✶ About the kitchen
A small food blog, written carefully.
Crumb & Spoon is a one-person project — written, tested, and photographed in a real home kitchen since 2017. If a recipe doesn't earn its place on a Tuesday night, it doesn't make it onto this site.
Since
2017
260+
Tested recipes
9
Years cooking publicly
3×
Tested before publishing
18.4k
Sunday subscribers
The story
Why this site exists
Most recipe sites online are written for search engines, not for the person at the stove. I wanted a place to share the recipes I actually cook — the ones that have survived years of weeknight dinners and lazy Sunday mornings. Recipes that work the first time, written like a friend would explain them, not like a test came back.
Crumb & Spoon started in 2017 as a notebook for myself — a way to remember which version of the brown-butter cookies actually worked. Nine years later it's still a notebook, just one that's open to the whole internet.
House rules
Four things I promise you.
No. 01
Tested three times
Every recipe is cooked at least three times before it goes live — once by me, once with tweaks, once by a stranger.
No. 02
Real-home plating
Photographed in natural daylight, on the actual finished dish. No restaurant tweezers, no stock photos.
No. 03
Writing like a friend
Recipes are written the way I'd explain them at the stove — with the why, not just the what.
No. 04
No sponsored shortcuts
I don't accept paid recipe placements. If a brand is mentioned, I bought it with my own grocery money.
A short timeline
Nine years, one kitchen.
2017
Started writing the first recipes from a tiny rental kitchen with one good pan.
2019
Quit the day job to cook, write, and photograph full-time.
2022
Crossed 100 tested recipes. Bought a second oven thermometer.
2026
260+ recipes, a Sunday newsletter, and the same small kitchen.
✦ The process
How a recipe earns its place.
If it doesn't work for someone who has never cooked it before, it doesn't get published. That's the whole rule.
- 01
Draft & first cook
I write the recipe as I cook it the first time, measuring everything by weight.
- 02
Tweak & re-cook
Every time I read the draft I find something to clarify. The second cook fixes it.
- 03
Hand it to a stranger
A friend who has never made the dish cooks it from the printed page while I watch silently.
- 04
Photograph & publish
Final cook is shot in natural daylight. Whatever you see is exactly what comes out of my oven.
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