Hello! I'm Rebecca Blackwell, a writer, recipe developer, and food photographer. My husband and I are nomads without a home base but with many modes of transportation, namely an RV, a motorcycle, and a sailboat.
While I have cooked professionally, I am a home cook and baker who writes recipes for other home cooks and bakers. My home happens to have wheels, and occasionally sails, which should tell you that if the recipes work in my tiny kitchen, they will certainly work in yours.
- This is actually my second blog. I launched my first recipe site in November of 2013. You'll find it at ofbatteranddough.com and it's focused entirely on baking.
- I launched this site in 2018 where you'll find hundreds of well-tested recipes for the continuous kitchen.
- In 2020, my husband and I sold our Colorado home and moved into a 5th wheel RV.
- In 2024 I launched the Let's Get Lost Newsletter with recipes and stories from life on the road
- In 2025, we purchased a sailboat and now spend our summers living aboard on Lake Michigan, and...
- I started teaching live streaming cooking classes. Here's where you can view class replays and drop in on an upcoming class: Classes
I also run a monthly mastermind group for food writers.
The Rebecca Blackwell brand family.
"Rebecca, I fell in love with your recipes, the way you described your food and the stories that went along with each step. I kept wishing for a cookbook and now you've DONE IT!! Can't wait! You, Lady are a born writer and a fabulous cook." - Carla
In this space, I share fresh, flavorful recipes that we love to eat in our real lives, prepared in our tiny 4x7 square-foot kitchen.
My goal is to inspire you with recipes that are both delicious and approachable no matter where you live and how big and well-equipped your kitchen is.
Every recipe you'll find here has been tested and tweaked, and tested and tweaked, until I'm certain it will work well for most people in most kitchens.
On a related note, one of my favorite things about publishing recipes online is that they can be further refined from reader feedback. Many of the recipes here include suggestions, tips, and tricks from other home cooks who have generously left comments about what worked and didn't work in their kitchens.
The best way to stay up-to-date on new recipes and updated old ones, is to subscribe to my newsletter. The next best solution is to simply visit me here often, checking the home page for new recipes and updates.
Full Time Travel and RV Life
In April of 2020, my husband and I sold our house and moved into a 5th wheel toy hauler RV. Our youngest was heading off to college and we suspected that full-time travel would suit us just fine. We weren't wrong. So far we love most everything about living in a home on wheels.
As we continue to learn the ropes of RV life and full time travel, our goal is to share as much useful and interesting information as possible.
These days, I write about our travels and life as nomads in Let's Get Lost, my newsletter, published on Substack. In addition to sharing recipes, I write about life on the road and on the water and what it means to navigate the conflicting desires for freedom and community, autonomy and connection, stability and adventure. The human experience is fraught with contradiction and life on the road has a way of laying that bare.
I write with as much honesty as I can muster. I am an optimist to the core even when life is unbearable. I am driven by freedom, new experiences, creativity, and words.
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Let's Get Lost is for curious people who love a good meal, believe experiences are more important than things, and want more adventure. If that's you, please subscribe.
We recently completed a lot of renovations to our home on wheels! Here's where you'll find some before and after photos:
Work with me
Over the years, I've partnered with a variety of brands that I know and love to create recipes, content, and photographs that showcase their products.
"Working with Rebecca makes my job so much easier. She is professional, creative, reliable, a great communicator, and does great work."
Services:
- Sponsored Posts with 6 months of promotion and performance reporting
- Food photography
- Recipe development
- Giveaways
- Baking/ Cooking education
If you are interested in working with me, please contact me directly at rebecca@alittleandalot.com.
Rave Reviews
"I have had the rare privilege of watching Rebecca create many recipes, and even collaborated on some. I've gotten to taste the iterations as she goes through her process and enjoyed the fruits of her labor many many times.
My refrigerator and freezer are a treasure box full of her sauces, oils, spice blends and leftovers. Her blogs are the places I look first when I go to make anything, sweet or savory.
In the past 8 years or so that I've known her, I've observed several things which I believe make her incredibly unique:
- Rebecca is truly a recipe developer. Other sites seem to find something popular, give a small tweak and re-post it as their own. The extra steps she takes (roasting and grinding pecans for chocolate chip cookies, or layering three kinds of lemon flavoring for her lemon bars) are tried and tested, again and again, until it becomes what she has imagined they should be, always striving to make it even better.
- She is deliberate and takes her time with each step, whether it's painstakingly dicing mounds of mushrooms for the raviolis we made together, or fixing a beurre blanc sauce that broke. Which brings me to the next point...
- She really really understands the chemistry of what is going on, and if she doesn't then she will research until she finds the answer. I've never asked her a "why" question for which she was stumped. She knows why she makes the decisions that she does, because she has tried various ways of doing techniques and found the ones that work best. I've messaged her, frantic because I just put 4 layers of cake in the oven and realized I forgot the salt, and she gave me a remedy (just add more salt to the fillings).
- She has imagination, and will try combinations most people don't think of. Have you tried her Mushroom and Noodle Stir Fry with Strawberries? Genius and vegan.
And she is continuing to learn and expand. I've heard some of her ideas to add to these sites. Can't wait to see what's next." - Judy Bowman