How To Get Those Greeting Cards Out In Under An Hour – Even If It’s Hundreds!

December 13th, 2009

Monday, December 14th at 8-9pm EST, I’m demonstrating
and explaining a system that will allow you to get all
of your holiday cards out really FAST. You can also
use the system to send routine greeting cards for
business or personal purposes.

You can tune in to the demonstration right over the
internet at my online radio show:

http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford/

If you’re reading about this late, the show is recorded.

Since 2005 I’ve been using an online system to design
and send out PHYSICAL greeting cards. I pay less than
$1 each to do this, for the same quality of card that
you’d pay $4-$5 for in a card shop.

I’d like to demonstrate the system to you… it’s
about a 5-minute walk-through… but I’ve set up a
1-hour show to answer any and all questions.

I’ll even pay for you to send a few cards :-)

The way it works is that you log-in, choose a basic
design, there are literally thousands to choose from.

You enter your message on the inside, and a digital photo
or two, enter the recipients mailing address, and then
click the send button.  A full-color greeting card
is printed, put in an envelope with first class postage
on it, and mailed.

If you have a LOT of people that you want to send the
same card to (with personalization), you just upload
your list of addressees, select a card you’ve designed
and saved (with placeholder for personalization of things
such as name… or even children’s’ names), and when you
click the send button… the system confirms how many
cards you’re sending, and tells you the cost.

I’ve used the system to send as many as 400 cards at
once.

Now you never have an excuse for not getting those
Christmas cards out.  You also have no excuse to not
send birthday, anniversary, graduation, congratulations,
etc. cards.  It takes less than 5 minutes, and you
can do it without ever leaving your house.

You can also get set-up to earn commissions by telling
others about the system.   I get paid on every card
that my referrals send… and they thank me for
saving them both time and money.

If you’d like to check out the system before my show,
you can do that at:
http://williecrawford.com/greetingcards/

A video there steps you through the process.

I look forward to sharing with you the same system
that I’ve used for 4 years – I couldn’t get along
without it now, and neither could many of my friends.

You’ll love it.

On the show I’ll explain everything and answer any
questions that you have.

Thank you and I’ll talk with you then.

Willie

Soul Food Cookbooks – My Favorites

December 12th, 2009

Soul Food Cookbooks – My Favorites
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

Having grown up in a really impoverished, Black
family, in North Carolina, I’ve eaten (and enjoyed)
soul food all of my life. We grew much of our on
on that North Carolina tobacco farm with me
raising pigs, chickens, and rabbits, in addition
to vegetables and fruits, as a youth.

My grandmother started teaching me to cook these
comfort foods when I was 6 or 7… simple things at
first, but eventually advancing to making cakes
from scratch.

Soul food evolved to a large extent from the need
to make less desirable cuts of meat, homegrown
vegetables, and wild game and plants, tasty. Since
these were often cuts of meat containing more fat,
this wasn’t too hard to do. Fat (or marbling) in
meat does generally make it tastier than a cut
that’s too lean.  In fact, many hunters ADD fat
to game meat when they process it.

By the time that I finished college, and a military
career, I had so many people asking me to cook for
them that I decided to write a cookbook. I also set
up a website where I share many of my soul food, or
Southern recipes freely.

I even set up a recipe exchange list where skilled
cooks can swap recipes via email. That website is
at:  http://Chitterlings.com

If you’ve even smelled chitterlings (pig intestines)
cooking, you’ll understand why the name is so
memorable.   Many of the soul foods that I learned
to cook were made from “left over” animal parts
like chitterlings.

Here are two other soul food cookbooks that I
really enjoy – though neither is billed strictly
as a soul food cookbook.

1) Foods of The Southland, written by Dave Franks,
who was the cook for the late Alex Haley… author
of Roots.  Dave is white but cooks in the style
that I grew up cooking.

Dave and I have talked southern cooking, or
soul food, many times. I even encouraged him
to put his recipes down in a cookbook – so did
Alex Haley.

Dave’s cooking is so good that Alex would often
invite friends over for dinner, people like Oprah
Winfrey, Louis Gossett Jr., and many such as
Governor Lamar Alexander.

You’ll find Dave’s cookbook at:
http://Chitterlings.com/southland/

2) Cathead Biscuits and Garlic Fried Chicken,
Carolina Mountain Cooking.

The authors of this cookbook don’t call it
soul food, but when I started preparing many of
the recipes, I could see that it was indeed
“comfort food,” which to me is the same thing.

I have prepared many of recipes in this excellent
cookbook, and they were all the type of rustic,
down-home foods that I enjoyed.   You’ll find
this cookbook at: http://Chitterlings.com/chb/

There you have some of my favorite soul food
cookbooks. Please feel free to share some of yours
on the blog.

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Willie Crawford has been preparing soul food for
nearly 45 years.  You’ll find his best-selling
soul food cookbook, “Soul Food Recipes Learned
On A North Carolina Tobacco Farm” at:
http://Chitterlings.com/cookbook.html

Check Out Foods Of The Southlands By Alex Haley’s Former Cook

December 11th, 2009

Here are some of the recipes you’ll find in this amazing cookbook (listed alpahbetically). Where you see a recipe listed more than once, that means that I gave you more than one version of that recipe.

1234 Cake
Ambrosia
Apple Cobbler
Apple Pie
Apple Sauce Cake
Apple Stack Cake
Baby Link Sausage
Baked Apples
Baked Beans with Apples and Pork
Baked Beans
Baked Ham
Banana Cream Pie
Banana Muffins
Banana Pudding
Bar-B-Q (real)
Bar-b-q Beans
Bar-B-Q Beans
Bar-b-q
BBQ Chicken
BBQ Ribs (easy)
BBQ Sauce
BBQ Sauce
Bean Dip
Beef Gravy
Beef Ribs
Beef Stew
Beet Salad
Biscuits
Black Eyed Peas
Blackberry Jam Cakes
Boiled Cabbage
Boiled Okra
Boiled Shrimp
Bread Pudding
Breakfast Casserole
Broccoli Casserole
Broiled Fish
Brownies
Buffalo Wings Sauce
Buffalo Wings
Butter Cookies
Cabbage & Ham
Cabbage & Ham
Cabbage Casserole
Cabbage Rolls
Cake Icing
Candied Sweet Taters
Caramel Cake
Caramels
Carrot & Apple Salad
Carrot Cake
Cat Head Biscuits
Catfish (fried)
Catfish smoked dip)
Catsup
Cheese Balls
chess Pie
Chicken (oven roaster)
Chicken Delight
Chicken Delight
Chicken Gravy
Chicken Gumbo
Chicken Livers
Chicken Noodle Soup
Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken
Chili & Chips
Chili (chicken)
Chili
Chipped Beef
Chocolate Butter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Fudge Icing
Chocolate Fudge
Chow Chow
Clam Chowder
Cocktail Sauce
Coconut Custard Pie
Coconut Pie
Cold Slaw (easy)
Cold Slaw
Collard Greens
Corn Pudding
Corn Pudding
Cornbread Dressing
Cornbread
Cornmeal Cookies
Country Ham
Crab Cakes
Crab Salad
Crackling Bread
Deep Fried Turkey
Deviled Eggs
Devils’ Food Cake
Diabetic Cranberry Preserves
Diabetic Ice Cream
Dilled Green Beans
Dirty Rice
Dump Cake
Egg Custard Pie
Egg Salad
Fish Batter
Fish In A Net
Fish Meal
Fresh Coconut Cake
Fried Apple Pies
Fried Cabbage
Fried Chicken
Fried Corn
Fried Cornbread
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Rabbit
Funnel Cakes
Giblet Gravy
Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread Men
Gingerbread
Gravy
Green Beans
Grits
Gumbo Okra
Ham & Biscuits
Ham Salad
Hawaiian Sweet Tater Pudding
Homemade Ice Cream
Hoppin’ John
Horse Radish & Cheese Spread
Hot Apple Cider
Hot Chocolate
Humming Bird Cake
Hushpuppies
Jambalaya
Key Lime Pie
Lasagna
Lemon Cookie Bars
Lemon Meringue Pie
Lemon Velvet Cake
Light & Fluffy Chocolate Icing
Live & Onions
Mac-n-Cheese
Marinate
Mashed Sweet Taters
Mashed Taters With Cheese
Meat Loaf
Meringue
Mississippi Mud Pie
NO Bake Lemon Pie
No Sugar Added Pumpkin Pie
Non-alcoholic Bloody Mary
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Oyster Casserole
Oyster Stew
Peach Cobbler
Peach Cobbler
Peanut Brittle
Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut Butter Fudge
Peanut Butter Fudge
Peanut Butter Krispies
Peanut Butter Pie
Pecan Pie
Pickled Green Beans
Pickled Okra
Pie Crust
Pig In A Quilt
Pig On A Blanket
Pimento Cheese
Pineapple & Cream Cheese
Poke Greens
Poke Salad Greens
Popcorn Balls
Pork Chops & Sauerkraut
Pork Chops
Pork Chops
Pork Ribs
Pork Tenderloin
Pork
Potato Soup
Pound Cake With or Without Sugar
Pound Cake
Pralines
Prime Rib
Pumpkin Cake
Pumpkin Pie
Raisin Drop Cookies
Raisin Pie
Red Beans & Rice
Red Eye Gravy
Ribs
Rum Cake
Salad Cabbage
Sauce Ham
Sauce Meatloaf
Sauerkraut & Smoked Sausage
Sausage & Sausage Gravy
Sausage-n-Gravy
Scalded Cornbread
Scalloped Taters
Shrimp (fried)
Shrimp (spicy)
Shrimp Boil
Shrimp Dip
Shrimp Gumbo
Smoked Catfish Spread
Smoked Catfish
Snow Cream
Soup BBQ
Soup Ham And Potato
Soup Pinto Bean
Soup Turkey And Rice
Soup Vegetable
Soup White Bean
Sour Cream Chocolate Cake
Southwestern Cornbread
Spanish Omelet
Spanish Rice
Spice Cake Frosting
Spice Cake
Spiced Nuts
Split Pea Soup
Springtime Delight
Stewed Okra & Tomatoes
Stewed Tomatoes
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Sugar Free Egg Nog
Sugar Free Punch
Swamp Cabbage
Sweet & Sour Sauce
Sweet Dill Okra
Sweet Onion Casserole
Sweet Tater Pie
Sweet Tater Pudding
Tarter Sauce
Tater Salad
Tea Cakes
Tea
Tuna Casserole
Turkey Gravy
Turkey
Twice Baked Taters
Watermelon Rind Preserves
Whipped Cream
Wilted Lettuce
Yeast Rolls

Get it from here.

Soul Food Cookbook – Get It Here

December 11th, 2009

Click here to get Willie Crawford’s best-selling soul food cookbook.