Announcing a special Book of Cookrye giveaway!

This Christmas, I made little homemade recipe books for everyone, and I still have the test copy with me. I've been wondering what to do with it now that I have given them all away. I couldn't bring myself to throw it out. So, this could be yours!

You may be thinking "Whyever would I want that cookbook? Most of the recipes are already on this site which I am looking at right now!" And you have a valid point (although there are a few recipes not up here). But if you find having printed books so much more satisfying, here y'are!

Hand-bound with the finest kite string and covered in the best wood from a theater department's scrap heap with a lovely flower design from a piece of 1925 sheet music on the front (plus a random arc which is meant to be there and not at all due to mis-positioning the book when I first tried to burn the flower on), this book has recipes for all these lovely things!

In addition, it has three photographs taken by me, two of which from when I was attempting to be a serious photographer! There's the bird stamped on the bottom of a bottle when you open the cover, and two people I met in New Orleans on the inside. Plus one I texted to my sister to show her I'm using the rolling pin she gave me. (See? Drinkware, people eating, making food. It's all quite thematic.)

Why yes, I did use the flower between recipes. I like the flower a lot.

You may be wondering how to get this book. Well, as previously mentioned, I have a lot of frozen bananas and need to find something to do with them. Send in a banana recipe! It can be one you've had around that you really like, or it can be one in a cookbook of yours that looks absolutely awful in an entertainingly frightening way which you've always wondered how it would come out. We welcome non-banana recipes as well if there's one you'd like to send in. You can email it to abookofcookrye@gmail.com or leave it in the comments. Please stick to the following:

*Please send in a recipe you already have. If I want recipes that turn up from an online search, I can find them. I want something that's not easily available online.

*Keep the ingredients list cheap.

*Please be in the continental United States or help out with shipping. Once you go beyond that, shipping gets pricey. Although if you're willing to help out with shipping charges, I can send it anywhere in the world.

*Send in recipes by February 28, 2015.