Obligatory old school photo of mom, Sharon, and me. I don’t care what my future children look like so long as they have Sharon’s legs.
Please pardon our delay in announcing a winner. Maggy’s been on vacation and I’ve been in FL helping my parents move from their home of 35 years to a retirement facility. Our KitchenAid “Cook for Mom” winner is #167 Angie who says, “Having lost my mother-in-law and own mother in recent years, I will be reflecting on my happy memories of both of them. I will also enjoy basking in the love I will receive from my two girls and husband.” Congratulations!
We aren’t much of a gift-giving family, not at least in the ‘box, wrapping paper and bow’ sense. For us celebrations are about the food and the people and long-winded cards that wax poetic about our love and respect for one another. We used to do presents, but then the company and the menu were so superior (especially when we were old enough to add a splash of wine to the mix) that those earrings, blouses, and calendars just didn’t add that much to the feel of the event anymore. So we long ago decided to put all our effort (and money) into food lovingly prepared, drinks carefully selected, tables beautifully laid, music painstakingly chosen, and the moment we should share together.
On Mother’s Day, more than on any other special day, we do this for our mother because she is so worth it. She has the most generous spirit and giving heart of anyone I know. There is no person better at celebrating you than Pam Anderson. She cheers the loudest, supports the strongest, offers the most, gives the biggest. Not just to us, but to everyone in her life. So on this day, we do for her. And truth be told, she’d be happy with a grilled cheese, a bowl of homemade tomato soup and a cold craft beer, because that’s who she is. Though she is a great lover of memorable food, for her it’s far more about the moment than the dish itself. Her style is unpretentious and all-inclusive and I believe this is the greatest thing I have absorbed from all my years in her presence.
This year, we are excited to be working with KitchenAid on a special Mother’s Day series called, “Cook for Mom.” We know a lot of you will be looking for menu inspiration this week as you plan what to cook for your mom or the mother figure in your life.
Here’s the menu that mom and I created together. Today, we’re sharing the recipe for Cornmeal-Scallion Waffles with Caramel Corn and Maple Syrup and we’ll be posting the rest of the recipes throughout the week!
Raspberry Ice Bellinis
Asparagus Salad “Nests”
Cornmeal-Scallion Waffles with Caramel Corn and Maple Syrup
Strawberry-Rhubarb Galette with Whipped Cream
To help us celebrate, KitchenAid is giving away all three of the following appliances we used to one lucky winner! I think we all know that there’s no better stand mixer out there. Hands down. After using a far inferior blender for years, this is without doubt the Rolls Royce of blenders. And that waffle iron? The best. It lets you make two waffles at once!
KitchenAid Raspberry Ice 5 quart Stand Mixer
KitchenAid ‘Cook for the Cure’ Edition Pink 5-Speed Blender
KitchenAid Pro Line Black Waffle Iron
To enter, just leave a comment telling us what you’re doing for Mother’s Day this year! Giveaway closes on Friday, May 11 at 9PM EST.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mom’s out there!
Since my mom has been gone for 15 years, I am spending this Mother’s Day with my aunt, her twin sister. I haven’t lived close enough to my aunt for some years but this year I live in the same city so it’s great. I’m bringing dinner – a beef stew she loves and a rhubarb pie, which was my mom’s favourite. We’ll raise a glass to Mom, who is always with us in spirit.
Hopefully a little time on the kayak, then make a yummy brunch. And the rest of the to-do list is just to relax and enjoy my family!
I am going to be with my mother and my husband is going to be with his mother.
I will call my mom and then run off to play a concert.
I am spending Mother’s Day with my husband and children. We will begin the day with a hearty breakfast and then we are off to Annie’s Annuals to participate in their Mother’s Day activities. I am sure we will come home with a trunk full of beautiful plants to add to our yard!
Something special with mom… Still in the planning stages 🙂
Out to dinner with my 90 year old mother, my husband, my brother & his wife. Unfortunately our daughters are too far away to join us, but we’ll be talking with them, and probably about them!
I will be cheering for my amazing baseball player of a son at his game, while simultaneously enjoying and occupying my daughter and youngest son (and loving every minute of it)!
We’re hosting a cookout for the extended family.
Having dinner with my amazing mother and spending time with my husbands and two awesome boys!
We are going to go fishing, hiking and have a bbq
I am getting a spa treatment thanks to my wonderful childern, then realxing for the rest of the day♥
I will be visiting my daughter and her family in Portland for a couple of days. Her husband is a marvelous cook and he has planned a special dinner for all of us.
My mom lives on the other side of the country from me, but a big box of See’s Candy seems to do the trick!
I don’t know where or what we will be eating, we tend to be consistent in the last minute scramble to find someplace situation. What I do know is that I will be giving thanks for the motherhood privilege I love, with my husband and three children. (While at the same time thinking of my mom who will be so far away and for whom this day carries sad memories.)
This is my first year as a mother. I think we’ll be planting our garden and maybe going to a fair trade festival :-).
I’ll probably be ignoring Mother’s Day. After all, as my grandmother often reminds me, the other 364 days are just as important. So I call all of the mothers in my life often, enjoy their presence on the rare occasions that any of us are in the same place, and try to make every day a mother’s day.
I am going to cook my mom a brunch with egg bake, hashbrowns, homemade bread and mimosas
I’ll be on vacation with my 2nd mother (my mother-in-law). I love her so much and am so blessed to be spending some fun beach time with her. I can’t wait.
Going on a bike ride and cooking dinner for my mom!
Sadly, I’ll be 2,500 miles from my mom, but will have sent her a card (maybe some flowers) and called. On that day, I’ll think of her and give thanks. (If I win one of these cool gadgets, will plan to be with her next year and use it. 🙂
I saw my mom at a wedding last week, so I won’t be seeing her on mother’s day (she lives 12 hours away) but I will call her and my grandmother!
This Mother’s Day I will be moving our daughter out of her apartment. Graduation is Satruday, and Sunday is Moving Out Day. Am happy to do it! So proud of her! Remind me of that on Monday when I am exhausted!
By order of my wife, I am doing nothing for her, but I’ll probably try to help with making breakfast a little more than usual and give my own mother a call in the afternoon.
I am going to breakfast at church, then Mass then a barbecue at my sister in laws. My mom has been dead a few years…sadly we were never close.
My grandparents have all been fairly sick this year and don’t get around to well. This mothers day we are headed to a brunch at my grandparents house where my side of the family will all be there to celebrate. After that we will head to my mother-in-laws for dinner. This year my sister and I are both pregnant as well, me with my first and my sister with her third. Fun filled packed day celebrating mothers and mothers-to-be.
My loves to read so this year she gets a kindle. As for me I hope to lounge in bed and be waited upon, but that probably won’t happen 🙂
We are all going to church first thing in the morning. After church, we are going to breakfast and enjoy our morning together. Dad is cooking out in the evening and the kiddos (4) will be making crafts for mom!!! Maybe I can help the girls make a cake for mom :0) Happy Mother’s Day!
Hopefully sleeping in and eatling lots!
I will be spending this Mother’s Day with my mom. I am surprising her by flying into Indianapolis for the entire weekend.
What a wonderful post. If I were your mom that would make me teary! We will go to church and then cook up a great lunch for mom.
oh yay what a give away!! we are bbq-ing at my moms house!!!
For mother’s day I’ll be sending my mum a card and skyping with her. Wish we didn’t live so far apart! I would totally make her breakfast in bed.
Mothers day this year is the graduation of our youngest ( of 6) from college as a pharmacist. She has done so well and we are so proud of her!! The best kind of mothers day gift!
I am taking my mom to a blast from the past…going to see Air Supply. 🙂
Maybe my Mom can come over for steaks on the gril along with potatoes and sweet potatoes on the grill. WIith a salad and maybe strawberry shortcake. My husband can do the gril work of course. Simple but oh so good.
Celebrating my husband’s birthday the night before and then just hanging out with my daughter and husband. We will of course both call our moms and wish them, but they both live far away, sadly.
Since my mom is traveling this year we get to celebrate me! Planning to go buy some flowers and do some planting.
My daughter’s family (my 2 grandsons and a great son-in-law) and I (68) have this tradition of going to an Italian restaurant for brunch — pizza for one grandson, fruit and cheese for the other and wonderful brunch food plus Italian pastas. Then we go to the local farmer’s market (grand opening) and buy flowers.
Church then bbq with my wonderful family!!
All the moms will gather at our home to enjoy a day of letting the men BBQ for us!
I’m gonna be making breakfast in bed for my mommy this year- hopefully eggs benedict with a fruit-yogurt-granola parfait if all goes smoothly 🙂 and maybe an angel food cake for later on in the day.
I’ll be spending the day with my beautiful daughter! I can’t wait!
Spending it with the boys and their families. At this point may include favorite daughter-in-laws parents & their boat at the lake. Big barbeque and all the good food that goes with it. Baseball & bats, lawn chairs are pulled out of the garage. It will be so much fun. I can still hit the ball, but one of the grandkids will be my designated runner. Really looking forward to it!
I’m going with my daughter to buy her first American Girl doll. Wish me luck! I’m leaving the raspberry bellini recipe for my husband so he can have some ready when I get back…
Since my mom is living soooo far away from me right now I will probably just be hanging out with my three kiddos. Going to church and then relaxing!
i would love a chance to win one of these. all my siblings are gathering to give my mom an 85th birthday party….happy mothers day!
Love these pink KitchenAid giveaways! I’d die for that mixer. I have zero plans for Mother’s day…hope my husband is doing something for me!!
I am making my mom dinner! And my little brother and his fiance are making dessert.
I’ll be spending Mother’s Day with two of the best Mom’s that I know: my Mother in law and sister in law. Since I am the only non-Mom, I’ll be doing the cooking and cleaning up after:) I hope to one day be as great of a mother as both of them! Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Mom’s out there! xoxo