It’s so much fun going to ethnic food shops and there’s an Italian deli in Burbank where I found this beautiful organic artisan linguini from Puglia, Italy. It’s colored with beetroot, turmeric, spinach, and paprika.
The dough is hand-crafted, extruded through bronze dyes and then air dried. I couldn’t bring myself to cover up this beautiful pasta with a red sauce so I decided to use a simple olive oil & garlic mix so you could still see the stunning design and colors, not to mention what an awesome and healthy topping this is for any pasta. It’s a simple recipe which I’ll be posting next week. Oh… I almost forgot… the contest:
GUESS HOW LONG IT WOULD MEASURE IF YOU PLACED THESE NOODLES END TO END (DRY, BEFORE COOKING). The package contained 8.8 ounces and the noodles were almost an inch wide before cooking.
~ Whoever comes closest, whether over or under, wins my cookbook. ~ The winner will be posted Tuesday. Good luck!
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We have a tie! There were 98 walnuts in the bowl and two guesses have tied. One was five over and one was five under so two people have won a free cookbook. The first winner with his guess of 103 is…. Josh! Josh was only five over the total. And the second winner with her guess of 93 is… Rhonda! She was only five under the total. Congratulations, Josh and Rhonda. Thanks to everyone for playing and we’ll do it again soon. 🙂
UPDATE: Rhonda will be giving her new cookbook to one of her sisters who are in this photo that we just received. Rhonda (in the tank top) is single and lives in Georgia. She is a cat lover and has 3 of her own.
It turns out she has a lot in common with our previous winner, Marlis, who had attended tapings of my show and works at Walmart. Rhonda has also been to my talk show tapings and she also works at Walmart. How about that!
If you’d like to win a free copy of my first cookbook (over 80 recipes), here’s my second contest.
Just guess how many walnuts are in the bowl below…
Here’s some helpful info:
~ The rim of the bowl measures 4 1/2 inches. ~ I only used whole and half pieces, nothing smaller. ~ Both whole pieces and half pieces will each count as one. ~ Whoever comes closest, whether over or under, wins. ~ The winner will be posted Friday. Good luck!
There were 271 almonds in the jar and she guessed 272! Only off by one!
Congratulations to Marlis on winning my cookbook and thanks to everyone for playing. This was fun. 🙂 We’ll do it again soon.
UPDATE: Marlis just sent us her photo and wrote to say, “I am so excited to have won this contest. I love Jenny and was in her audience 2 or 3 times here in Chicago. I can’t wait to check out the recipes in the book. I am from Aurora, Il, I work in Lawn and Garden at a Walmart. I love to garden and our pests are not rabbits, ours are Ground Hogs, bit fat ones!
I am involved with a the Fox Valley Marine Corps League, we support our brave men and women who protect our rights. I also support Operation Welcome You Home, Inc. IL.
If I sent a Welcome Home flag do you think Jenny would sign it? It would go to a young man or woman who is coming home from active duty overseas..”
I’ve had the most fun seeing where my website visitors are located. Besides all of the U.S. and Canada, other visitors have been from England, Ireland, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Greece, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Russia, Argentina, Egypt, Poland, Malaysia, Brazil, Switzerland, Germany, Philipines, Portugal, Barbados, India, Japan, India, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Bermuda, Syria, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Honduras, Indonesia, Israel, Latvia, Morocco, Macedonia, Malta, Nigeria, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Trinidad, and Panama. Look what the Internet can do! Thanks to everyone for visiting!
How much do you love homemade pie? This is my lemon meringue pie made with Meyer lemons. A Meyer is a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange and tastes sweeter and less acidic than a regular lemon. Meyers have a thinner skin and more juice and are considered a gourmet lemon. I grow mine in the back yard so they’re free. If anybody made a pie today, send me the recipe. Not if anybody ATE a pie today… only if anybody MADE one! Happy Pie Day!
I love to cook. And I really love to bake. I created this site to share my best recipes, hoping to motivate more people to cook at home and make eating healthy foods and meals (and desserts) a priority. It’s hard to do if you don’t cook at home. Mine are simple recipes, mostly comfort foods, and they are as healthy as I can make them. I always try to:
Incorporate as many vegetables as possible
Avoid saturated and trans fats
Use less sugar & little to no butter in my baking
Bake with whole grains when possible
Reduce unhealthy fats
Increase fiber
I’m not selling anything and you’ll never see ads on this site.
I invite you to try my recipes and send me your comments. You can also share your own healthy recipes here. Well, thanks for visiting and I hope you like it. 🙂
p.s. I also transferred all my cooking posts from the jennyjones.com archives so there’s tons of stuff to see.
The dough is hand-crafted, extruded through bronze dyes and then air dried. I couldn’t bring myself to cover up this beautiful pasta with a red sauce so I decided to use a simple olive oil & garlic mix so you could still see the stunning design and colors, not to mention what an awesome and healthy topping this is for any pasta. It’s a simple recipe which I’ll be posting next week. Oh… I almost forgot… the contest:
GUESS HOW LONG IT WOULD MEASURE IF YOU PLACED THESE NOODLES END TO END (DRY, BEFORE COOKING). The package contained 8.8 ounces and the noodles were almost an inch wide before cooking.
