So remember when my book came out and one of the giveaways was a cast iron skillet and fifteen pounds of bacon?
Well. I was actually supposed to give away two cast iron skillets. But I forgot all about that second one because the week before the book released I was very busy watching Mississippi State baseball while I tried to ignore All The Nerves. I really was scared out of my ever-livin’ mind, and baseball was my most favorite coping mechanism in my time of publication need.
I will pause for a moment so that you can marvel at my lack of mental strength and maturity.
So for the last three months, that second skillet has been under the watchful eye of my friend Maria at Tyndale. And earlier this week I got a couple of very funny emails from Tyndale friends that essentially said I AM TIRED OF MOVING THAT SKILLET OUT OF THE WAY WHEN I WANT TO SIT DOWN IN MARIA’S OFFICE. PLEASE GIVE IT AWAY.
Which is what I’m about to do.
But – but! – there’s even better news. Because this past weekend I got to hang out with sweet Misty from Petit Jean Meats, so after the Tyndale folks emailed me about the skillet, I emailed Misty and said, “Hey. You want to give away some more bacon?” And then she wrote me back and said, “Yep. Sure do.”
(That might not have been the exact conversation.)
(But you get the idea.)
And that is why today I am so happy to give away a 12-inch cast iron skillet along with fifteen pounds of Petit Jean Meats bacon.
These two things belong together. It’s the Southern way. And I can tell you without hesitation that Petit Jean’s black pepper bacon is the best I have ever had.
That is high praise considering that I am no stranger to the bacon.
SO. If you’d like to enter to win a a 12-inch Lodge cast iron skillet, FIFTEEN POUNDS-O-BACON, and a copy of my book because, well, WHY NOT, just leave a comment on this post. If you’d like a second entry, just go like the Petit Jean Meats Facebook page and then come back here and leave an additional comment (you can just say “PJM Facebook” or something like that in your second entry).
I’ll close comments on this post Friday night, and I’ll select a winner using random.org.
Happy Wednesday, y’all!
This giveaway is now closed.
I know I must one of the only ones who has yet to read your book, but if I win I will finally get to read it!! The bacon and skillet: an added bonus!!
I’m reading your book right now and it’s wonderful! I’d love to win the skillet and the bacon!
Your blog reminds me of home! (I used to live in B’ham and I miss it so!)
I would love all of that!
Do you even need to ask? Of course I’d love it! What an awesome prize :)
Yes, please! I have read your book a couple of times now, but unbelievably, never while eating bacon. I would love to share your book with my sister. I probably would share the bacon too!
I would love to win this! Love me some bacon!!
I love love love all of these and would like to win. Have a great day.
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Love you, love bacon, love reading and cooking – this prize package is the best!!
Awesome giveaway!
Yes to bacon and cast iron and good books!!
I would love to fry up some bacon in a new cast iron skillet! I loved you book and the laughter it brought to my days!
I remember clearly those days pacing and praying our Bulldogs would pull it off, but they came REAL CLOSE:) So proud of them!!! I loved your book on Kindle and would love a “coffee table” edition:) And this Mississippi State (from Starkville:) transplant to far West Texas loves good bacon cooked in a cast iran skillet ~ microwaving bacon is truly one of the “deadly sins”!!!
BACON!!! Yes, please!!
:)
I just moved and have no cookware. I would love a skillet!
Ooohhh!!!!! Would LOVE to win!!!!
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Cooked bacon for dinner last night. Love me some bacon!
“LIKED” the page!
Who couldn’t use a skillet and lots of bacon?!
I so need to get on the cast iron skillet band wagon! I’ve never owned one.
We are raising our 16 year old grandson who says everything goes better with bacon! So I cook a lot of bacon.
I have always wanted a cast iron skillet…and the bacon would be the icing on the cake. My 9 and 11 year old children can eat a full pound within minutes. They think of it as a snack. :)
Liked the fbook page too. Now I am really hungry! LOL
Show me the bacon! There has got to be bacon in heaven!
Oh gosh, I’ll never win it but i’ll give it a try!!
Books! Cast iron!! B A C O N!!! My word!!!!!
I am a southern girl who has never owned a cast iron skillet…that might disqualify me as southern. Hope this will correct it – and fill my need to try the “best bacon ever”.
Yay for this!!
I would love a cast iron skillet as someone stole the oe I was to get
I love pepper bacon!!!!
I sure could use me some bacon. And a cast-iron skillet. And I would LOVE your book!
LOVE Petit Jean Bacon. Hands down, best there is.
pick me!
your bacon brings all the gals to the yard
It’s a tough call, your book to share with another friend, my home state’s bacon that is theeeee best, or a fabulous Lodge skillet. I’d like that trifecta please!
T
I want a skillet…please.
Bacon, bacon, bacon!!! I love bacon! And a new cast iron skillet wouldn’t be bad thrown in there either!
I was raised in a county that crowns their queen at fair time (Iowa Pork Producers Association) “The Linn County Pork Queen”; suffice it to say that back home we know that good bacon is good business. I’d love to sample your offering. The lovely pan too :)
Love bacon and cast iron skillets!!! Your book was great and if I win the book will make a great gift!!
Yeah, bacon!! And Yeah, cast iron skillet!!! (I think my husband would be the MOST excited for this prize, as I buy turkey bacon whenever I buy bacon. Thick cut brown sugar bacon was his birthday present last year….happy happy husband that day! :)
I sure could use that skillet and my peeps would LOVE 15 pounds-o-bacon!
My 16 yr old would be the happiest boy around if I won this! ;) bacon is his favorite! I’m a fan too!
I grew up in Louisiana and I am ashamed to say I do not currently own a cast iron skillet. Since I moved to Oregon mine was misplaced. Shame on me. I would love one!
I’d love to win!
I just liked the Petit Jean FB
I would LOVE to win both the skillet and bacon. My favorite days are ones that include bacon at every single meal. My day looks something like this Breakfast- eggs, biscuits and bacon, Lunch- BLT and Dinner- greens beans made of course with bacon :)
I cannot recall the last time I had some Southern Fried Bacon in a cast iron skillet. My brain is drooling just thinking of the sound of it cracklin’ on the heat, and it is frantically searching through all those filin’ cabinets for the memory of what it tastes like. Unfortunately with all the *green* initiatives the body has been pushing thru lately tryin’ to get healthy those particular files might just have been recycled. I would love love love love to win the skillet and bacon just to be able to update my files and enjoy some drizzlin’s for a pan of cornbread that will be fried up after I’m done with the bacon.
Awesome giveaway … and so yummy!!
If you asked my family or hometown, this mid 20’s Arkansas girl is failing at all things wifery without a cast iron skillet. The only thing that could make them happier than me finally owning one, would be to cook them all that bacon. For the LOVE OF BACON, I need this. :)
Not sure which I’d be more excited about….a cast iron skillet or so much bacon!
Did you say lick the Petit Jean Meats page or like it? Either way … it’s done! I can tell when I get my first paycheck I’m gonna have to order me some of those meats! Not only do they look delicious on the page, but affordable!
Bacon, a Fry Skillet and a book. Sounds just about right!
I Love Bacon, it’s so true!
I love to win this!
Liked the Bacon Page!
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I was browsing the book store for a “feel good” southern read for a friend’s mother who recently broke her hip. We are new to Mississippi, but have lived in The South for over 13 years. We love the traditions, food, and general love we encounter on a daily basis. Even though the book was/is a gift, I devoured it in several hours and felt so good after! While I would love to win the gift, I feel blessed to have run across your sweet book and your equally entertaining blog :-)
YES! Any of those 3 things would make me so happy!
I love bacon!
You so silly -ha!
I liked PJM on FB!
I don’t have a cast iron skillet ! and I love love love bacon! I would love to win this!!!
Yummy!
Loved the book, would love the skillet and the bacon too!
Love me some bacon!!!! Pick ME! Pick ME!
There is something really comforting about entering a giveaway for a cast iron skillet and a mess of bacon! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Liked PJM on FB!
Could there be a better combination?!
Yum! I have always wanted a cast iron skillet!
I don’t have a cast iron skillet and I live in the south. Travesty! Bless my heart!
Yes please!
Count me in! I’d love to have that skillet!
I do love bacon.
Being new to the South, I sure could put that iron skillet to use and I love bacon!
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My husband would be oh-so-pleased if I won the bacon, and I’d be even more excited about the skillet and book!
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Oh Swoon! Love bacon & love cast iron. Truly a match made in heaven.
Worth it for the book alone, but i never pass up a cat iron skillet.
Pick me! Pick me!
A cast iron skillet and bacon are a perfect pairing!
Love me some bacon and an iron skillet too! Both are needed at my house!
I just love that you have giveaways for bacon. Awesome.
:)
You write so well! I’d love me some bacon!
I love bacon.
I’m happy to enter your giveaway and possibly bring some of the South up here to the Pacific Northwest!
I love Bacon!! And I really want a copy of your book :)
Well hells to the yea!! Bacon!!
I just “liked” PJM meats on Facebook!
I love bacon!
Kim J
Bacon is GOOD…..
AND THE BOOK!!
Bacon should be its own food group! Love the book, love bacon and love a good old fashion skillet.
PMJ Facebook Like..Hope I win
Love your blog. Please, please, please give me the bacon and the skillet!!!!!
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My girls would love for me to win some bacon! And another copy of your book would make a great gift!
“And bits of bacon, bits of bacon are like the fairy dust of the food community. “You don’t want this baked potato? Brrring! Now it’s your favorite part of the meal. Not interested in the salad? Bibbity bobbity BACON. I just turned it into an entree.”
But once you put bacon in a salad, it’s no longer a salad. It just becomes a game of ‘find the bacon in the lettuce’. It’s like you’re panning for gold. Eureka!” ~Jim Gaffigan
Thank you!
I love bacon! And my husband, a very good cook, would love this skillet! Thanks for the opportunity and for your delightful blog!
These would be wonderful. We are definitely bacon lovers – BLT sandwiches are good for breakfast, lunch and dinner!