Happy Holidays: Mavea Water Filter Giveaway!!

We all know what December brings: egg nog, wine, hot chocolate and frothy drinks being passed around left and right.  Well let me tell you, I’m the first one to happily accept that warm cup of cocoa on a chilly day or take that sip of wine with friends over dinner. However, in addition to enjoying these fun drinks, I do always try and make sure I’m drinking plenty of water each day.

Your Black Friday shopping survival kit
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Drinking cleaner water with Mavea
After a month of using the Mavea filtered water pitcher, our food blogger's family is hooked.

I was given a Mavea water pitcher when I attended the Mavea Inspired Water Italian Supper Club at Cook in Philadelphia last month. I wrote about Cook, the intimate 16-seat, collaborative kitchen, when it first opened. It’s a wonderful space, and if you’re in the Philadelphia region, you need to check it out.

Pumpkin-Maple Sourdough Cake

Welcome back to Doughvember! This week, Linda and I are giving away sourdough-related prizes, so keep reading if you’re interested in today’s giveaway.  Have you had any sourdough adventures yet this month?  I’m saving my bread baking for the second half of the month, but this week I decided to experiment with using sourdough starter to replace part of the flour and water in a simple pumpkin cake.

Sourdough-Comte Beef Wellington + Water Pitcher Giveaway

This post is part of the Doughvember series. Read on, for the giveaway of the week. In case you’re not caught up, Nicole from Pinch My Salt and I are raising awareness about sourdough baking throughout the month of November. If you want to participate, either make a starter (use Nicole’s handy instructions!) or revive your starter, and post, tweet or otherwise fling sourdough from the rooftops. If you’re the posse type, @ me on twitter and I’ll add you to the @saltyseattle/doughvember list. We’re using the hashtag #doughvember to aggregate our doughy coterie.

Mavea Elemaris Pitchers Giveaway

I have five (5) Mavea Elemaris Pitchers to giveaway to Gourmand Recipes readers. Three (3) winners will win the  Kompakt pitchers (holds 4-5 glasses) and two (2) winners will win the XLs (8-10 glasses).