A New Look… and a Giveaway!
So for those of you who haven’t noticed, Girl Cooks World got a major makeover at the end of last week. I finally made the big move over to WordPress from Blogger (yay!), which is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite awhile now. I’m super excited with the design and logo that Lindsay from Purr came up with. And I’m even more excited that manually indexing recipes is a thing of the past. Hallelujah.
In order to celebrate the launch of the new site, I’m giving away one $100 Amazon gift card to thank you guys for following along. To enter leave a comment below. That’s it. You don’t have to become a fan on Facebook, you don’t have to follow my pins on Pinterest, and you don’t don’t have to Tweet about this giveaway.
But I am going to use this as an opportunity to do a little market research. In your comment please let me know what country you’d most like me to “visit”. One comment per person and you have until midnight Hawaii time on Wednesday, October 24th to enter.
Back tomorrow with a new country and a new recipe!
Note: Although this giveaway is open to everybody, I’ll be giving away a gift card to Amazon.com. If you live outside of the United States, you may only be eligible to purchase certain items and you’ll likely have to pay for shipping.
Welcome! I'm Cate and Girl Cooks World is my recipe journal from my culinary trip around the world. 
Congratulations on your new look!! What a fabulous giveaway! Think we could all find something we want or need on Amazon! Even though I’m not Italian I love, love, love Italian food! So my vote is for Italy!
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Hi Cate, I love new look of your site. My mom is from Germany and I would love to see you explore some German food. I know a few recipes from her, but she was busy trying to please her American kid’s palates and wasn’t able to focus on cooking the foods that she liked and was familiar with. Now that I am older and can appreciate it, I would like to learn some of those recipes.
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 10:08 am
Isn’t that funny how that works? All the foods I was NOT interested in eating all all when I was younger were the first recipes I asked my grandma for once I developed an interest in cooking.
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Love the new look! My vote is for Italy. I absolutely love Italian food!
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Hmm…what country? I think South Africa could be interesting. Or Spain, since a friend of mine is going to school there at the moment.
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I would love to see Middle Eastern food! I think that would be pretty interesting.
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looks great. I vote France. French food is the best!
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 9:58 am
Glad at least one or two people ended up choosing my current destination!
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heidi — October 28th, 2012 @ 12:06 pm
Yay! :) very excited to try the recipes
What a clean, crisp and fresh design. Now that you have finished working on a new site perhaps it is time to look at creating a cookbook filled with your travels and recipes? Hint, hint. I have so many of your recipes printed out it would be so nice to have them all in a hardcover book….. Perhaps something to think about :-)
Sherie
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Sherie — October 22nd, 2012 @ 6:00 pm
P.S, would love you to visit Brazil. Their food and culture is something else. :-)
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 10:00 am
Thanks Sherie… You’re too sweet :)
Brazil was actually the first country I cooked from… There are quite a few recipes in the archives, although I have to warn you that some of the photos aren’t the best. But I do love the shrimp stew….
Hi Cate!
My family is all gluten free so, by association, I try to be. Which is why I LOVE your site. I’d like you to visit Greece and come back with some GF alternatives to recipes heavy on filo dough.
Cheers
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 10:01 am
Hi Paige, I also have some Greek recipes in the archives… Pop on over to the recipe index and do the search by country :)
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Love the new site! I would love to see you visit Burma! Such an interesting country and delicious food.
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Love your website and recipes! I’m not entirely GF but it sure is fun to pretend sometimes :)
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I would love to visit Italy.
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The site looks great Cate! Congrats! I recently went through a redesign myself – uuff a lot of work, I’m still on Blogger but hope to see better results.
I think England always gets a bad rap for their culinary selection, but it can truly be delicious and varied. Maybe a GF take on ‘sticky toffee pudding’ or a GF battered fish & chips?
Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 10:03 am
I have a gf fish and chips recipe that I’ve been wanting to try FOREVER! And I need to actually put on paper my sticky toffee pudding recipe. Sounds like England should be on my short list :)
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love your site! it’s one of the best GF sites out there!
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Looks good with the new look! You take the most beautiful picutures of food! It always inspireres me:)
My vote would be on Denmark, come visit the little country in Scandinavia:)
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Oo la la! Looking forward to France., Would also love to ‘visit’ Italy. The food from Tuscany is devine.
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I love your blog, and the new look is great! I’d love to see you visit Chile. Or Canada.
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I love your new site- loved the old one too. I think I’d like to see you cook in the pacific rim- take your pick of countries. Heck- cook a little something from all!
Anne!
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How about China? There are so many delicious regions to choose from!
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Your website looks beautiful. I think Turkey would be nice to see, that is some good food.
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Congratulations on your transition to WordPress! I vote for you to visit China next, since Chinese cuisine is the type of Asian food I know the least about (preparing), and I’d love to see your gluten-free takes on some of the classics!
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Looks great!
I’m another Italy vote. :)
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Would love to go to Italy!
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I love your website and your whole concept. I LOVE food from different cultures and can’t wait to try some of your recipes (especially the shrimp risotto!) I would love if you would visit Morocco or Greece.
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 10:17 am
I have recipes for both Morocco and Greece in the archives- check out the recipe index for the full list!
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This site combines the two loves of my life–travel and food. Keep it up! I would absolutely love either India or Thailand.
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Italy. Please, please, please. Italy.
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Jamaica!
PS- I love the new look! :)
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 10:18 am
Also have some Jamaican recipes in the archive… check out the recipe index for the full list!
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Another vote for Italy! Love the new look!
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Congrats on the site update! It looks great! Have you been to Alaska yet? I’d go with that! :)
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I’m throwing in my vote for Italy too! Thanks for the giveaway!
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mmmmm, the phillipines!
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The new look is very clean and easy to read. I like it. My country suggestion is a challenge. I have always heard British cooking/food is terrible. I challenge you to find tasty foods and fine eats in Great Britain.
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Beth — October 28th, 2012 @ 6:02 am
The “Sunday Roast”, loaded with rosemary, is probably delicious enough to redeem the entire region…
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Since you’ve already “visited” a lot of my MOST favourite countries, I might have to agree that French cooking is next on my wish list. France, please!
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I originally discovered your webpage when it down for maintenance after a pinterest link. I was so glad when it was backup. Hoping to try some of the recipes when I get home from Delhi! I’m always looking for recipes from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Tibet. :)
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Cate — October 28th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
So glad you came back! That was probably the day of transition from Blogger to WordPress… So stressful! Enjoy your time in Delhi and thanks for all the South Asian suggestions… definitely all places I’m interested in.
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