Staple Store: Hot Mess Meals - Catie Gett

Catie Gett

Available to pre-order now, expecting stock early December 

Please note : If you pre-order an item and add more items in stock, we will ship the order together when the pre-order arrives. Release dates are subject to change, we don't send out emails, any changes are updated on the website.

Let us introduce the Staple Spin-offs:

More fun in the kitchen. More magic on your plate. No drama or trauma at the stove. These recipes have been tested in real kitchens with blunt knives, crying toddlers, and zero mental bandwidth... and they still work.

Each book has 98 pages, 30+ recipes and photos.

Where they came from

These books started as zines, little projects between volumes. The longer I wrote, the bigger they got, until they weren't zines anymore. They were cookbooks in their own right.

Same simple steps. Accessible ingredients. Clever, quick prep. Limited equipment. Recipes that work, not curated to impress and not pretending to be more, because that's how people actually cook: with kids hanging off them, or cooking for one, or managing budgets and bandwidth that can't stretch to complicated cooking that doesn't work.

Hot Mess Meals

These aren't "perfect" recipes. They're lived-in ones. They've been cooked by people who love to cook and people who don't, by families on tight budgets, in kitchens with dodgy ovens, busy countertops, blunt knives, and noisy cognitive loads. They work because they've been tested in the wild.