I’ve kind of kept it hush, hush but today I can finally let you know what’s been going on! I posted a little teaser on Instagram a while ago, but didn’t go into much detail! You see, 30 other food bloggers and I have been working on a little project!
We made a cookbook! Well, we contributed recipes for the cookbook and Christine (Cook the Story) and Jennifer( Mother Thyme) edited it and put it all together! It’s so beautiful and every one did such a splendid job on making this special cookbook happen!
But do you know why this cookbook is so special?
All of the proceeds from the print copy of this book are going to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida.
In addition, Feeding America food banks from across the country are giving the ebook version as a free gift to their donors. If you make a donation you will be given the ebook as a free gift. Donate right now and get your free ebook by clicking here.
I just know you’re going to love this cookbook! You know what else is awesome? I have a recipe in this cookbook! It’s the first real life cookbook that I’ve ever been published in! Ahhhh, you have no idea how exciting that is for me!
You can find my recipe for Broccoli and Cheese Potato Soup in the cookbook! I’m pretty sure that’s enough reason to buy that cookbook right now haha! 😉
But to give you a little taste of the recipes that are in the cookbook here are a few that caught my eye:
- Creamy Buffalo Chicken
- Macaroni and Cheese with Sugar Snap Peas
- Pork Meatballs in Marinara Sauce
- Cuban Seafood Stew
- Chinese Beef and Broccoli
Oh and of course this Island Jerk Pulled Pork!! There are so many satisfying recipes in the cookbook and I get to share one of those with you today!
Jill Holland, Sous Chef of Catering for Good and Chef Instructor of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida gave us permission to make and share the recipe for her Island Jerk Pulled Pork that she contributed to the cookbook!
I always stock up on boneless pork butts when they’re on sale at the grocery store and fill my deep freezer with them, so I had everything on hand to make this meal without having to run to the store! Sometimes I can find boneless pork butt on sale at our local stores for somewhere between $5.00 and $8.00. That is one amazing deal on meat that I just can’t pass up!
I made these over the weekend and actually started it before we went to bed one night so that we could have these Island Jerk Pulled Pork sandwiches for lunch!
Big Bear liked his sandwich plain but I added a bit of coleslaw to mine! I served them with homemade chips and these sandwiches just made the perfect meal!
Thanks to some gracious sponsors I actually have some giveaways for you!
Thanks to San Miguel Produce, Grimmway Farms and Old Oak Farms by RPE Produce I am giving away TWO copies of Where Slow Food and Whole Food Meet !
(They are also contributing food to their local food banks AND they are giving $5 for every print copy of the book that is sold up to $600. That’s in addition to the proceeds from the book that are already going to the food bank! )
AND
Thanks to Hamilton Beach I’m also giving away a Hamilton Beach Set & Forget® Programmable 6 Quart Slow Cooker! Hamilton Beach sent us each one while we were working on our recipes for the cookbook and I am head over heels in love with it! (Thank you Hamilton Beach!!!)
(PS. EACH blogger in the cookbook has 2 cookbooks and a slow cooker to give away so make sure to see the list of bloggers below, visit their sites and enter to win there too!)
Ready for MORE giveaways?
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Slow Cooker Island Jerk Pork(Click to Print)
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
1½ teaspoons ground cloves
1½ teaspoons ground allspice
1½ teaspoons thyme
1½ teaspoons dry mustard
1½ teaspoons coarse salt
1 teaspoon sweet or hot paprika
½ teaspoon cumin
½ teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon black pepper
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
3 pound boneless pork butt
1 cup apple cider or apple juice
1 bay leaf
8-10 hamburger buns, sliced open
Toppings (optional) – BBQ sauce, fresh cilantro
In a small bowl combine onion powder, garlic powder, ginger, cloves, allspice, thyme, dry mustard, salt, paprika, cumin, sugar, black pepper and cayenne.
Use fingers to rub spices together to ensure that ginger is dispersed throughout. Rub spice mixture all over pork.
Put the pork in the slow cooker fat side up. Pour apple cider over pork and add bay leaf. Cook on low for 8 hours.
Remove pork from slow cooker. Use two forks to shred meat. Skim fat off liquid in slow cooker. Drizzle a few tablespoons of the remaining liquid over the meat and mix to combine.
Serve on a bun as-is or slathered with your favorite BBQ sauce and sprinkled with fresh cilantro.
Serves 8-10
$2.29-$3.29 per serving
Recipe used with permission from Jill Holland, Sous Chef of Catering for Good and Chef Instructor of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida for Promotion of the “Where Slow Food and Whole Food Meet” Cookbook.
Set on winning one of those cookbooks or a slowcooker?
Enter below!!
Want more chances to win??
Here are the bloggers that created recipes for this cookbook, they’re having giveaways too!
Broccoli and Cheese Potato Soup from Big Bear’s Wife (That’s ME! You’re already here!)
Chicken, Potato and Barley Stew from Magnolia Days
Autumn Apple Chicken Sandwiches from Chocolate & Carrots
Pumpkin, Chicken and Spinach Tortellini Soup from An Edible Mosaic
Thai Coconut Curry Beef and Broccoli from Food Faith Fitness
Chicken Burrito Bowls from Two Healthy Kitchens
Barbacoa Tacos from My Baking Heart
Balsamic Orange Roast Beef from a farmgirl’s dabbles
Cuban Seafood Stew from The Kitchen Prep
Chinese Beef and Broccoli from Very Culinary
Pork Meatballs in Marinara Sauce from Savvy Eats
Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic from Around My Family Table
Tex-Mex Scalloped Potato and Carrot Dinner from Cook the Story
Cuban Black Bean Soup from Food n’ Focus
Macaroni and Cheese With Sugar Snap Peas from Brooklyn Farm Girl
Sweet and Spicy Carnitas from Cravings of a Lunatic
Pork Tenderloin Florentine from All Day I Dream About Food
Thai Pork with Vermicelli Salad from Jane’s Adventures in Dinner
Mango Chicken from Stetted
Creamy Buffalo Chicken from Mother Thyme
Spiced Lentil Stew from Je suis alimentageuse
Harvest Chili from WonkyWonderful
Whole Tuscan Chicken from The Little Kitchen
Vegetarian Pumpkin White Chili from Kitchen Treaty
Sweet Italian Sausage and Peppers from Sweet Remedy
Chicken Cacciatore from Poet in the Pantry
Lentil, Sausage and Kale Stew from Jeanette’s Healthy Living
Italian Beef Sandwiches from Yummy Healthy Easy
Butternut Squash Vegetarian Chili from Nutmeg Nanny
Oh and one more thing…. since I KNOW that you want EVEN MORE CHANCES TO WIN, I want to tell you about the Twitter Party we’re having!
How exciting! Just ordered my copy!
It’s been so hard to keep the secret of this cookbook for so long. How exciting to be a part of it along with so many talented bloggers. I hope it raises tons of money and gets food to those truly dealing with hunger.
What a great cookbook. It doesn’t seem to matter who you are these days, but keeping your food budget down in this economy and doing it in a slow cooker (my favorite way to get supper going ) is terrific !!
Chicken enchilada soup
Looks great! I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting crock pot recipes!
My favorite slow cooker recipe to make is BBQ ribs. The meat is always tender and falls right off the bone. Very good.
Thanks so much for helping to make this book a success! Your recipe is making me drool!
Congrats on making me drool first thing in the morning, Angie! I’ve been wanting to make a jerk recipe for the longest time… you just gave me the perfect reason to do it this month! 🙂
I love making soups in the slow cooker! It’s so easy and what a wonderful smell when you come home!
That’s so exciting! This pork and the cookbook itself sound delicious (how could it not!?), and what a fantastic cause.
I love the idea of a multiple blogger cookbook AND all the proceeds going to charity. The recipe names you posted sound fantastic, too. If I don’t win it, I’ll surely buy it! Thank you. 🙂
I love slow cooking. I sometimes could use some new ideas. A cookbook would be nice.
What a great giveaway and that pork looks fantastic!
What a great idea for a cookbook and great cause. I just love this and thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Cool book! I cant wait to try some of the recipes
the cookbook looks great, could always use that; i like to cook chili on a slow cooker
This soup looks amazing Angie! I’m so happy to be in the book with you 🙂
I would have to say that my favorite slow cooker meal is veggie lasagna. It always comes out great!
slow cookers are my favorite! I love to make soup and am happy that fall is here to start making lots of soup 🙂
I would love to win this! Thanks for the giveaway.
We love chili in the crockpot!
My favorite slow cooker meal is chicken & a bottle of BBQ sauce which I then shred in the kitchen aid mixer. So easy!
I love my slow cookers. Yes, that is cookers, plural. I love being able to fix dinner in one and set up a dessert or breakfast in the other without having to immediately clean one. 🙂
I love this idea for a book! This pork looks crazy good!
I’m so excited for you all!! What a wonderful cause and what a fabulous book. Amazing photography on this sandwich!!
I like to make BBQ meatballs. And use the slow cooker for warm dips like buffalo chicken cheese dip.
I’d love to win the cookbook…with 2 kiddos under 2, easy meals are the name of the game for me!
The slow cooker is the one appliance I can’t live without! I use mine year round and especially love using it during the Fall and Winter months. Looking forward to discovering more recipes in the new cookbook! 🙂
That is SO exciting! I bet you were bursting to tell this news! Congrats! I love slow cooker meals! I think one of my favorites is a classic beef stew! I would love to win a copy!
What a great collaboration! You have all blown my mind! Your cause is outstanding and the recipes I can see right here are amazing. Yes, especially your Broccoli and Cheese Potato Soup! 🙂 Lovin that programmable slow cooker too!
I am a cookbook obsessed! I love them and this one looks fabulous for a busy family!
I love this opportunity, what a wonderful cause! I’m so glad Fall is finally coming, so I can start making those hearty beef and chicken slow cooker meals I remember from my childhood!
Love the concept of this book! I love fall meals slow cooked on the weekend.
I wish I used my slo-cooker more.
I will definitely want to try this pork recipe,sounds awesome.
I make shredded beef and your cheese broccoli and potato soup.
My standbys for football
I could not function without my slow cooker especially during the summer months. My favorite meal that is made in a slow cooker is pulled pork. We eat the slowed cook pulled pork thoughout the hot summer here in NYC, can you say STEAMY? Anyway thanks for this totally awesome giveaway!
Your dish looks fantastic! Thank you so much for doing this, and for
including us in the project. It is our pleasure to support such a worthy cause.
Keep it green,
–Your friendly Southern California farmers at San Miguel Produce / Cut ‘N
Clean Greens / Jade Asian Greens
I love making vegetarian chili in the slow-cooker. And applesauce.
I love using the slow cooker. Congrats on the cookbook! Your soup and the pulled pork both sound yummy!
I love the idea behind this cookbook, and I can’t wait to get a copy in my hands (or on my computer). Thanks for participating! I usually use my slow cooker for the usual things, like beef stew. I could use some new ideas.
What a fantastic cause! And a fantastic recipe! I definitely need this soon!
Dude I can’t wait to try your recipe. It looks positively awesome. This was a fun project. And so worthwhile.
Love using the slow cooker. These sandwiches sound good.
I would love to win this cookbook sounds like it has some very yummy recipes.
I love to make pulled pork in my (very old) slow cooker.
I’m a slow-cooker fan! It’s the best way to make a lot of food and stretch it a long way, too!
Wow, what a great book and a great cause! And I love this sandwich – that pork looks incredible!
The book is totally gorgeous. I’m so happy to have been included with you and all of the other fabulous bloggers!
Can I just say, that that pulled pork looks AMAZING!
I make pulled pork every football weekend, everyone loves it.
This cookbook looks amazing and my favorite slow cooker recipe is breakfast casserole.
Angie – I am SO thrilled y’all did this – and these recipes?!? Oh my heavens. You already know I have a thing for slow cooking. I know what I will be giving out on my holiday list this year – now excuse me for a moment please – i have a cookbook to order!
This was such a fun project, and i can’t wait to try your recipe! My slow cooker is going to get a workout this fall/winter for sure!
I a sure this pork is loaded with flavor! Love jerk!
Great giveaway, great cause and great looking sandwich!!!
I need this cookbook and I need it autographed please 😉 Your soup looks incredible! I wanna slurp it up through the screen lol.
I’m so excited for this cook book– who doesn’t love slow cooker meals!
I love her! She is from my home town (Ottawa) and I do anything to support local talent. I’d love to check this book out.
I think that’s a wonderful idea for a cookbook!! My Mom makes a mean loaded baked potato soup in her crockpot.
Mishelle
This looks like a great cookbook! I love slow cooking and I’m always looking for new recipes to try. Your soup AND pulled pork both look amazing!
Turkey breast in the slow cooker is a family favorite!
I love everything about this post…the food, the book and the cause. Bravo!
I love spicy pulled pork in the slow cooker!
This sounds wonderful! I absolutely love slow cooker meals!
I do not have a slow cooker! Would love to try one.
I LOVE the idea that so many of the bloggers I already follow are a part of this, so I know the recipes will be awesome. And since we are STILL having 100+ degree days here in So. Calif, I will be using my crockpot every day.
This cookbook looks great!
I think the cookbook is an amazing thing! And my favorite slow cooker meal is steel cut oatmeal, so good, so convenient, so good for me!
this cookbook sounds amazing i love cookbooks especially slow cooking books
Looks like a great cook book. I want one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the cookbook looks great! I haven’t really used a slow cooker before so this would be a great one to have!
I love stuffed peppers in the slow cooker. YUM!
this sounds so good especially as i am just starting to use a slow cooker
A slow cooker will be my kitchen hero when I have hand reconstruction surgery soon. I have prepared vacuum-sealed meals in bags and frozen them so my husband can pop them in a cooker in the morning and we will have a tasty meal at night. This is going to be a year-long ordeal, and I don’t know what I’d do without this marvel of cookery! Having a larger one like this would mean we could eat one, freeze one!
I love making apple butter in a slow cooker!
I love using the slow cooker. I usually don’t feel like cooking after a long day, so I feel like my family si still getting a good meal without me missing valuble time with them
I love new recipes for the slow cooker
My favorite thing to make in the slow cooker is chicken tacos.
My favorite slow cooker recipe is for a white bean/chicken chili that is great to eat in the fall and winter.
I adore my slow cooker, but I make the same old stuff (chili, chicken verde, plot roast, pulled pork); I need some new ideas!
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I have never used a slow cooker and I would love to have one and some great recipes. I would like to give the same to both of my grown daughters for their families.
I don’t use my slow cooker as often as I could. But, I do use it year-round. I usually gravitate toward a beef roast. Last time, used boneless country style pork ribs and pours a bbq sauce over top. Not fancy, but easy. I like the idea of jazzing things up – with a proven recipe.
So happy about this book! I always use my slowcooker for healthier meals, and having options instead of just chili is a big deal for me – thank you all!!
I love my slow cooker! It is so helpful on soccer/baseball practice nights when we’re out of the house during regular dinner-prep time.
My favorite slow cooker meal is pot roast.
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I love to make soups in a crockpot!
I remember well during the years I lived in Grand Cayman, buying jerk pork or chicken on the side of the road…Now I could do my own! What a great giveaway!!!
My goodness what a good looking yummy cookbook! Thanks for this giveaway.
I fix pot roast in my slow cooker, it is so tender. Love the cookbook. So glad the money will go to Second Harvest, so many people depend on it. I’m sure they will appreciate it. Thanks for the giveaway!
The photos are beautiful!
I’m ready to make the broccoli and cheese potato soup
I love making salsa Verde pork or chicken. I also love using my Crockpot to make soups and stews.
Pot roast with vegetables.
Love using the slow cooker! This would be an awesome win!! 🙂
I love soups, and slow cooker beef stew is my favorite. I love any cookbook that gives me more slow cooker recipes.
The cookbook sounds wonderful. I’ve made only a handful of recipes in my slow cooker, despite owning it for many years. I seem to make the same things and need to try new recipes.