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 would make a horrible cook book author! Following your recipes is much more fun. Can’t wait to check out the cookbook!
I would write a cookbook all about desserts. Congrats on your cookbook.
I would write a cookbook of quick and easy dinners.
I am subscribed through email! Yay for waking up to great recipes!! 🙂
I wouldn’t know where to begin if I were to write a cookbook! What I would LOVE, though, is a cookbook full of all my grandmother and mother’s recipes! 🙁 I wish I had taken notes as a child!
Of course I would love to be talented enough to write a cookbook…I love to bake..so it would probaby be sweets..hahahha
Congrats on this wonderful cookbook..
I would love to write a children’s cookbook. I see my kids light up when we cook together so it would be a collection of their favs.
I twitter follow you
I pinterest follow you.
I follow on twitter too (In Bloom Images)!!
I liked you on facebook. Hopefully this is the right place for that comment, lol.
I’m not sure I’d have the time nor the patience to write a cookbook! But it would definitely have family favorite recipes past down from generations; we have lots of those!
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I don’t think I could write a cookbook, but if I did it would be family favorites along with recipes I’ve come to like over the years.
I follow you on facebook!!
If I would write a cookbook it would be a dairy free cookbook!
I would create a cookbook with easy fix lunch and dinner meals.
I get your emails.. thanks for the sneakpeek… I got a message from Amazon telling me about your cookbook !!!
I joined you on facebook
And I am a subscriber via email! 🙂
I also follow you on Pinterest!
I know this is going to sound cheesy and overdone, but I’d like to publish a cookbook with all my Grandma’s recipes. I remember so many yummy, but simple things she made and I’d love for them to live on. 🙂
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I love to cook and I love a great cookbook but I am not sure I would like to write one myself. However, if I did it would be family favorite recipes. Congrats on your book! I can’t wait to try out some recipes!!
I would fill the cookbook with comfort foods and at least three different recipes of every kind of dessert. 🙂
I subribe via email!
I follow you on pinterest!
I follow you on facebook!
I would love to write a cookbook with nothing but desserts, baked goods, and candies!
I would love to create my own cookbook but I’m afraid that I’m better at following other people’s recipes than creating my own. If I managed to find the creativity, I would love to write a “cooking with kids” type book or a yummy dessert book. What fun. Your cookbook looks great!
I would not want to write a cookbook. But is sure do like to use them!
I subscribe to email.
I follow you on Pinterest
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