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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I couldn’t write a cookbook, so I’m glad you did! Planning to order some for Christmas gifts!
I would want to write a cookbook to share all of my wonderful recopied with everyone. But, coming up with enough original content for my own cookbook would be a challenge.
Congrats … I’ve been following your blog since I was on maternity leave with my oldest son and he will soon be turning 4…sheesh, time flies. I probably would not write a cookbook, but who knows. If I did, I’d put in recipes for families that are simple but healthy.
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I don’t have a desire to write a cookbook – I don’t have the creativity! But I LOVE it when my favorite food bloggers publish their creations.
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I would have a cookbook on family receipes.
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For my 25th birthday my mom gathered recipes from all our friends and family, and most importantly to me, from my late grandmother and great grandmothers kitchens. I would be so proud to share those recipes with the world. They are mostly inexpensive depression era Iowa farm cooking. Hearty and delicious, speckled with hints of my family’s mixed European ancestry, and every bit of it is from scratch.
I would love to make a cookbook of my family’s favorite recipes!
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I don’t think I would I just love ready everyone else recipes…
No, I would not want to have my own cookbook – not creative enough at all, but am super obsessed with them otherwise!!! Can’t wait to test it out!!
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I would write a cookbook full of healthy, quick dinner and dessert ideas
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Meals that you really can make from the pantry…along with some basics for moms who lack in such areas like me!
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I’d love to write a cookbook for busy college students on a budget.
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I would love to put together a cookbook with my family’s recipes, but the circulation would probably end with my family. I’m not qualified or talented enough to put together something like this!
I would love to write a cookbook about flexible recipes. Sometimes you don’t have all the ingredients, what can you sub in???
I’d like to write a cookbook because my mother has been gone for many years. Several of the dishes that she served that I turned my nose up at when I was little are the very thing I find myself craving and find great comfort in.
I enjoy cooking it is entertainment and a release for me. I would include easy dishes, dishes that I find very tasty and a special place for family and secret recipes that I have gathered since I was in my teens.
(Example: when I was 17 I waited table at a “Dairy Mart”. I have the famous fried pie recipe and the “Rex’s Boneless Chicken” recipes. By the way I’m about to turn 52. So I have many years of recipe collections.