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Today, after two years of writing, testing, revising, photographing, editing, second-guessing, and wondering if this thing in my brain would ever be “real”…

…the Old-Fashioned on Purpose Cookbook is officially out in the world.

And in very on-brand fashion, I’m not on a glamorous book tour today.

Rather, I’m doctoring a horse, run...


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I changed my mind about homestead and it changed how I wrote cookbook #2.

When I wrote The Prairie Homestead Cookbook in 2017–2018, I was in a very different season of life.

Same core person, yes. But a different kitchen. Different rhythms. Different ages of kids. And a different version of homesteading.

Needless to say, I’...


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Why falling-apart cookbooks make me happiest.

When my first cookbook came out, I wrote in the introduction that I wanted people to ruin it.

I wished for flour in their bindings. Dog-eared pages splattered with gravy. Scribbles in the margins. Bent corners. A cracked spine...


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Pondering the cookbook graveyard + why “pretty” isn’t enough.

You probably don’t need another cookbook.

There. I said it.

Most of us already have plenty.

Whenever I’m thrift shopping (which is a LOT the...


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I am about to say something I’ve never said before:

I have been too chill.

Which is… not generally a problem I have.

But between the major life changes,


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