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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Congratulations on so many exciting life events lately! Your book has been on my wish list since it was announced. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. I do think writing a cookbook would be fun, although, taste testing all the recipes is the part I’m sure I’d enjoy the most. Congrats again!
I would love to write a cookbook! Comfort foods!!!!! Yummm!!!!!
My cookbook would consist of husband-approved vegetarian dishes!
I am a born and bred Italian New Yorker. If I had a cookbook, I would base it on healthy italian dishes! All of my faves like lasagna, chicken parm, pasta, just healthified.
Although I love cookbooks and cooking, writing a cookbook is a talent I do not possess 🙁
However I send you congratulations on your cookbook!!
I subscribe to your email!
I would write a cookbook about great, simple, easy recipes, but healthy!
I would love to write a cookbook. My children and I have alot of food allergies, so I’ve always wanted to write an allergy-friendly cookbook for kids.
i would write one with recipes to cook and freeze, and a section for quick cooking recipes and tips! aimed at busy young new-to-the-working-world folks who don’t get mom’s home cooking waiting for them when they get home after work.
I am subscribed to your blog via email 🙂
I am a facebook fan!
I follow you on pinterest 🙂
I would love to write a cookbook and include easy and quick recipies for working moms.
Why of COURSE I wanna write a cookbook! I would have an assortment of recipes! I love steak and potatoes so those kind of comforting meals would be in there. Some desserts too… caramel and sweet and salty recipes!
If I ever learn how to make sushi I’d write a sushi cookbook too 🙂
I’d love to write a recipe book all about things made in a cast iron skillet. It’s one of my favorite kitchen tools and there aren’t nearly enough recipes out there to use it for. I’m hoping I get one of your cookbooks!!
I would write a cookbook full of desserts! Yummy!
After being the “editor” of a church cookbook, I don’t believe I’d want to tackle that again, lol. Some folks just can’t give recipes that can be followed 🙂
I “liked” Picky Palate on Facebook.
I would love to write a cookbook…maybe someday!
I also just started following you on Twitter!
Hi Jenny! Congrats on your book, I love your recipes as I am the picky eater in my family. If I could write a cookbook, it would be mostly savory/salty treats, probably an appetizer book filled with many recipes that include bacon!
I love cooking blogs, and my passion is for baking specifically. I would love to write a dessert cookbook 🙂
I follow you on pinterest 🙂
I follow you on twitter 🙂
I follow you on facebook!
I would love to write a dessert cookbook! I love making yummy food and sharing it!
I’m not sure I would want to write a cookbook but I am OBSESSED with cooking blogs!I love seeing what ideas you creative people come up with!
I would love to write a cookbook and it would consist of a lot of sides. You can never have enought of sides.
Love your website!
I would love to write a cookbook that would include only desserts from around the world. I absolutely love baking!
I follow you on Pinterest.
I follow you on Facebook.
I think it would be really fun to write a cookbook full of tailgating food. My family loves to tailgate at football games.
I followed your Pinterest Account!
I love cookbooks but don’t know if I’d be skilled enough to write one. I would love to find a cookbook about cooking southern foods the light way.
Can’t wait to check out the cookbook!
I would love to write a cookbook someday. Mine would be a compilation of favorite pie recipes from my blog, as well as from my family and friends.
I LOVE to bake! I think my first choice of a cookbook would be all about cupcakes! Either that, or chicken recipes! I only eat chicken, and it would be great to have a cookbook with TONS of different ideas for meals with chicken – I tend to run out 😉