Homemade, written down properly

The recipes everyone keeps asking Bobbie for.

Bobbie's Kitchen is a family recipe library of homemade dinners, salads, baking, drinks and snacks, written out properly from Bobbie's own handwritten recipe cards — free to read, with printable recipe packs from $9. And when you don't know what to cook, tell her what's left in the fridge and she'll turn it into one of her dinners.

262 recipes across 12 collections. Staring into the fridge at 5pm? From What's Left finds dinner ideas from what you already have →

A family table set with baked pasta, a bowl of berries, a jar of cookies and a jug of lemonade
Illustrated portrait of Bobbie, smiling with her chin resting on her hand
Ready for the holidays

Holiday drinks and show-stopping cakes, printed and ready

Every recipe stays free to read here. A pack gives you each one on its own printable page with a combined shopping list — on your screen the moment you pay.

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Holiday Cocktails & Mocktails
$9 · For the holidays · 29 drinks

Holiday Cocktails & Mocktails

Twenty-nine holiday drinks and party punches from Bobbie's cards, each with her single-glass and pitcher-for-8 amounts, alcohol-free versions and one combined shopping list.

$9· 2 files

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The Bobbie's Kitchen Starter Collection
Starter · 36 dinners & bakes

The Bobbie's Kitchen Starter Collection

Both full packs, all 36 recipes and every printable, plus Bobbie's kitchen staples checklist — save $5.

$19$24· 7 files

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The Whole Kitchen Collection
Best value · a lovely gift

The Whole Kitchen Collection

Every pack in one payment: all 152 printable pack recipes, including both Chicken Pad Thai recipes, eleven signature cakes and 29 holiday drinks, every printable and the kitchen staples checklist — save $51.

$39$90· 22 files

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Take five family dinners with you

Get one complete Monday-to-Friday dinner week with five recipes and one organised shopping list.

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What's for dinner from what's already in the fridge?

Dinner-time rescue

From What's Left

Type what's in the fridge or cupboard — or snap a photo of it. Bobbie suggests one of her dinners that fits what you have, plus the two or three things to buy to finish the meal.

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Bobbie's Shopping List

Pick one dinner or a whole week of them. Get one organised grocery list sorted by supermarket aisle, with Bobbie's exact amounts.

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Turn your family photos into a printed album

Choose a clear design package from $149, then upload your photos and recipes. Bobbie creates the proof; printing and postage are quoted separately.

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Ready to cook tonight

Recipes with the full method

Kitchen notes

Cooked step by step, with photos

Bobbie's most-asked-for recipes written out slowly — why each step matters, what to watch for, and the photo from her own recipe card.

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The cook behind it all

Real, loyal, down to earth — and always feeding someone.

Coffee first, then the kitchen. These are Bobbie's own recipes, written out the way she'd tell them to you across the table.

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Questions people ask first

What exactly is Bobbie's Kitchen?

Bobbie's Kitchen is a family recipe library. For years Bobbie's recipes travelled around on printed sheets and handwritten cards — passed across kitchen tables, photographed at potlucks, stuck to fridges with a magnet. People kept asking where to find them, and the honest answer was that they were not anywhere. This site is where they finally live.

There are 262 recipe pages across 12 collections — dinners, salads and sides, soups, baking, sweet treats, snacks and more. Every recipe page is free to read, with the full method, servings and timings.

What's inside a recipe pack?

A pack is the printable version. Each recipe gets its own page with its photo, ingredients, method and Bobbie's note, so you can put it on the counter instead of propping a phone against the kettle. A Month of Family Dinners turns 22 confirmed recipes into four five-night weeks with four separate shopping lists and a fridge planner. The Family Baking Pack holds nine stuffed cookies and five muffins, its own shopping list, and Bobbie's Bake Once, Share Twice guide.

You are not paying for access to the recipes; those stay free here forever. You are paying for them printed, organised and in one place, with the shopping done for you.

How do the meal plans work?

Bobbie plans five nights, not seven. Two fast nights, two comfort nights, one slower weekend-style meal, and two nights deliberately left open for leftovers and real life. Sides get chosen once for the whole week and repeated, so one shop covers everything and nothing sits in the fridge going soft.

The full method — how to pick the five, how to write the list by aisle instead of by recipe, and what a finished week looks like — is written out in planning a week of easy family dinners.

Can you trust the timings and amounts?

Yes — and where you cannot, the page says so out loud. Some of Bobbie's original cards list ingredients without a method, or without an oven temperature. Rather than invent plausible-sounding steps, those pages carry a plain note saying the method is coming once Bobbie confirms it. Nothing on this site is guessed on her behalf.

For food safety questions that go beyond a recipe — safe cooking temperatures, cooling leftovers, freezing — the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service publishes it plainly, and the FDA's food allergy pages are the right reference if someone at your table avoids nuts, dairy or gluten.

Where do the photos come from?

The dinner, cookie and muffin photographs are taken from Bobbie's own recipe cards and sheets — the actual food she cooked and photographed. Where a recipe has no photograph of hers yet, the picture is labelled as an illustration of the finished dish, so you always know which you are looking at.

Questions about a pack, a download or a refund go straight to the family, not a support desk — the contact page has the email address.

Updated 26 October 2026