Ever wished you had your own kitchen prep crew? Well, you do–at your neighborhood gourmet grocer, Trader Joe’s. There you will find unique, fully prepped sauces, washed and cut vegetables, ready-to-use salads, gourmet cheeses, marinated meats, and even cooked items ready to assemble–from all around the world. The food at Trader Joe’s is delicious, has no artificial ingredients, and is consistently high quality.
Deana Gunn and Wona Miniati, women who love food, cooking, and Trader Joe’s, found themselves wishing there was a cookbook devoted to their favorite grocer. When they discovered one didn’t exist, they decided to write one.
In their new cookbook, Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s, Gunn and Miniati present ingenious recipes–from appetizers to desserts–that can be assembled in minutes. From the fresh herbs, fruits, and vegetables to the specialty sauces and condiments, frozen seafood, and even the wine–every ingredient in these recipes can be purchased under a single roof: Trader Joe’s.
Both mothers of young children, Gunn and Miniati have created a one-of-a-kind cookbook for people who love to eat delicious gourmet meals, but don’t have the time to shop, prep, and cook them. They show readers how to use fresh ingredients strategically coupled with pre-prepped items to make amazing dishes in less time than it takes to toast a bagel.
Readers will learn how to:
- Save an hour a day–with one-stop shopping and quick meal preparation
- Cleverly pair ready-to-eat ingredients for instant dishes
- Diversify your palate–with ethnic ingredients, exotic spices and sauces, and unusual foods from around the globe
- Make healthy, kid-friendly meals, snacks, and bag lunches in minutes
- Kick the junk-food habit with foods that have no unhealthy ingredients
- Pair foods with the right wine
Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s provides easy dinner solutions for busy moms, amateur cooks, singles looking for a “meal to impress,” and anyone else who loves the variety and quality of foods found at Trader Joe’s stores around the country. The book features gorgeous color photographs of every recipe and a reader-friendly index that makes it easy to find dishes featuring your favorite ingredients.
Win Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s!
We are giving away 6 copies of Deana Gunn and Wona Miniati’s cookbook, Cooking with all Things Trader Joe’s, for free to six lucky winners. Just post a comment on this blog and you’ll automatically be entered to win. The deadline to enter is September 10, 2009 at 5 pm CST. We’ll send an email to the winners so please check to make sure your email address is entered correctly. You’ll get an extra entry for EACH of the following (if you comment on our blog and do the other three things, you’ll be entered FOUR times):
- If you blog about this giveaway at your blog, we’ll give you an extra entry. Send us the link to your blog post.
- If you twitter about this giveaway, you’ll get an extra entry. Please send us the link to the tweet.
- If you add a link to us on your blogroll or website, we’ll give you an extra entry. Again, please show us that link!
Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s Cookbook Giveaway Summary
Prize: Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s
Deadline: September 10, 2009 5pm CST
Contest open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only. Winners must claim prize within 14 days of being announced.
Good luck!
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I really hope I win this contest. I love Trader Joe’s and I love all the recipes from Recipe Lion. thank you.
love love love Trader Joes, wish there was one closer to where I live 🙂
There’s not a Trader Joes in my area but whenever I travel I try to find one. Best, freshest items that I’ve found
sounds like a great cookbook.
I love Trader Joe’s! I didn’t know there was a cookbook using their foods. I would love to win this! We cook almost exclusively at home due to food allergies, health, and the economics of taking 4 kids out to eat, so any new ideas are great!
i hope I win this contest because even though I don’t live anywherenear a Trader Joe’s, my sister does, and she loves it. It will make a great present for her. I wish I could order from TJ’s on the internet.
Sound’s GREAT!
Wow a Trader Joe’s cookbook! It’s a great place to shop for label friendly items. I can actually read and understand, what’s going into my family’s bodies.
I love Trader Joe’s!!
I can only imagine that their cookbook would be wonderful also.
Thank you for this offer.
Love trader joe’s
i buy a lot of my vegetables there and all of my nuts and trail mixes.
great store
Love Trader Joe’s and keep hoping that they will come to Kansas City.
We want a Trader Joe’s in Kansas City area. Let me win. I just love their stuff.
I love your recipes! And I really love Trader Joe’s!
I tweeted about this contest. I sure do hope I win! I love to cook, I love Trader Joe’s and I love Recipe Lion.
Wow, this sounds awesome – I love Trader Joe’s! It has all this stuff you can’t get elsewhere to make more healthy and interesting meals.
I am definitly in the need of some new kid-friendly recipes!
I would love to win a Trader Joe’s cookbook. I just love shopping at Trader Joe’s, they have such wonderful and unique items! Thank you!
I would love this!
LOVE Trader Joe’s, this would be a fun book to win and use!
Trader Joe’s is one of the BEST!!
I’ve always loved to cook, but as I get older, I’m always looking for easier ways to put a good and healthy meal on the table. What could be better than Trader Joe’s ingredients and recipes?
Really enjoy Trader Joe cook books. Easy to read and fast to prepare. Thank-you.
I would love to win a Trader Joe’s cookbook. Thanks for the opportunity to try!
Thanks for having this contest! We love Trader Joe’s and I just got my own apartment and need cookbooks like this!
We love Trader Joe’s and my sister just got her own apartment so if I win, I’ll be re-gifting it to her for a housewarming present!
I love Trader Joe’s. My sister just got her fist apartment, but I don’t care, if I win this cookbook, I am keeping it for myself!
I love Trader Joe’s and if I win this cookbook, I’ll probably beat my oldest son over the head with it for being so selfish, before I give it to my daughter for her first apartment!
I’m a signal man with little timeto prepare meals .HELP ME
I love Trader Joe’s. Would love this.
I love shopping at trader joes. They have fabulous products and prices.
I love TJ. Wish they would open one in Idaho> This would be a great win!
Trader Joe’s Cookbook – what a winner!! I hope I am also.
A Trader Joes cookbook sounds like it’d be right up my cooking alley!
Every time I visit family in Sacramento, I come home to Nebraska with a bulging suitcase filled with Trader Joe’s items. Please Trader Joe come to Nebraska!!
I hope this works=)
I really would like to try the Recipes in The Trader Joe’s Cookbook, as I am a life long healthy Cook. Fresh is best !!! Regards, Desiray
I think this is a good.
My local Trader Joes gives out sample and often has a printout for the dish they are featuring. I can’t wait to see this new cookbook.!
Trader Joe’s is Da Bomb!
Can’t even imagine how great a Trader Joe cookbook would have to be!
I love all the great samples they have on the weekends. I can’t wait to get the cookbook, I enjoy reading cookbooks.
The Trader Joe’s cookbook looks intresting. I visit Trader Joe’s regularly, so it would be very useful too.
I recently moved to Tucson AZ and have discovered Trader Joe’s. This is heaven on earth for me! Everything is fresh and wonderful and everyone is very friendly and quick to answer any questions I have. I am delighted to see a cookbook for all the things I love to eat and the best place to shop for the yummies I eat! Thanks RecipeLion!
This cookbook sounds great to win, I just love getting hold of new cookbooks and recipes
I love Trader Joe’s and collect cookbooks. This is a win, win.
I LOVE Trader Joe’s and would love one of these cookbooks! What fun:)
I love to cook and would love to have a cookbook with new recipes. I am new to Trader Joe’s so anything would help.
We’ll hopefully have a new Trader Joes here soon!
I love Trader Joe’s. And I’d love to save an hour a day on cooking!
Trader Joe’s is one of my favorites. When in the store and getting pointers and “recipes” has a;ways been a treat.Everything turns out wonderful. New to red lion but like what I’ve tried. Thanks for this chance
This cookbook sounds like something I would use a lot! Thanks
I am SOOOO excited about the chance to win a Trader Joe’s Cookbook!! So many people rave about Trader Joe’s and since there is not one in my area, it would be awesome to have this Cookbook!!!
Thanks So Much,
Angela Bowers
This sounds like a great cookbook! I love Trader Joe’s!
Trader Joe’s is a terrific place to shop. I was introduced by my Mom, who lives in Napa, CA. It fits into the whole Napa Valley lifestyle and any lifestyle that enjoys healthy, organic eating. It would be an honor to receive a cookbook and be able to make delicious meals for family and friends.
This sounds great. RecipeLion has certainly expanded my cooking horizons.
I LOVE Trader Joe’s!! I haven’t been getting the recipes from Recipe Lion for long but so far I really like them. I hope I win!
I need this book. my wife will be ever so pleased that I have help.
I’ve never won anything in any contest.My luck is not good.Like my mom always said.If it wasn’t for bad luck I would have no luck at all.That’s me,but thought I would try one more time.Thanks,Katy
We don’t have a Trader Joe’s in our area (NE Ohio), but I have heard good things about it.
Would I like to win a Trader Joe’s cookbook–you bet!
i would to win a trader joes cookbook. i love trader joes stores .i loveto cook and love to try new things
I love the recipes from Recipe lion. Quick and easy.
Hope I win
Thanks for the offer!
hope i win
My daughter loves to shop at Trader Joe.I would love to win one for her.Good luck to me
Good Wines!!!!!
Good wines!!!!
I have loved to cook since I was 8yr.old.I also collect cookbooks too. I would love to win one of trader Joe’s. I love your recipes and the fast cook or prep menus. Sincerely Regina
U are the best, i would love a cookbook
I would love to win this cookbook since I love to cook
I absolutely LOVE Trader Joe’s! Wonderful idea to put together this cookbook – I am sure it’s bound to be a top seller!
I moved here 4 years ago and was introduced to TJ’s…it is wonderful! We even have family and friends from “home” take items home with them from TJ’s!
Bring it on Trader Joe! I want to try those great recipes!
I LOVE COOKBOOKS. I would love to have yours. Thanks.
Love Trader Joe’s LOVE recipe lion and could really use a healthy cook book 🙂
The only time we get to go to Trader Joes is when we visit our daughter in Virginia. Wish they would expand to Indiana
I cant wait to try every single recipe!
I love Trader Joes, I used to walk around there at lunch when I was employed. They’re inexpensive and have some different foods that I enjoy. Their produce is priced wonderfully as well. My daughter and I might have to make a trip there soon.
I really hope I win the cookbook giveaway, I can really use it
LOVE TRADER JOE’S SHOP THERE ALL THE TIME.NEVER GOT ANYTHING I WASN’T HAPPY WITH.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
please enter me in your cookbook giveaway
this sounds awesome
I hope I win I love trader Joes
I’m a busy mom that always on the go I need to win this cook book so my family has the best possible meal made with love from Trader Joe.
I really hope I win. I love to cook and to try new receipes!!
I love Trader Joe’s almonds and love that fact that they are opening another store across the street from where I work. This makes it all the more fantastic to shop Trader Joe’s. Just a trot across the street to get my almonds and everything else I need!! Thank you Trader Joe’s!
Thanks in advance for the cookbook !! :))))
Don’t know what Trader Joe’s is, but would like to fimd out.
I just had marinated salmon from Trader Joe’s 2 days ago and it was fantastic.
Love the food from T.J. and its even on the way home from work.
I would love to learn how to make something different.
The cookbook recipes sound delicious. I would love to win one of them.
I wish that we had a Trader Joes here!!! I hope that I am lucky enough to win one of these cookbooks 🙂
Have shopped Trader Joe’s for more than 20 years – remember when we could squeeze our own orange juice? Still find wonderful food and inspiration here!
I would love to win the cookbook!
I am excited about this contest
have you tried trader joes white balsamic vinegar it is to die for
I would love to win one of these cookbooks! Several of the clients I serve (as a caregiver) love Trader Joe’s, and it would be great to find recipes to work with things they already have or enjoy – quick and easy enough to prepare, even for me! My husband does all of our cooking; I have been a bit … uh … cooking challenged since he began to spoil me!
Please send me the cookbook! I really need recipes. Thank you!
Love to have this cookbook
i would love to have one of your cook books.
I love your cookbook!!
Love the store, wish one was much closer to where we live…any excuse to go to Joe’s. Got my fingers crossed I will win one of the copies. Build more stores, please, I’ll give you my address!!!
Don’t have a Trader Joe’s here, so I haven’t tried it yet, but I’d still love to win one of the cookbooks.
I love TraderJoe’s products that no other food market carries. I hope I am close to a store where I live.
I love to try new dishes and I collect cookbooks.
it is a passion of mine to cook and bake but i love to cook healthy meals and i have moved and lost all my recipes and miss cooking certain things and hope to win the trader joes cookbook giveaway.
This is one cookbook I don’t have and would love to add to my collection.
What a perfect idea for a cookbook!
I’d LOVE a cookbook using Trader Joe’s awesome ingredients that is also a time-saver!
Count me in, stopping by T’s today. Also – their oilcloth shopping bags are the greatest!
Trader Joe’s is great ’cause you can get healthy stuff there and not have to worry about using it as ingredients in your dishes. I love hitting Joe’s and then going home cooking something new and experimental!
Great food and great recipies, what could be better!
I’m vegetarian, but my family is not. TJ’s always allows me the ability to do one-stop shopping for both. (not to mention – love the wine selection!) A TJ’s cookbook would definitely help expand the menu!
We go to Trader Joe’s weekly. They have the best food.
A copy of this book would be a great addition to my collection and certainly one that I would use. Trader Joe offers such a great range of food items at reasonable prices.
Sorry to say I never heard of Trader Joe’s before. Be great to try new recipes.
I’ve recently had the opportunity to try Trader Joe’s products at a friend’s. I’ve changed my eating habits to include a lot more fresh and organic foods. I could really use some ideas on how to prepare some tasty meals!
I LOVE Trader Joes…. living in Boise doesn’t allow me to shop there except for when I visit family in the Seattle area. Would love to have a reason to visit.
Capital “T” for Trader Joe’s the BEST!
Hope more are opening up.
Great store in Federal Way, Wa.
I love cooking, but any way to save time sounds good to me!
My husband is trying to get a job at Trader Joe’s so this would be the icing if he gets hired!