I am so excited to bring back my “A quick chat with” series and promise it’ll be a more consistent (ideally roughly monthly) thing around here! Even more exciting is that Kate Bowler of the newly released A New England Invite is sharing some of her background and experience as a blogger turned cookbook author. Kate Bowler and I have been “internet friends” for awhile and it’s crazy to watch someone going from writing a daily lifestyle blog to publishing a legit book in the span of a few years. I’m so excited for her and cannot recommend this book more highly–the recipes are digestible and not overly complicated, the photography is unsurprisingly beautiful and reminiscent of New England!

Kate Bowler sweetly sent me an advance copy to preview and photograph, and I literally made the Chocolate Chip Cake–a family recipe–the same afternoon. Trust me when I say you don’t need to be a whiz in the kitchen to cook from this book–the recipes sound fancy but are totally doable with basic skills and equipment. I love browsing fancy cookbooks as much as the next person, but prefer to cook something with ingredients that won’t break the bank, doesn’t require obscure utensils, and doesn’t leave much room for error :)

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