Cookbook Club / Month 2

By Gaby

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Cookbook Club is back for round 2 (and there’s a giveaway involved) and I’m so pumped. We’re heading into the holiday season and that means lots and lots of dinner parties, brunches, gatherings and events that need great food.

Small Victories / Cookbook Club from www.whatsgabycooking.com (@whatsgabycookin)

Here’s the deal if you’re new to cookbook club! Each month I announce the cookbook of the month and then we can buy it, borrow it, check it out from the library and cook! Cook by yourself, invite your friends over, host your own cookbook club with the assigned book, whatever floats your boat. The idea is for us all to cook recipes from the same book in the same month. Pick one or two or three recipes. Whatever you can manage! THEN… for one of my Facebook Live posts (every Wednesday at 11am PST) we’ll cook a recipe from the cookbook together and you guys can tune in, share your own pics from the recipes you’ve made, share your friends photos, you name it!!

We can talk in real time about the cookbooks, what we loved about certain recipes, what we didn’t love, what worked, what didn’t…. the whole nine yards. And then we’ll do it all again the next month. How fun is this? We get to virtually eat our way through a different cookbook every single month. I’m so jazzed about this idea and I hope you will be too. So let’s get round 2 started!

This month is all about Small Victories by Julia Turshen! Julia is a writer and recipe-developer and has coauthored tons of cookbooks like Spain…A Culinary Road Trip with Mario Batali, It’s All Good with Gwyneth Paltrow, Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen with Dana Cowin, as well as The Kimchi Chronicles, Hot Bread Kitchen, The Fat Radish Kitchen Diaries, and Buvette!! Basically she’s a rockstar and Small Victories is her first solo book and it’s ah-mazing. It’s loaded with advice, recipes and tons of ideas to make home cooking a breeze and the forward is by Ina Garten and who isn’t obsessed with her!? There’s a little something for everyone here – Avocado Kimchi Toast, Snow Day Udon Soup, Shaved Carrot + Avocado Salad, Creamed Corn, Turkey + Ricotta Meatballs, Lasagna, Crispy Fish with Bacon + Chives, Peach + Bourbon Milkshakes… I mean the list goes on!

Here’s the link to the book on Amazon (Small Victories) if you want to have it delivered or go grab it from your local bookstore or library! I’m starting to cook my way through tonight!! Feel free to leave any comments here if you have questions. On Wednesday November 30th at 11am PST let’s all plan on tuning into Facebook live and discuss!

AND – if you want to take your chances and maybe win the cookbook, all you have to do is leave a comment below telling me you’re in for cookbook club round 2 and you’re entered. I’ll pick 3 winners at random by Friday and get the books out to you next week!  Giveaway closed!! Winners were notified below in the comments and via email! 

PS…. when you make something from the book, if you post it on insta use the hashtag #WGCcookbookclub so we can see!!

PSS – here’s cookbook club month 1 in case you’re interested!

232 Comments

  1. I am in cookbook club and so down for round 2!! BEST IDEA EVER!!! Also creamed corn is life…”I got creamed corn (hot sauce) in my bag swag”

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  4. I’m in cookbook club and so pumped about round 2!! So locking forward to those chilaquiles yum. Still drooling over last month’s chilaquiles.

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  10. Definitely in Cookbook Club for round 2! Ok, creamed corn yes, buuuut the fritters?! YESSSS.

    And just because – thanks for making your blog so fun! I love your recipes 🙂

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  12. I’m totally in for cookbook club round 2! Love this idea! So neat to be able to cook the same recipes as you, and come together for a love of food! #lovethisidea

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  13. I’m in for cookbook club round 2 and pumped! Hmmmm snow day Udon soup sounds yummy to me. No snow here bu who doesn’t appreciate a good noodle? Oh and Avcado salad? because, well AVOCADO! Besides one more way to have an avocado is one more win for me

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  17. YESSSS! This book is AMAZING. So excited to start cooking from Small Victories! (BTW if anybody is wondering, her turkey and ricotta meatballs are FABULOUS.)

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  21. Yay Cookbook club. I’m in for this. I’m dying over those zucchini fritters 🙂 Can’t wait to see “What Gaby’s Cookin”

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  30. I’m so in for the book club! I love cooking but can’t afford to buy a new cookbook right now. My small town library doesn’t have it of course! Love watching your facebook live cooking and snapisodes. Keep it up GABY!

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  34. I’m in for round 2 also!!!!! Didn’t get a chance to cook much out of altons cookbook even though it’s sitting by my bed. (I had good intentions) lol.

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  35. Well, looks like there’s a lot more people in for round 2, yay! Count me in! (Putting it on hold at the library now in case I don’t win!)

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  50. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to make a recipe from this book and participate! Please add my name to your giveaway – thank you!!! xoxo

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