Food and Love
Please vote for my picture book, “The Night Santa Stole, I mean Borrowed, My Sleigh and “If I was a Dog” to win!
Food is love.
The careful mixing and measuring….
Rolling out crust by hand…
And making even the smallest detail mouthwatering beautiful.
There’s love in my biscuits….
Love in my pies…
Love in my briskets and chicken fried….
Love in my muffins.
I don’t love to cook, I cook for love.
And I love what others cook for me…
When it’s out of love, like Mrs. McGill’s Tuna Salad…
My mom’s pumpkin bread and apple pie….
Tootie’s chicken pot pie…
Or Ben’s waffles.
Food is love.
When it comes to feeding other’s hearts.
This post was inspired by the publication of my story “Magic Tuna Salad” in Chicken Soup for The Soul’s Food and Love, just released!
And please vote on my picture books to win! If I win, copies will be donated to my old elementary school! So please vote on both stories!
Stay tuned, Invisible Friends! We have a new Wings tomorrow!
November 29th, 2011 at 3:40 am
great blog and the post,pies and bakery here my God i so like ur a hero ryt nw.
Bdw come thru my blog sometime n follow if u’l like what u c or read
November 29th, 2011 at 4:35 am
Truer words were never written!
November 29th, 2011 at 4:37 am
That’s a lot of baking and you’re so right, if you don’t like to cook just do it out of love. I guess I’ll start thinking that way.
Good luck with your books and thanks so much for stopping by my blog. Jess
November 29th, 2011 at 4:47 am
Will be voting dollface!! And food is made with love..gorgeous post!! Thank you for checking on me..I am doing better today..spending time with my husband and daughters as they have some days off
))) I hope you have a wonderful day!! xx
November 29th, 2011 at 5:05 am
Voted!! “Dog” has 29 votes!! I’m going to be doing some baking tomorrow… I really enjoy it.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:15 am
Gah! You are the Baking Queen!
November 29th, 2011 at 5:33 am
You should try nutritional yeast Duckie — it’s yummy!
November 29th, 2011 at 5:49 am
Your stories are awesome! I hope you win. Your writing never fails to bring a smile to my face. I agree, food is love and feeding my family and friends makes me the happiest. Have a fabulous day, Duckie!
November 29th, 2011 at 5:58 am
I’ve voted! Good luck.
Those pictures have made me so hungry.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:30 am
Congratulations on getting one of your stories published!
November 29th, 2011 at 6:30 am
Sounds neat–I’ll take a look at your books. I mean now that I am hungry of course.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:59 am
Food is definitely Love, how else does it have the power to warm our hearts the way it does and create happy memories?
*kisses* HH
November 29th, 2011 at 7:16 am
Such a yummy post!
November 29th, 2011 at 7:55 am
everything looks amazing!
November 29th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Congratulations! It couldn’t happen to a nicer or more talented person. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary
November 29th, 2011 at 8:50 am
So delicious!
I tried to vote yesterday but the link wasn’t working. Will try again now.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:15 am
I couldn’t agree with you more!
November 29th, 2011 at 9:44 am
Agreed, darling ~ delicious post!
Am off to vote for you now
xoxox,
CC
November 29th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Food is a wonderful way to show love, isn’t it?
November 29th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Oh Miranda, How utterly wonderful! Congratulations! There’s just one huge problem, I can’t vote if I’m not on Facebook and I’m not. Is there anything else I can do???
November 29th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Those pies look Ah-may-zin’ And the waffles…and the ribs (since I am not a big fan of turkey). But you said you got food poisoning? Are you okay?
November 29th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Lovely post!
As Louise, I also can’t vote because I’m not registered on Facebook!
November 29th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
I’ll vote and I love all your pictures!
November 29th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
I love this post. It describes to the very detail how I feel about food. I voted for your story yesterday and I’m all happy about it. I hope you’re well, congratulations on being published and I love you, too.
November 29th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
I definitely agree
Great post, I’ll go vote!
November 29th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
I voted for your stories! I think it’s awesome that copies got to your old elementary school.
November 29th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
So very true Duckie! Food is definitely love
November 29th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
i agree, food is definitely love! your photos make me hungry
November 29th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
so true, great post! love those cookies!
November 29th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Food can always warm the heart…cute post! Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!
November 29th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
I love this post. My mom always said that food is love also, I couldn’t agree more
November 29th, 2011 at 8:04 pm
You look like you REALLy like those ribs.
That pecan pie looks like it’s to die for!
November 29th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Congrats on getting your story in the Chicken Soup book! There’s a whole lot of love going on in those food pictures
November 29th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Wait, you make crust from scratch?
*drooooooling*
November 30th, 2011 at 12:24 am
So much yumminess. Will vote right after this! Love you. xxoo
November 30th, 2011 at 12:33 am
I’m SO with you. My obsession with food is getting a little out of control.
xo Josie
http://www.winksmilestyle.com
November 30th, 2011 at 3:37 am
Food is love, but I don’t love enough to hand roll my crusts… I’ve been using pillsbury for so long, I actually prefer it!
November 30th, 2011 at 5:08 am
These past two weeks I have been busy/away, so I have a lot of catching up to do with your stories. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’m sure it was filled with love of the edible and inedible kind!
November 30th, 2011 at 7:18 am
That’s some good lookin’ food!
November 30th, 2011 at 8:47 am
Congrats to a great writer! Chicken Soup is tops in my book dear.
November 30th, 2011 at 9:41 am
Such a sweet post. I love it and it’s so true! You are very blessed to have such wonderful family and friends – and they can cook too!
November 30th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I voted for your stories.
all that food looks good. I just made some of those cookies with the hershey kisses too, Those are yummy
November 30th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Very sweet
I agree, we definitely express love when we cook for others.
November 30th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
I agree food is love. Baking for others always makes me happy.
December 1st, 2011 at 6:03 pm
****I don’t love to cook, I cook for love.***
Ducky, you are soooo adorable. Xx
December 1st, 2011 at 9:20 pm
those pies!!! so amazing.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Food is love. How very right you are. All of these pictures are beautiful (and they are making me incredibly hungry).