Congratulations!!!

Congratulations! I love your blog, it's a constant source of kitchen inspiration. I'm so glad you won, you deserve it.

An Incredible Award for an Incredible person and blogger! Elise, you give to so many of us so many things. I am honored to be a winner alongside you and Simply Recipes!

Here's to another year filled with sillyness, deliciousness, romping at BlogHer, food blogging picnics and learning new techie things!

Congratulations Elise! I'm so happy you won. I only recently discovered your blog, and I love it. Not to mention, every recipe I make from your blog, turns out fabulous!

Congratulations Elise! I've been reading your blog for quite a while (ever since it first got put in Google feeds) but this is my first time commenting :) but I've always enjoyed reading and trying your mouthwatering recipes. Here's to more of them!

Congratulations on a well deserved win, Elise. Warm summer greetings from NZ.

Congrats Elise!

If anyone deserves the win, you do!

Congratulations, Elise on a well deserved honor. I look forward to reading your blog every day and have never been disappointed.

Well deserved! Looking forward to many more great recipes in 2007!

Congratulations to you and your site. The recipes you have on your site and the shopping alerts are some of the best features of your site. I also love the fact that it feels like a cooking community with everyone sharing their own tid-bit of information that has helped them to make a recipe even better or with a slight variation. While, I did not vote, because I did not know about the voting, I do love your web site.

Congratulations on a well-deserved honor. I love reading your blog and trying the wonderful recipes that you share.

Congratulations on a very well-deserved win Elise. There just isn't any other blog that comes close in inspiring so many people to cook good food. And I"m so glad to hear that your parents are beaming. They deserve to be proud for having a daughter who's not only talented but also such a kind, generous leader in the whole food blogging community!

Congratulations--reading your blog is always a pleasure. But I second Kalyn in saying it's your openenss, your generosity (you were one of the first to link to my fledgling blog) and unflagging support of food bloggers that makes you and your site truly special!

Congratulations, Elise!! When I voted for you, you were ahead in the polls, and I so hoped you'd stay ahead. Glad to hear news of the win that you deserve! Enjoy!

Congratulations, Elise! I check your site religiously and have had fantastic, crowd-pleasing results on all of the many recipes that I have tried. You have a special talent. Thanks for making these great recipes available to even the earliest beginners. Keep up the good work!

Of course you deserve the win! Not only is your blog from the palette, it's also from the heart, involves 3 cooks, is incredibly well-layed out and user-friendly--and includes cooking foibles as well as successes, not to mention cook's shopping alerts. It's everything anyone could ask for in a cooking blog. Thanks for being a constant culinary inspiration!

Congratulations! Well deserved, indeed. :)

Congratulations! Yours was one of the first food blogs I ever read, and I still check it out on a very regular basis. Your site is always an inspiration!

While I have only been reading this blog for a few weeks, I must say the accolades are well-deserved! Congrats whoever you are!!!! And thanks for helping me out in the kitchen!

GS
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Congrats on your nomination and win!

I found your blog the other day due to your nomination and I'm loving it!

Elise,
Congratulations!

Congratulations, Elise. Its a well deserved accolade. Your site is a wonderful source of information, inspiration, and just darned enjoyable appreciation of good food. Its also beautifully crafted and thoughtfully produced. Brava.

Congrats on the win cool kid...you do insipre a whole world of us foodies :)

MAZEL TOV! The biggest congrats... Thanks for sharing your recipes with us.

You deserve it Elise... I honestly don't know how you find the time to consistently deliver such wonderful recipes. I visit here constantly, but I've never commented before... just wanted to say you and your family are an inspiration to an aspiring chef.
Thank you from my family to yours.

Congrats! You certainly were in good company and that you won is a testament to your hard work.

Best,

Liz

Congratulations, Elise! I voted for the first time in order to vote for your blog. Thank you for all that you do.

Hooray Elise! Ever since the first recipe I tried on your site was a smashing success, I have been visiting regularly - always gorgeous photography and fun, interesting recipes!

Congratulations on a well deserved award! Keep it coming!

Congratulations many times over, Elise! You and your blog are such an inspiration to us all.

Congrats!

Congratulations. I love your blog. Keep the good cooking alive.

Congratulations! Oh, I am very happy for you.

I am so pleased that your consistently excellent blog has been recognized for the gem that it is. You never fail to inspire me!

Congratulations, Elise!

CONGRATS Elise! You certainly deserve the accolades. :)

Like your parents, we're beaming too. Congradulations on a well-deserved win!

Me, too. I'm beaming. I feel like I'm visting a ol' good friend when I visit your site. Every recipe that I've tried has been tasty and so simple to follow. Many thanks.

Congrats! I was hoping you'd win. I've learned so much from you in the last year, and I really appreciate your hard work and dedication!

Apparently we all find your blog as appealing as your recipes! Most hearty Congratulations!

Keep on keeping on, girl.

Elise, you truly deserve it. I'm proud to say I voted for you! :-) Fact is, you have the most conscientiously TRUE recipe blog around. You share just enough personal things about your life to make it interesting, but it's still all about the food. And your food and recipes are well researched and so excellent! I hope that more people find out about your website because of the voting. And, as a person with celiac disease, I love that you have so many recipes posted that are wheat-free (pretty much also gluten-free). Because you make most of your foods with fresh, unprocessed ingredients, it is a dream for me -- because just about anything you make (well, except a few cakes and cookies) can be altered to be gluten-free. Plus, it's all food that is available to all -- without the latest precious ingredient you found on your travels abroad that is impossible to obtain. ;-) Oh! And lest I forget. Your photography! YUMM! The food is the star! And so are YOU!

Hey... What did I tell you? You're my favourite... Congratulations :-)!!!

Elise - congrats, love the site... I voted for you too!

Congratulations! Simply Recipes is my favorite food site--the one I always share with friends new to reading food blogs.

Congratulations! I don't comment often, but I'm a faithful reader, and love your recipes!

Hi Elise, congratulations :) I really appreciate all your hard work in putting all these wonderful recipes, tips & so much more. As the Chinese saying goes "double happiness, & double fortunes" to you on this New Year, Cheers ! :)

Congratulations! More than well deserved award!! One of my very favorite sites. Keep up the good work!!

I immediately decided to place the code into my blog. This was the best site of recipes I´ve seen. So very easy to search. Thank you!

Three cheers to you, Elise! Your recipes are true sources of inspiration and help for everyday. Those others don't hold a candle to you!! Here's to another year of great food!

Elise-
I am so pleased for you; what an honor! This is the perfect day to let you know that your recipe for Classic Meatloaf is by far the best I have ever tasted. The only thing I did different was to use Iserno's (sp?) mild Italian pork sausage, then forgot to put in the parsely. I also used Longhorn's BBQ sauce (a local Spokane place) mixed with the ketchup. I had always thought my Mom made the best, but have just emailed her your recipe and told her she and Dad had to try it.
I absolutely LOVE both your blog and the photos, it is by far my favorite of all 70-plus food blogs I either subscribe to or have bookmarked. Keep up the FANTASTIC work, for the sake of just one of the thousands of folks who probably feel, as I do, that cooking is a passion with little comparison in our lives.
P.S. My husband is okay with my saying that as he is the one who reaps the benefits when I cook!

I have to admit, I am glad I signed up for your recipe updates. Although I love to cook, I don't get to enough. My wife loves it when I do cook, so I've been experimenting with several of your recipes, and am happy with the results.

I'd like to add a little recipe given to me by a good friend several years ago, and I hope someone else enjoys it as much as I have.

Simple Potato Soup

Several small white potatoes; washed, peeled, and chopped.
Place in a pot with one medium sized yellow onion, chopped. (a few chopped green onions are good for color!)
Cover with water just over thier heads . . .
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium / low.
Cook until potatoes fall off of fork, and drain water; keep heat on low, mash potatoes in pot.
Add small amount of milk, and melt in butter, stir and simmer shortly.
Salt to taste.

Serves 3 - 4

Enjoy! and let me know if you like it.

Thanks,

Craig