Hello! I’m Rachael Coyle.
I’ve been a pastry chef for 20 years, and for the last 10 years, I’ve run my bakery business in Seattle: Coyle’s Bakeshop. In 2021, I bought a house with a large yard and embarked on turning that space into my own private Eden, with a vegetable garden, an orchard, a berry patch, and an ever-evolving array of edible plants.
Like many chefs who were trained in the early 2000s, my work in food always emphasized the gustatory benefits – and the sheer joy – of working with seasonal and locally-grown foods. Continuing in this vein, I started my garden very much in service of making better food — but it quickly morphed into its own beautiful source of inspiration. A boon to my cooking, but also a journey and a passion unto itself.
What is Coyle’s At Home about?
This newsletter and website is an opportunity for me to explore all the ways that my twin interests of cooking and gardening intersect, overlap, and guide one another – and share that with you. It’s very much an expression of my home life and my home cooking, so you can expect savory cooking as well as baking. You can expect simpler, home-cooking-oriented recipes, an emphasis on technique, and a persistent thread tying it all to my garden and to the season. You’ll also find longer narrative pieces, about how recipes evolve, how my garden has come to be, and occasionally, some entertaining life tangents.
If you’re not yet a gardener, I hope you might find some inspiration here. If you’re already a gardener, I hope you’ll find something relatable in the joys and trials involved in trying to grow good things to eat.
If you have no interest in gardening, you’ll find lot of recipes here. By virtue of their ties to my garden, these recipes naturally follow the seasons and lend themselves to visits to the farmer’s markets and eating better and more interesting food all year round.
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