You know I love my Crockpot dinners and I love cookbooks. I came across the 2012 Gooseberry Patch Recipe Card Calendar and decided I would combine the two in a review.

If you don’t know who or what Gooseberry Patch is, you are missing out. I’m totally in love with their recipes and many different books and calendars and even Apps. Wonderful stuff! The thing that I love from Gooseberry Patch products all are cooked by people like You and me and all the recipes are submitted by Mom’s like you and I.

The 2012 Calendar is really cool and comes in handy in the kitchen. It only has a size of about 9.5 x 6 but it is so colorful and has 2 recipes on each side/ month. The recipes are printed in a 4×6 format and are also perforated so you can tear them out once the year is over and include them in your recipe box. How cool is that?

This little calendar is jam packed full of yummy breakfast, lunch, dinner or even dessert creations. I bet there is something for everyone.

With this being the beginning of September, I love to prepare for the fall month. we had the Beefy Vegetable Stew in the Crockpot last night and it was wonderful. I’m not a big Beef Stew person; it’s always too rich in taste and heavy. This recipe is a keeper, it was wonderful, light, fresh  and totally yummy. Best part, it cooked all on its own while  I was at the office working :0).

This is what you need:

Doesn’t hat look yummy? I really enjoyed it and so did the rest of the family. To mu surprise it didn’t feel like a “cold” weather meal. It really was yummy and a keeper in our house.

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