Winter is well and truly upon us so stay warm and spice up your winter dishes with all new Gourmet Garden recipes courtesy of TV chef Dominique Rizzo! Instantly impress family and friends by preparing one of Dominique’s easy to follow recipes with a fresh herb and spice twist.

Following huge success since its launch Gourmet Garden can now be found in a wide range of stores including the likes of Sainsbury’s, Londis, Budgens and now Tesco. To celebrate this, the experts in fresh herbs and flavours has released some brand new recipes.

The Pumpkin, Ginger & Garlic Soup makes for a nice starter or a quick dish for those budding chefs in a hurry. Using just diced pumpkin, chicken stock, Gourmet Garden Garlic and Gourmet Garden Ginger a wonderful, smooth soup can be made in just twenty minutes.

The Mediterranean Chicken is the perfect dish to warm up those Winter nights. By simply adding feta cheese, olive oil and Gourmet Garden Italian Herbs to chicken breasts a gorgeous dish with a Mediterranean twist can be prepared for all chicken lovers.

Winter nights no longer need to be cold, dark and gloomy with these seasonally inspired dishes. For full recipes and many more, visit www.gourmetgarden.com

Also keep an eye out for all our tips, advice and ideas about how to get the best out of herbs and spices in your cooking at the new UK Herb eCooking School facebook page. Discover your love for cooking by taking a wide range of master classes at the Herb eCooking School and learn delicious new recipes using Gourmet Garden products.

Priced at RRP £2.19 per tube, Gourmet Garden products are now stored in Tesco nationwide. For more information, please visit www.gourmetgarden.com or www.facebook.com/Gourmet-Garden-UK.

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To be in with a chance of winning our fab prize of 5 tubes of Gourmet Garden along with a recipe book, simply leave us a comment below telling us your favourite meal during these cold wet months and we’ll pick one lucky winner from all comments received. Good luck!

Competition closes Feb 21st 2012.

With extra performances this Christmas, there has never been a better time to experience the spellbinding hit musical WICKED as it flies into its sixth magical year!

Based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire that re-imagined the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, “WICKED will entrance every generation in wonder, wit & suspense” (Time Out) with the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Voted by audiences as London’s “Most Popular Show” (2010 Olivier Award) and “Best West End Show” (2011 & 2010 Whatsonstage.com Awards), make yours a magical Christmas and discover that you’ve not been told the whole story about the Land of Oz..

Have a SPELLBINDING Christmas with the hit musical WICKED and win the full set of novels in The WICKED Years series!

The award-winning musical WICKED is giving you the chance to make your Christmas unforgettably magical with the chance of winning the full set of novels in Gregory Maguire’s thrilling and compulsively readable saga, The WICKED Years… beginning with the book upon which the smash hit musical was based!

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If you think you know the Wicked Witch of the West, think again… When Dorothy famously triumphed over the Wicked Witch, we only ever heard one side of the story. Gregory Maguire’s acclaimed 1995 novel, WICKED: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, re-imagined the land of Oz, creating a parallel universe to L. Frank Baum’s classic story, The WonderfulWizard of Oz.  In celebration of the release of Out of Oz, the long-awaited conclusion to the internationally bestselling saga The WICKED Years, we are offering one lucky reader the chance to win the whole set of novels with one signed by the author himself!

To be in with a chance of winning this magical prize, simply answer the following question:

The Wicked Years series was written by which author?

a) Gregory Maguire
b) J.K Rowling
c) Stephenie Meyer

Competition is open only to registered Girlie Gossip members. To Enter simply use the contact form below to tell us your answer, Girlie Gossip username and postal address details by Dec 3rd 2011.

Good Luck!

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The second series of MIRANDA, the multiple British Comedy Award-winning sitcom, is released on DVD on 7th November from 4DVD.
Starring certified ‘Queen of Comedy’ Miranda Hart, the hugely-popular series will also be released as a boxset alongside series 1 for the first time.

Containing never-before-seen behind the scenes material, this is a must-have for any comedy fan!Following on from the much-celebrated first series, series 2 catches up with Miranda (Hart) as she continues her hilarious route through life, stumbling from one disaster to the next!

Miranda is joined once again by a stellar cast of British actors including Patricia Hodge (Maxwell, The Legacy of Reginald Perrin) as Miranda’s overbearing mother Penny, Sarah Hadland (That Mitchell & Webb Look) as Miranda’s best friend Stevie, Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary, Smack The Pony) as Sloane Ranger school friend Tilly, and Tom Ellis (EastEnders) as Miranda’s long term crush Gary.

This series also sees Tom Conti (Friends, Shirley Valentine) make a guest appearance as Miranda’s Dad.Since Gary left for Hong Kong, in doing so taking with him Miranda’s only chance at a relationship, series 2 finds Miranda watching TV all day in her pyjamas with only the biscuit tin for company.

Her long-suffering friend and confidante Stevie eventually persuades Miranda to stop wallowing and to take hold of her life, encouraging her develop a better, more successful version of herself. However, Miranda soon discovers that the path to success, as with all things in her life, is fraught with difficulty; made all the worse by the meddling of her mother and boarding school nemesis Tilly. Can Miranda finally overcome these obstacles, get fit, and emerge as a socially-at-ease woman of grace and charm…?

This new release has a host of DVD extras including a behind-the-scenes tour and Miranda’s on-set interviews with cast, friends and family including Claire Balding, Frank Skinner and Miranda’s real-life mum alongside on screen mum, Patricia Hodge. Full of all the fun and frolics we have come to love, Miranda is back, funnier and more farcical than ever!

Miranda Series 2 is released on DVD on 7th November 2011, as well as the Series 1 and 2 boxset. Miranda Series 2 is the perfect treat for lovers of this affectionate family comedy!

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To be in with a chance of winning a Miranda Series 2 DVD simply be a registered Girlie Gossip member and leave us a comment below telling us your favourite Miranda moment from series 1 or 2! We can’t wait to hear your best bits. Such fun!!…

Celebrate the winter season with River Cottage Winter’s on the Way out to own on DVD from 17th October 2011.

With the cooler seasons fast approaching, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is back and hopes to turn this traditionally chilly time into the warmest season of the year by cooking up some winter treats using the finest produce from land and sea. In this series, Hugh takes to the water as he free dives for scallops in Weymouth and raids Devon’s rocky coves for wild mussels.

From these adventures, Hugh prepares delicious and comforting wintery dishes including a mixed mushroom tart and freshly caught scallops with bacon and butternut squash! In true River Cottage style, Hugh gets into the party spirit and turns up the heat with a 200 person chilli and pumpkin party, a big beefy thank-you party for the canteen staff and a rabbit feast for his local Women’s Institute.

Hugh also takes the time out to catch up with those who have benefited from the landsharing scheme one year after the project was first launched.Leaving no seasonal favourite behind, River Cottage Winter’s On The Way celebrates the season’s best and most fresh, from the wild, the garden and the shop. Also, for the first time on DVD is the River Cottage – All Seasons box-set which bring together Hugh’s adventures and an array of recipes from Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Warm up during the cooler months with River Cottage Winter’s On The Way and River Cottage All Seasons Boxset also out to own on DVD 17th October 2011

We have x3 copies of the ‘Winter’s on the Way’ DVD to give away to lucky Girlie Gossip members! All you have to do, to be in with a chance of winning is answer the question below and send it to us via the contact form provided. Don’t forget, you must be a registered Girlie Gossip member or your entry won’t be counted!

Good luck, comp closes Nov 3rd 2011.

Question:

Which of the below is most associated with the celebrations of Halloween?

A) Cheese
B) Butternut Squash
C) Pumpkin

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Computer geek by day. Government operative by night. Chuck, the world’s nerdiest secret agent is back geekier than ever when CHUCK season 4 comes to DVD 3 October 2011, courtesy of Warner Home Video.

The action-comedy series follows Chuck Bartowski (ZACHARY LEVI – Tangled), a regular guy and computer geek turned secret agent who unwittingly downloads the Intersect into his head – a database filled with highly classified government information – and quickly becomes the government’s most vital secret. Assigned to protect him is John Casey (ADAM BALDWIN – Full Metal Jacket, Independence Day), of the NSA, and superspy Sarah Walker (YVONNE STRAHOVSKI – The Canyon), the CIA’s top agent and Chuck’s dream girl. He must now confront terrifying assassins and international terrorists, leaving the fate of mankind in his unlikely hands.

With his new Intersect abilities – Chuck is fully equipped with deadly fighting skills and ready to face the Ring. Now that Chuck’s secret is known to those closest to him – his best buddy, Morgan Grimes (JOSHUA GOMEZ – Without a Trace); his ever-supportive sister, Ellie (SARAH LANCASTER – Catch Me If You Can, Living with the Enemy); and Ellie’s handsome and good-natured husband, Devon Woodcomb aka Captain Awesome (RYAN McPARTLIN – Living with Fran) – Chuck must try harder than ever to keep his spy-life from interfering with his personal life.

Join Chuck’s desperate attempt to save Sarah’s life through enlisting the help of arch-nemesis Alexei Volkoff, find his long-lost mum and protect the Intersect with this year’s best action-comedy television box-set, CHUCK season 4 comes to DVD on 3 October.

PRODUCT DETAILS
Title:  CHUCK S4
Released By: Warner Home Video
Running time: TBC
Certificate: 12
Genre: Comedy
DVD Price: £39.99 RRP

How to win:

To be in with a chance of winning one of these fab DVD box sets, simply use the contact form below and tell us the answer to the following question:

ZACHARY LEVI voiced a character in which Disney film?

A) Tarzan
B) Tangled
C) Lion King

Please send us your answer along with your Girlie Gossip username (essential for entering all Girlie Gossip competitions) and your full name and address. We will pick winners and random and notify by 1st November 2011. Good luck!

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9.Once the competition closes we will email you and you will have one week to claim your prize, or your prize may be forfeit, and offered to the next available winner.
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Thanks to Intrepid Travel as well as visiting the plantations where we grow fruit, you’ll be able to explore the rest of the country – sunbathing on Brazil’s Copacabana Beach, visiting Costa Rica’s famous turtles in Tortuguero National Park, checking out the museums in Barcelona or just indulging in a Turkish Bath – it’s totally up to you what you get up to while you’re away.

All you have to do to enter is pop over to innocent’s facebook page (http://bit.ly/innocent_FFT) and send three of your friends a virtual postcard from one of the four countries.

And to make sure that we’re able to treat as many people as possible, we’ve also got lots of daily prizes up for grabs, including our new family recipe book, Hungry?, salsa dancing lessons, Brazilian football kits, and lots of delicious innocent smoothies.

Prepare for hours of laughter as loveable Geeks Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Ray try to score as high with the opposite sex as they do on their IQ tests, with the release of The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Fourth Season on DVD on 26th September.  To celebrate the release, we have 5 copies of the DVD up for grabs!

When socially awkward scientists experiment with love, usually only hilarity ends up as a result!  This season, the gang’s romantic universe expands as Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Howard (Simon Helberg), Raj (Kunal Nayyar) and even Sheldon (Jim Parsons) test their skills outside of the lab.  On the rebound from Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Leonard falls for Raj’s sister, Priya (Farrah Fowler).  Sheldon finally gets a girlfriend – or rather a friend who is a girl – Amy (Mayim Bialik), a dour neurobiologist who adopts Penny as her new best friend.  Howard and Bernadette’s (Melissa Rauch) chemistry heats up – and so do Raj and Bernadette (at least in Raj’s Bollywood daydream!)  The romantic twists and turns, both real and imagined, continue to bring on the laughs in this award-winning series.

To be in with a chance of winning The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Fourth Season on DVD please answer the following question…

Which one of the Geniuses gets together with Raj’s sister in Season 4?

a. Howard
b. Leonard
c. Sheldon

©2011 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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11.The Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered in to.

To celebrate, 3 Girlie Gossip readers could be in with the chance of sinking their teeth into a DVD copy of their very own!

In Season 2, Elena (Nina Dobrev), Stefan (Paul Wesley), Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and the other residents of Mystic Falls are joined by a sinister new breed. Released from the tomb, Katherine unleashes her personal brand of evil in a diabolical plot. The Originals – the world’s oldest and most dangerous vampires – hunt for Elena, who discovers she has a terrifying connection to their world. And now vampires aren’t the only monsters in town. On moonlit nights, werewolves roam in search of victims…including vampires, who succumb to a single werewolf bite.

Don’t miss The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Second Season out on Blu-ray and DVD Out NOW  and also available to download on iTunes now.

To be in with the chance of winning The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Second Season, please answer the following question:

What sinister new breed join the residents of Mystic Falls in Season 2?

a. Werewolves
b. Ghosts
c. Witches

©2011 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Email us your answer along with your full name and address using the contact form below. We will pick x3 lucky winners at random from all correct entries. Competition closes September 10th 2011. Good luck!

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To celebrate the launch of the HTC ChaCha, we’re giving one lucky reader the chance to win an HTC ChaCha and a pair of tickets to the HTC Norfolk Spectacular. All you have to do to be in with the chance of winning is answer the following question by midnight on Wednesday 24th August.

Question: Who is headlining  the main stage at HTC Norfolk Spectacular on Sunday?

Email us your answer using the contact form below along with your name, contact number and address and we’ll notify the lucky winner!

The HTC ChaCha lets you share music, photos, your location and status updates instantly by pushing the Facebook® share button and with Facebook Chat, you can catch-up with your friends whenever you like.

“The use of the CHACHA trademark by HTC is pursuant to a license from ChaCha Search, Inc.  HTC is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by ChaCha Search, Inc.  For more information regarding ChaCha Search, Inc., please visit www.htc.com

Ethnic Goddess vibe channelled for Autumn Winter 2011. Delectably boho, the vibrant Autumn Winter 2011 Butterfly by Matthew Williamson Collection is for the girl who wants to be noticed.

Set to get pulses racing are the earrings of the season; diamante skulls that sparkle with light and add luminosity and a rock chick vibe to your look.With a seductive hippy vibe, long layered multi hued gold chains feature battered discs, glistening beads and ethnic symbolism with nature motifs of leaves and flowers perfectly compliment oversize hoop charm-effect earrings.

Continuing the hippy theme, beautiful necklaces with agate and beaded detail add a unique touch of autumnal chic. Peacocks feature large this season with oversize gold, amethyst, azure and teal hued jewel pendants, rings and earrings that catch the light. Moroccan-inspired coral red oversize earrings with a snake skin effect design and gold coin necklaces work well with the gorgeous range of wrist wear including leather effect strip bracelets, oxidised studded gold cuffs and eye-catching charm bracelets.

With prices starting from £6 the range is available at selected Debenhams stores and online from August 2011.

Jon Richard also announced the launch of its gorgeous new look website www.jonrichard.com along with a host of special offers in celebration.
The brand new super user-friendly transactional website has a host of fabulous new additions and is now a seamless one stop shop to browse the entire Jon Richard jewellery and accessory collections, and purchase with ease at the click of a button.

To celebrate the launch, the stylish new site has some fantastic offers, with a competition to win a Goody Bag worth over £300 featuring beautiful Jon Richard made with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS jewellery as well as some exclusive one-off pieces. In addition, the first 300 customers purchasing items on the website will receive a pair of beautiful sparkling Cubic Zirconia stud earrings worth £8. The new transactional website is set to capture the imagination with its fabulous new Look Book featuring gorgeous styles straight from the latest runway and celeb fashion shoots, to keep your look on-trend each season.

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Girlie Gossip are giving you the chance to win this beautiful necklace worth £25! All you have to do, to be in with a chance of winning is leave us a comment below telling us what kind of outfits your wardrobe will consist of for Autumn/Winter. What styles will you be rocking and what looks will you be experimenting with? We want the gossip!

Leave us a comment below and we will pick one winner at random from all comments received.

Competition closes September 5th 2011. Good luck!