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!
Pineapple meatballs
Tori, Your recipes (and all the details) are wonderful especially your vegetarian and middle eastern…simply the best !! Please include those…love, love, love !!
My favorite is Sweet Lokshen Kugel
I did many recipes from your blog and most of them are really, really good, but The lemon chilli chicken is the hit! It’s super easy and everybody loves. The challah is the best recipe I ever found and with some changes became the recipe I always use. I would also choose the persian lamb for the book. Good luck, I will definetly buy it!
Good luck- would love to see your cookbook!
My grandmother, born of poland parents used to prepare marshmallow chocolate cake and kishka homemaker. I consider it the ultimate comfort food. I love the idea of using grow up raise I made it. My vote is for marshmallow chocolate cake and kishka.
Vanilla Noodle Kugel, Farah’s Roast Chicken..
SHAKSHUKA. We eat it almost weekly!
Definitely your shakshuka recipe! Filling and delicious!
I adore your kugel recipes. I am new to kosher cooking and these were the first I sought out to try on my friends and family. All have been met with rave reviews. I am going to try soups next.
I love all your recipes but if I had to choose only one it would be the shakshuka!
Pumpkin challah
Did an entire Israeli menu with my gourmet cooking club with all of your recipes. The biggest hits were the Peach Sangria (wow), Chicken Shawarma (yum) and the Gluten Free Chicken Schnitzel (love that it tastes so good and no one knew it was gluten free).
Challa! it can be eaten right away or made into something else. french toast for example. you could have the challa recipe and then a couple of pages on other things to make with it once its ready.
Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins-they are so moist and flavorful. Unstuffed cabbage-great spin on the classic that is more efficient to make with the same flavor as the original.
Your cheese latkes are a regular around here and with friends….delicious and easy!
i make the pomegranate molasses often. amazing! love the pomegranate glazed salmon and smoked paprika chik thighs.
i love the savoury brisket!!!!
The Quinoa Black Bean Burrito Bowl and Ligurian Pasta Trenette have both made repeat performances in our kitchen. Delicious!
It’s as if it was just yesterday that I came across your brilliant website…ok it was just yesterday!
But it feels as we’ve been cooking together for a very long time. Your insights into history are so intriguing that I came for your recipes, but stayed for the knowledgable stories. I actually came searching for a falafel recipe, which I found and love (January 5, 2011), but I certainly wasn’t expecting beautiful photos and great writing too! Your an amazing, writer, historian, cook and photographer. Your book is going to be awesome, can’t wait to add it to my collection : )
Green bean salad with walnuts, Parmesan, and mint. My husband loved it!
Your Challah Bread and Braiding instructions. You could make it a mini section with the Pumpkin and Apple ones, and the Challah French toast and Bruschetta recipes.
My very favorite recipe was really more of an instructional as it only has two ingredients, the sheer simplicity of it makes it my favorite recipe; not to mention the delightful flavor of it oozing over homemade vanilla bean ice cream.
It would be just wonderful to do a chapter on suggestions for preparing and staging meals that everyone will love through Shabbos. It’s always too hectic to get home from work and get everything prepped!!! P.S. I am so loving your blog which I just recently found–between the great recipes and the history I am a FAN!!
Your pumpkin pie recipe! Yum!
Tori- It is hard to choose because all your recipes are so great but I love making your quinoa tabouli and also your Greek Yogurt banana cake is a huge hit in my house!! Just bought a cookbook yesterday by a famous chef, that I will keep anonymous and spent hours making a recipe, only to have my family not like the food. The wonderful part about your recipes, is that they are so accessible to a home cook like me. There is nothing worse than spending hours shopping for exotic ingredients and hours cooking and then have your family turn their noses up. Your recipes are amazing! Keep them coming. Regards Ilana
I really love your Pasta Trenette recipe and the pesto sauce. It was the first time I made the pesto sauce by myself and it’s so delicious! Thank you so much, Tori!
I forgot to list your israeli fish balls, the ones that are like felafel, sort of, but use fish, one of the best things I have ever cooked and ate!!! Seriously and I have been raving about them.
Your Matbucha recipe is delicious! I absolutely love that
Pumpkin challah! Its always a hit.
I’m from New York and use your recipe’s all the time. Recently was looking for recipe recommendations from friends and one in Australia linked me a recipe from your blog! thought that was pretty cool.
My family really loves Micheal Berkowits’s Tiramisu, would definitely be something special to share in a cook book. the 40 clove roast chicken is amazing so please include it in your book too!
Chicken with Prunes and Oregano – love, love, love it!
Sweet and Sour Eggplant! My whole family and extended family wait for that. We serve it Friday night with the fish and fresh, hot challah. Yum!
Your Borekas, because of you I finally tried making them. They where so great. Loved them. Also the Israeli salad with Pickles such a clever idea
I just made the Yemenite beef soup and I was back at Shula and Esther’s. Thanks so much. I was thinking of this soup for a while and when I came across your blog I was so excited to discover you not only had a recipe for Yemenite soup, but you had one inspired by this long time favorite restaurant of mine.
You should definitely include it in your book. It is exotic and so tasty.
I came across your blog right before Rosh Hashanah this year and used your pomegranate molasses brisket, stove top tzimmes, and saffron rice recipes. My family agreed that this was one of the best holiday meals I had ever prepared, so I would love to see these recipes in your new cookbook!
Jacob’s Lentil Stew is fabulous and has become a regularly repeated treat!…and everyone I’ve shared it with has loved it!
I can’t decide between the Sephardic Charoset Truffles or the Autumn Sweet Potato Soup…
the recipe for challa filled with apples & honey including the insructions to braid it in a round form was very good, as a chef ( now a pensioner ) your blog is great!!!! keep up the good work, regards David from Israel
When I was a kid, my maternal grandmother made the most incredible honey cake. She used to bake it in a paperbag opened up inside a cakepan. It was unbelievable. She never wrote down the recipe and she measured by eye. I have been searching for a recipe for a cake similar to hers. I don’t really know exactly what I’m looking for, though, as I just can’t remember all the ingredients. I know it had honey, strong coffee, whiskey, and walnuts in it. It was sticky and spongey, and gooey, and overpoweringly delicious, and everyone fought over it because it was fantastic, and gone very quickly. It was a heavy cake as well. Maybe you can assemble a couple of recipes you think will come close to matching what I have described. Don’t even remember what the spice profile was. although allspice and ginger ring a bell. Thanks, Amy
I LOVE your falafel recipe!!!
We love the Elvis meatloaf and I make it all the time!
I use extra lean ground turkey and it comes out great. I also double the recipe as the leftovers are fabulous. Makes a mean sandwich too! Love the healthier recipes you offer and even though I cook a lot, I enjoy seeing the photograph instructions. I look forward to your weeky email. Keep up the wonderful work!
The colors of the photo are positively stunning!!!!!!!!!!! So bright and vibrant!!!!!!!!! My brain thinks in these colors, so I had to comment on this picture!!!!!