Makersville, Connecticut

Pull up a chair.There's always plenty.

I'm Bonnie. I cook in a yellow kitchen and I make far too much of everything — so come hungry. Every recipe here is real, tested in my own oven, and meant to be shared.

Weathered hands holding ripe tomatoes from the garden in golden evening light
Second Helpings: Comfort Classics — a cookbook by Bonnie Hartwell
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It's Out of the Oven

My very first book is here. Comfort Classics, the recipes I keep coming back to, with a story behind every one. I'd be so glad to have you read it.

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From the recipe box

What's on the counter

A few to start you off. The kind that fill a kitchen and disappear before they cool.

A sunny yellow kitchen table set with blue-and-white china and an empty ladder-back chair pulled out

There's always a place set, and always room for one more.

the one rule

Nobody leaves my door empty.

I never learned to cook for one, so I make enough for the whole table — and there's always somebody glad to carry a plate home.

A little about me

Cooking for two, late — and then for one.

There's a story behind most everything in this kitchen: the neighbors who pull up a chair, Harold's garden out back, his mother's splattered index cards. I'll tell you those too, if you let me. I do go on.

Meet Bonnie

From Bonnie's Kitchen

Before You Go

Let me send you something. A recipe I never put in any of the books, just between us, and a little note from my kitchen now and then. You'll also be the first to know when the next book comes out of the oven.

— and it's free, of course.

A Recipe, Just Between Us

Bonnie's free recipe — the one she didn't put in the book. Sent the moment you join.

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