I received my awesome gift last week, but didn't post until now as I wanted to include a photo with a bit of inspiration from the book!

I have a huge cast iron cookware collation that has been amassed over the years from garage sales. This book is full of amazing recipes, many of which are very much directly from the recipes my parent's described from their youth in the midwest!

Pictured is a garden frittata made from my garden's first serious harvest of the season. While I've made these before, the book gave me a couple of key tips that made it the best I've made!!

Also included is a fantastic coffee table book called Crisscrossing America where the authors did a road tour of the US by motorcycle and took photos all along the way. Having grown up doing long haul road trips with the family, it reminds me of how awesome the middle bits of the country.

So, Thank you, secret santa! You said you found my hard to find a gift for, but you nailed it!