I love giveaways, especially when they're books, and I love cookbooks.

From Adena at HomeSchool HomeEc, I recently won this fun book, "Cooking with Kids for Dummies." I need to be better at including my kids in the kitchen. They love it, but I lose patience. Sigh.

Adena's got a great site with lots of helps and hints and ideas. Check out her site.

Thanks Adena!

I'll review it here, after I've gone through it.

No, not here. Over here, at The Vintage Homemaker, Melissa is giving away a stack of 9 cookbooks. Nine! Too cool.

#1 The Festive Vegetarian by Rose Elliot
#2 Home Baking by Martha Day
#3 The Recipes of the Five Brothers Vol. III
#4 In the Kitchen with Rosie (& Oprah Winfery) by Rosie Dailey
#5 Prime Time Emeril by Emeril Lagasse
#6 One Potato, Two Potato by Roy Filamore
#7 Cooking without Fat by George Matelijan
#8 Recipes 1-2-3 by Rozanne Gold
#9 The Flavor of the South by Jeanne A. Voltz

Check out her giveaway here. Giveaway ends June 10th.

I don't win very many contests or giveaways, so when I actually do it's a surprise. I'm a member of Foodie Blogroll which is a terrific, online community of food bloggers. Each month, there are contests and last month, I happened to update my profile and by so doing, won a Foodie Blogroll Mug.

It came this week. It's darling. And, it's perfect for my morning hot chocolate.

Thanks Jenn, and Foodie Blogroll for a fun surprise!

Thanks to all who entered my first ever giveaway. The winner is Neen! Neen, I've sent you an email, so get back to me as soon as you can with your mailing address.

It's interesting to note that of 112 comments received, only 68 of you actually have your email as part of your blogger identity. Several of you left comments of "please enter me", and not only is your email not part of your blogger identity, you didn't leave one as part of the comment!

So, I'm reiterating my request again. Trust me when I tell you that you'll not only win more giveaways if you do this, you'll make more friends.

Go into your blogger profile and click the little box next to the words, "Show my email address". If that email address is one that you don't want made public, then create a different address in yahoo or hotmail or whatever. That's what I did. (I haven't had any spam issues or problems doing this either.) Once you do this, people can respond to comments you make or easily answer your questions. It's really nice, and it's a neat way to make new friends.

I've always entered the bloggy giveaway carnival and I've even won some things. So, I figured it was time to offer up something of my own. So, here it is. A new copy of Keeping Good Company: A Season-by-Season Collection of Recipes With Entertaining and Homemaking Ideas. It's a lovely cookbook. I picked it up at the school book fair and it's just been sitting on the shelf, waiting for a good home. It's darling.

I hate giveaways that have a gazillion rules and make you go someplace else to look at something and then come back and prove you did it. I know that doing so generates more traffic which is what a lot of people want. I don't. You came for a giveaway, you didn't come to check things out, but feel free to look around anyway!

All I ask is this: change your blogging profile to show your email, if it doesn't already. Don't you think it's annoying when people comment on your blog and you can't reply directly to them because their email says, "noreply-comment@blogger.com"? I do.

If you don't want your regular email account out there, make one up simply for blogging. But, let people get to know you. So, that's my request. You can look through my recipes and tell me what you like, you can even post about the giveaway somewhere else. It's not a requirement. I do need an email address to notify you that you've won and I'd rather just be able to respond to your email, not go looking around to hunt you down.

I can only ship within the US. Sorry! **Comments are now closed. Thanks to all who entered.**