What Can I Bring? debuted in 1999 as the JLNV’s signature cookbook. The cookbook went into its fourth printing in 2006, ensuring a steady flow of income (and recipes) to the League and the community in which we serve.

What Can I Bring? has gone global! That's right, What Can I Bring is making its way around the world. It has been sent to Japan and London. When you're thinking of giving gifts to your friends and family overseas, think What Can I Bring?  PLEASE CONTACT US TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!

Our award-winning recipes include Holiday Irish Coffee Eggnog (Page 43), Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding (Page 175), Creamy Tomato-Sausage Sauce with Shells (Page 134) and Papaya Salad (Page 214).

American Best Recipes showcases the very best recipes from outstanding community cookbooks from across the country. The Oxmoor House cookbook salutes dedicated volunteers whose sales raise funds to help meet the needs of their communities. Recipes are the best of regional cuisines, current food trends and simple good home cooking tested by the Oxmoor House test kitchen.

"Every so often a book comes across my desk that I absolutely fall in love with – What Can I Bring? is a perfect example.  When I review a book, I read it from cover to cover and put little colored tabs on the recipes that strike my fancy for testing.  I used a whole package of tabs marking recipes because everything sounded outstanding.  There are a few “old favorites” from the past such as Beef Burgundy.  That used to be one of our favorite recipes, but somewhere along the line the recipe got pushed out of my memory banks and I never think to make it anymore.  This was a gentle reminder to serve it again.  The majority of the recipes are innovative and call out to be tried.  Each recipe I tested was written clearly and produced an exceedingly appetizing dish.   

This is a very “user friendly” book filled with easy to prepare tasty recipes.  The “Key Lime Pie Pasta” was a most agreeable mixture of textures, flavors, and colors.  It sounded like it would be tasty cold too, but we found that the flavors went dead and absorbed into the beans and pasta.  The recipe is correct when it tells you to serve immediately.  I was in the mood one evening for chicken salad for dinner.  I had the chicken on hand and went looking for an intriguing recipe in my test pile.  I’d marked the “Virginia Bicentennial Chicken Salad” and just happened to have all the ingredients on hand.  The recipe states that it was served to Queen Elizabeth on one of her visits to America.  It is definitely delectable enough to serve royalty. 

I’ve searched for some time for a good, richly flavored recipe for Tiramisu that doesn’t contain raw eggs.  I’ve tried many, but they seemed to lack something.  This recipe was quick to fix, light, and sensually satisfying.  Just eating this mouth-watering dessert brought back many pleasant experiences in Italy. 

I feel What Can I Bring? is one of the best books of the season, and perfect for the person who loves easy entertaining.  It is a book I highly recommend both for you and for gifts."

--Betsy’s Kitchen Review, Recipes, Articles, and tips for the Kitchen: Vol. 3, September 1999, Issue 4