mothers love food, right?

It's certainly no secret that we love food.  Pretty much all of it, all the time.  So when one of our BFFs puts out a cookbook, you know we get really excited and want to share it with you!  Allow us to introduce you to our friend Allison who also happens to be one of the cutest Grandmas in the history of the world.

Allison raised 7 kids and provided them with a hot and healthy breakfast every morning, which is something we are passionate about as well.  Actually, our kids get cold cereal on Friday mornings and they think it's Christmas.  We don't have the heart to tell them that someday they will miss sitting down to waffles with homemade syrup and fresh fruit smoothies before heading off to school.  They will come to that cruel realization on their own when they have survived on Captain Crunch for an entire semester of college and decide they never want to see another box of it!

At any rate, Allison has put together an excellent collection of many different tried and true recipes.    Her breakfast section will inspire you to get up 30 minutes earlier each morning to feed those hungry mouths that need a great start to their day.  Lemon Poppyseed Pancakes maybe?  Raspberry-Cinnamon French Toast, anyone?   Jilly made Allison's notable Egg Pinwheels for her sister's {baby shower} a few months ago, and about a hundred people asked for the recipe.

Her famous knot rolls will have your eyes rolling back into your head.  Try making them into cinnamon rolls or orange rolls, but only if you need to gain five pounds in one day.  Jilly's special Key Lime Cupcakes even made it into the book, along with hundreds of other recipes you'll wonder how you ever lived without.  This cookbook is 272 pages that can be read like a steamy love novel but kept in plain view in the kitchen because you'll want to use it every day.

We are so grateful and lucky to call Allison our friend.  She is nurturing, supportive, compassionate, genuine, beautiful, gracious and that girl can COOK!  She just finished culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu here in Scottsdale and we are so proud of her!  On the off-chance you aren't chosen as the winner, you can purchase a copy {here} for yourself or buy one for someone you love a whole lot.

We are giving one lucky reader a cookbook and  have paired it with a couple of our favorite kitchen things.

That funny looking gadget you see is not a curry comb you use to brush your horse with, but it is something that we honestly never want to be without in our own kitchens.  It's called a stir stick and it will change your cooking life!  It is such a handy tool to use when preparing a dish that you don't want to smash.  Think pastas, salads and vegetables.  It might not look like much, but we would never lead you astray in the kitchen, and you NEED this!  Also, we embellished an IKEA dish towel with a sheer little ruffle and put together a simple tutorial in case you'd like to make your own.

The IRIS gray dishtowel comes in a two-pack for $3.49.  It's nice and big and washes up beautifully.  Jilly happened to have a sheer curtain panel with a ruffled edge in her hoard fabric stash.

She simply cut the ruffle off of the panel, leaving the finished edge intact to minimize any extra work.  She sewed in onto the right side of each edge of the dish towel then went the extra mile by sewing a strip of elastic right across the center crease to make it fun!  Use a zig-zag stitch and make sure your needle is down, then stretch a small section of elastic and sew just that section.  Repeat until you have gone all the way across the towel.

The gathered look is flirty and might encourage your man to want to dry the dishes. You might actually have to tie it on with a ribbon over your birthday suit as a flouncy little skirt.

It's definitely worth a try.

How to win: 

Please become a follower of our blog, and leave us a comment letting us know you did it so you can be entered in the drawing.  It takes about 20 seconds, and we would appreciate it more than you can imagine!

Are you already a follower of Me and Jilly?  BLESS YOU!  We heart you.  Maybe you can leave a comment convincing us that you love us more than anyone else on the planet.  That will count as your entry.

You can still enter our {giveaway} posted yesterday.  We will be picking winners via random.org on Saturday evening, May 11th at 10:00 p.m.  Check back Thursday and Friday for more Mother's Day Giveaways!

xoxo,

Jilly + Mia