Tieghan Gerard

Half Baked Harvest founder, recipe developer, food photographer, stylist, and New York Times bestselling cookbook author.

The recipes you’ll find here are inspired by the people and places I love most. I come from a family of ten, and a big family means BIG meals. Growing up, I started helping in the kitchen as a way to tame some of our mealtime chaos and get dinner on the table at a respectable hour. I quickly realized how much I loved cooking, and before I knew it, I had taken over making our family meals. I started photographing what I made and documenting my favorite recipes, and in 2012, Half Baked Harvest was born.

I spent the first 14 years of my life in Cleveland, Ohio, before my family moved to the snowy mountains of Colorado. Colorado has been home ever since and is still the home base for Half Baked Harvest. I live in a converted horse barn that we’re almost finished remodeling. In 2018, we built a new studio barn next door, designed especially for creating, cooking, and shooting everything you see here. I’m still figuring out exactly what “home” looks like for me and where life might take me next, but Colorado—and the barns—will always be such a special part of the HBH story.

Half Baked Harvest has really always been a mother-daughter business. My mom and I have been doing this together from the very beginning, and while so much has grown and changed since 2012, the two of us still work together every single day. It’s pretty special to look back at where we started and see what we’ve created together.

My cooking is still very much inspired by the way I grew up: feeding a big family, cooking with the seasons, and making food that brings everyone together. I love taking familiar recipes and making them feel a little more special, whether it’s a cozy weeknight dinner, a big Sunday meal, something sweet, or a recipe for the holidays. I spend my days creating recipes, photographing and styling them, and sharing it all here with you.

Since starting Half Baked Harvest, I’ve written four New York Times bestselling cookbooks: Half Baked Harvest Cookbook, Half Baked Harvest Super Simple, Half Baked Harvest Every Day, and Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy. My fifth cookbook, Half Baked Harvest at Home, arrives February 23, 2027, and I’m so excited to finally share it with you.

Half Baked Harvest has also grown far beyond the recipes I first started sharing in 2012. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to write cookbooks I’m incredibly proud of, work with some incredible brands, travel to inspiring places, share really fun entertaining stories, and collaborate on projects that have taken HBH in directions I never could have imagined when we started. But at the heart of everything I do is still the same thing: creating recipes I’m excited to make and hopefully inspiring you to get into the kitchen and make them too.

My hope has always been to make cooking feel exciting and approachable, and to inspire you to try something new. Whether you’ve been here since the early days or just found Half Baked Harvest today, I’m so happy you’re here.

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