We’re excited to announce the three winners of the $100 gift card from Sam’s Club. Each winner gave us a great food shopping cost-saving tip. Here they are: Katrina in Wisconsin recently traded in her coupon expandable file for a zip-up binder with clear pockets. Each coupon is filed ...
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New Year's Gift from Sam's Club
Happy New Year! As you’re running around doing all your New Year's Eve preparations, we have a gift for you. That’s right, you. Sam’s has generously provided Cooking With Friends readers with three $100 gift cards. If you’re already a Sam’s member, you’ll have $100 to spend any way you want. If ...
Winning Holiday Cooking Story
We are so pleased to announce that Suzy in New Jersey is the winner of the fabulous white KitchenAid Stand Mixer, compliments of Sam’s Club. Suzy wrote and submitted an amazing story about holiday cooking with friends and family. Her story is an example of the significant role cooking with others ...
Holiday Cooking With Kids
Many of our holiday traditions started in our childhood kitchens cooking with family. Whether we decorated sugar cookies or helped baste the turkey, the moments spent preparing meals together were instrumental in shaping who we are as moms and home cooks today. We now find ourselves in our grown-up ...
Let's Bake Together
The holidays are undoubtedly a busy time for most people. Whether you’re entertaining a house full of guests, travelling out of town to visit relatives or volunteering in your community, making something homemade -- cookies, candies or breads — may seem implausible. Even seeing friends during the ...
Cooking With Friends Club and Sam's Club Working Together
We’ve been bulk shopping for years (often times together with friends), and encouraging other moms to do the same since our founding in 2006. So, we are thrilled to announce that we are teaming up with Sam’s Club. This relationship is a natural for us and we couldn’t be more proud and excited that ...
NESCAFE Dolce Gusto by Krups: What’s Brewing for Playgroup
If you’re in the market for a single cup coffee maker, you should consider the groovy new Dolce Gusto, made by Krups. Here at Cooking With Friends, we’ve been making and tasting different coffee and cocoa drinks all month long. This whimsical bubble-shaped single cup coffee maker comes in lots of ...
Mix My Granola (the way I like it) — Great Gift — Think Father’s Day
Hey there granola lovers! I was recently introduced to a great new granola concept — www.mixmygranola.com. You all know that I am a big fan of making your own granola at home with friends, but I decided to take a look at this innovative new concept and thought it could make a unique ...
Wusthof Classic Panini Knife
You all know I am a big fan of my Chef’s knife and use it for mostly everything. So, being a bit biased, when we were asked to review the Panini Knife by Wusthof, I wasn’t quite sure what I would think of it. Well, I like it. I began using it at first to cut hard crusty breads. The curved shape of ...
One-Pot Wonder
We arrived home after a week away on the night before Easter. There were eggs to hide, laundry to do, and a big box begging to be opened””a Pampered Chef Deep Covered Baker. Out came the glossy white baker, and into our heads popped the idea to make a one-pot Easter dinner of Cornish game hens ...