I'm coming here empty handed today. Well almost...Looks like I won't be around here much this week and I apologize for that. I was hoping to have pictures of some of the behind the scene moment of the work for Carrie's cookbook but I got to tell you, when 2am rolls around...I have no more energy left to bake and write.
Carrie is here, staying at the house for a few days working with me on her book. It's the first time we meet in person and it really feels special to be part of making her dream come true. Above is an out take of one of the dessert for a her book. I was putting things together and wanted to check the morning light in the studio one morning.
I fall asleep flipping through pages of other people's cookbooks knowing that I am never going to have time to bake or cook anything from them. Instead of seeing them collect dust, I thought about holding a giveaway for a couple I have enjoyed reading so far. More like salivating as I read! I have two wonderful books up for grabs for you today: Amy's Bread and Unforgettable Desserts.
All you have to do is leave a comment here (one entry per person) between Tuesday February 9th and Friday February 12th midnight eastern US time. I'll ship anywhere in the world. My dear B. will pick at random a winner for each cookbook.
I really am bad at having a pool of recipes ready to go for busy times. I wish I was as organized as my buddy Jen. Sigh...I have a post in draft mode. I don't have things properly aligned in my head yet. Ha...that could be a goal for 2010 right - a sort of late resolution. Hmmmm. I promise to work on that.
Thank you for your patience!
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Oh, I'd love a copy of Amy's Bread! I've heard of it but don't have a copy.
I hope things are less hectic for you soon.
Please include me in the draw for the Unforgettable desserts...I hyave time to actually use it .
my sourdough is bubbling away on the counter , and needs to be used in a new recipe...
I love your blog. Great photos and the food is perfection!
Happy Wednesday :)
This is the best food blog I have come across! The beautiful pictures and exquisite recipes are to die for. Can't wait attempt some myself :)
thanks for entering me!
i love your photos!
Any new cookbook is welcome in my lil' "library". Thank you for a chance at one.
(jttso2ATgmail.com)
What beautiful pink colors!
Thanks for the giveaway! I love recycling cookbooks w/ other people!
Both books look amazing!
count me in!
Either of those cookbooks sound great!
Fingers crossed on one of these. You shouldn't punish yourself about not being around for a few days - we all know what life is like!
it's great to be busy, but i do hope you have some relaxing moments here and there!
Hello! I have recently discovered your blog, I like your photos! Its very very pretty and professional looking.
I'm a young girl who aspires to be a pattisiere when I grow up. You inspire me more. :)
Ma chère Helene, the reason why you can't get things properly aligned in your head must be due to exhaustion. I learned a valuable lesson these last couple of years. I learned to say NO sometimes. We women tend to want to please everybody. We are good in multitasking, but we need to slow down and take time to relax. My advice for your New Year resolution is to take time for yourself and just do nothing for some minutes per day. I call this recharging my batteries. hehehe
Bonne chance ma belle.
Hope you can send one of these books to Canada. Between us, I would love the dessert books. Yummy. Hehehe
LOVE your site and your photographs are beautiful!
Oh my..stunning stunning shot. I hope I win oe of those wonderful giveaways!
Your recipes make me addicted, as well as my family!
Thanks for your inspiration!
I'm crossing my fingers to win any of the books, both look amazing.
Kisses
J'en veux uuunnn! I want a cookboooook! Merci ;-)
I would love either of the cookbooks! Collecting them has become one of my favorite things!
Farra Cassidy
maskrebel@hotmail.com
You had me at "Amy's." I've been trying (with only moderate success so far) to replicate her fennel-semolina bread. Utterly delicious.
love your blog, beautiful pictures.
I would love one of the cookbooks!
I recently started subscribing to your blog and i totally love it! all the pictures look so so good and i feel like making all the yummy desserts! Your blog really inspires me and i wish i could quit my job and bake professionally!
by the way i'd love a copy of unforgettable desserts!! yummyy!!
I love your blog, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! And your recipes are simply PERFECT!! Besos desde España!! ;)
Both books look amazing! But I am excited for Carrie's cookbook as well, the photo looks really yummy (I am craving strawberries but it's just not the time for them in Germany)
claracharlotte@hotmail.de
I would love to win the cookbooks. I visit your blog every day~
Ashley
delicious giveaway!
I love your blog!! I am in!!
Marta GM
There's a copy of Amy's Bread at my local bookstore with my fingerprints all over it from thumbing through...LOVE Amy's Bread down in Chelsea Market! Your photos are always fabulous!
Your photographs are amazing! They make everything look so good.
Since I'm pretty much snowed in, I have trudged to the store and now am planning to just stay home and make macarons all weekend!!!
Thank you, love the food here! Hope anyone in the NE snow storm is warm & safe!
Good idea!
Its possible to entry in the sort living out of your country? ;)
I love your blog, and I follow you since a lot months a go.
Kisses!
Not exactly empty handed, my friend! The books look divine. Count me in, even if I am in the 600's!
Not exactly empty handed, my friend. Count me in on those marvelous books! (Even though I am # 600 something. Yikes!)
this picture looks so promissing!
and of course i would be very happy about this lovely giveaway...
I love cook books and can't cook without one!
I really enjoy this site,and sometimes makes my day when I see a recipe that changes everything I had planned for the day.I would love a cookbook.
Get some sleep! :) Your photos are beautiful!
Even a non-recipe looks good. Thanks for the give-aways. Happy Valentine's Day.
Ooh, bread AND dessert - two of my favorite things! I never win these things, but I enter anyway!!
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Barbara
http://ifididnthaveasenseofhumor.blogspot.com
I've been feeling rather apathetic about what to cook lately, so some new cookbooks would really come in handy!
i love your macaron recipes!!! they are always so creative and beautiful!
My home would welcome either one of these books. :-)
Oooh, I can never have enough cookbooks. They both sound fantastic.
And that is a beautiful photograph!
Katie[at]KatieJaneParker.com
I would love to try dsome new recipes and improve my baking skills. Merci pour les belles idées Hélène!
just found your blog!!
great giveaways... cookbooks are always good to have more! ;)
i love cookbooks! And baking! And you delicious photos. I can almost taste those strawberries.
Not that I need another cookbook, but...too good to pass up.
I enjoy reading your blog
thanks
Good luck with the cookbook and completely understand about being too busy to blog and bake!
I love cookbooks!
Who doesn't love a new cookbook?!?! I love giveaways! Fingers crossed.
steph-at-hip@hotmail.com
I have been coming to your site for quite a long time, and just love it.
OMG 600+ comments!! oh well, here's a shot! :) I so love cookbooks, but haven't had the cash to buy one yet. I've only borrowed from the public library to pore over the beautiful photos and illustrative words.
So let me win! :P
mmh cookbooks... :)
Yay! This is a great giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity=)
I am in awe of your photos! Thank you for sharing.
Great giveaway. I can't wait for strawberries to be in season around here!
Wow over 661 comments- this is fab! Have fun my friend!! xo
I wish I could write on my blog as often as you do, and for my posts and pictures to look at least half as good as yours! Great giveaway!
Those books sound awesome! I hope I'm lucky!
I would love to add either book to my current collection. Here's keeping my fingers crossed!
How exciting! I'd love a chance to get a peek at one of your cookbooks. Your blog's incredible. :)
cookbook please!
Would love to even just get one cookbook, two would be a special treat! Love your photos!
Wow! both cookbooks sound fantastic. I love visiting your site. great recipes and photos.
Since the Chinese New Year is this weekend, I think it's perfectly acceptable to start a resolution :)
BTW, I absolutely love the table you shoot on in that shot.
wow, great giveaway! I hope I win
I'd love either of those books! Going to try my hand at macarons this weekend...can't wait!
Thanks!
how exiting ! I collect recipes and this would be a wonderful addition.. best .. Gaby in South Africa
I am learning the art of making macarons.. thanks so much for your tips.. Gaby in South Africa
I love cookbooks!
Yet another amazing shot. Your website is full of them.
Unforgettable Desserts looks unbelievable!
Thank you for hosting this give away.
Picture is so yummy. Just had a baby boy 3 weeks ago and this is my cooking outlet. The books sound great as well. Hope you have a fabulous day!
Will miss you while you're away! Love your photos and your desserts. I've been bookmarking your recipes, hoping to make them once I get a little bit more advanced in baking! Can't wait to have you back. Have fun!
Your site is such an inspiration. Your photography is mouthwatering and your writing makes me makes the food come alive. Thank you for sharing it so generously!
Oh...I would love to receive one of those cookbooks. I have to say since I found your blog. I have been trying new recipes and have now decided to look for a new cook book and try those recipes.
Both books look great!
I would love a new cookbook! Those strawberries look delicious!
love the blog!
I came across your blog last week and I am amazed by your beautiful photographs. I've just enrolled in pastry school and your wonderful creations will be an inspiration!
Linda
I was hoping for a nice dessert from you to beat the blizzard
Now, either of those cookbooks would make my day!
Ooh! Pick me! Pick me! I would love to be the owner of either of the two books!
Dear Tartelette, thank you for your wonderful site, and for the macaron tutorials. I successfully baked mocca macarons, poppyseed-lemon macarons, walnut-blood orange macarons...and I'm plannnig lot more :), following your basic receipe!
so much inspiration from your words!
so much inspiration from your words!
Hi from sweden. I love your blog and im so happy that i found it a few months ago!
Im actually training to be a pastry chef/baker now and im loving it. You're an inspiration.
Best Wishes to you :)
Thanks for all you do! You are an inspiration to so many! Love your photos!
i would feel honored to win one of these cookbooks! love scouring them for new & inspired recipes! thanks!
I love your blog. Can't wait to see the new cookbook you are working on.
Agnes P.
Woot! Who could say no to a free cookbook? Also, I want your strawberries.
Your photos are such an insipiration to anyone, I truly hope that Carrie loves working with you on her book :)
I would love either of these cookbooks for my collection please. Probably good you didn't post a recipe today, they are all making my 'must try' list and I am way behind!! Thank you for sharing.
Honestly, I don't know how you can even keep up a blog! My days aren't nearly as busy as yours and I find it hard to "remember" to post anything on my blog. I think we're all just happy to enjoy your posts and beautiful images when they're posted. It's like a little treat you appreciate more because you don't have it all the time. Cheers!
Oh goodness, I would love to win!! Fingers crossed!!
You have such a great talent for food styling! Just drooling over your photographs!
Good luck with the book!
I love your blog!
Best wishes from Lithuania
Why have I only now found your site???!!This is lovely.
Oh gosh I wish I could photograph like you :) Please keep going!
Hooray! Cookbooks!
That photo of strawberries makes me hopeful for spring...
Not that I have room in my kitchen bookshelf, but I'm a sucker for a good cookbook!
Hello from another Helen :)
Would be wonderful to win one of these book. Hope I'm lucky!
Courage pour les nuits blanches... & enjoy it!!
Beka xoxo
Thanks for thinking of us. We'll settle in and read cookbooks and you can post whenever.
those look great!! would be nice to have new recipes for during these snow storms!
Hi, I would like to be chosen because I absolutely need cook books at the moment to relax myself and prepare something delicious to my parents who are always too tired to cook (especially sweets)!!!
PS:your blog is really marvellous
Great books! Thanks for doing a give away.
I love your blog, Tartelette! It makes me wish I were at home baking instead of sitting in an office.
Please enter me into your book giveaway.
Merci!
Amy
I love the simple purity of the photo!! The colors and lighting seem are perfect. And I would love to get those cookbooks. My wife does actually use recipes from many different books and these would be a welcome addition.
Great giveaway!! Both books would be wonderful additions. :)
I miss strawberries so much right now! So I am keeping your lovely photo in the background.
it's finals time at the Uni and i can't seem to dind the time to bake but at least i have the ceautiful pictures on your blog to inspire me!
I would love a cookbook! I hope I will win one! I love your website. mayumi408atgmail.com
Thanks for this generous book offer!
My cookbook shelves are on the verge of collapse but both those titles are absent. Even more so, I'll be looking forward to the publication of YOUR book!
My husband told me that I have too much food porn lying around but I loooooooove them :)
Love your blog, read it everyday and make the recipes often. Can't wait to try the chocolate banana tart!
My cookbook library could definitely use some fabulous new additions like these two!!
I love your site and the pictures are awesome!
I would love another cook book.
Both books sound great!!!
Love your blog. Would love to be entered in your giveaway. Thanks so much!
Organization, unfortunately, seems to be more of a personality trait than a skill. I'm just hoping its latent and late blooming in my case.
I never win anything but I'd love to start with a new cookbook :)
Hi, I really like your blog. The recipes look delicious and you take beautiful photos!! I'm trying the macaroons soon!
nahielig@yahoo.com
Hi Helen - my name is Helen too . . . and I'm a pastry chef! I've been enjoying your blog for a few weeks now - thank you for all the inspiration ... very well done. I'm thinking of including your milk chocolate lime cremeaux on my dessert composition for VDay. Thanks again!
Wow, thanks for the opportunity, either of those books would be awesome :)
I really enjoy your blog!
Both look great, thanks for the giveaway, it's so nice from you. Love your blog, it really makes me salivate! Thanks from Barcelona, Spain.
I wish Carrie & you a nice time and work together!
Greetings from sunny Argentina
ooohhh i hope i hope i hope i hope i win the books!!!
fin ger crossed=)
What a great giveaway. Those strawberries look so good.
ooooh Amy's bread! that's been on my wishlist... *fingers crossed*
And here I was just coming for a recipe! It would be great to win!
I'm going to have to check out those two cookbooks. Thanks for sharing!!
I love visiting your site and seeing your gorgeous creations. Your photos are so vivid, I wonder what camera type or model you use. Your site is well put together. How do you keep yourself motivated? Do you do this for a living? Just curious...
Can't wait for a new recipe. I check your site almost every day! Thank you for all the lovely recipes and all the beautiful photos!
Please pick me!
I would love to win a cookbook too :D Unforgettable Sweets sounds really good!
Ah this comment is entered~ ^_^
Love the posts! Love the pictures! Thanks a ton!!
My resolution this year is to cook something from those books I too have just getting old on the shelves.
It's always a pleasure to read your posts.
Wow! 700 comments! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration that I get everytime I visit here. So...what is left to say? "Pick me! Pick me!"
=) Have a great day!
Just love that photo.
The BlogAid book is beautiful; what an honor it must be to be part of such a talented and generous community!
Love your site, and the books sound awesome!
I have a 4 month old and not much time for baking so I live vicariously through your gorgeous blog. I try to bake as much as possible on the weekends or at night after my little guy goes to sleep, but I have yet to tackle one of your recipes. One day...
Ohh great giveaway! Thanks for the offer! You take really lovely photos, btw.
Amy's Bread sounds like a fantastic book. I'd love to have it in my library.
I'm with you on needing to pile up recipes for when I get streched thin...
Those look like some great books!
I'm drooling over both of those, but especially the Amy's!
Oooh, I can only hope I'm a winner. :) thx for the giveaways!!!
Your site rocks! I would love to win a cookbook; I also love to pour over them. :)
Wow. so many comments. You are popular!
I found your blog about a week ago, and I have to say that the recipes you list are quite decadent, and are definitely inspiring me to be adventurous with cooking. Thanks for the access to wonderful cooking knowledge!
Wish baking was a cure for insomnia!
Elaine
I love a good giveaway!
Thank you!
thanks for sharing helen!
i so wanna see your pictures in C's cookbook!
love always..
Laura
I collect cookbooks. It would be fun to win one of yours.
Greetings from Iceland
I lookat your website every day - love it!
Hulda Gunnars - twitter: hug71
I only came across this site a few months ago and it gave me a flashback of when I was 11 years old and made macarons in my family's small kitchen because I had read about it in Bon Appetit Magazine's Paris edition (I had always wanted to go to France). I downloaded your macaron tutorial and plan to recreate those memories this weekend!
I would love a hand me down cookbook, those are the best!
I've only begun trying to bake bread - I decided it is worth overcoming my fear. Would really like that bread book, but I'm sure the desserts would soften the pain if I don't get it.
As usual, your blog is beautiful. Looking forward to the Haiti blog cookbook (it, too, will take away completely any residue of letdown on not being chosen).
naomi
I love your site and appreciate all of your hard work!
bread and dessert...don't know which I love more...
I'd love one of those cookbooks! Please enter me into the running!
Hello! I've just discovered your blog and I think it's great!!! The name "my tartelette" reminds me of the tasteful desserts I used to eat in the south of France... I'm crazy about macarrons, specially those from Ladurée... and those ? made from your recipe were just delicious! I would be thrilled to receive one of your books,I've discovered recently the passion of cooking and this book would be very useful to me... The picture of those strawberries remind me the charm of simple things, but tasteful...Love from Portugal, Solange
I think your photography is absolutely incredible, so warm and comforting. Along with your fabulous recipes!
I love cookbooks! Pick me, please :)
I would love to own Amy's bread- I am trying more bread recipes this year, seeing if I can make yeast my friend!
I love your recipes!!
oh, i'd love to win this! by the way: your photos are so gorgous!
Strawberries make me think "summer"!!
Hello again,
After reading a lot I think I have decided to go for the Nikkon D40, it has great reviews for beginners. Just wanted you to know.
Best regards,
MAML
Glad to know I'm not the only one to use books as bed time reading- And I'd love to have something new to dream about!
Tu es magnifique Helen, et j'adore ton blog! Thanks for the chance to win the books, my daughter and I have a fondness for cookbooks...Michele
You are so great at photography! I hope to get better and you are my inspiration!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I don't have very many cookbooks, I'm just starting to bake, so a cookbook be be very nice!
Mmm..strawberries...don't work too hard:)
Been a regular reader since I started blogging. You have always been my inspiration.
Let's hope I will be the lucky one this time.
I have been doing a lot of baking lately, I think because the weather has been so cold here. Both these books sound like they would be great to have.
Hello Hello!
I hope you find the energy to send one of those cookbooks to Mexico! haha!
Have a great weekend, Helen!
Thanks for the chance for a cookbook!
I love your blog and now love Amy's! I am in SC too further north in Greenville, but come south to wonderful Charleston as often as possible!
Your posts are always inspiring ... now I just need the energy boost to actually cook beyond a bowl of cereal! Some days it's hard, isn't it?!?
i just discovered your beautiful blog TODAY! happy baking and cooking,
emily
I check your site all of the time for inspiration and a laugh; it's like visiting a friend for a chat. Love the pictures and recipes!
Would love to add to my cookbook collection... most recently I bought the Pioneer Woman cookbook, but since I LOVE to bake, I'd really better start building a dessert cookbook collection! YUM...
I'd love one!
I love your site. The pretty pix of those yummy desserts! Wish I could make them as well as you do >x<
Thank you for posting~ x3
Yes please! More cookbooks!
Those strawberries look delicious!
Beautiful photography on your site.
How wonderful to be able to do what you love to do! I have a feeling a 2 am bedtime does nothing to dim the satisfaction you feel at the end of the day :)
Thanks for the giveaway.
Love the site.
Chris
zekks at yahoo dot com
Thanks for yours recepies, I did your Chai coffee cake, and I really enjoy it. Your photos are beatiful, they are poetry for the senses.
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