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What a Great Gift for Mom!

Posted on: December 24th, 2010 by Carla Johnson No Comments

Chris Steingart is a good friend of mine and the designer of my website. He recently bought a few copies of “Cooking With Sin” and I love how he made one of them into a great gift for his mom.

Chris, thank you for sharing this!

(Spoiler alert for Mrs. Steingart!) 😉

Hey Carla,

We were having some fun with the gift for my mom today. With a $50 gift limit I bought the book for $30 then two cans of Guinness and a bottle each of gin and brandy to go with. While I know that she’s got beer and wine a plenty I tried to buy some things that weren’t already in her cupboard so that she could start trying the recipes right away. The LCBO small sizes are great because many of your recipes don’t call for more than 3/4 of a cup of spirits anyways! So you’re not breaking the bank buying a big bottle just to try out a recipe. Attached to each bottle I put a little note referring her to the page that the ingredient is used on just as a little reminder to actually make the recipe instead of drinking it away first.

Anyways, we were wrapping the gift and couldn’t resist taking a little photo of our $50 gift collection. I know the Christmas shopping season is over shortly but I thought you might want to use this picture to inspire people to go out and “accessorize” their book for the perfect gift!

I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas!

chris steingart
website designer and online marketing consultant
QT web designs

www.qtweb.ca

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Book Launch a Great Success

Posted on: December 13th, 2010 by Carla Johnson No Comments

The book launch was held recently at the Grand Valley Golf Club. Big THANKS to everyone who came out! I must say that I was very pleased with the turnout and the number of people that showed up to help celebrate the launch of my book.

Here are some photos from the event:

Carla signing a few books while Daren and Lucas sell raffle tickets and books.

Carla telling a story for the gathered crowd

Carla signing for some former students, Michelle and Ryan

CWS Book Launch! Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010

Posted on: November 24th, 2010 by Carla Johnson No Comments

Come on out! The official launch for Cooking With Sin is on…

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 from 7-9 pm

at the

Grand Valley Golf and Country Club, Cambridge, ON. http://www.grandvalleygolf.com/

A big huge THANK YOU to the Merkir family for making it so fun and easy to arrange.

I’m excited to announce that it will be a fund-raiser for The Gleaners. http://www.ontariogleaners.org/ One of the CWS contributors, Shelley Stone, works for The Gleaners and they do amazing work. They have served over 5.5 million servings of soup to refugee camps and other areas in crisis around the world.

• $1 from every book sold at the launch will go to The Gleaners.

• Two hand-quilted wine-themed wall hangings will be raffled off.

• Buy a plate to taste some of the recipes from the book and the proceeds will go to The Gleaners

It will be a really fun night. Come and bring friends. Buy a couple copies of the book – it is a great gift! Support the Gleaners. Sample the food, place a bid for a quilted wall-hanging and join me for a glass of “sin” at the cash bar.

Copies of “Cooking With Sin” will be available. Cash, cheque or ATM.

The Quilts

The hand-quilted wall hangings are a gift from my wonderful mother-in-law, Helen Roorda, a Cooking With Sin participant. Both quilts have a rod panel on the back and are ready to hang. Thank you Helen!

Quilt 1: “A Glass of Red” is 41 cm (16.25″ ) wide and 50 cm (19.75″) tall.

Quilt 2: “The Wine Cellar” is 53.5 cm (21″) wide and 62 cm (24.5″) tall.

Map & Directions

Grand Valley Golf and Country Club: http://www.grandvalleygolf.com/main6.cfm?id=40C737F7-B6A7-8AA0-6BE86CACDABC417E

From the 401, take the Homer Watson exit in Kitchener south, then turn right (south) at the first round-about onto Dixie Settlement Road. When the road ends at a “T” turn right onto Roseville Rd. and the club is about 1 km on the right.

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Take a Look Inside the Book!

Posted on: September 27th, 2010 by Carla Johnson 2 Comments

NEW! The “Cooking With Sin” E-Book!No Shipping! No Waiting! Awesome Price!

You get the entire book as a PDF, all 232 pages, all the gorgeous photos, stories and tested recipes PLUS the bonuses. That’s over $80 in value and you pay only ….. $14.99!

Click this link to go directly to my personal site where you can buy your copy of the e-book and get all your bonuses now!

Curious what “Cooking With Sin” is all about? Take a look!

These are some of the photos that were especially shot for the book!

Just as the blog is a collection of peoples’ stories and recipes, the book was a collective effort also. While I took the majority of the photos, I was pleased to have a few other photographers take “shots” of some of the food.

Great big “Thank you”s go to…

Wayne Atack of www.RovingEye.ca took the photos of “She’s a Trooper” Cherries Jubilee. Click here to see some of his magnificent photos. http://cookingwithsin.com/2010/06/24/%e2%80%9cshes-a-trooper%e2%80%9d-cherries-jubilee/

Brenda England of http://www.wix.com/brendaengland/pinelandcreations took the photos of “Savoury Scent” Chicken Soup and “Sin Supper with the Goddesses” Better Than Recess.

Audrey Roorda took the photos of “Poverty Line” German Potato Salad and Derek Marsh took photos for a few other recipes.