Oh boy, this is quite fun to see my cookbook that I’ve been working on for almost 2 years come to life this week! Today is the official release date which means you can purchase it in various stores and order it online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Books A Million.
For those of you who pre-ordered the book on Amazon, you have received it already. It has been so much fun seeing Instagram photos of you receiving the book in the mail, makes me smile 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing your pictures!
I’ll never forget the months while I was cooking and baking recipes like a mad woman preparing for the book back in 2010/early 2011. I was in a tiny Newport Beach kitchen and ingredients were flying everywhere, lol! It was fun, exhausting and exciting all at the same time. I remember thinking, I can’t believe I am going to have my own cookbook. Now, it’s really here! All of that sweat and hard work has paid off and I finally get to share those recipes I’ve kept secret for so long 🙂
Another highlight for me through this journey was watching Matt Armendariz and Adam Pearson photograph and style my cookbook. They are so unbelievably talented and made my recipes look just as incredible as they taste. I won’t ever forget being able to watch them in action.
I feel so grateful to work with an amazing agent and team at Wiley, they have made this experience so special.
I hope you will all enjoy my book, the recipes were made with lots of love and I assure you they are incredible!! There are over 100 new recipes you can’t find on Picky Palate 🙂 Enjoy!!
Here’s a sneek peek at my Skillet Baked Mac and Cheese recipe!
Giveaway is now closed. Winners have been notified.
To celebrate the release day I am giving away 10 signed cookbooks from little ol’ me!
Here’s How To Enter:
1. Leave a comment here and tell us….Would you like to write a cookbook? If so, what kind of recipes would you include?
For extra entries:
2. Join me on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest and subscribe to Picky Palate via email. (Leave 4 separate comments for these)
3. For those of you who have received the book, and would like to write a review on Amazon, do so here: https://su.pr/1qzpDR (leave a comment if you do this)
4. Giveaway ends Thursday October 25th 8am PST. US Residents only. Winners will be chosen via Random.org and be notified by email. Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email. Books for giveaway provided by Wiley.
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Good Luck!!
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Hi Jenny, and congrats on the cook book! I would love to have a copy, so if I don’t win one here, I will be ordering one so I can check out all of the recipes you’ve had to keep secret 🙂
I would like to write a cookbook, and if I did, it would probably include all kinds of food, although my love for desserts would make it hard to choose just a few to include.
Thanks for the giveaway offer and for authoring such an enjoyable blog.
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Major congrats to you on the release of the cookbook! How absolutely amazing this whole journey must have been for you. Best wishes on your continued success!
I would totally do a dessert book myself. 🙂
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Congrats on your book!
Yes, desserts.
My cookbook would be of all our family favorites – eaten through the years and passed down to new cooks in the family!
If I wrote a cookbook, I am sure it would include a lot of cookies!
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I follow you on Pinterest. I don’t think I could write a cookbook but I love collecting them – especially ones with yummy recipes like yours!
Congrats Jenny!! How exciting!!!
I’m not sure I could write a cookbook…. I LOVE to cook and bake, but I’m not sure I have the patience or motivation for a cookbook. I mean, I’ve tried convincing myself to start a food blog for awhile now, but I just can’t get started. LOL 🙂 If I did write a cookbook though, I would either do one for desserts or one for easy meals for families. So many of my friends don’t want to cook from scratch (or cook at all) because they feel it’s too much work, and that doesn’t have to be the case!
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I follow you on Facebook. I don’t think I could write a cookbook but I love collecting them – especially ones with yummy recipes like yours!
I don’t think I could write a cookbook but I love collecting them – especially ones with yummy recipes like yours!
The type of cookbook I would do, or am doing,
is a family scrapbook / cookbook. It is full of
old family pictures and recipes written in their
own handwriting. It is truly a labor of love!
Each person writes their own favorite recipe
with their picture. I think my family will love
it as much as I do! Congrats on your new book,
I look forward to the next one!
I’m not creative enough to come up with my own recipes for a cookbook but I love to look at them!
I would like to write a cookbook and include all of my family’s best recipes. My mother-in-law was an awesome cook and my mother an awesome baker. I would like to record all of these recipes in one place to give to family members, and whoever else wants one!!
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I just found your page through Gooseberry Patch. The picture of the multi-layered cookies made me want the recipe. The cookbook look really good and I love cookbook. Trying new recipes for things that I have made from my own recipes. It is always nice to try new ways at making old favorites. I would really enjoy you new cookbook. Sharing it with all my family and friends. I am now following you on pinterest, facebook, and twitter. I look forward to finding new ideals from you.
I would love to write a cookbook but I don’t know what I’d put in it because I make everyone elses recipes. 🙂
Congratulations!! I love your blog and wish the best for your cookbook and all future endeavors!
If I ever wrote a cookbook, it would definitely have to be the Justine & Jenny cooking blog (similar to Julie & Julia)! I enjoy cooking, especially for my friends, and am always looking for new, innovative recipes, particularly classic dishes and desserts with a twist! 133 recipes in 365 days…or maybe even 6 months…who knows! I guess we shall see 🙂
I can barely get in the kitchen these days with two little ones!
I would write a cookbook that is realistic! No four hour preps or going to 17 markets looking for an ingredient. I would also include lots of photos and instructions!!!
I think it would be great fun(and challenging) to write a cook book. I would love to include everything from main dishes to side dishes and you can never skip dessert!!
I would love to write a cookbook and fill it with the recipes from my mom and grandma! I would want to do it for my daughter and my grandchildren. I gave a recipe box with some of my son’s favorite recipes to my daughter-in-law when they got married. Oh, I’d include some of my mother-in-laws recipes too…
I’m so glad you wrote one! I love your recipes, and have many of them printed from my pc, but will be happier to see them in a book!
Thanks!
As the family ‘chef’, I think most of what my recipe book would consist of are your family standards but with the “only have 30 minutes to truly whip it together” sort of slant. With both my wife and I working full time and an almost 5-year old in the house, dinner needs to get assembled/cooked in a hurry.
Other than any cookbook I’d want to do Jenny, CONGRATS on this fantastic accomplishment. Have been following you for 18 months or so on Twitter and have tried a few of these recipes. Way to go!!! Good things do happen to GOOD people (and darn good chef/cooks as well)
I wouldn’t make a cook book just yet. I just started in the kitchen earlier this year. BUT in the future, maybe good mom recipes like you have 🙂
Would I like to write a cookbook? Absolutely. My only problem is most of the recipes I’ve created are just adaptations…sourdough starter for buttermilk, add nuts, replace the oil with applesauce. Maybe someday I will venture and write my cookbook of sourdough desserts!
I am currently head chair person for my churches cookbook we are creating. It has been a TON of work but I absolutely love it. Except that I get incredibly hungry while typing the recipes!!
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I like to cook, but am far from being able to share my knowledge with the world!