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Here's to a whole year of sharing food from your hearth made for your soul!

Food from your Hearth, Made for your Soul!

This giveaway is now closed. The winner is comment #7! Congratulations to Chaya baby!

Happy 1st Anniversary to the Hearth and Soul Hop!

I am reminded daily in my life right now how fast time flies. Gee, I am remembering the day my daughter was born and now in a blink of an eye she is graduating and preparing to go to college! I remember the first time my husband kissed me and we have been married almost 24 years now! It flies, and since it does fly it’s a good idea to make as much of it fun as you can!

I would like to thank ALL of you for making the Hearth and Soul Hop fun for me. I know I have been going through a lot over the past few months and I still continue to sort things out, but one thing has remained constant for me and that is this hop. This joyful sharing of lovely recipes made with the energy of your souls! I love to read the recipes, the stories, the memories that are woven into this hop like small pieces of a giant patchwork quilt! To the folks who have contributed recipes, ideas, hosted the hop or simply grabbed a recipe from the linky, I thank you and send you tons of love and joy in your continued journey to cook with love and feed your soul! Here’s to another wonderful year of hopping for us all that will bring us new adventures in food and life! You all wicked ROCK!

The Hearth and Soul Hop was born of our beliefs that food not only nourishes our bodies, but our souls! To really get clear on what we are talking about, please check out our nifty Hearth and Soul mission statement!

Please share the hearth and soul hop badge listed below to promote the Blog Hop. We would ask you to subscribe to our feed and Tweet the Blog Hop as well if you would be so kind! One of our lovely hosts will visit your blog to comment and share your foodie joy, ideas and knowledge and tweet your post to their followers so more people can share in the fun.

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This is the code for the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop. If you wish to share the love by using a Hearth and Soul badge, we really appreciate it! Please copy and paste it into the bottom of your blog post or you can choose to simply place a link back to the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop:Remember to highlight the HTML code and right click to copy it. You can then paste it into your blog posts, or put it in your sidebar to share the real food love!

Thanks so much for linking up and please share the hop with all your friends who love to cook so they can join in with us too!

Happy Hop Anniversary Giveaway!

You didn’t think I was going to have an anniversary party without presents now did you? Ofcourse not! First, I want to thank Alea for hosting her own Hearth and Soul hop anniversary giveaway for a $50 Amazon Giftcard and April of 21st Century Housewife is also hosting a $50 Amazon giveaway, so please stop over to Premeditated Leftovers to enter to win there! Because the hop has brought so many new experiences in food and blogging into my life and because we are beginning our second year, the Moderate Life Giveaway is for two unique cookbooks! The winner will receive both Raw the Uncook book by Juliano (awesome gourmet raw food!) and Sensational Sushi by Yasuko Fukuoka so they can expand their culinary horizons as we do so often here on the hop!

The giveaway starts NOW and runs through Monday, June 20th at 11:59pm. The winner will be chosen from available entries by Random.org and announced on my Hearth and Soul Hop at a Moderate Life on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011. Please note this giveaway is open to US  residents only! There are NINE possible ways to receive an entry!  I would especially appreciate you following me on twitter or subscribing to my feed. For each entry, you must post a separate comment. If you are new to this site, please fill in your email address and web address on the comments form so I can contact you if you win! If I do not hear back from the winner in 48 hours to claim their prize, a new winner will be selected. No purchase is necessary to enter this giveaway.

How to Enter the Giveaway

***NOTE that you must post a SEPARATE comment to tell me about EVERY entry you do in order to increase your chances of winning.****

1. Sign up for my A Moderate Life RSS feed or email updates subscription. Leave a comment below telling me that you signed up. You will also get an entry if you already subscribe — this is the most important thing you could do for me and I would seriously appreciate it– make sure to comment!

2. If you link a recipe to the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop, you get an extra entry! Just be sure to tell me in the comments that you linked up.

3. Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway. Please be sure to include the URL to this page in your tweet. (You could also hit the “retweet” button above.) Comment below telling me that you followed and tweeted.

4. If you also would “like” A Moderate Life on Facebook and post about the giveaway on your Facebook status I would really appreciate it, but due to the new FB rules, I can no longer give an extra entry commenting about the giveaway, only for becoming a fan of the page or “liking” it. THANK YOU!

5. Blog about the giveaway and link back to this page on your blog. Comment below with the link.

6. Email 5 friends about the giveaway, with a link to the page. Comment below telling me that you did.

7. Stumble this post and comment telling me that you did.

8. Submit this post to Reddit under the Food Reddit and comment telling me that you did.

9. Follow A Moderate Life on Networked Blogs on Facebook and comment telling me that you did. That is ten different ways to enter this great giveaway.

You can do one or all of them, but remember to leave a separate comment for each entry so you increase your chances of winning! This contest is open to US  residents, and will end in 8 days, on June 20, 2011 at 11:59 PM Eastern. The winner will be chosen via random.org and announced on the Hearth and Soul Hop at A Moderate Life on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011.

Good Luck Readers!

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