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I have a bit of an addiction to cookbooks. It’s really quite a problem. My collection has officially outgrown the storage cabinet in the kitchen, so they’ve recently worked their way to my office and into their own shelving unit. Like many food lovers, I devour the pages of cookbooks and food related magazines more so than novels.
If I am really geeked about a cookbook, I’ll preorder it on Amazon, so it arrives on my doorstep pretty much on the day of its release. That was exactly what I did for Alice Currah’s debut cookbook, Savory Sweet Life, which hit store shelves on June 5th. I get really excited when fellow food bloggers secure book deals and it’s pretty fantastic to see their recipes, stories and photos transform from the web into tangible pages.
I met Alice a couple of years ago at BlogHer Food in San Francisco and she quickly became one of my absolute favorite sites to read. Her genuine approach to food and life allows her to connect with her readers in a truly special way. After you read just a few pages, you’ll feel right at home in Alice’s kitchen as she expertly guides you through each of her recipes.
Alice’s book, Savory Sweet Life is full of 100 delicious and beautifully photographed recipes that are perfectly divided into family occasions. Whether you’re looking for a menu for a birthday celebration, a lunch with friends, or scrumptious snacks for family game night – Alice has you covered with her simple and creative recipes that are sure to create meaningful memories.
From the moment I first flipped through the book, her recipe for chocolate chip cookies immediately caught my attention. Alice dubbed this recipe “The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever”, and I must say, they are quite incredible – in fact, I made them twice within two days. Her use of dark brown sugar creates a deep, rich flavor that pairs perfectly with the crispy bottoms and soft, chewy centers. There is really no question why this recipe became one of the most viewed recipes on Alice’s blog.
You can find Alice through her blog, Savory Sweet Life and also through Facebook and Twitter.
Because I think Alice’s cookbook, Savory Sweet Life is incredibly lovely, I want to give 3 MBA readers a chance to win a copy of their very own.
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HOW DO YOU WIN?
Simply leave a comment within this post telling me about your favorite food memory.
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
-This giveaway is open to USA residents only and will run until Monday, June 25th, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST.
-Winner(s) will be generated via a random number generator software program. Winner will be notified via the contact email provided on the comment contact form.
-Winner(s) will have until 6/29/12 to claim their Savory Sweet Life cookbook or we will choose another winner.
-Books will be shipped by My Baking Addiction through Amazon.
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-No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. Must be 18 years of age to enter. See Official Giveaway Rules
DISCLOSURE:
This giveaway is provided to you by My Baking Addiction.
All images provided by Alice Currah
Savory Sweet Life's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon sea salt
2 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 360°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Using a hand or stand mixer, cream the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together on medium-high speed for 3 minutes, until nice and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one ay a time, then add the vanilla, and mix for 2 minutes. Reduce the mixer speed to mediium-low and add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. When the cookie dough has absorbed the dry ingredients, stir in the chocolate chips and mix until they are well distributed.
3. Drop 2 tablespoons of dough (or use a medium cookie scoop) onto the cookie sheet for each cookie, spacing them 2 inches apart. Bake for 15 minutes, or until the edges are nice and golden brown. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and allow the cookies to cool for 2 minutes. Then slide the parchment paper, with the cookies still on top, onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes:
- Kosher salt can be substituted for the sea salt.
Source: Savory Sweet Life Cookbook
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My favorite food memory is eating my first Italian gelato at the seaside in Tuscany… experiencing the richest chocolate gelato ever!
my favorite food memory is when I was small and we would do our christmas baking. I would get a big ball of sugar cookie dough to roll into my own shape and decorate them in whatever colored sugar I chose. I also remember getting to “taste test” all the broken cookies.
My favorite food memory is making peanut butter fudge with my Grandma. She didn’t use a candy thermometer and she would make a soft ball in cold water, then we would stir and stir and stir until the fudge lost it’s gloss. I can never make it as creamy as hers, and I try every Christmas!
My grandparents visiting from FL and my brother and I running ot the baggage claim where there was always a brown box of cookies waiting for us! I loved those cookies and the special time with my grandparents!
My favorite food memory would have to be cooking and baking with my great-grandmother and my grandmother when I was younger. I’ve always loved all things culinary since I was a little girl and learned all of my cooking and baking skills from them. If I had to pin point an exact memory it would be when we made Tanta Lea’s cookies – a secret family recipe – together! Such a wonderful memory!
Watching my 3 boys decorate the gingerbread house at Christmas time every year is one of my favorite food memories. It has been so fun to watch their creativity grow each year, even now as they are teenagers. It is also fun to watch them develop team work as they come together to decorate one house.
I’ll bet the recipe for my favorite food memory isn’t in this cookbook! Yet, try as I might, I can’t get it out of my head. I was making caramel apple cheesecake. I inadvertently grabbed the jar of onion marmalade instead of the caramel sliced apples that I’d cooked and put in a jar until it was time to use them. As soon as the onions hit the beaters, I saw what had happened. It was too late. My quadruple recipe for cheesecake to feed 40 people became an interesting disaster. The funny part, you might say, was that the cheesecake was to feed a group of international students who were coming to our home for the dessert portion of a progressive dinner. Many of them had never had cheesecake, let alone ONION cheesecake. It was amazing. About 4 of them came back for seconds, so maybe it wasn’t a total loss. :-)
My favorite food memory would have to be when I had my first home cooked meal by my husband’s Italian grandmother. Home made pasta! I thought I had died and gone to heaven!
My sister and I used to have restruarant nights where we would fix dinner, make a menu of different foods, then mark the entree everyone could order (the food we had made). Then we served dinner to everyone. Started my love of cooking.
Turning the hand crank on the ice cream machine on a Sunday afternoon, and eating it after church.