The giveaway is now closed. Congrats to winner, Laurie Williams. Thanks to all who entered!
The events of last week put a bit of a hold on my current favorite cookbook showcase, but I’m back this week with a few more favorites to share! Today, I’m featuring my good friend, Lori’s, new cookbook, The Recipe Girl Cookbook!
I’m sure you are familiar with the Recipe Girl blog… one of the most comprehensive places for recipes on the internet. When I found out Lori was going to be doing a cookbook, I knew this was one book I’d want on my bookshelf! I can let you know, friends, that Lori’s cookbook does not disappoint. With over 190 recipes and tips for successful entertaining, The Recipe Girl cookbook is a great cookbook for beginner and advanced cooks a like!
What do I love about Lori’s cookbook? Well, to start, I really like that her cookbook has a lot of variety to it. From simple appetizers, like Caramelized Onion Dip, to healthy salads, like Triple Berry Salad with Sugared Almonds, to Caramel Apple Pie Crust Cookies, there are recipes for each and every taste and occasion. Oh, and cocktails… I love the cocktail recipes in The Recipe Girl cookbook! That’s why I’ve chosen to share this Orange-Basil Mojito recipe with you… it’s unique and refreshing and you’ll definitely want it to be on your list of cocktails to indulge in this summer.
Before I get to the recipe, Lori has teamed up with KitchenAid to give Dine & Dish readers the chance to win a copy of The Recipe Girl Cookbook AND a new KitchenAid Blender! Yay!
Recipe Girl Cookbook & KitchenAid Blender Giveaway Details!
To enter the giveaway for the Recipe Girl Cookbook and a 5-Speed KitchenAid Blender that comes in your choice of 12 different colors ($129.99), leave a comment on this post telling me why you want to win the Recipe Girl Cookbook!
For additional entries, share a link with info about this giveaway on any of your social media outlets. Return to this post and leave a comment letting me know where it was shared. Each place you share it will grant you an additional entry. Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc are all great places to spread the giveaway love! You can easily share by using the buttons at the end of this post.
All entries must be received by midnight, CST, Wednesday, May 1st. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and notified via valid email address.
Now, onto the recipe! Enjoy!
Orange-Basil Mojitos
Ingredients
- 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1/2 cup thick simple syrup see instructions
- 10 large fresh basil leaves stems removed and discarded
- 1 cup white rum
- 1 cup club soda
- Crushed ice
- Orange slices for garnish
- Additional basil leaves for garnish
Instructions
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In a medium pitcher, combine the orange juice, simple syrup and basil. Use a wooden spoon or a muddler to crush the basil leaves in the bottom of the pitcher. Stir in the rum and club soda. Serve immediately in individual glasses over crushed ice. Garnish with orange slices and fresh basil.
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To prepare thick simple syrup, in a small saucepan, bring 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup granulated white sugar to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, stirring the mixture until the sugar has dissolved. Remove the pan from heat and let cool.
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I want to win because I just moved out of my parents house and started cooking on my own. I def need a great recipe book for inspiration
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I’d love to win! I love reading Recipe Girl’s blog!
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I follow her blog and love her recipes – I would love to own this book.
I love them both, Lori’s beautiful website and the blender 🙂
Fabulous photographs, Kristen!
I read Lori’s blog and know that her family-oriented recipes would be a good fit for the cooking I do with my family in mind. Plus, we are both from SoCal and have a taste for the same local ingredients (like avocados!).
I can always use more inspiration! Thanks, the book looks gr8 & a blender would be icing on the cake
I read and use Lori’s blog and recipes and would love to have her book. All of her recipes are spot-on delicious!
Love the orange flavor in this mojito! This will be perfect for summer 🙂
I’m not entering I already have a blender – just wanted to say how fantastic that drink looks. I will be making this one this summer.
Your recipes are amazing and I’m in desperate need of a blender and a new cookbook ! (And May 2 is my birthday!)
Oh my goodness this is going to be a long cocktail-less Summer!!! Drooling over the basil!!
I love food photography and the pics look amazing!
I love Lori’s blog and love her recipes. Even if I don’t win her cookbook I’m buying it from Amazon. Gotta have it. Thanks.
I follow Lori’s Recipe Girl blog and already know her recipes are great!
Her recipes on her blog are awesome! would love a cookbook to call my own!
I am a new baker so I would work my way through the Recipe Girl Cook book and see how well I can sharpen my skills!
I love her blog and I have seen her book recipes from her other blogger friends this past week and they look and sound so great!
Lori’s Recipe Girl blog is my go-to blog for weeknight meals and I am sure her cookbook is filled with amazing recipes.
I love all of Recipe Girl’s recipes! Every one I have tried has been a huge hit.
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I love Recipe Girl’s recipes, that simple. I’ve been following her blog for a while and truly enjoy everything. This is a wonderful giveaway prize pack that I would love to win!
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I would love to add the cookbook to my collection!
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I enjoy her blog (and her son’s) and would enjoy using the cookbook!
Plus a blender would be a bonus as ours is on its way out.
This drink looks delicious. I am loving the basil in it!
This drink is so pretty and Lori book is just amazing! I love it, she did such a awesome job!
The recipes look amazing! I am in desperate need of some new ideas to throw into the family meal rotation.
I want to win the recipe girl cookbook because, well, 1) I love her branding! (yea, I’m a bit of a marketing geek) and 2) I love to try new recipes. I figure if I dig her branding, then her recipes HAVE to be equally as inspiring, right?!
Love the recipes so far – would love to see more from the book!
I am a fan of Lori’s blog and a cookbook junkie! I read cookbooks in bed at night like most people read novels! I’d love to work my way through Recipe Girl!
I love the sound of these mojitos…I just love mojitos in general. Amazing flavors!
I love lori’s easy and family friendly recipes! I’d love to win so I can try out some more of her delicious recipes!
I’d love to win for the awesome recipes of course 🙂
I absolutely love all of Lori’s recipes and this cookbook would be a huge hit in my home.
I’d make chilled peach soup
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I’m needing lots of new dinner ideas so this book would be perfect to have! This drink looks so pretty and refreshing!
I’d love a copy of The Recipe Girl Cookbook! I’ve tried a few of her recipes so far and I’ve loved them.
I would love to win! I like they variety of recipes I have seen and they are “real” foods that I would like to try!
I’m a follower of RecipeGirl and I love everything she does! I would love to win a cookbook with all her delicious recipes and a blender!
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I’d like to win Lori’s cookbook cause I love her site and I want to try more of her recipes! 🙂
This looks like a great cookbook- I like cookbooks with a variety of recipes!
this would be my first blogger cookbook!
I love that it contains easy family recipes! It would be an awesome addition to my cookbook collection.
You can’t ever have enough recipes in your pocket. This would be wonderful for my family to have.
I would love to win the cookbook because of recipes like this one,,Orange Basil Mojito sounds divine !!
I also have read great reviews about the book and her pictures look stunning !
I’ve just discovered Recipe Girl – I know I know – head’s in the sand. But I really enjoy her blog and am looking forward to checking out this book too!
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I love books that have insane variety – Recipe Girl looks fantastic, and I’m always trying to expand my collection! Thanks for the giveaway
I would love to win to get some new and delicious ideas for dinner!
I’d love to win Lori’s cookbook! I’ve been following her blog for years, and every recipe that I’ve ever tried from it has been fantastic!
Not really joining the contest, although Lori’s cookbook is indeed great. Just wanted to drop a line and say that mojito recipe is awesome.
I love her blog and am excited to see the book.
Would love to win her new cookbook. The recipes sound great. Have read her blog for awhile now.
I like to collect cookbooks, especially ones that have a variety of recipes in it. I also like the fact that Lori’s cookbook is great for beginners, which is what my 13 year old daughter needs.
I want to win her cookbook because her blog was one of the firsts that I started reading back in the day!
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Those look tasty! I’d love to get the cookbook and get new ideas for dinner. (Here via the link from The Boys Club.)
I would love to win this cookbook because I am such a huge fan of Lori and her blog!! She makes such delicious recipes!
I love cookbooks & your recipes, so I guess it would be a perfect combo!!!
Love the blog, so I am sure the cookbook will be just as fabulous! And who doesn’t want another cookbook! My secret obsession.
I love Lori’s blog and often print out many of her recipes. Owning her cookbook would be awesome!
I would love to win the Recipe Girl Cookbook because I just moved into my first home and need a reason to utilize my new kitchen!
I would like to win the book because I tend to get stuck in a rut. Often times a new cookbook is just what I need to give me a push to try something new and different.
I’d love to win because all of her recipes are amazing and if she’s “saving” some of the best ones for the book… it’ll be unbelievable 🙂
I love this take on the mojito. So fun!
I am a cookbook fanatic, the more the better, would just love to add this one to my collection, not to mention I could really use a new blender! Can’t wait to try this orange-basil mojito as mohito’s make me a happy, happy lady!
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I’d love to win because I love to cook and I am always up to trying new things!
I’d love to get my hands on Lori’s book! I always love how she puts menus together, her recipes are always amazing. Love this cocktail very much so, and I love those glasses too 🙂
I would love to win this cookbook as I’ve been in a recipe rut lately – definitely looking for awesome new recipes to try. I could also use a new blender – mine is 25 years old & limping along.
I’d love to win so I can make every single delish cocktail you come up with and share them with all my friends! xo
I’d love to win because I find myself going to the internet for recipes so often I could use a new cookbook to flip through and get recipes/ideas from. Not to mention my blender just went kaput. 🙁
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I would really like to win the Recipe GIrl Cookbook because I grew up in a house where were didn’t cook much. It was always too messy. I’ve slowly been learning to cook over the past few years and I’m always looking for new ideas.
I would love a new cookbook. With the change in seasons I’m ready to throw out all my winter recipes and start with some fresh and new menu items. Looks yummy too!
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I would love to win this because I love trying new recipes, and her new cookbook sounds amazing!
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I’d love to win the cookbook to add to my collection. I love Recipe Girl’s recipes on her blog so I’m sure there will be lots more great ones in the cookbook.
This screams summer and I can’t wait to make this! Love adding savory herbs to sweet drinks and desserts, such a trendy thing to do that actually works well!
I would LOVE to try Lori’s new recipes from her cookbook! Love her site.
I’d like to win the Recipe Girl Cookbook so I can tryout her many yummy looking recipes.. The blender would be awesome as well.
I just shared the giveway on Facebook.
I want to win the cookbook, because I am obsessed with cookbooks created by my fellow bloggers!
The cookbook looks awesome! and I don’t have a blender so that would be great!
Heavenly-sounding drink, Kristen!
I love the RecipeGirl blog and would love to have the recipes in her book as well!
I’ve been dying to get my hands on the Recipe Girls’ cookbook!! It looks fantastic!
The recipes look fantastic!!!
I’d love to win – the Recipegirl site is fantastic and a great place to find inspiration (as is Dine and Dish!!). I’d love to have the book to use, as well.
I want to win because Lori ROCKS!! I love the fact that she makes her recipes adaptable for gluten free.
Gorgeous cocktail, just love this drink. Your photos are gorgeous.
I’m still waiting on my copy of Lori’s book. Amazon.ca is slow as molasses. Can’t wait to check it out.
I would love to win the cookbook for my grandaughter, Lenae. She is 8 years old. She absolutely LOVES to cook and has since she was about two. ( I would like one for myself as well!!) For her the yummy pictures would compel her to dig in and try those recipes!!
Because I LOVE recipes!! And recipe books~ It’s a lost medium in this day of internet 🙂
I want to win the recipe girl cookbook because the recipes look amazing and would be fun to try them.
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I would love to win the blender! I love trying new foods, plus its nice to mix veggies into things for my kids without them knowing. my ninja died so I’m in the market for a new one!
This looks like a great addition to my cookbook collection!
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The recipe girl cookbook looks absolutely wonderful 🙂 I’d love to cook my way through it! These mojitos look fabulous!
I would love to win the blender! I love cooking and since my ninja died I’m in need of a new one. I’m a stay at home mom doing tons of activities. Blenders come in handy more than you know! Plus I love kitchenaid!
I really want to win this cookbook because I have heard so much about it and it looks like one I would find a lot of recipes I would want to try.
I wouls love to win because I discovered her blog earlier this year and it is so fab! A book would be easier to catch up with 🙂
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I’d love to win this cookbook for the great recipes, I’ve been very impressed and intrigued by the many samplings from bloggers these last two weeks!
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Oooooo! Yum! I love the orange and basil combo. I have never tried it. I love basil. So summery!
I am trying to eat more salads and the berry one sounds right up my alley!
Pinned the mojito recipe too!
I KNEW I was saving that rum for something! Great recipe! (I’m not entering the contest though – overseas … just wanted to share appreciation for a gorgeous drink recipe!)
I would love to win because I love her blog and would enjoy having her cookbook in my kitchen. I am the mommy of 3 (3,2, 7 months) and don’t buy many treats for myself anymore – this would be a fun “mommy treat,” that would make the whole family happy as I cook!
If the mojito came out of that cookbook, I want it! 🙂
I have been looking for a new cookbook to add to my collection!
I follow her blog already, and she always has such great recipes, and I think it would help make my dinners healthier.
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I am always looking for new recipes and this book looks good
Such a lovely cocktail you chose to share from Lori’s book!
I’ve followed the Recipe GIRL blog for a while and would love to own her book!
I would love to win this cookbook–her website if fabulous and I would love to work my way through her cookbook! Thank You!
I would LOVE to win ~ I collect cookbooks and my blender is so old I can’t even remember when I got it. Would be awesome to have a new one to make these mojitos!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win ~
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I would love to win the cookbook so I can make new and healthy food for my family
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Can’t wait to try this mojito! Thanks for the giveaway!
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I’m always interested in trying new recipes!
I would love to win this because I’m always looking for great, new recipe books to keep up variety in my kitchen.
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I want to win because the recipes look yummy and I need a new blender
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I love all of Recipe Girls recipes. This book would fit right in with my cookbook collection!
I collect cook books and recently, I’ve been trying to swoop up all of the books written by the bloggers that I follow to show support. Thanks for the giveaway!
Recipe girl cookbooks certainly looks like a winner.
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I am a cookbook freak. I own about 120 and I read them everyday. I have The Recipe Girl Cookbook. I love it. It is one of my favorites.
Looks like some new yummy recipes to try
I would love to win this cookbook because I love to try new recipes. Thanks!
If this mojito is any indication of what the rest of the recipes are like then I would LOVE this cookbook!
I would love a new blender, mine is really old & just about done. I just adore cookbooks, and this one looks amazing! Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m tired of making the same boring stuff!
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The mojito looks delish and is really getting me in the mood for summer! It looks like the cookbook has alot of fun and fabulous recipes to try, and I’d like to start broadening my cooking horizons!
I love Lori’s recipes and would love to have a copy of her new book so that I don’t always have to go to the ‘net for them!
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Always looking for fresh new ideas to feed the crowd. a new blender is needed as mine just died last week
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I want to win so I can make yummy stuff for my toddler and my book club.
I would love to win this because I have always wanted a Kitchen Aid blender and I have a mild cookbook addiction 🙂
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I love cookbooks and a Kitchen Aid Blender is on my wish list. Every recipe that I see from Lori looks so good!
This recipe looks so tasty! I can’t wait to share it with friends on a hot day.
A new blender would be wonderful cause I love to use mine but its sadly in its last legs after many years of use.
I love me a mojito! I’d love to win this cookbook because I need to get out of my cooking rut and this book just might help me.
I love RecipeGirl’s blog & everything I’ve made from her site. I’d love a copy of her cookbook.
I’d love to win because I love Recipe Girl!
I want to win the cookbook, because I’ve been following Lori’s blog for over a year now & I love her recipes!!
I would like to win pretty much because it looks AWESOME! And…cinnamon roll pancakes? Need I say more?!
I want to make some of that fresh & vibrant food while everything is in season!
I would love to win the new Recipe Girl cookbook because I am an avid follower of Lori Lange and would love to add this cookbook to my collection
I would love to win The Recipe Girl cookbook because her recipes are so very doable and so very delicious. And the KitchenAid blender–would absolutely love that! Thanks so much for the chance.
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Grat new cookbook with easy,healthy and tasty recipes, I’m in!
I would love to win the new Recipe Girl cookbook because I had been following Lori’s blog for so long! I would love to have all her recipes in a book! Thanks so much for the chance!
I’d like to win this because every single recipe I’ve seen from it, I’d like to make! That is rare for me. Thanks for offering up such a great giveaway!
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I’ve been following Lori’s blog (Recipe Girl) for awhile. She has so many wonderful recipes and her photos are lovely and inspiring. I would love to have all of that wonderfulness that I see on her blog in a cookbook right in front of me.
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Wold love to expand my cooking knowledge with this cookbook!
To make wonderful recipes like this!
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In the hot summer, this orange-basil mojitos is what I need. The rum is only thing I do not add to this recipe. Thanks for sharing, Kristen!