Contest Winners!

Thank you to everyone that entered this contest, I really enjoyed reading your fond childhood memories about food!

My son came over for dinner last night and picked the winners.

Here are the winners:

1. Becky said...

One of my childhood memories was being over at my friend Karolyn's house and her mom asking us if we wanted something to eat...It was cooked rice with sugar and milk (maybe it was breakfast?) anyway I wasn't a rice eater in those days(except for maybe rare minute rice with chicken)and I politely declined...

2. Renee said...

I loved getting together with my grandpa, grandma, aunts, uncles, and many cousins for Thanksgiving. We always had so much food. I think I loved my grandma's fresh, warm dinner rolls the best. But I was just a kid so I didn't care about the food so much back then. I was there to play with my cousins!

3. Cherie Takemoto said...

I think the statute of limitations is in effect. One of my favorite childhood memories was our family going to Ensenada with your family. We would camp in tents and find ceviche or soft tacos from vendors or cook seafood on our camp stoves....

4. hungry crasian said...

my favorite childhood is my mom cooking these boatloads of tempura battered everything, my favorite was broccoli!! My mom really knew how to make us eat our veggies! She also fried fish, onions, sweet potato, russet potato, carrots, and shrimp. And these boatloads of tempura meant family party!!...

5. Pam said...

Okay here goes again....

My favorite memory is homemade ice cream during the summer time in Kentucky when I was a kid. ...

6. guipipia said...

Well, I don't know if I count at all since I'm all the way down in Costa Rica, but the best food related memory I have is of my dad peeling oranges....

And one more:

7. Lindsay said...

Those stuffed mushrooms look spectacular! How heavenly! Thanks for the detailed instructions and the delicious-looking pictures! Great post and good job!

To claim your prize, email me at, Karolyn@FOODjimoto.com, with the address you'd like your pot-holders sent to, give me a shout-out which one you'd like and I'll give preferences according to the order they come in.

Thanks again!

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When I was a little girl, I remember entering contests.

My mom is very creative and encouraged us kids to enter contests. She might even have come up with some of the ideas, but we always had to do the work ourselves, she wouldn't do it for us.

The one I remember most was a contest sponsored by Kool-Aid. It was a kids' coloring contest, the kind where a kid simply colors in a drawing like one in a coloring book.

My mom had all five of us color in part of the picture. But what made it unique, was that we cut out our heads from photos and pasted them on the paper instead of coloring in the kids' heads in the drawing. And we had to draw another person in, or two--because the number of kids in the drawing didn't match how many kids we had in our family. We had to draw in our dog, too.

We won first place!

The prize was a big tent, like a canopy. With scalloped edges. I have a feeling it was a Kool-Aid stand, but my mom says she doesn't remember. Too long ago, she says.

I remember seeing that tent in our front yard. Lots of poles and string, and a whole bunch of kids in our front yard.

I thought it was a circus.

In my mind's eye, there was a lot of activity--kids running around on my dad's dichondra lawn, kids on bikes, cotton candy, snow cones, and a couple of clowns and an elephant--all drinking Kool-Aid from that Kool-Aid pitcher and cups--the one with a smiling face on it. All in our front yard.

My mom says she's sure there wasn't an elephant.

That's my sister in our front yard in the early '60s.

(Does anyone remember Goofy Grape?)