Hereโs something hard to wrap my head around โ this little entry you are reading marks Dinner: A Love Storyโs 600th (!) post. I know! Hard to believe โseems like only yesterday we were turning 500. We plan on celebrating with a big olโ pot of Grandma Turanoโs meatballsย and hope youโll do the same from your own dinner table โ wherever that dinner table happens to be.
So, you wonder, what would I like for my 600th birthday? Thatโs easy. Iโm no dummy โ I could never have made it this far without my smart, thoughtful, dedicated readers โ so Iโd love to get a little feedback from you. If you are so inclined, fill outย this two-minute questionnaireย to help make Dinner: A Love Story better, stronger, more book-centric, beef-centric, baby-centric, whatever-centric! The point is: I want to hear from you. There are only a dozen multiple-choice questions which I promise are completely painless. And hereโs something cool: Even though itโs my birthday, YOU get the gifts.ย By participating in theย questionnaire,ย you become automatically eligible to win either aย Komachi chefโs knife, a copy ofย Dinner: A Love Story,ย or a four-pack of the official DALS โMake Dinner Not Warโ bumper sticker. (Three winners, who must live in the 48 contiguous states, will be selected and can choose whichever prize theyโd like.) Deadline for entry: Sunday, May 12.
Youโd like that link again, you say?ย Sure!ย Here you go.ย And thanks from the whole DALS team.
ย PS: Questionnaire or not, remember you can always just purchase a bumper stickerย here.
Update: Keely, Chelsey, and Erin are the winners, but you can still fill out the survey if the spirit moves you. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Survey done and done! Congrats on all that youโve accomplished with your book and here on the blog. Love, love, love itโฆ keep it coming!
Fingers crossed for the book. Iโve been dying to read it ๐
LOVE your blog and book! ๐ thanks for sharing your wonderful story and recipes
I love a good questionnaireโฆ
Thanks for asking!! And congrats on making the Saveur best blog finals ๐
Iโve never commented before and I love your blog so forgive me for my first comment being a little negative.
Itโs a bit insulting to the stay at home Moms that the only employment option they have on the survey is โUnemployed and not looking for work.โ Iโm sure you didnโt mean anything by it but I had to point it out. Iโm a freelance musician so I fall into the Part-time work outside the home category, I guess, but I mostly consider myself a SAHM.
Again, sorry to be persnickety. Love the blog, love the book. love the recipes.
Yes, @beth, that is worded a little oddly. Obviously, didnโt mean to offend anyone. Just trying to ask the employment question as technically as possible, but I tweaked with your comment in mind.
@emily: Thank you!!!!
it was quick & easy : )
Congrats on the BIG 6-0-0! Weโll be sure to toast DALS over a G-n-T this evening! ๐
Awesome! โUnemployed not looking for workโ made me think of The Dude from the Big Lebowski. ๐
I filled it out and then submitted and then thought โ easy lunches would be an AWESOME thing to address. Particularly if they can be eaten with one hand while an infant screams at you and then falls asleep in your lap ๐
600 posts โ very cool! How many years is that????
Jenny, itโs wonderful that you think so highly of your readers to ask for their advice. Itโs a great compliment! My only suggestion in terms of your questionnaireโs family composition question is accounting for shared custody โ we have the kids 40% of the time and are otherwise cooking for two. I expect some other readers are in the same boatโฆ Showing the weeknight/weekend version of recipes has been a great idea. Perhaps thereโs a similar opportunity to show the family size/couple size version of recipes as well?
Thank you for soliciting our feedback! Love DALS as is but am also curious (and excited) see see/hear about DALS 2.0. Good luck!
Congratulations!!! I absolutely LOVE your blog, book and awesome book suggestions! It has also been so nice to know that Iโm not alone in the early rising kiddo department. After almost 3 and a half years, Iโve got my fingers crossed that I might actually get to sleep past 6 am within the next year!
happy birthday and thanks for asking about us!
Happy, Birthday, well done!!
Ps. Thanks for sharing the chalkboard idea for kitchen. I want one too!
Jenny, I love your blog, but I forgot one thing I wanted to include on the survey. When I click on one of the โcategoriesโ on the right, I would love to go to a page listing links to all the recipes. Rather than having to scroll through every โChicken and Turkeyโ post to find what Iโm looking for, it would be nice to be able to see all of the post titles at once, and then choose the full post from there. Does that make sense? Iโm thinking of something similar to how Smitten Kitchen does it. I know the survey was more about content, but this change would make it a lot easier for readers to browse the archives, in my opinion.
Thanks for sharing your recipes and ideas!
Well, thatโs embarrassing. For anyone else clueless like me, the Recipe Index is at the very top of the page.
Thanks Jenny!
I somehow just found your blogโฆI think Iโm in love with it. Thanks for sharing your recipes and advice!
I filled out your survey and then thought of one more thingโฆ I use Paprika (an iOS app) to collect recipes. It can automatically download recipes if theyโre in the โhrecipeโ or โmicro dataโ formats. I donโt know how much work itโd be for you, but itโd save *me* a lot of time. (Of course, your recipes save me so much time in the first placeโฆ)
love your book, love the blog too, trying the greek potatoes tonight