Half Baked Harvest’s Tieghan Gerard, it’s that she loves avocados. And I mean, loves. Her favorite food? Avocado. Go-to midday snack?
Avocado toast with sea salt, lemon, and chili flakes. Favorite weeknight meal? Tacos…topped with avocado, of course. “Whenever I cook, at least one family member will ask me, ‘Are you going to put avocado on that?’” she tells Glamour with a laugh.As someone who wears a Susan Alexandra avocado necklace everyday, it’s no surprise that Half Baked Harvest, the brand created by Tieghan Gerard in 2012, got me through the pandemic.
Her recipes also got my family through the pandemic. And my boyfriend. And my friends. You might not know Tieghan Gerard by name, but if you’ve spent any time on Instagram, you’ve certainly seen the colorful swirls of pasta or decadent chocolate confections she creates and photographs on the account followed by four million people, and counting. (And don’t worry, not everything includes avocado.)When the pandemic hit, Gerard was in Los Angeles, smack dab in the middle of the book tour for her second cookbook, Super Simple.
She headed back home to the mountains of Colorado, where she was raised with her seven siblings. But instead of hitting pause as the world shut down, Gerard went full steam ahead, guns blazing. “It was honestly the craziest time,” she says of churning out endless recipes for her followers who were newly home-bound, waiting with their mouths watering.
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