This giveaway is now closed. Thank you!
Remember The Gathering of Friends cookbook I told you about recently? Now’s your chance to get a free copy of your own! TWO lucky, randomly-selected TWFD readers will each win a copy of this great cookbook! Just leave a comment on this post by Midnight PT on Sunday, December 14!
Thank you to Michelle Huxtable & Alyse Christensen, the authors of The Gathering of Friends, for such a great holiday giveaway! And be sure to check out their website, where you can order the book, see some video and get some recipes!



Hello! My name is Jane Maynard and you've landed yourself on my blog, This Week for Dinner™. Every Sunday I share a weekly menu...and then count on you to share your own! You'll also find other deliciousness that I hope you'll enjoy!









Merry Christmas to me?!
I love entertaining friends!
That looks wonderful.
pick me?
I need this today!
Oh, it looks beautiful and I need all the help I can get when it comes to entertaining.
looks like a great book!
Michael has just stopped being a picky eater and now I’m desperate for new recipes to try out on him! Good-bye bologna sandwiches, hello gourmet eats!
count me in
I would love it! Thanks Jane!
Oh! I have admired this cookbook from a far for a loooooooooong time now.
Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
Recipe books are always one of my favorite things to give (and get) for Christmas.
What a great idea! This would be fun.
oh, please enter me in the contest! I’d love to give this to my friend who looooooooves cookbooks (after I take a gander, of course…)
Oh! Me!
I love a good cookbook. I hope I win.
This looks fabulous! Thanks for the chance to win!
sounds great!
Enter me!
Oh, yeah! Thanks for the chance!
I love cookbooks!! Thanks for the chance to win a new one…
Will you come cook for me if I win?
Oh this would make a wonderful gift for my dad!
Perhaps winning this book might kick us in the pants to entertain again post-baby. Thank you…I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
SWEET. I hope I’m one of the lucky ones!!
I’d love to win one of these books. Thanks!
I’d love a new cookbook!
I would love to have this book.
Jane, Hope I get the cookbook!! I love cookbooks. Also, I used your site for an Amazon purchase, FYI. I deserve to WIN!!!!!
Isn’t this a clever book? Does it come with a personal assistant? Seriously, it’s a great idea and perfect for “starting anew” in the holidays. If I win it, I promise to use it!
This book looks wonderful!
I would love this…so would my friends and family who I cook for!!! Thanks Jane!
I love your giveaways!
Thanks!
Thanks, Jane!
I would love to win this — thanks Jane!
Ohhhh…hope it’s me this time!
I love to entertain and I can always find room for just one more cookbook. Here’s keeping my fingers crossed.
Oh that looks like a wonderful cookbook!!
All my cookbooks are in the storage unit……fingers are crossed
So excited! I’ve given this as a gift to someone and have never received it so I hope now’s my chance;-)
I love all the great recipes. I didn’t bring any of my cookbooks and so I really love that I have your site to look to for great ideas.
i am a cookbook fanatic!! hope i win
pick me. I LOVE cookbooks!
how very exciting!
Yes! I need this book. Really, really need.
I’d love this, really plan to start entertaining in my new digs.
Sounds great! I’d love to check it out!
Awesome giveaway! One can never have too many cookbooks!
What can I say. . . I’m a cookbook junkie. Cook books are my novels. Try taking one to the airport next time or to the beach. Way more inspiring than people or us weekly with the added bonus of getting down on yourself after looking at the pictures.
I love cooking and I love friends — great combination!
I love love love cookbooks and feeding my friends and family. This would be so much fun to have.
Yum!!
I Would love to win this book. I too am a cookbook junkie and as a mother of a nearly two-year old, am always looking for new, easy recipes for feeding my little family or having friends and family to our home to share a meal. My birthday is on the 23rd…this would make a wonderful birthday gift
LOL…but seriously, my birthday is on the 23rd.
Oh how I heart new cookbooks!
Merry Christmas and stuff.
i love new cookbooks! pick me jane!
I am not a bad cook, but just can’t seem to get it together with the table settings and presentation. This book would be a big help! Merry Christmas, everyone!
I met the authors but didn’t buy the book, but this would be sweet!
Is Michelle Huxtable related to the TV family by chance? j/k I would love this book!
okay, you can give this to me jan 15. thank you in advance.
I have a beautiful daughter that would love this…. so pick me!! Nicki
Hey Jane,
Did you know you are on the front page of the UCSD housing webpage?
http://hds.ucsd.edu/hsgaffil/affilhsg_stats/ArchStatistic.aspx?community=LJDS
Say hi to Nate for me.
I love cookbooks. I love your blog. I’d love to win!
I do love cookbooks..
I would love to win the cookbook!
“Have friends, will gather.”
I would love to win this for a friend of mine who loves to read cookbooks.
Yummy! Thanks for the give-away.
I need this cookbook! I’m in a rut and need some inspiration to try new recipes! My family will thank you!
I would love this cookbook!
Any cooking help is gladly accepted! I hope to win! Thank you, Jane!
Looks amazing… pick me!
Big money, No Whammies…I need that cookbook!
I’ve seen this book it’s incredible! The prettiest cookbook out there!
i love to entertain – looks like they have some great ideas and recipes!
Can never have too many cookbooks … both D and I have a fetish for cookbooks!
You can never have too many cookbooks! Although I am running out of shelf space!
this is a comment
if only we could have a gathering of friends. hopefully one day!
Maybe this cookbook will help me come up with some new recipes for the annual family gathering. I can use all the help I can get!
Just found this website and i love it already!
Wow, I’m 81! Lotta interest in this book–it looks great!
Just trying my luck here. Hope I get it!
I just don’t have enough cookbooks. I need it badly.
I read cookbooks like novels. Please pick me!
I love books like this!
I could use some new recipes! Ya for good cookbooks!
Love it!
If I win I promise to give it as a gift, after I look at it!
We are making such a lovely community of friends and I am learning to entertain friends with toddlers (like us)! It would be so wonderful to have and use this book in my journey of friendship and entertaining:)
I cook! Pick me!
well, i didn’t win the last one, so i’ll try for this one!!
Looks like a lovely book!
I want to win.
I love cookbooks, entertaining and of course winning!
I love to get new cookbooks (almost as much as getting new shoes), especially when they are recommended to me. Thanks!
I always need another cook book.
I have just the spot for it on my kitchen bookshelf
This looks great – I love cooking and would love to be entered!
I love cookbooks! I want this!
Vicki
I am feeling lucky!
I am always looking for something new to feed my kiddos!
wow, lots of responses…cookbooks are my favorite reading material.
I love your blog. Thanks for including me in the giveaway!
Oh, pick me! I love to collect cook books!
I love cookbooks!
This would be a very nice Christmas present for myself and I could use it to make Christmas dishes for my family!
I love cookbooks – and your blog!
Another great giveaway! Thanks Jane!
I wouldn’t survive with out your blog. It’s helped and inspired me to get organized and plan great meals for my family. Thank you for making it easy!
Always love new ideas and recipes.
you always have such fun things to give away!
Oh, I loved browsing through their website, when you first posted about the cookbook. It would be so fun to win this one!
The cookbook would give me some great new ideas for our Christmas feast this year!!!!
who can’t use another cookbook?
This looks great! I love trying new cookbooks!
Not much chance of this, but
PICK ME, PICK ME =]
It looks like a wonderful cookbook!
I’m ready to cook from something new, cute title.
I love me a good cookbook.
What a fun book..I would love that for the holidays!
The book looks great! I think that it would give me an excuse to invite friends over! Thanks!
Maybe this time…
okay, i really want to win this book! And it’s my hubby’s b-day on the 14th- which means….nothing for this raffle, but felt like that would give me good vibes:)
I live in cold Ottawa, Ontario -20 degrees today! I get together with friends as often as possible to stay warm through the winter. Please enter me!
I would love to gather some friends around after I win this book!
I always love a new cookbook! Happy Holidays
I love cookbooks! This one looks great!
Whoo Hoo!~~Thanks for the opportunity!
Looks like a great cookbook!
Please oh please! I would love to gather my friends together and cook a yummy meal!!! I can never get enough cookbooks. Merry Christmas.
What a fun giveaway!! Count me in. Thanks!!
ooohhh!!! how exciting! I am so addicted to cookbooks… this would be so fun to add to the collection!
What a great giveaway before the holidays!! I would LOVE this cookbook! It looks super fabulous!
I’m glad I stumbled upon your site… it’s inspiring me to get cookin’! =)
Would winning this count as a Xmas present?
That book would be perfect!
I want this book! How wonderful!
Nothin better than a good cookbook! I hope I win!
I would love this cookbook! Thanks!
I hope I’m chosen.
I have a thing about collecting cookbooks and would LOVE this one! Dena
Oh…Cookbooks are my absolute favorite reading! It would be a Christmas Miracle!!!
I’d love to have this cookbook!
looks fabulous!
I am in a recipe funk! I would love a new cookbook!!!!
Please pick my wife….then it is one less thing I have to figure out for Christmas!
i love recipes!
Would love this, thanks!
Tis the season to be cook’n! In the cookbook I’d be look’n!! Pick me!
I feel lucky!
I love cookbooks! I can only hope it is my lucky day!
Awesome cookbook! I have volume 2 and absolutely love it. Need Vol 1 !!!!