Many of you have been asking when I will have a cookbook published. I’m finishing up my first cookbook proposal this month (finally!), which means we’ll be going out to publishers soon. Several publishers have already expressed an interest in seeing my book over the past year, which is super exciting. That said, I wasn’t in a rush to get it published– I wanted to “get it right” first. I’ve been conceptualizing a cookbook since I first started the blog, and the idea has evolved quite a bit since I published my first blog post. It is my hope that the cookbook will include lots of new recipes, as well as some fan favorites from the website. Now I need your help and input in the process!
Please comment below and let me know:
What is your favorite recipe on TheShiksa.com?
I want to know which recipe (or recipes) you would definitely want included in a cookbook– the ones you love and/or make on a regular basis. It’s very important to me that the book include lots of new recipes you’ve never seen before. It’s also important that I include a few of the very best recipes from the website– the “reader favorites.” Please let me know what you think in the comments below, I’d love to hear your feedback. To thank you for your input, I’ll be choosing one reader at random to receive an autographed advance copy of the cookbook when it is finally published. Your suggestions will help make this first cookbook rock. I’ll keep this contest open for a week till next Sunday, October 28 at 12:00pm Pacific. Thanks for your help!
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CONTEST HAS ENDED.
Congrats to Connie Strassberg! The winner was chosen using an online numeric randomizer. I wish I could choose all of you! Thank you for all of your helpful input.
New giveaway posting soon!
You have so many wonderful recipes, it is hard to choose. I also love your historical background on food. Look forward to reading your cookbook (especially if I am fortunate enough to win one). I know your cookbook will be a “keeper” in the family for years to come. It is obviously a work of passion for you- but thanks for all you do to make an interesting and useful site.
Thank goodness for the stuffed cabbage recipe! Brings back so many memories of my grandmother and the classic comfort food.
Pumpkin challah, for sure.
Vanilla Kugel
Gotta have Maman’s Moroccan Fish. Looooooove it!!!!
I found you through the sweet and sour eggplant. I loved the cabbage rolls, too. Your salad’s rock, too!
My most favorite of your recipes is your mushroom barley soup, and I make it all year round. Your stuffed cabbage is almost a duplicate of my Hungarian born grandmother’s.
love them all but the kosher bento box pasta inspired me to get a box and your cute veggie cutters for chanukkah – just don’t tell my kid, it’s a surprise.
The Persian Lamb Stew was an absolute hit. I cooked it, we ate it, I shared it with my cousin, who cooked it and served it to friends, who asked for the recipe…..
I made your apple honey challah for Rosh Hashana, and I absolutely LOVED the recipe, as did everyone who ended up eating the challah! Greatest ever!
M
I think the mock chopped liver should be in the cookbook. I have never had mock liver before and this recipe is great. I have become a “vegan” in the past 6 months and it’s hard to eat a lot of the old favorites I grew up eating. I have quotes around vegan because I can live easily without cheese and even eggs, but soy, almond, and coconut yogurts are so bad, I can’t give up my yogurt everyday, especially the frozen variety!
Any recipe with Za’atar as an ingredient has my vote!
Vegatarian chopped liver. Better than the real stuff at Sammy’s Roumanian in NYC and the mock at Real Food Daily. Your photos are a marvelous help.
I have tried only a handful of recipes, mostly because I am new to this site, But, I became a vegan recently and was looking for vegan recipes I could serve my meat eating family to break the fast. I knew that I would not be able to enjoy most of the food that night, but I really wanted chopped liver. So I found your mocked liver and it made my night. I think that would be a great addition to your cookbook because it’s a new recipe with a new twist
my favorites are the smoked paprika chicken breasts (tasty and very simple) and the stuff cabbage which reminds me of my hungarian grandmothers version
Sweet and sour eggplant
Hi Tori.
I usually opt for pastries and would name your coffee cake cupcakes as my favorite, however I realize I have to be responsible in making this choice.
My latest, not dessert, favorite recipe of yours is the Autumn Sweet Potato Soup – I’ve made it on Sukkot and it was a great hit with my family (just need to remember, if serving to guests to ensure no allergies to peanuts).
I’ve recommended it in my food forum and who ever tried it came back with raving reviews.
Good luck with the new book and thanks for so many wonderful recipes,
The Holiday Brisket was a huge hit. I’ve never been able to make a tender, delicious brisket until I tried yours. Everyone said it was the most tender, amazing brisket they’ve had!
shalom,
i would be happy if i could copy your recipes . no pictures or history, just recipes. would be so much quicker.
thanks for lending an ear.
BR
Shalom Bev! Every recipe on my site has a “print recipe” button. If you click that, you can print the recipe without photos or blog introduction.
Your savory herb braised brisket recipe is the best EVER and saved me last year when our house spontaneously became the gathering place for Hanukkah. I’m the shiksa in my family and managed to surprise and satisfy everyone with the delicious traditional meal – thanks to you. Your cauliflower with smoked paprika is also a favorite, especially when the weather turns cool. Best of luck with your cookbook!
Mushroom barley soup. Best mushroom soup ever.
The Vegetarian Chopped Liver with peas & toasted walnuts is just one of my very favorites! I hope you will have photos of every recipe in the book!
I love your recipe for Marble cake. It’s relatively easy to make and the taste is just delicious! I have made it several times and it is one of my favorites.
Tori,
My hands down go-to for entertaining is the challah with ricotta, honey and lemon. It is SO delicious, versatile and a crowd pleaser. I also have made your persian lamb a bunch and love love love it! Hope this helps
Nikki
Hands down and without question…….Matbucha. It is a real winner, big time favorite of mine and many, many people I have shared it with.
I made your challah this shabbos! It was a huge hit! Light, fluffy and beautiful! Along with your chicken soup!
I love your Matbucha. I make it often for get togethers and use leftovers on pizza, add to soup, spread on my breakfast toast.
Great idea to do the cookbook! We love all your recipes but here are some of my family’s favourites. ( I have yet to try one of your recipes that are bad.)
Peach and Blueberry Crisp
Quinoa Stuffed Tomatoes with Pesto and Goat Cheese
Limonana – Frozen Mint Lemonade
Rosh Hashanah Sangria
Quinoa Tabbouleh Salad
Rosemary Lemon Chicken Skewers
Purim Poppy Seed Cake with Lemon Glaze
Mushroom Barley Soup
Israeli Salad
Keep up the great work
I would love to see part of the cookbook broken down to encompass all the Jewish holidays with traditional recipes that one cooks/bakes for that particular holiday. To me, that would be a great asset.
Dates honey cake for rosh hasannah delicous
Far and away, my favorite out of all of your recipes (and I’ve made a LOT of them) is the AUTUMN SWEET POTATO SOUP. That little bit of peanut butter at the end just makes it perfect. I bought an immersion blender just for this soup – I could eat it by the gallon!
The recipe I make almost every week is the Quinoa Black Bean Burrito Bowls. I’m also a fan of Tuna Caprese Salad.
Passover Chocolate Chip Cookies – I could eat these at any time during the year – absoluely delicious.
The Moroccan Lemon Chicken with Olives and Roasted Beet Salad with Mint are definitely favourites.
unstuffed cabbage, cauliflour gratin, quinoa taboleh
Lemon Dill Schmear
Apple Challah
Yum-Yum-Yum!!!
I make quite a number of your recipes on a regular basis but my family’s two favorites are your Mushroom Barley Soup (this year I am making a double recipe for our Thanksgiving feast for 26 people) and your Sweet and Sour Meatballs (one of my granddaughter’s favorite foods).
Best of luck on your cookbook – I’ve been looking forward to you writing one ever since I started reading your blog.
I’m veggie, so love knishes–would like sweet potatoes, kasha.
Also love veggie chopped ‘liver.’ Haven’t checked to see if you’ve got cheese blintzes…
Plus a new surprise:-) Love your site. Thanks.
I’ve been making homemade challah every Friday for a couple years but always wanted it to be lighter / fluffier. Your recipe with the extra egg whites is perfect and I make this recipe every week now. My kids like it with “cinnamon chips” which are found next to the chocolate chips in the store. I add about a teaspoon of cinnamon to the dough as well. YUM. Thanks for the great recipe.
Chicken shawarma, without a doubt. Though Hungarian beef paprika stew is also spectacular!
Since subscribing to The Shiksa Blog I have never seen a recipe for “Stuffed Monkeys”. These were little pastries made with either raised or hot water pastry (I’m not sure which) and filled with candied fruit and peel. The pastries were made to look like a cushion with the edges folded over. They were bought or made as a Shabbat treat and were very rich but totally delicious. My grandparents were Russian Jews who came over to the UK from what is now Belarus after a pogrom in 1905. I grew up with them in the East End of London, England. Because my grandmother couldn’t read or write all her recipes were passed on to my mother verbally, but somehow this one got lost. Any ideas? I love all your recipes and am impressed that so much of what you do is vegetarian. Reading your blogs I am transported back to my childhood of 60 years ago!! Many thanks to you and I have shared your blogs with Jewish friends who also now subscribe for the same reasons.
As a former cookbook editor, let me stress how important it is not to be vague ( i.e. 2 tablespoons fresh lmeon juice NOT juice of 1 lemon) and to read the recipes out loud several times to make sure they make sense. Finally, do NOT rely on spellcheck!!
Good luck. Can’t wait to see your cookbook.
Challah Bread Pudding with Kahlua Cream Sauce
We loved your Apple Honey Challah. The most awesome challah I have ever had!!!
Persian Dill and Lima Bean Rice, Lemon Dill Schmear, chicken soup, vegetarian grape leaves, pumpking challah, and Cheese Sambusak
It’s really hard to pick just a few recipes that are my favorites. But I did want to say that it isn’t “just” the recipes that brings me to your site…. It’s the inspiration and the “support” I get by visiting your website. This is what I mean by that: I live in a community with very “few” jews. We sometimes feel like an island in our community. Your website with it’s visual appeal, history, and recipes gives me a sense of being part of a bigger community of like-minded people. A cookook echoing these things is much needed. Thanks
The Israeli Fish Cakes, of course. I only wish pine nuts weren’t so expensive right now, because my husband asks for these all the time.
I LOVE your sweet and sour eggplant. Your blog is fabulous, but this recipe just came out more perfect than I could have imagined. Good luck with the book!
I love the Chicken Shawarma and the Shakhaka so delicious and easy to make!
Quinoa Black Bean Burrito Bowls are my personal favorite but I’d also include the Crustless Quiche with Feta & Asparagus