menu for hope

When I previously complained about work and lacking time to post, I was merely unaware of just how busy I was going to become immediately after Thanksgiving. Well, it has not ceased since and I'm about to go on vacation starting Tuesday. And I am SO late in posting about this event, it's shameful. Surely, you'd think I would have a few minutes to write a few phrases and let you know about it. I am sorry to say, it's been an unprecedented amount of work. However, I always say better late than never and so... here is my offering in this year's Menu for Hope.

Menu for Hope is an annual fund-raiser organized by food bloggers around the globe to raise money for a world cause – this year, as well as last year it was for the the U.N. World Food Programme, and it's been running from December 10 through the 24. We, the food bloggers try to entice you, the reader, to give in exchange for gifts that bloggers either make, purchase, donate some other way. For each $10 you donate (seriously just $10 bucks!!!), you may choose to enter your name into a raffle for a specific prize. The full list of donated raffle prizes is here.

What is Sassy Radish giving you this year is the question, right? What am I enticing you with? Well, I have to be realistic and say I won't be able to make you food and ship it to you. Given how my work is going right now, I'm lucky enough to have time to boil rice. But, I do have something rather special for you.

And that would be this ice cream maker AND David Lebovitz' latest book "The Perfect Scoop". I can claim few cook books to have changed my life and how I look at certain food, in this case, sorbets and ice creams - and the Scoop as I call it - has.

I am happy to ship this to anyone within the United States - as in other countries you will probably need a separate adapter to plug in the ice cream machine.

To enter:

Go to FirstGiving.com, which is managing the giving campaign. When it asks you to enter a “Personal Message” you enter code UE39, which will sign you up for the cook book and the ice cream machine. Check the box that follows which says that you are “happy for the page owner to see my email address”–this will allow organizers to know which raffles you’d like to be entered in.

The winners of each raffle prize will be announced Wednesday January 9 on Chez Pim.

Thank you all for donating to this cause - I wish you all good luck in the raffle!!