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!!
Welcome to my online kitchen! Picky Palate is where you’ll find family friendly recipes along with the best Disney eats, tips and copycat recipes! 
My cookbook would be a compilation of all my family members’ favorite recipes. Would love to be able to compile something like that!
I enjoy your Pinterest pins too 🙂
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I have really wanted to put together a cookbook of my favorite recipes that I can hand down to my children when they are older.
I would love to write a cookbook… probably of all the things my mother is always requesting I make – sort of simple, home-style (Californian) cooking.
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I would love to write a cookbook, and include a little bit of everything; appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, desserts, and drinks. I’d love to do a section on dinner party ideas, one football party/tailgate ideas, and a healthy section.
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I think I’d like to write a cookbook but it’d have to be dessert themed!
I would want to write a cookbook about cakes.
I would love to write a cookbook all about dessert and chocolate!! 🙂
Nope – I’d rather enjoy yours 🙂
I originally started following you via email. I get hungry every day when I see your name in my Inbox!
I want to publish a cookbook for my kids of all the foods and family recipes that we eat. I remember when I first moved out and was homesick I wanted to eat the things my parents cooked and I didn’t know how to make them.
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I follow you on Pinterest.
I wouldn’t write a cookbook. I’m just not that patient. I LOVE desserts and I can barely finish cooking a recipe all the way through as I eat too much of the batter. 🙂 So none of my recipes that I would write would be complete.
I would love to write a family cookbook documenting all our family’s favorite recipes 🙂
I would love to write a cupcake cookbook!
I would love to write a cookbook but I have no idea on my genre! Most likely baking! 🙂
I’d loooooovveeeee to get ur cookbook!!!!!! 🙂
I would do a cookbook that has healthy recipes that taste good and not like cardboard
I subscribed to the picky palate email! Thanks for the giveaway!!
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No, I would not be good at writing a cookbook. I am, however, very good at using a cookbook and would love to use yours!!
yes!! cookbook full of cupcakes. 🙂 it’s not original, I know.
I would write a cookbook of savory treats.
i guess? if i had nothing else to do, like a job, or a husband, or kids. if i had more time to myself, i would write an italian cookbook with recipes from my grandmother.
I love to bake, so my cookbook would be all things baking. Or I’d do a compilation of all the best recipes from our family.
Looks like a great cook book….I have many…and I like ones with pictures to get you “drooling”…and your’s does…..hope you sell many!
I forgot…I would like to make my own cookbook…trying to get as many TNT (Tried and True) as I can…
I’d write a cookbook of fattening desserts, many containing chocolate
I also follow on Pinterest – thanks for the opportunity to win 🙂
I wouldn’t be able to write a cookbook – but love, love, love owning and using them!
My best loved recipes!