@Lauren_McDuffie, is the author of the beautiful and inspiring cookbook "Homemade-ish: Recipes and Cooking Tips That Keep It Real" Known for her knack of blending home-cooked charm with modern-day convenience, Lauren's work has been making waves in the culinary world. We'll dive into her creative process, chat about her beloved blog "My Kitchen Little," and get a glimpse into the life of someone who beautifully marries food, photography, and writing.
So grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and get ready to be inspired by the delightful Lauren McDuffie.
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Stephanie [00:00:15]:
Hi. Welcome to Dishing with Stephanie's dish, and I am here with the author Lauren McDuffie, Talking With My Mouth Full , and she is someone that I'm just getting familiar with. So Lauren, welcome to the program.
Lauren McDuffie [00:00:26]:
Thank you so much for having me.
Stephanie [00:00:28]:
Yeah. Your book, Homemade-ish, I think I saw it, like, on maybe a publisher's weekly list, and then I started paging through it. And you're I I hope this, like, hits you in the right way. You're kind of, like, sort of semi homemade ish, but not exactly.
Lauren McDuffie [00:00:48]:
Yes. No. That's you really hit the nail on the head with that. Okay. Yeah.
Stephanie [00:00:52]:
I used to watch semi homemade with Sandra Lee you. In the beginning of the Food Network days, and she's kinda gotten a bad rap. What I loved about her and what I loved when I was going through your book too is just this idea that we don't have to, like, make every single thing from scratch in order to put a decent meal on the table for our family.
Lauren McDuffie [00:01:16]:
Right. It's just that's just true.
Stephanie [00:01:19]:
And it prevents people sometimes from cooking at all. This idea that cooking is so complicated and so hard. And as someone who I mean, I'm just a home cook, and I feel like that's a great space where you can sometimes take shortcuts and also knowing the shortcuts to take.
Lauren McDuffie [00:01:38]:
Yes. Exactly.
Stephanie [00:01:40]:
So your book, Homemade-ish
Lauren McDuffie [00:01:42]:
Mhmm.
Stephanie [00:01:43]:
Is really lovely. And I felt like was the modern day version of sort of that idea because your food looks incredible. Your you must be a are you a a photo stylist? Because your food in your book is, like, amazing.
Lauren McDuffie [00:01:58]:
Thank you. Yes. I did the photography and the styling for all my books, and it's I just love that part of the process so much. So thank you for saying that.
Stephanie [00:02:07]:
I did laugh because you have a piece in there you, talk about, like, I just love this. This is my joy. And I'm in the middle of finishing a second book, and I'm not feeling that it's my joy.
Lauren McDuffie [00:02:23]:
I get that too. Yeah. That's fair. I was like, I'm all the time. So I under Yeah.
Stephanie [00:02:30]:
I have 35 pictures left, and I don't even wanna eat the food anymore because I'm so sick of it.
Lauren McDuffie [00:02:35]:
Yep. You've spent enough time with it probably. Yes. I get that. I do.
Stephanie [00:02:40]:
So catch my listeners up a
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