Cooking & Such by Sherry Gore
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens.
(Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Update: There were over two hundred wonderful participants in this “Win a copy of Taste of Pinecraft by Sherry Gore.” The winner is Sandra Stover! Congratulations, Sandra!
The screen door slams for what seems like the hundredth time as my children brush past the blooming yellow mums, dashing in and out, hopeful for a little taste of something tantalizing from my kitchen.
Later, tummies are stuffed with turkey and trimmings, and the children’s play has wound down to a slower pace. They’ve gathered on the braided-rug-covered floor, taking turns playing checkers, toy cars, and Dutch Blitz. The aroma of cinnamon and nutmeg mixed with creamy pumpkin filling wafts through the air as the oven timer signals the pie has baked to perfection.
Reflecting on Thanksgivings past in my home when my children were small fills me with a joy that warms my heart.
As the seasons of the year change, so do circumstances in our lives, especially as we grow older. Some changes are greeted with anticipation and are welcomed, like when our children fall in love and marry, or when a pink or blue blanket gets knitted in celebration for a little one on the way. Other changes are not so welcome and come unexpectedly, such as sickness or even the loss of a loved one.
My younger daughter married last year. This Thanksgiving she’ll be mashing potatoes and baking pie for her husband on their ranch out west. My older daughter lives at home but is critically ill. And my son? Now that he’s turned sixteen, his interest in Hot Wheels has been traded for the driver’s seat of a Jeep. He and I will be the only ones from our family eating Thanksgiving dinner together this year.
On Thursday, you’ll find me in my kitchen along with beloved friends. I’ve been poring over favorite recipes while planning the menu. Cherished recipes become more precious when they are prepared for and enjoyed with others.
We’re planning to grace the table with twelve place settings, but we know to make lots of extra food for any (always welcomed) last-minute guests. Anticipating laughter in the kitchen with my friends as we roll out pie crust and whip up a bowl of sweet potatoes laced with sugared pecans and a dollop of whipped butter puts a sparkle in my eyes. While the turkey and stuffing bake and cranberry Jell-O salad sets, games of bocce ball will be played in the backyard. If the weather turns, we’ll get cozy inside and pull out a box filled with checkers, Uno, Rook, and other family games.
Whether you’re looking forward to baby’s first family gathering, enduring your first year as an empty-nester, or facing the holidays without a spouse for the first time, embrace this time of your life. Our circumstances, whether they be grievous or delightful, are meant to draw us closer to God. And what a wonderful time to acknowledge Him in our lives, at the Thanksgiving dinner table. My prayer is for us all to feel His comforting presence as we pray, “Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name” (1 Chronicles 29:13).
For a chance to win an autographed copy of Taste of Pinecraft by Sherry Gore , please leave a comment below. This contest ends Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Only comments left on my website will be entered. If you’re reading this on Facebook or such, please hop over to http://www.cindywoodsmall.com.
Thanks! (It’s just too hard to track down all the comments left in various places, and that means it’s too easy to miss some of the comments.)
Holiday Recipe from Cooking & Such: Adventures in Plain Living Magazine
Sugar-Glazed Pecans
2 egg whites
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 pound pecan halves
1 cup white sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 250ᴼ. Grease one baking sheet.
In a mixing bowl, whip together the egg whites and vanilla until frothy. In a separate bowl (or use a gallon-size zip-lock bag), mix together sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Add pecans to egg whites. Stir to coat nuts evenly. Remove the nuts and toss them in the sugar mixture until coated. Spread the nuts out on the prepared baking sheet.
Bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Let cool.
To visit Sherry Gore’s site, go to www.sherrygorebooks.com
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Sherry Gore is a scribe for the national edition of The Budget newspaper, author of Taste of Pinecraft: Glimpses of Sarasota, Florida’s Amish Culture and Kitchens, and editor-in-chief of Cooking and Such: Adventures in Plain Living magazine. She makes her home in Sarasota, Florida, with her children and is a member of a Beachy Amish Mennonite church. Sherry is the nonresistant owner of a double-barrel shotgun and has an affinity for pie. She learned the hard way one spring day not to wear ChapStick while driving an open buggy behind a shedding horse.
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Would love to win this book.Sherry is a sweetheart and i know her book would be great.Blessing to all…
Oh how I would love to own a copy of Sherry’s cook book she is such an inspiration.
know what i wanted to eat for thanksgiving this year? my mom’s potato salad. she doesnt put anything in it that i dont. but for some reason hers is waaaay better. we were in tampa bay area to see her in july and she didnt get to make me any . but when they decided to come up here for thanksgiving she promised to make it. she did and i ate MOST of it myself. lol.
I would love to have this cookbook!!! Loved the article!!
I would love this!! I have a family of six, have to cook everynight, cany afford to go out! Need some new recipes, just ask my family!!
I am not sure how many times I can reply and I certainly do not want to do more than is permitted but a copy of Sherry’s cookbook would be a blessing to me and my family. Thank you again Cindy!
We live in Central PA close to the Amish. I love to buy their food whenever I see it, jams, pies, pickled vegetables. All good~
I have read your first series and would like more. Also would love to win this cookbook!
I love cookbooks and am making Amish friendship bread right now. I now have to find 3 more people to give the starter and recipe to..lol I’d love to have this book. Well, if I don’t win, I will certainly buy it. Thank You, Kristy
Would love the chance to win Sherry’s cookbook.
Yummy!
I’m always looking for new recipes to try.
I am drooling already after just reading the little bit on your page. Can’t wait to get the book.
Amish and Mennonite recipes? Sign me up! Can’t get any better then that! THANK YOU!
I think this mwould makea great Christmas gift. Anyone would be blessed to win!
I have been following Sherry on facebook and am keeping Jacinda in my prayers. Cindy you are my favorite Amish writer, I love reading the Amish stories and try to own all of them from all of the Authors. I am also starting to collect the Amish cookbooks so I would love to have Sherry’s book.
The pecans sound wonderful. I’ve always wondered how to make them.
Would love a copy of this book. We have Amish friends and they are wonderful cooks!
Cindy, you have become one of the most requested authors at our library.
I am one of your biggest book fans……I would love to win the Amish Cookbook……..babyruthmac16@yahoo.com
Love to try out new Amish recipes. They taste sooooo good!!
Sherry’s bio made me laugh! I learned the same lesson about chapstick and a shedding cat!
She sounds like someone I’d like to know – I’m heading on over to her site…
I’d love to win her book! Thanks, Cindy.
I would love to add this cookbook to my collection. I am sure this would be a well used book in my kitchen. I enjoy the dishes made by the Amish/Mennonite ladies. Having lived near Amish communities and also visiting many during our vacations my husband and I thoroughly enjoy the down to earth meals that they serve. Yum!
Thank you Cindy and Sherry.
I would love to win a copy of this cookbook.
Yay! Would love this!
I love the Amish stories by Cindy! And am curious about the many dishes mentioned in those stories so a cookbook would be so much fun! Thank you
Looks like I’ve found another author to check out. I love cooking and I am intrigued with the Amish/Mennonite community, so this sounds like a cookbook that I need to get.
Thanks Cindy for sharing this with us!! 
I have known Sherry for many years, winning this would be amazing. I love her and her family and they always have a special place in my heart.!
Enjoyed this blog & I would love to win a cookbook also….Thanks
I would love to win a cook book for cook book for my daughter, she cooks most ever thing from scratch and healthy. we both love the Amish books and take some recipes from the back of books. she also collects cook books and to have a cook book from Sherry Gore would make her day.
I have always been a reader, a collector of books, and an avid lover of cooking and all things related to cooking! Now I am proud to say that I am learning to blog – about books and my faith. To add this book to my library as well as to my blog would be such a wondrous thing. Thanks for the opportunity to enter this contest!
I would love to win a copy of the cookbook by Sherry Gore. I, too, live in Florida (only in the winter) in nearby Bradenton. I have been to Pinecraft and enjoyed the visit. We ate lunch in the Amish Restaurant nearby. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Thank you so much for a chance to win a cookbook. Just love your stories.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful recipes and stories! I would love to win this cookbook to share with my daughters!!!
Your words take me right there with you Sherry. I’ve so enjoyed learning about both you and Cindy on Amish Wisdom.
I would love to win a cook book. Some of the food that I read about I would love to try. It does not look hard at all to make them.
I hope you have a Blessed Christmas.
Thank you,
Debbie Voelker
Please enter me in your contest to win a cookbook. I would love to have on. Thank you.
I’d Love to win Sherry’s cookbook! The different sample recipes you and she have shared with us have been wonderful recipes and I can’t wait to see all of the recipes in the book! I hope and pray I win it! God Bless and Merry Christmas!
lovely website, great posts — and a chance to win a cookbook? Wow!
In The Netherlands there is no such thing as Thanksgiving. I wish there was, or that I could have celebrated Thanksgiving with my friends in Montana, USA.
I think Amish and Mennonites are an example for all of us, especially in their cooking
I’d love to learn some Amish recipes to surprise my Dutch family!
I am a collector!!! I collect books of all kinds and cookbooks are no exception. I would love to have this signed cookbook to add to my collection. Thank you for the opportunity. God Bless. Vicki
I would love to win a copy of Sherry’s cookbook. I love to cook when given the time. Since I also collect cookbooks, Sherry’s book would be a great addition to my collection. Happy Thanksgiving.
I would really like to win the cookbook. I love reading her books so much.
Oh I would LOVE to win a copy of this cookbook. I love to cook & have a special fondness for anything Mennonite or Amish, because they make the BEST food.
enjoyed reading your blog about thanksgiving!! A happy day to you….Clara
Loved this article!
I would love a copy of Sherry’s book. She is an inspiration as I read her updates on Facebook. For all the worries and struggles her family has had with her daughter’s illness, she is always resilient. I know her strength comes from the Lord, for in all our weaknesses, His strength is made perfect.
I would love to win this autographed cookbook. I used to live in Sarasota, FL and I loved the Amish cooking!!! A good friend of mine took photos for this wonderful cookbook and I would love to have these awesome recipes for my own. Thank you for the opportunity to win this cookbook! I love hearing Sherry’s stories!! Keep up the good work!
I would love to win Sherry cookbook .I love to cook . I collect all kinds of recipes and cookbooks. I love to have this cookbook in my collection. Have a Happy Thankgiving.
Two special ladies on the same page….what a blessing. Cindy I’ve enjoyed each and everyone of your books and eagerly await each new one to add to my collection. And Sherry, you are an inspiration to all of us who follow your life on Facebook. You are so open with your feelings, your humor and your faith. You cheer us up when we are down and break our hearts when yours is hurting. I pray that this Thanksgiving and Christmas season finds you and your loved ones home and healthy. I was so glad to hear your lovely daughter will be home from the hospital for thanksgiving and how proud you must be of your younger daughter starting a married life of her own (with a bunch of great recipes from mom, no doubt!). Thank you for the chance to maybe win your cookbook, but more important for the opportunity to let you know how much we look forward to your postings and being included as friends in the life of a special one of God’s children.
Just came from Pinecraft with my family and can’t wait to go again!
Just came from Pinecraft with my family and can’t wait to go again! Thanks so much for this giveaway.
Driving a buggy without Chap Stick could drive you buggy! Love Sherry!
I collect cookbooks and would be honored to add this one to my collection should I be choosen. Thank you so much for the oppertunity. Have a wonderful God Filled Thanksgiving!!!
Thanksgiving is indeed a time to THANK God for all He has done for us and a time to GIVE to others. Share your bounty with a shut-in, volunteer at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen, invite friends and potential friends to share this very special time with you. All of the above bring THANKS before the throne of our great God.
We have already celebrated Thanksgiving in Canada, but I would love to make some Amish dishes for Christmas or next Thanksgiving. Thank you for an opportunity to win the cookbook.
I love to cook, so this would be perfect!
I would really enjoy an amish cookbook!
I love to add another amish cookbook there great
All of the Amish recipes that I have tried so far are fantastic! I would so much like to win your cookbook.
Thanks, Kathy
she is really a very pretty women and i would be so happy to be able to say that i won her cookbook. i will also go and will check out her site. thank you for this chance.
karen
khsmith97217@yahoo.com
Love the simplicity of the life described and makes me long for the quiet places I know are here but moving too fast to find. Thank you for sharing your heart and so timely with the events going on around us.
I would love to win this cookbook. I am Sherry’s “friend” on FB and I love read her comments. She is so much fun and yet with all her worries about Jacinda she still keeps going. She is such an inspiration to me.
Thank you for the opportunity to win her book.
Sandy Kaczanowcke
Wow, reading what Sherry has written is now making me excited for Thanksgiving. I was semi dreading it, call me the holiday grouch but now I am rejoicing for some thanks in being glad for what I do have. I will have 2 sons who are heaven’s angels missing from the table but we will be lighting some candles to remember them both.
Thank you for sharing your family’s holiday! I would like to enter to win the cookbook that you are giving away
Happy Holidays!
I love cookbooks and this one sounds awesome!
The cookbook sounds great! Please enter my name. Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family !
Can’t wait to try the recipe for the pecans. Please enter me for a chance to win the cookbook. Love your books!
I would love to win the cookbook. Thank you for the chance. I wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you.
Sherry, I very much enjoyed reading about your coming Thanksgiving time with friends and family. I will be spending mine with my husband’s family. My brother-in-law and his family just moved this week into a new house and we are so excited to share this time of Thanksgiving with them in their new home. Cindy, I just finished reading The Sound of Sleighbells and hated for it to end! I can’t wait to read some more of your Christmas stories. God bless you both. Much love in Christ, Kim
Cindy
I love your books. I just bought the Christmas Singing and I can’t wait to start reading it. I have read all your other books, I can’t get enough of your writings. Hope you are working on a new book or series of books. Have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Richard
I would love a chance to receive a copy of the cookbook…
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!!
I have been following Sherry and Jacinda. So happy to hear she is home! God is so good!!
I too was very ill back in October into November; I am still recovering. I just thank the good Lord that I am alive for Thanksgiving and for however long God keeps me here.
Winning Sherry’s cookbook would be wonderful!!
Happy Thanksgiving and Blessings to you!!!
sure I would love to win Sherry cook book
How neat it is for the chance to win this book! I have a lot of ‘franshauft’ in Pinecraft/Sarasota area. My grandparents were there every winter season & still have family that travels to Florida for the winter.
I really enjoyed reading your Thanksgiving story, thank you. Also, thanks for the chance at winning one of your books. Blessings to all
i love to read cookbooks would like win this one. i also like sugar glazed pecans. have a happy thanksgiving and may GOD blessyou and your family.
Enter me for this wonderful sounding book.
Thanks
Happy Thanksgiving, Cindy! Would love to win this book! Thanks for the offer! Enjoyed your story, Sherry!
I would love a copy of the cookbook! I throughly enjoy trying new recipes and am actually trying two from your website tonight, the baked corn casserole with the meatloaf. I also got a kick out the sentence about the chapstick! I have a love for my carmex as well and always need some within reach no matter what! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving however and with whomever you are spending it.
I would LOVE to win the cookbook!! Please enter me in the contest! THANKS!!
I love Sherry Gore. She is such a sweet lady, who even though is going through such a difficult time is always so very nice to all her fans and friends. I just wish that I had a fourth of the strength, fortitude and courage that she shows.
Thanks for the Sugar Glazed Pecans recipe will have to double the recipe with lots of family coming over. Thanks for great books to ready.
Inspiring words–God is enough–and He is in control. Good words for the past–good words for the future.
I love all your books they make feel like I am back home in PA
Thanks for the Sugar Glazed Pecans recipe, I love those but have not seen a recipe before. Will have to try them.
I would love to win a cookbook. Have a great Thanksgiving
Blessings, Tina
Loved your post..memories of past Thanksgivings are always such a blessing..our family will be getting together but will also include some friends that are like family..looking forward to sharing with them..Your cookbook sounds terrific!! Blessings!!
Wow, I’m anxious to read Sherry’s book!
Cindy I love your books and Sherry I love your Taste of Pinecraft
Hope everyone has a safe and yummy Thanksgiving.
One of my favorite verses!
Pray I win!
I loved the writing by Sherry. I would love to have her book. She needs to write more.
I would love to have your cookbook…God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving!
I will pass this recipe on to my wife, in hopes of her cooking it for the Christmas season. This looks like a delicious recipe.
The Holidays always bring out the best cooking in the Anabaptist movement (of which the Amish and Mennonites are part of.) I have been going through my Grandmother’s recipes. Some of her scribbled down recipes, are many generations old, being passed down through our Lancaster County rooted family.
I would love to win this book, please enter me into the drawing and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Cooking is not only a pot cooking, but cooking up warm friendship. Very well known tradition in my home, Turkey. Very interested in all about Amish, especially way of cooking and sharing. May a piece of luck from skies, and happiest of Happy Thanking day of ‘the more we give the more we receive’. Best wishes, N.
god bless you!
i love your books. i’ve have read the amish books for years.keep up the great work.
I want to thank you so very much for all the wonderful ways of The Amish you share with us books, magazine,email, and website! I can’t seem to get enough reading the stories,the recipes,etc.like a childs desire for candy!!!
Sometimes, when you have been a Christian for many years, you forget just how amazing the gift of salvation really is.We have so very much to be Thankful for!
May you have A Blessed holiday Season!
Thank you so much for sharing and God Bless your family. Sometimes with all the trials in life is it easy to forget that there is always something good (no matter how small) to be thankful for. We just need to take the time to stop, think and thank God for another day. Have a very happy Thanksgiving!
I just found out this last summer that I have some Amish ancestors. Would love to receive the cookbook. I’ve been looking for Amish recipes. Please enter me in the drawing.
This would be a wonderful Christmas present to myself.
Please enter me. God Bless
I love Amish cooking and would love a chance to win this beautiful cookbook! Thanks! God Bless you both! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
Would love to win your Amish cookbook. Love recipes! Have a wonderful, warm Thanksgiving with family and friends
You have no idea how much my wife would love a copy of Taste of Pinecraft for Christmas. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and please enter my name for the chance to win one.
Best wishes,
Carl
I loved reading about your family. My husband and I are looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner at my daughter’s home this year. My daughter, daughter-in-law, and our two 17 yr old granddaughters will be baking pies and such on Wednesday. It’s such fun. I would love to have a chance to win your cookbook. It sounds wonderful. Thank you and have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Sherry,
you are such an inspiration of what a godly woman looks like. Especially while going through many trials. You are a blessing, and I would love to win a copy of your book, Taste Of Pinecraft.
Thank you both Sherry and Cindy for this opportunity.
Debbie McLaren
Thank you for your reflections, Sherry. You’re right. Our life’s circumstances often roll like the waves of the ocean, sometimes up, sometimes down, always fluid and changing. I pray for your daughter (J), that the same healing virtue that flowed out of Jesus and into the woman with the issue of blood, will flow throughout J’s body and make her every bit whole. And that though there are too many miles between you and your youngest, you will sense her presence in the love you feel for her. God bless you ALL! Happy Thanksgiving.
What a joy it would be to win a cookbook with receipes from the Amish/Mennonites. I can already smell the aroma from home made receipes. Mmmm I’m hungry already.
What a great gift. Helps to bring back memories of visiting the Amish in Lancaster when I use to live so close. Living in Texas I miss those things.
Hi, I can’t wait to try the glazed pecan recipe! I’ve been reading Cindy’s and other Amish fiction novel writer’s books for years now and love the warmth and insight to the Amish/Mennonite lifestyles.
I would love to read both Cindy’s book and your cookbook. So many of the foods I read about in the Amish novels sound so yummy!
What a wonderful thing to remember…our circumstances may change but our God is always with us.
My first time reading Sherry’s work. It was truly heartwarming. Her life sounds like she is at about the same point in her life as I am in mine. The kids are all but grown and she’s missing the time when her family was young and now there are grandchildren. Her life is what a lot of us yearn for; a simpler life style! A little relief to the hectic and pushed lives we tend to move into when our children become active with sports and school activities in their youth. Thank you for such a wonderful story.
This sounds like a great book to have. Thanks for offering it.
Oh how I would love to win!!
would love a chance to win this. Sherry has an amazing testimony, and she not only talks it- she lives it. Lives change, and we adapt…but the basics of happiness include family, faith, and food!
Thank you for this giveaway. I love your stories, and Amish cookbooks are so wonderful. I have gotten a few from the library, but I’d love to win Sherry’s cookbook.
My children are all grown and have Thanksgiving so they have dinner at there own homes. My Husband works on holidays so people who have children still at home can be with them. We have our Thanksgiving dinner on a day when he can me home and our Boys can stop by to visit
I would love to win your cook book as I have a collection of them
I love reading the amish books and I love cookbooks. I would love to have your cookbook.
I love to cook and bake and I love reading your books about the Amish!
God bless you, Cindy and Sherry!
Ohhhh! I love cookbooks! Would so love this one!
Blessings,
Diane
This Thanksgiving we were going to be with family, but my 3 year olds health has not been good for a while now and taking him 2-1/2 hrs away just did not seem right. I love cookbooks, I actually collect them. Having this one would be such a great addition.
Would love to win the cookbook — love Amish food!!!!
Sherry, as usual, you inspire me!!! I know the sorrow of losing those dear to you and the empty places around the table where they once sat. I also know that as we continue to praise God in these difficult times, He will lift our hearts right up into the Heavens and He will draw closer to us. Thank you for sharing your life so openly with us. You allow us to experience and share all your joys, your disappointments, and hurts…it helps us all to draw closer to you and to our Heavenly Father. May your Thanksgiving be blessed with love and laughter overflowing from thankful hearts…Margie margie at mijares dot net
I would love an opportunity to win a copy of your cookbook as a gift for my son who is always coming by to borrow mine!!!
I would love to have an Amish cookbook, it would be a welcome addition to my regional cookbooks I have collected over the years. Plus, it would be fun to try the recipes!!
I have one of Sherry’s cook books but would love this one..I am anxious to try the Sugar Glazed pecans.. As I love pecans..I also love reading about the Amish and enjoy making things with Amish receipes..
The cookbook looks like it has great recipes.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and many good wishes for this Holiday season!!
This has been so nice to read about Sherry & I would love to win this cookbook.
Wilma
“Seasons of life”…the changes God allows…but He always gives His strength and faithful presence for each minute! And there are blessings to be found in each season. Have a lovely Thanksgiving!
I give thanks for all my loved ones near and far and hope to have a large gathering of loved ones this year. It is not the same since I lost my beloved husband 6 years ago but live evolves and I am happy in the glory of God’s love. Happy Thanksgiving! God Bless!
I just bought a lb of pecans and excited about the recipe you have posted above. Thanks for introducing me to Sherry Gore! Looking forward to reading more about her and the Amish.
I enjoy cookbooks and yours sounds so interesting!
May your Thanksgiving be extra special this year.
What wonderful memories. My family is all over the place this year, but a few of us have managed to get a small gathering together. I look forward to my time with them. Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Hi, I would love to have this cookbook. I love reading about the Amish, I think I have read every Amish book that our local library has! Thanks
You make thanksgiving sound wonderful…..and such a happy time.
Always keeping an eye open for a good recipe. Thanks
I would really like to win this cookbook as I loved to read about the Amish and have just starting cooking real meals and not tv dinners and such.
How fun it would be to win this cookbook and use some of the recipes for NEXT Thanksgiving!!! Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
I love reading your books. I have a couple of Amish and Mennonite cookbooks and they are wonderful cooks. My Grandmother was German and several of her recipes are much like the Amish recipes. Thanks, Cindy, for posting new contests. Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
I would LOVE to have this cookbook!!! Loved the article!!
What a great book!! Would love to win it!!! Thank you & God Bless!!!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and recipes! I enjoy reading the peaceful and encouraging words.
Sherry is a joy to know as a f/b friend. Her strong faith in times of the storm is an example for us all! It would be an honor to win her book!
Patsy
It always makes my mouth water when I read about the Amish cooking, yumm. I wonder would I be able to ever cook from total scratch like they do. Aspecially when it comes to the sweets.
Would love to win the cookbook. I love reading about the Amish & Mennonites. Thanks for the chance to win.
What better time to win a wonderful cook book than the Holidays? Would love it!!
I would love the opportunity to win a beautiful Amish cookbook……I hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving too……babyruthmac16@yahoo.com
I would love to win the cookbook. My sister and I are going to Sarasota to an Amish restaurant for Thanksgiving. Which restaurant is the best?
What a beautiful reminder to say thanks to the Lord for your current station in life, not the way you’d like it to be. What blessings we miss when we pine away for our dream life….This was very timely!!!
I would love to win this!!!
I would love to win this cookbook! Starting tomorrow with Thanksgiving goodies
Please enter me. Glad to hear Jacinda is home, especially as you celebrate Thanksgiving. It is something to be truly thankful for.
WOW!!! Awesome give away!! Cannot wait to get the magazine too!!
So happy for Sherry that her daughter Jacinda is well enough to be going home. Always praying and thinking of them both.
Would love to win the cookbook. Thank you for the chance.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, a Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year.
I would love to win this beautiful cookbook. Sherry is such a strong woman and a beautiful writer. She most definitely is someone to look up to.
I would love to win this cookbook. Sherry makes all of her posts sound so good – just know that her cookbook would be great!
Love her stories…And yours also…Happy Holidays…
~~I have so much to be thankful for~~God has been so good to me and my family~~I thank Him for touching Jacinda and pray that He continues to touch her and bless her~~I hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving~~
It doesn’t get much better than this, a chance to win Sherry Gore’s cookbook on Cindy Woodsmall’s blog. Wow!! Love you both. Praying of Jacinda and Sherry this day which is such a “big” one for for the Gore Family. Thank you, Cindy, for hosting this great giveaway.
Have a God Filled Day
Shirley
I enjoyed reading down through Sherry’s post. It is so bittersweet when we don’t have all our children sitting around our Thanksgiving table. We know in our hearts that it is right when they marry and move away and start their own traditions. How we miss them.
I had to laugh about the remark regarding the chapstick. When you picture it vividly in your mind one can’t help but giggle.
Prayers still going up for Jacinda. What a rough road she has had to travel.
I would love to win a copy of this cookbook.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Regardless of our situations in life we have so much to be thankful for.
Blessings!
I would love to win this cookbook, I really love all of the contest even if I never win, but it is fun trying
Happy Holidays to you and Yours
God Bless
I just love Sherri! I would like to win but if not I am dropping hints to my husband that a subscription to Cooking and Such should be under the tree this year!
This story is so touching. After having lost a sister a year ago a can really relate to that. I love the story very much.
I love seeing prayers being answered. We serve such an awesome God. Also, the book cover is beautiful.
It made my heart swell up with joy for Sherry & Jacinda when I learned that Jacinda is home from the hospital:-) I am continuing to pray!
Thank you for the chance to win this book!
I will be lifting your daughter up in prayer. When you first started to describe your Thanksgiving past I thought you were in our farmhouse up noth. That’s what it used to be like. Everyone gathered at our farm. We played games around our large harvest table while the younger kids played in the livingroom or on the inclosed porch.
I would love the opportunity to win the cookbook. However, since I live only 6 blocks from Pinecraft I will let that opportunity go to someone else and will purchase her book. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
wow wonderfull Thanksgiving treat!
It always seems when it is time to be thankful, our minds remember a few of the things we are not thankful for. I’m so glad I know Jesus and can choose what to focus my thankful energy on; first and foremost being Christ our Savior. Then family, friends, circumstances (however dysfunctional they may seem). I am thankful for you, Sherry and the inspiration you provide for me. I will continue to keep you and your family in my prayers. From the bottom of my heart, I wish you a very blessed holiday season. <3
The cover is so pretty , oh gosh i’d be so proud to own this book,, Sherry is a dear friend and i’m so glad she has moved so far up in life , bless her heart. And Cindy I think your awesome too,,,,, keep on writting girls,,,,,
I so want this wonderful cookbook in my kitchen to learn how to bake fantabulous pies!! Thank you, Sherry, for your wonderful post, for such a time as this.
I would love to win this book .I know it would be a great cookbook.
Would I love to have a copy? Yes.
Holidays will be different for me this
year–and every year hereafter. But, I’m
strong, like Sherry, and will do my best to enjoy them.
I loved the writing by Sherry. Would love to win a book sometime.
I’d love to win a copy but if I don’t it’s still a great pleasure to let you know that Sherry is a strong individual and has a great talent for making me hungry!! Hugs from Va, Sherry and Jacinda!!
Thank you so much for a chance to win this cookbook. I love to cook and am always wanting to try new recipes. Happy Thanksgiving!
I would love to win an Amish Cookbook. I know it will be well used in my kitchen. They have wonderful recipes and wisdom to go along with them,
Thanks for a chance to win this cookbook.
Connie
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I love reading about Sherry and she is always an encouragement to me even as she goes through the valleys of life. I have pre-ordered her NEW MAGAZINE!!! But don’t own Taste of Pinecraft yet – but I love reading her messages (facebook, etc.) so much that I already want to give copies as gifts before I’ve even read it myself!
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. ECCLESIASTES 3:1 I am so thankful for so many things…Most importantly, I am most thankful for God’s Grace. His promise of salvation and the forgiveness of my sins. He has been so gracious with His Blessings. I am also thankful for my family and friends…and I am incredibly thankful for the amazing authors of Amish books and Amish cookbook;-) I just love reading Amish fiction books. I also love to collect Amish cookbooks. But, one cookbook I do not own, is Sherry Gore’s cookbook. I have wanted a Taste of Pinecraft for a very long time. Maybe it is my time… It would be an honor to win this book. She is an amazing, strong and courageous woman. I do admire her strength. I send up prayers for her and her family daily. Seriously, Whoever wins this very special giveaway, I hope and pray you realize what a special treasure you are receiving. Something to be very thankful for. Blessings and Good luck to all!!
I already own a copy of “Taste of Pincraft” and absolutely love it. Would love another copy but can’t justify paying for a second copy. I take care of my 81 year old mother 5 days and nights a week in Massachusetts and I go home to my loving, understanding husband twice a week. I tell people my husband and mother have shared custody of me. I have “Taste of Pincraft” in my car at all times in case I need at one of the houses. I ordered my subscription to our new magazine “Cooking and Such”. Can’t wait to get it in the mail. Also, can’t wait for the new cookbook (Brides one)to come out. So happy to hear Jay (my oldest daughter’s nick name too) is coming home from critical care. She is such a fighter and a hard worker like her momma. God bless all of you Sherry. I hope your Thankgiving Holiday is Blessed with happiness, contentment and good luck. May God continue to watch over all of you. Happy Gobble Gobble Sherry, Jacinda, Shannon and husband and Tyler.
Sherry I’m so glad your daughter is doing better and home for the holidays.
A touching piece. Thanks for sharing.
Being an Aussie, Thanksgiving is a holiday not celebrated there, but I have seen and feel the blessings of this special day and just love it and it is my favorite holiday, next to Christmas…Please enter me in the competition for the cookbook. I love cooking and try to be creative in my own kitchen and so I am always on the lookout for new and wonderful recipes to tantalize a family member or friend’s taste buds. Thanks
Frances Castelli.
I love Thansgiving. It’s a time to reflect on Thanksgivings of the past. However, this year we are very grateful for safety. Just this week our home and vehicles were hit with an E F2 torando. This Thanksgiving week is very stressful due to all the stuff going on – insurance, clean up, trying to get another vehicle….It proves what’s really important is “family”. Yes, there is a season for all things.
Would love to have this cookbook, thank for a chance to win it.
I just love Sherry, she has such a heart of gold. I hope I win her book, I would love to add it to my collection.
As always, Sherry’s words bless my soul…she is truly a light for the Lord shining brightly through all circumstances. Happy Thanksgiving!
Always enjoy Sherry’s musings… And so glad to know that her daughter Jacinta will be able to come home directly from the hospital! I don’t know that it will be in time for Thanksgiving, but the day she does come home will definitely be a day of thanksgiving!
That was beautiful, Sherry, Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving, Friend.
Sherry, what a beautiful reflection of Thanksgivings past and present. Love reading your thoughts and cannot wait to receive my Cooking and Such! Winning your cookbook would truly make my day;)!!!! To be able give thanks when life gets bumpy is the test of a truly grateful heart.
The writing makes me feel like I am in the scene!!!
enjoyed reading this article by Sherry Gore.
What a nice reflection on Thanksgiving. There is always a reason for our circumstances, which we may not realize until after we have gone through them. But it is so true, whatever the circumstances, they always bring us closer to God. Love this. Something nice to remember especially at Thanksgiving.
Save the cookbook for another winner as I have mine already! But I wanted to comment on Sherry’s post! I love it as always. I have been shedding big crocodile tears tonight as I heard the news that Jacinda would be home from the hospital. Thank you God for answering all of our prayers.
Sherry, What a great way to share JOY and THANKFULNESS even in the mist of not so joyful circumstances. Thank you and hubby and I have been praying for you precious Jacinda and your family…
I am a testimony of the fact of how things can change in the blink of an eye. Four years ago I came home from work to find my daughter’s room cleaned out and she was on her way to Peru. This only 5 days from her turning 18. We had been going through a trial with her and things had seemed to be getting back on track; so when this happened I was totally unprepared and so very heart broken. I cried for days,weeks and months. I prayed for a year and a half for God to bring her back home safe and well. I never knew where she was,who she was hanging out with,if she was eating or on drugs. The worst always comes to your mind. The enemy played greatly on all my fears. After a year and a half she did come back home all in one piece and safe. I was not aware until she told me after being back that she had been raped by someone we had trusted in the church we attended at the time. She lived a very promiscuous life style and I had thought she had forgotten all the teachings we had taught her about the Lord and serving HIM. She would say things sometimes to me that would give hope and let me know that she hasn’t forgotten all. I am still ever learning that God has it all in control and has my kids in the palm of HIS hand. So when learning that she had been raped, oh how I wept again for my girl all over again. God does hear us people HE really does. The Bible tells us that he takes all of our tears and bottles them up. He hears that mom and dad’s cry! Still I continued to pray for her. Last year she came to me and and told me “mom, I’m pregnant”. I looked at her said “no your not”. She answered me and said “yes I am”. I was stunned and my greatest fear realized. So here I was once again on my knees; Lord you see my girl. I can’t walk this road alone Lord and you see where she is in her life now and you know the beginning to end. Very early into her pregnancy she met a wonderful man and she told him right away about the baby. He wants to raise this child knowing it is not his and he proposed to her later on. Yes not everything has turned out as we might have hoped, but she went on to have a beautiful baby girl; Rhumani Blake Swift and she isnow 3 months old! I am still praying for her and Justin and for the Lord to continue to help them raise this sweet baby! So Sherry I can totally understand how life can be disappointing at times; take heart Joy Comes In The Morning! Love you all and keeping you in my prayers.
Sherry, What a great way to share JOY and THANKFULNESS even in the mist of not so joyful circumstances. Thank you and hubby and I have been praying for you precious Jacinda and your family…
cooking, esp. during the “Holidays” is a special time….each year the kids help me make their favorite kinds of goodies….some choose Peanutbutter blossoms, some ask for peppernise, some for sugar cut outs, others caramel choc. bars….but the time spent is the best of all!
I have always wanted this recipe….thank you so much!!!!! would love more…..
I love what you said about embracing our circumstances, no matter how difficult because they are meant to draw us closer to God. That really touches my heart, as do you Sherry. So many people forget that there is much to be grateful for, and to really appreciate and without hardship, we would not know the meaning of happiness. You are such an inspiration to so many of us by the very virtue of the example you set; and all the while keeping such a wonderful sense of humor! I am so grateful to know you Sherry, and so grateful to God that we had the opportunity to meet when Stephanie and Jacinda were at All Children’s. Thank-you for sharing your wisdom with me; as I really know it comes from God and there are so many important lessons that each of us must learn! I hope that you have a very blessed and wonderful thanksgiving! One of these days, as soon as I find the opportunity to visit your community I would still love to meet up with you for some pie and a great big hug!!!
I loved this article and the recipe too!
I love Sherry and enjoy reading her cookbook, however mine is not signed. I would so love to have a signed one. She is such a special lady and has such a giving, humble and loving heart. So glad Jacinda is getting to go home. Thanks
You have me in tears reading this, not sure just why…but they are there none the less. I guess I can relate as we wait for the birth of our first Grandchild in May. =-D Would love to win.
Sherry you are truley inspiring. You have a gift. Love your optimism and reliance on God.
Even though I already have a copy of Sherry’s cookbook, I would love to win. If you make a wondeful gift for a family member or friend. Love Sherry and love reading your books Cindy.
I won this cookbook previously,and it is great.I am so happy for you and Jacinda that she will be coming home.You both are an inspiration.I love Amish books and cookbooks.I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving…jackie_tessnair@yahoo.com
I love Cindy’s writings and have a lot of her books. My daughter and I have been blessed to meet Cindy twice, once at Rachel’s Country Store and once at Lifeway in Chambersburg.
I have been catching up on Sherry Gore’s family and especially her daughter’s illness. I pray she is healed completely real soon.
I would love to have a copy of Taste of Pinecraft, your recipes sound delicious!
So wonderful to hear the wonderful news about Jacinda coming home! What a Thanksgiving it’ll be!!! (((hug)))
Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving and upcoming Christmas Season..
I have been following Sherry’s journey over the past week. What a brave lady and daughter she has!
I would love to win this cookbook!
I would love to win a copy of this book. Sherry is a fantastic person! I am sure her recipes are outstanding!
I loved your story about Thanksgiving! After reading I realize what a blessing it is to enjoy my son while he is still young because someday he will leave the nest!!!
Nicole
Wonderful piece!! It made me long for days past, remembering
Thanksgivings of my younger days with smells and sounds of family all around.
Absolutely love the Amish books. Also love the cookbooks. Would love to win a copy….
I would love to win a copy of Taste of Pinecraft.
When I count my blessings on Thanksgiving or any other day, there is always the remembrance of the first time I learned of Sherry Gore and Pinecraft. Sherry and Jay have been such an inspiration to me. Hmmmm…which brings me to how I happened to know of Pinecraft, Sherry, Jay… Oh, that would be because I read some wonderful books by Cindy Woodsmall, and then learned of her friend Sherry Gore. Would love to win the cookbook,but if I don’t , I’m still a winner having known all of you. Thanks for the happiness you’ve brought to me. P. <3
Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories, talent and this fabulous recipe with us!
I’m thankful for all the hours of wonderful reading you’ve given your readers, I’m thankful for the roof over my head and the good health that I do have (I don’t have much! lol), but most of all, this Thanksgiving, I’m thankful that Sherry Gore’s daughter Jacinda will be going home for Thanksgiving!! I’m so glad to hear that.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!!
What a wonderful treat an amish cookbook is I use the ones I have quite often, and re-read the stories and traditions that are interspersed within.
Happy Thanksgiving
We are truly a blessed “family”
I would love to win the book! Happy Thanksgiving.