Homestead Recipes: The Coloring Cook Book
Because sometimes the stew needs to simmer, and sometimes your brain does too.
You know what’s missing from most cookbooks?
A sense of humour.
And something to do while the bread’s rising, the stew’s bubbling, or you’re just trying to ignore the fact that the dog dragged in something dead again.
So I made this.
Homestead Recipes: The Coloring Cook Book is exactly what it sounds like — part real-deal recipe collection, part adult coloring book, and entirely built for the kind of people who know what a cold cellar smells like and how many zucchini are too many (answer: all of them).
I took 17 of my favourite homestead-style recipes — the stuff I actually cook here on the homestead, like:
• Bread and Butter Pickles
• Crock Pot Venison Stew
• Pizza Bite Biscuits
• Classic Pan-Fried Walleye
• Fluffy Homemade Pancakes
• Rhubarb Cake (because of course I had rhubarb)
…and more meals made from what’s in the garden, bush, or freezer.
Then I added three original coloring pages per recipe — that’s 51 total — all drawn to match the food and the rural life it came from. Garden scenes, pickling jars, bubbling pots, fresh-baked biscuits, pantry shelves… It’s all in there.
No Weird Ingredients. No Fancy Tools.
This isn’t one of those cookbooks with truffle oil and edible flowers. This is food you can actually make — with a cast iron pan, a stubborn oven, and probably a dog underfoot hoping you drop something. The kind of meals that feed a hungry family without needing a second mortgage or a grocery store within an hour’s drive.
The Coloring Part?
This ain’t fine art. These are black-and-white, easy-to-color drawings meant to help you breathe a little slower. They’re not intimidating. You won’t need a degree in shading techniques. Just grab your crayons, markers, pencil crayons, or whatever’s still sharp, and color away while the buns rise.
And if you go outside the lines?
Welcome to the club. We’ve got cookies. (Page 89.)
Who’s This For?
If you:
• Can your own food
• Bake from scratch (or at least pretend to)
• Love a good garden harvest
• Miss the smell of real kitchens
• Or just need something fun to do while you wait for your pressure canner to de-pressurize without exploding…
This book’s for you.
Even if you’re not on a homestead yet — maybe you’re in an apartment kitchen, dreaming of chickens — this brings a little rural rhythm to your day.
Ready to Get a Copy?
It's full-sized (8.5” x 11”), single-sided so your coloring doesn’t wreck the next page, and 193 pages of honest, useful, colorable fun. It’s also available now on Amazon — and no, you don’t need a code, a subscription, or a sourdough starter to enjoy it.
Go ahead. Let your soup simmer. Let your brain simmer. And do something that tastes good and feels good.
You’ve earned it.