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Today at the office, we’re drooling over the recipes in Gordon Ramsay’s new cookbook, Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape: 100 of My Favourite Indian Recipes. Stuffed full of beautiful photography for foods that’ll make your tongue tingle, this cookbook is a foodie’s delight. Using flavourful ingredients and aromatic spices, Ramsay’s book makes cooking authentic Indian food fun and easy. Featuring over 100 recipes for everyday entertaining, quick lunches and healthy dishes, this book is a culinary treat.

We’re giving away three copies of this fab book! Want to win? Simply leave a comment below telling me about your biggest cooking disaster and I’ll pick my three favourite stories! Good luck!

Contest closes March 24, 2010 at 12pm EST. Open to all residents of Canada, except those in Quebec. Not open to any Transcontinental Media employees, their families, or any other persons with whom they reside.

PLUS: Check out these two wonderful recipes, excerpted from Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape: 100 of My Favourite Indian Recipes.

Recipe: Gordon Ramsay’s pomegranate raita
Recipe: Gordon Ramsay’s rosewater kulfi

For more information and to buy the book, visit amazon.ca.

Flipping through the pages of Canadian Living’s Holiday Celebrations 2009, I realized I had started to drool. Just, you know, a little. Sure, it’s a little early to get into the holiday spirit but I admit, I like getting ideas early. And anyway, isn’t a Coconut Lime Pie Martini suitable anytime of year?

Canadian Living’s Holiday Celebrations 2009 hit newsstands on Monday (and is available for purchase online, too) and I thought you might want to take a sneak peek. Here’s what you’ll find inside:

Cool features:
A Dessert Martini Bar with 8 not-to-miss sweet martini recipes
Tastefully elegant tiny hors d’oeuvres: Mini Chicken Pot Pies
Cool vegetarian section: A sensational pan-global assortment of meatless morsels
AND a tasteful cocktail party menu on a budget

Holiday Celebrations 2009
Price: $5.95

The recipes that caught my eye: