12 Days of Bloggie-mas #6 - Six Sumptuous Side Dishes

First and foremost....I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!  I hope that your holidays are filled with family, good food and spending time with friends.

I'm happy to co-host with Alex of A Moderate Life on "The 12 Days of Bloggiemas" a celebration of food and recipes.  Every day for 12 days there will be a different theme you can participate in....

Today's theme for the 12 Days of Bloggiemas is .....Six Sumptuous Side Dishes!  Pull out your favorite side dish recipes that you've linked up and share the love of good food this season!

Continue reading for a message from Alex of A Moderate Life.......

I wanted to send you all a holiday blessing, no matter what holiday you celebrate because you are all a wonderful part of my life and sharing the foodie love with you has been a huge blessing in my life!

A Foodie Blessing

May your garlic always be pungent, may your greens always be bitter, may your goat cheese always be tart and may your bread always rise! No matter what ingredients you have on hand, may you always, through your love of food and creative spark, make a meal to remember, to nourish and share with those you love!

The 12 Days of Bloggie-mas is a celebration of foodie love and recipes! Each day for 12 days we will be sharing a theme loosely based on the 12 Days of Christmas song, just for the fun of it. The point of the daily roundup is to give you a break over the holidays if you are not writing new content, but still allow you to share your older recipes, posts and blogging memories, so folks will "leaf through" your older stuff, which is all wonderful and new to many folks! WE all tend to think we are only as good as our front pages, but there is a huge wealth of materials in our blog "back catalogs" that we should be sharing with others!

What you need to do to join in the 12 Days of Bloggie-Mas!

Please stop by daily for a few minutes, find out the theme, browse your "back catalog" of archived posts, find an appropriate one, link it to the daily linky (there is a new linky every day) and place a back link to the hop. Please link back with 12 Days of Bloggie-mas as the anchor text. One linked recipe per blog per day. It is that simple! You can participate daily or only on the days you have time. No pressure! It is the holidays after all!

You Could Win a $45 CSN Gift Certificate!

For each day you link up a recipe, you will also be entered to win a $45 CSN online store gift certificate which will be drawn from all links on Monday, January 3rd, 2011 (!) and posted on the Hearth and Soul Hop that tuesday. If you don't already know, CSN stores are a wonderful online shopping experience where you can browse literally thousands of items at wonderful prices like Cookware and Bakeware, Modern Decor and Game room Furniture. Remember to enter your email address on the linky so I will be able to contact you if you won.   If you do not wish to link a recipe, but want to enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment on my blog mentioning an item you would like to get from CSN stores and do one of the following:
Follow me on http://twitter.com/#%21/amoderatelife
Subscribe to my Rss Feed or Email Updates at a Moderate Life.

You could Win a Cookbook from a Big Pile of Them!

I will also be giving away a cookbook at the end of the 12 days! You will be entering this giveaway automatically by posting a link or leaving a comment for the CSN giveaway.  If you win, you will have a choice of the following cookbooks: Raw, the Uncookbook by Juliano, 366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice Beans and Grains by Andrea Chesman, The Slow Cooker Bible, 3 Books in 1 Appetizers, Party Food and Entertaining (similar to this one), or a Treasury of Christmas Cooking, Crafts and Gifts. If you win the cookbook giveaway, I will email you and ask you which book you want, whether you want me to write a personal inscription for you, where to send it too and I will wrap it up and send it right out!
The giveaways are open to all US residents +18 years of age. Prize winners will be notified by email after the winner is posted on the Hearth and Soul Hop on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Winners have 48 hours to respond to the email or another winner will be chosen.

Now for the Fun!

Here is the theme for the sixth day of Bloggie-mas!

On the sixth day of Christmas my Bloggies gave to me

Six Sumptuous Side Dishes!

Link up any entry you have ever linked to the Hearth and Soul hop previously.  If you have never linked to the Hearth and Soul Hop, you should check it out! I have been blessed to meet so many wonderful bloggers through this Hearth Felt blog hop and I count them all as a wonderful gift during the holiday season and all year long! Thank you to all past hop contributors for your foodie love and support!
So get linking and see you tomorrow for Day 2 of the 12 Days of Bloggie-mas! Remember as well that you can visit the following blog for more Bloggie-mas fun: Alternative Health and Nutrition News!