating some of my most favorite / simple / craveable recipes.

It’s easy to get caught up in the complicated when I see all sorts of crazy inspiration and crazy mash-ups on the big, ol’ www. Totally inventive concoctions that take humble and mundane basic recipes I’ve always known and loved, then stuffed them into a firecracker with whatever’s trending at the moment, lit the wick, and ka-boom-er-ama!

That’s not this recipe.

This recipe is right back to the basics. The very basic. The elemental and absolutely essential. The simplest, juiciest chicken breast recipe you might ever make / grill /eat that will be the base to every chicken recipe you throw on the griiiiiilllll. And it just might possibly lead you to lick that wick and send you over the moon.

When Craftsy asked me if I’d like to share some secrets about the best grilling tips I said, yes, let’s do! Let’s give the people something to accent their mad cooking skills. Because that’s what Craftsy’s all about, too.

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New Mobile Feature + Disney Park Hopper Tickets PLUS a $1500 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

You know how it is when you see something you love on a blog, and then you forget where or when you saw it? Well, today I’m introducing a new feature on FoodieCrush that will help you keep track of your faves on the wwww, with no downloading of apps or hoops to jump through to get started.

And to really get you going, I’ve joined up with some of my blogging friends who also have this feature installed on their sites to offer you an amazing chance to win four (4) Disney Park Hopper Tickets PLUS a $1,500 Visa Gift Card.

Summer vacation here we come!

This new feature on FoodieCrush is called CliqueMe. You may have noticed that if you hover your mouse over any image on this blog, you’ll see a black bar with a little heart and comment bubble with numbers pop up in the bottom right-hand corner of the photo. (Go ahead and try it with the photo above or below.)

So, What is CliqueMe?

CliqueMe is like a new social network on all of your favorite sites that you access without ever leaving the site or blog to share / tag / remember your favorites. And it’s mobile, too!

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10 Unique Gifts for Foodies and Uncommon Goods Giveaway

Every year it comes down to the same thing. The holiday hype and the self-impressed pressure of finding the perfectly unique gift for my favorite foodies. In my book, this is serious business.

And when you can get your holiday shopping started with a $100 gift certificate, it suddenly becomes even that much better.

While I’m a fan of sturdy wooden spoons and pretty linen dish cloths, when it comes to gift giving I’m always on the hunt for gifts that showcase wit with a sidecar of sensibility. A present that brings a smile to my gift giving target.

I’d have to say I’m a pretty stellar gift giver. Just ask around.

For years, one of my all-time favorite destinations to make these unique finds has been through my obsessive catalog shopping at Uncommon Goods. While I still get the catalog to leaf through via the good old USPS, I’m now making my buys with the click of a finger via my good friend Ms. Computer.

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