by Caitlin Saniga
“Sylvia’s Table” is a great cookbook for families who want to cook together. It’s packed with bite-sized lessons on where fresh food comes from and how to prepare it.
My two shelves of cookbooks have become quite overcrowded in the three and a half years since I moved into my apartment. While cleaning the other day, I decided it’s time to start paring down a bit — especially because my favorite book sale is coming up, and I always come home with two or three new additions for my cookbook collection.
I’d like to share with one of you “Sylvia’s Table,” by Liz Neumark and Carole Lalli, a book full of fresh, seasonal, straightforward recipes for cooks of all ages. It’s a great cookbook for someone who’s just starting out in the kitchen, even children.
Recipes include everything from creamy cauliflower soup with chorizo and greens to grilled tamarind turkey burgers. Take a peak inside the book here.
How the giveaway works:
You’ll have until noon EST Friday to enter for chances to win the cookbook. At that point, we’ll use a drawing to pick a random winner, and we’ll announce the winner in a new blog post later that day. That winner will need to email us with their mailing address so we can send along their prize.
Ways to win:
- What’s your favorite type of winter produce? Leave your answer as a comment on this post, and you’ll be entered in the drawing once.
- Share our Facebook post about this giveaway on your own Facebook account, and you’ll be entered in the drawing once more.
- Retweet our tweet about this giveaway, and you’ll be entered in the drawing once again.
That means you could have up to 3 entries.
Good luck!
I love to cook with squash in the winter!
Nice! Which varieties do you gravitate toward? I usually go for the classic butternut.
— Caitlin
Carrots and potatoes are great in the winter
I’ve been eating carrots like crazy all winter. Lots of chopped carrot sticks with hummus. Good picks!
— Caitlin
My brother introduced me to this wonderful variety of apple called Goldrush. It’s picked late Oct./early Nov. and is quite tart then. It is the best storing apple I’ve found, and it sweetens with age, without losing it’s crisp texture and juiciness. I have a Bavarian Apple Torte in the fridge right now and pork roast thawing that will be roasted with onions and some of these apples. One slice of bread turned into crumbs, a bit of butter, cinnamon and nutmeg and one of these apples makes a yummy Apple Brown Betty. Or just slice one and some good cheese for a fast, easy lunch. If I have to pick just one produce, this tops the list.
I’m sure you’ve told me about Goldrush apples, but I’ve never seen them in stores. Do you get yours at an orchard nearby?
— Caitlin
There is an orchard a bit west of Columbus that grows them. They are a fairly new variety, which I hope becomes more widely available.
Congrats, Aunt Karen! You win the cookbook!!! I’ll mail it out this week. 🙂
— Caitlin
I live in California so I am able to get pretty much every fruit and vegetable all year around, but I have been cooking a lot with shallots and potatoes. Oh and I love beets:)
Lucky you! Beets and shallots are great picks!
— Caitlin
i’d have to say my favorites are beets and brussels sprouts!
Nice! Sounds like a pretty combination. I’ll have to tuck away that idea and see if I can come up with something that includes the two. Thanks for sharing!
— Caitlin
I live in the Dominican Republic where there’s never winter so the produce is pretty much the same as in the DR. Been cooking with lots of eggplant lately though.
Dave! Hope the DR is treating you well. What are you making with the eggplant? I’m sort of not that into it unless it’s the little Chinese eggplant variety. —Sarah