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Autographed Blue Ginger cookbook “Simply Ming One-Pot Meals” by master chef Ming Tsai. Hardcover. Donated by the author, Ming Tsai, who is host and executive producer of the Public Television cooking show, SIMPLY MING, and owner of the famed Blue Ginger Restaurant. Chef Ming Tsai believes there are four basic needs in everyday cooking today: taste, healthfulness, simplicity, and affordability. So in this groundbreaking cookbook, his first in five years, he tackles all four. Broken down into seven techniques of one-pot cooking - including braising, wokking, sautéing, high-temperature cooking, roasting, tossing, and soups - SIMPLY MING ONE-POT MEALS offers 80 recipes with Ming's well-known East-West approach.

Donated by:
The Author
Ming Tsai
Blue Ginger Restaurant
583 Washington St
Wellesley, MA

Dream Dinners hosts your own “Mom's Night Out”. Invite up to 10 friends to come and learn the answer to “What's for dinner?” Dream Dinners provides the refreshments, you provide the guests. Hostess assembles a complimentary 6-serving Chicken entree and each guest in attendance makes one 3-serving chicken entree. Good for use at Dream Dinners store in Framingham or Milford only. www.dreamdinners.com. Appointment must be made by Dec. 31, 2011. Call 508-877-3336 to schedule a time to go there. Dream Dinners does the shopping, prep, and clean up; the folks in the group assemble the meals and take them home, to be used then or frozen for future use. Includes "The Hour that Matter Most: The Surprising Power of the Family Meal" by Les and Leslie Parrott, a realistic book about how to make dinner the most important meal for your family.

Donated by:
Dream Dinners
847 Edgell Road
Framingham, MA

www.dreamdinners.com

Canvas shopping bag sampler filled with items from each section in the Store - shampoo, lotion, chips, candy, breakfast foods, coffee, sauces, etc. A gastronomic delight!

Donated by:
Trader Joe's
659 Worcester Rd
Framingham, MA
www.traderjoes.com

Three liter bottle – 2008 Bogle Petite Sirah California Red Table Wine. Their 2008 Petite Sirah is ripe and fragrant with raspberries, blackberries, blueberry, brewed tea, soft leather and the sharp flavors of Chambord liqueur. High in acidity and tannins are restrained. 13.5% alcohol.

Donated by:
Natick Wine & Spirits
7 Watson St
Natick, MA 01760
508-653-1005

$215 value Certificate for Twelve Months of Coffee (one pound per month; 12 pounds total), Peet’s Coffee & Tea. Over the past four decades, Peet’s growth has been fueled by ever-increasing numbers of coffee lovers in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the nation. With each generation of Peet’s leadership, we have remained true to the quality tenets of our founder, inspired by the same unrelenting pursuit of quality. Our purpose has not changed since 1966 ­ to seek out opportunities to raise the expectations of American coffee drinkers by attracting and serving those who truly love the taste of coffee, for whom a cup of coffee could only mean a cup of Peet’s.

Donated by:
Peet's Coffee and Tea
9 Central Street
Wellesley, MA

www.peets.com

Gift Certificate for one 9” Double Layer Special Occasion Custom-Decorated Cake (serves 12-18)from Quebrada Baking Company. Come in and experience the joy of world-class breakfast baked goods, and barista coffees and teas. Let your eyes linger over shelves brimming with distinctive petite desserts and delicious cookies. Delight in rich and moist cakes and cupcakes, beautifully decorated to your order. And savor enticing aromas reminiscent of European corner bakeries or the family kitchen, where ‘fresh, fresh, fresh’ is a way of life.

Donated by:
Quebrada Baking Company
272 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA

www.quebradabakingco.com

$100 Gift Card from Roche Bros. Supermarkets. When we say Roche Brothers is a better way to shop, we prove it in every aisle, every department, with every visit you make to Roche Brothers. You will find service and courtesy unequaled anywhere...and our quality and freshness exceed every standard. Roche Brothers is like having several specialty stores within one store. You will discover our seafood department superior in every respect, because we feature Foley Fish, which is nationally recognized as an industry model for freshness. Our chefs at Roche Brothers kitchen know that many of us today simply can not prepare a homecooked meal every day. That is why our chefs create an incredible menu of foods, ready to heat and serve, that truly taste homemade. Pasta dishes, chicken entrees, beef, seafood and pizza are ready to serve, everyday. "Creative Entertaining" from Roche Bros. becomes your personal party planner for home and office entertaining. For a better way to shop, we invite you to visit your local Roche Brothers Supermarket.

Donated by:
Roche Brothers Supermarkets
Wellesley Hills, MA

www.rochebros.com

$35 Gift Certificate to one of the busiest and oldest full-service cheese counters in the country. The Cheese Shop (known to the locals by our last name as Wasik’s), has been setting the highest standards for providing cheeses in impeccable condition, and other specialty foods, such as olive oils, vinegars, sea salts, coffees, teas, preserves, chocolates, chutney, charcuterie and caviar

Donated by:
The Cheese Shop
61 Central St
Wellesley, MA

www.wasiks.com

$20 Gift Certificate to Tutto Italiano. From homemade entrees to select meats, cheeses and olives, Tutto Italiano can customize our menu for your next company event or special occasion that you and your guests will truly enjoy. Call ahead and have your 3 course family style meal ready for you to take home. All you need is the dinner table. From our homemade entrees to select meats, cheeses and olives we can customize our menu for your next company event or special occasion that you and your guests will truly enjoy.

Donated by:
Tutto Italiano
570 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA

$25 gift certificate to Tutto Italiano. With Tutto At Home, experience a true Italian family meal. Call us ahead and have your 3 course family style meal ready for you to take home. All you need is the dinner table. With Tutto At Home, experience a true Italian family meal.

Donated by: A Friend of Amazing Things

$100 Gift card to Whole Foods Market Whole Foods searches for the highest quality, least processed, most flavorful and natural foods possible because we believe that food in its purest state — unadulterated by artificial additives, sweeteners, colorings and preservatives — is the best tasting and most nutritious food there is. Add to that the excitement and fun we bring to shopping for groceries, and you start to get a sense of what they’re all about.

Donated by:
Whole Foods Market
575 Worcester Road
Framingham, MA

www.wholefoodsmarket.com