Giveaway: Our Best Bites Cookbook

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Our Best Bites_Cover Final

The cookbook winner is Jen! She said, “My favorite recipe is a toss up between the coconut chicken fingers and the taquitos. YUM!”

Send an email to kelseyatvanillajoydotcom BEFORE FRIDAY to claim your prize. Congrats!

THE PRIZE

One reader will win a copy of the Our Best Bites: Mormon Moms in the Kitchen cookbook by Sara Wells and Kate Jones! (currently at Costco for around $15!)

MY REVIEW

A very good friend introduced me to Our Best Bites and praise the day. Before I got the cookbook, the website was my last minute go-to for everything, and I always was able to find just the thing I was looking for. Having the cookbook to physically look through is even better!

Our Best Bites was started by two Latter-day Saint women who love to cook. Their recipes are easy to make and delicious.

Sugar Cookies

sugar cookie recipe

This sugar cookie recipe suggests rolling out the dough between two layers of parchment paper before refrigerating or freezing, and this little tip made the whole process so much easier. Rolling out the dough and actually cutting the cookies is my least favorite part…it just takes forever! Rolling the dough out first made it so much easier and faster.

The ingredients are all pretty standard and there are so many ways to decorate and enjoy!

Stuffed Apple-Cinnamon Rolls

apple stuffed cinnamon rolls

Cinnamon rolls are one of my favorite foods EVER, and stuffed with Granny Smith apple shreds? Yum. The dough is regular breadstick dough so it’s very easy, not super sweet…just right.

The perfect breakfast…or dessert…or both…

This recipe isn’t on the website, so you need the cookbook!

Creamy Cilantro-Lime Ranch Dressing

cafe rio dressing recipe

I hope you’ve experienced the deliciousness of Cafe Rio. If not you need to make a special trip out to Utah. Cafe Rio is a fresh-ingredient Mexican restaurant where they build your burrito or salad before your eyes and it’s the best thing you’ve ever tasted. Particularly the tomatillo dressing, which this recipe imitates and does a smash hit of a job.

I’ve tried so many version of this recipe and this one comes the very closest to the real thing, it’s amazing. We have a Mason jar of it in our fridge at all times and we can’t get enough. Sooo good!

This is another recipe not on the website, so you need the book!

I’ve tried a bunch of other recipes and they disappeared before I could snap a picture:

  • Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette (my favorite all purpose salad dressing, works for sweet and savory salads both)
  • Poppy Seed Dressing (amazing with a spinach strawberry salad, took recently to a potluck and it disappeared)
  • Almond Poppy Seed Bread (BEST SWEET BREAD EVER)
  • Pizza Sauce (uses multi-purpose Garlic Bread Seasoning (recipe in the book) and is a little bit sweet, thick, and so good. would be excellent also as marinara for dipping, etc.)

There are so many more recipes on our upcoming menu – Garlic Bread Swirls, Lasagna (tonight’s dinner!), mint brownies, apple pie in a jar, all the soups, and much more.

This is a cookbook for everyday Moms, and I’m going to get some serious meal mileage out of it. Thanks to Sara and Kate for all their hard work and to Shadow Mountain Publishing for sponsoring this giveaway!

GIVEAWAY RULES

  • Make a comment on this post telling me your favorite recipe before midnight Sunday, July 31.
  • A winner will be selected and announced in a new post on Monday.
  • Only one comment per person unless you earn extra entries.
  • Giveaway open only to residents of the continental United States…sorry.
  • Winners must email me to claim their prize within 5 days.

EARN EXTRA ENTRIES

You may earn 1 extra entry each for doing the following (make a separate comment for each thing you do):

GOOD LUCK and THANKS!

{This product was provided to Vanilla Joy for review purposes.}

286 thoughts on “Giveaway: Our Best Bites Cookbook”

  1. My favorite recipe is one for cous cous that we received from my sweetheart’s nephew’s wife. It is a hit with company, keeps well, is comfort food, and looks beautiful. Added to that: it’s healthful!

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  5. My favorite recipe right now is a home made alfredo. Someone made me dinner after having a baby, and it was so good.. My husband asks for it every day.. So we got her recipe and it is easy/good..

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  31. I’m really excited to try the Creamy Cilantro-Lime Ranch Dressing recipe! All the recipes look so good! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  41. I loved the Easy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe. It’s such an easy recipe, and who doesn’t like easy? This recipe book would definitely simplify life. :)

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  45. How funny that you posted this! I just discovered Kate and Sara a couple days agao and was up till the wee hours of the morning learning how to grill corn and pizza…. Love it!!! I think my favorite recipe is the Grilled Artichoke! NOM! And it’s sooo pretty- It’ll be a great appetizer to serve with the Brazilian Lemonade this summer (also an Our Best Bites recipe)

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  55. I’ve had my eye on this cookbook for a while now – everything looks scrumptious! I’m going to try their raspberry poppy seed dressing with their grilled chicken salad SOON.

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  57. My favorite is Sunday beef stew…I love stew and it can be ready when you get home from church. I would really love to win one of your cookbooks!!!

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  67. Mandatory entry: The Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos are really good, and easy. I’ve made the Cilantro-Lime Ranch dressing you mentioned and they’re good dipped in that too.

    (I posted the mandatory entry earlier, but I think it got lost so I’m reposting. Thanks!)

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  84. I love baked goods and my favorite recipes is for chocolate chip cookies, followed closely by the white cake receipe from our best bites. It is delicious!

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  85. Ok, WAY too many awesome recipes to choose just one fav, But lol I will go with… Baked Chipotle Beef Taquitos as one of my favorite ones : )

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  87. Hummus is Yummus!! I have always loved store bought until I made OBB’s recipe. Best ever! Although at first I was a bit put off by the smell of tahini and carnival beans. Just chill it and eat with pita chips. Amazing!!!

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  91. My favorite recipe from OBB (right now…) is the spicy honey chicken. Oh, and the grilled pizza. We’ve been doing that a lot lately too. Yum.

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  95. If I had to pick a favorite, which is really hard to do, I would choose the white chicken chili. But the strawberry pie and the pumpkin whoopie pies are AMAZING as well!

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  112. My fav recipe is for the glazed bacon wrapped meatloaf…..delicious. Especially when the bacon gets really crisp. A side of mashed potatoes and fresh green beans, I am smokin.

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  120. I’ve been making tons of their recipes off their website, I would love the cookbook!! Right now I’m making the Fauxtisserie Chicken, but my all-time fave is the grilled chicken and veggie skewers. They are amazing!

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  124. We just had a family camping trip and used many of the Our Best Bites recipes for family meals. My favorite was the Thai Peanut Noodle Salad.

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  125. I like the mini ham and egg cups. I freeze them after baking and they make a quick breakfast I can eat on the way to work. Much healthier (and cheaper) than any breakfast choice I can find in the freezer section at the store!!

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  129. I love their recipe for Strawberry Sauce! It is so yummy and easy and used up all my extra strawberries before they went bad!

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  136. I just found your page, so I don’t have a favorite recipe of yours yet, but my favorite recipe right now is a peanut butter truffle chocolate chip cookie recipe I found recently that is SOOOOOOOOO delish!! :)

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  149. I love OBB! I just made their spaghetti and meatballs this week and my husband was so impressed. This was my first success with meatballs in 6 years of marriage. I want their cookbook!

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  152. I love those Our Best Bites girls! Hmmm…so many favorites of theirs…Thai Peanut Noodles, Brazillian Lemonade, Overnight Cinnamon Rolls, Guiltless Alfredo Sauce… Mmmm… This is my first time on your site…I can’t wait to look at a bunch more posts…fun stuff! Thanks!

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  154. I don’t have a particular favorite recipe right now. I love trying different things. Tomorrow, I am going to make something Thai – maybe a thai steak salad for dinner.
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  158. All the recipes are so yummy!!! My family absolutely love the Buttermilk Cheddar Biscuits….they only last a few hours. The poppyseed dressing is fantastic on any type of salad, especially spinach. The Stuffed Apple Cinnamon Rolls look so amazing too! I subscribe to your email newletter.

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  160. I would have to see holiday food is my favorite, but what I enjoy and require for my mother’s day favorite food is Spicy Cajun Chicken fettuccine and pineapple upside down cake

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  161. My favorite recipe is their pizza sauce. I always have some in the freezer so I can make homemade pizza whenever I want.

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  162. I love your sugaer cookie and icing galze recipe! It is by far the best recipe for a sugar cookie and glaze I have ever used! Every birthday party I have I will make a special sugar cookie with this glaze!

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  164. Love, love, love Our Best Bites. Just made Asian ginger chicken with coconut rice last night and the family loved it!

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  168. My favorite recipe is their Chocolate Chipotle Chili, I’ve been making it every year for our Halloween meal and love it!

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  172. I LOVE the mandarin poppyseed salad, the taco soup (Cafe Rio version), honey chicken, peppermint cupcakes… everything. Love Our Best Bites and I’ve wanted their cookbook for forever!

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  175. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve made the Berry Poppy Seed Viniagrette since I found the recipe at the beginning of the month.

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  177. My friend was gifted this cookbook recently, and so we made the Bacon-Wrapped Teriyaki Chicken Skewers. They were delicious!!! We have also just tried the Lemon Cupcakes, which were also fabulous! I can’t wait to get my hands on my own copy!

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  180. I love lots of recipes! Food is just delicious. My favorite thing to make right now is homemade pizza with homemade sauce!! YUMMY!!

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  184. I love the Stuffed Apple-Cinnamon Rolls they were a big hit when my MIL came to visit. She finally stopped saying I dont cook and asked me how to make them!

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  187. My favorite recipe is probably their recently posted Chocolate-frosted peanut butter cookie bar but OBB is my go-to site, too.

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  189. I LOVE the our best bites website and have been dieing for the book! My favorite recipe of theirs right now has got to be the thai noodle salad. The sauce is fabulous and so good on the ingredients they chose to make a salad.

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  193. It’s hard to choose just one favorite. I finally made the Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos last week, and they were a huge hit. We also had the Asian BBQ Grilled Pizza a few nights ago…. YUM!

    I would love, love, love the cookbook!

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  195. I found your site via Our Best Bites. Glad I did. My favorite recipe is the edemame and quinoa salad. So far I’ve enjoyed each recipe that I’ve tried!

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  200. I accidentally posted all of my entries twice (once as Laura and once as Laura N.) because I didn’t think it worked the first time so I did it again. So sorry!!

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  201. My favorite recipe is cinnamon rolls cut into crescents. Super easy and you have cinnamon flavor all the way through. (Something my kids always complained about.)

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  204. Oh my! Spicy Honey Chicken is a staple in our home. I have a hard time finding boneless skinless thighs, but it is sooooo much better with thighs. And the colorburst cupcakes are really fun for the kids.

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  216. Following you on Pinterest (my favorite site right now, spend way too much time there and not enough doing the pins I collect)

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  217. I would love this cookbook!! The stuffed pizza rolls are our current favorite. Much easier to accommodate my picky eaters than regular pizza!

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  228. I love the Asian Chicken with Cilantro Lime Rice. YUM! Plus the sugar cookies. Have you made the chocolate toffee sugar cookies. SO easy and they look fancy fancy.

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  230. I have never liked having to answer the “What is your favorite _____?” question! It just seems to hard to pick just one. So I will tell you a recipe that I like, fruit salsa with cinnamon chips. I have used it for large groups (over 50) and for little family meals. It is very flexible and you can use whatever fruit you have on hand. Oh, and I really want the cookbook! I hope I win it so that I don’t have to try to hunt for one. (I live hours from a Costco!)

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  232. my favorite recipe is the french dip sandwiches. They taste amazing & like you slaved all day. Who would think that it’s soooo easy to make!

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  241. Latest recipe I tried from the Our Best Bites blog was the Bruschetta recipe…..LOVED it! My husband said “You just ruined it for yourself…no more going to Olive Garden to get this now that you can make it just as good!” I also made the Tim Riggins brownies a few weeks ago…..yum-o!!!! I’m also so glad that Sara & Kate posted the link to your blog :) Great discovery!!!

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  242. Love the pizza puffs (as my girls call them) nand the strawberry poppy seed vinagarette. Thanks for all the great ideas!

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  252. I have so many favorite recipes off their blog, but I just tried the fresh fruit bruschetta and am in LOVE with it right now!

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  254. My favorite recipe, thats a tough one as there are several good ones. I have to say I LOVE the bacon wrapped chicken teriyaki with the homemade teriyaki sauce….yumm!

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  257. I have loved everything I’ve made from their blog. My most recent favorite is the guiltless alfredo sauce. But I first discovered them because of their sugar cookie recipe and glace icing instructions. I’ve used that combination a few times with perfect results.

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  259. Just found your site!! YAY ME!!! More recipes for me to try on my family. I think my favorite of your recipe for the moment is the Almond Poppyseed Bread! Sounds so yummy!!

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  260. I use at least one recipe from OBB blog every week but my family’s favorite is Everyday Cinnamon Rolls. I can throw them together in an hour or so and they taste like I spent all day making them.

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  264. I would SO love to win this awesome cookbook! They are amazing!! My fave is Any kind of noodles topped w/Alfredo sauce! Yumo! Add prawns & it’s even better!

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  267. I picked Peanut Butter Cup Caramel Shortbread Bars from Our Best Bites as well as the awesome “Not Your Mama’s Mac & Cheese from Christopher Lowell’s cookbook.

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  275. My newest favorite recipe is from OUR BEST BITES it is Brazilian Lemonade. I cannot get enough of this good stuff. Got my friends trying it too. This cookbook is popping up everywhere and you have done a great job of reviewing it. Would love to win it!

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  283. Love the Our Best Bites site and have wanted one of their cookbooks! One of my favorite recipes so far has been the Creamy Baked Chicken Taquitos, but also love their simple strawberry sauce. Yum!

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  284. I love taco soup…that is one of my favorites…you can always change or add ingreadients. It is always a hit at myhouse from the youngest to oldest.

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