Welcome to the Redesigned Website
Updated by Kathryne Taylor on December 5, 2024
Hello there! I’m thrilled to show you around the redesigned Cookie and Kate website. The previous website served us well for over ten years, and I hope this one sets us up for another decade of new Cookie and Kate recipes. I love sharing them with you. This project took over three years with many stops and starts, and I’m so glad it’s finally done. It’s a beauty!
When I was expecting our daughter, I reached out to the CultivateWP team thinking we could get this done before she arrived. Then, life threw us some serious curve balls including my brother’s life-threatening wakeboarding accident, and I had to hit pause. I owe a giant thank you to Duane and Bill for their patience, understanding and dedication to getting this right.
We officially launched the site last month and finalized a few features last week. I’ll walk you through the changes today. Here we go, starting with the new table of contents feature that you’ll see from time to time!
Table of Contents
Explore the Home Page
I’m so excited to offer more options on the home page! You’ll find the latest recipes at the top, followed by seasonal highlights and other fun features. Check cookieandkate.com to see what’s new!
Browse the Menu
Did you know that you can expand the menu by hovering over All Recipes? There are so many ways to explore recipes on this website, but here’s a great starting point.
Filter the Recipes
Now, this is major. On every category page (bookmark this one), you’ll find recipe filters to narrow down the results. You can choose multiple selections from as many columns as you’d like.
Here are some examples of when these filters will come in handy:
- You have multiple dietary restrictions. (Choose from the Diet options.)
- You need a gluten-free dinner to serve to a guest. (Choose Course > Dinner and Diet > Gluten Free).
- You need an appetizer for a special Mother’s Day supper. (Choose Course > Appetizer and Season > Spring.)
- You want a dinner containing avocado and black beans. (Choose Course > Dinner and Ingredient > Avocado and Black beans.)
Tip: If you’re on your phone, click on the green “Search and Filter” button to expand these filtering options.
You can also Sort the recipes by Most Recent (default), Recently Updated and Most Popular (based on the number of comments). I’m always updating older recipes to make them the best they can be, so you might find something that catches your eye under Recently Updated.
Print a Recipe
This feature is the same as the original website, but I’m highlighting it in case you’re unaware. To save paper, hit the Jump to recipe link at the top of the post or scroll down to the recipe at your leisure.
Click the Print button to print only the recipe! Within the print feature, you can adjust the text size to suit your needs.
Send a Recipe to Your Inbox
Above each recipe, you’ll find the option to send a link to the post to your inbox. It’s quick and easy.
This feature is handy if you need to switch from your computer to your phone, or you want to pull up the recipe later at the grocery store, etc.
Save Recipes to Your Collection
Save your favorite Cookie and Kate recipes to your own account and pull them up on any device! This feature relies on a great tool called Slickstream. It’s a little more involved than the option to send a recipe to your inbox because you’ll need to create an account to use it.
You’ll find a Save button next to the Print button in the recipe cards. Click on the Save button to create an account or click the blue button to sign in with your Google account.
Then, you can save all of your favorite Cookie and Kate recipes for future reference. To access your saved recipes, click the Saved link in the menu at the top of the page.
If you used the old site’s recipe saving feature, you can access those recipes at Relish.com. Their tool is no longer updated, so I’ve moved to this one.
View Nutrition Information
Click on the Show Nutrition button to view a detailed nutrition breakdown for the recipe. This works the same as the old site, but it’s no longer glitchy. Hooray!
Browse Videos
If you love watching recipes come together, this is the place for you. Click on Videos in the top menu to find my latest recipe videos.
I’d love to hear from you.
Please let me know what you think in the comments. If there’s a way to make this website work better for you, or if something is not working as designed, please tell me! I’m always listening.
Thanks again to the team at CultivateWP for the beautiful website (shout-out to Bill, Duane and Richard), and to Meghan Savage Photography for the new photos (she’s the best wedding photographer if you’re in the market).
Congrats on the new website Kathryn!
Thank you, Kelly!
Sorry I spelled your name wrong, my sisters name is Kathryn. :)
It’s a tricky one! Sometimes I wish I had the standard spelling—my grandmother added the “e” to her name in high school, and it got passed down to me. Ha!
Love the new website!
Hooray, thanks, Nancy!
After taking a look at the new organization and the eye popping design, I’ll definitely be perusing this site as one of my go to for recipes. I have appreciated your recipes because our diet is very similar. Look forward to really diving in starting with the what to cook in November!
Thanks so much, Kathi! My hope is to become a go-to resource and I’m glad to hear that the redesign is working well for you.
Great new website; easy to find recipes and save them (I love this feature!). Thanks for the time and effort to make delicious recipes and share them with us.
Thank you, Joyce! I appreciate your note. :)
Thank you for the beautiful website. From the first time I entered the kitchen it was a disaster….fast forward to 2019 I discovered your website, now I am not so much of a disaster. You basically taught me how to cook and how to use basic seasonings.
Me, I love ❤️ your recipes and your step-by-step outline. Very easy to follow and very delicious recipes of course. Thank you for being so dedicated to your craft & thank you for this updated gift.
Larann, your note made my day! Thank you!
Love this! Can’t wait to dive into your new website. I’m especially excited to save recipes to a collection. Relish never quite did it for me.
Thanks for all the great recipes over the years. You are my go to recipe website and I am a devoted fan!!
Thank you so much, Jill! It’s great to hear from you. I hope you love the saving feature.
I love your site and have recommended it to many friends. I’ve made many of your recipes and am always pleased with how tasty they are. Thank you.
Thank you, Wendy! Thank you for sharing my website with your friends. That really means a lot.
The new website is beautiful, and I love how helpful these little tips are available.
Thanks, Michelle! I’m glad to hear it. :)
I love your new site and am excited to try the new features!
Hooray! Thanks, Kelly!
Congratulations on launching this new website! It is clean-looking, has a very attractive layout, and is super easy and quick to navigate. Your photos, as always, snap!
I had been getting your newsletter for many years (I voted for the photo that appears on the cover of “Love Real Food”), then about a year or two ago, I realized that I hadn’t gotten one in a while, so I went to your website and signed up again. I hope that never happens again now that you have moved to a domain that a utilizes the latest in technology.
I look forward to seeing what new things you cook up!
Barbara, thanks so much for your note! I’m sorry that you stopped receiving my emails—I never want that to happen! I’ve heard of it happening from a few people and haven’t been able to figure it out. Regardless, thank you for coming back and signing up again. I’ll send out a new recipe later this week!
WOW! Thank you so very much for this walk through tutorial to your redesigned website! You are the first person to assist with website navigation and it is so useful.
Catherine, thanks for your note! I’m glad you found it helpful. :)
Amazing Website – So much to look at and absorb. Wishing you the best and blessed days to come. Now let me get started on some of these recipes.
Ginger, thank you! Enjoy!
I love your recipies! Thank you for the new website.
Thank you, Ela! That’s great to hear.
Love the look of the new site (and your recipes) – the new site looks great and promises to be easy to use to locate your interesting recipes. Thank you for the helpful hints and how to’s in your posts/recipes. They are very helpful for new “want-a-be”cooks.
Thank you, Suzie! I appreciate your note and your kind words. I hope you find something delicious to cook up soon. :)
Congratulations on your ten years of sharing your recipes and knowledge. I’ve been a follower probably for as many years (how can time have passed so quickly?). I have your cookbook. now well worn in, and your website is my goto when looking for recipe ideas. My husband and I are having your pumpkin muffins for breakfast this week – they are delicious – and I try to keep a bag of your granola in the freezer as well. Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy and appreciate your work. Best to you.
Rhonda, thank you for your kind note! Ten years, wow! Thank you so much for following along. I’m delighted to hear that you’re enjoying those recipes and I’ll share more with you soon.
Love, love, love the new website! Beautifully designed and easy to use. Well done!
Yay, thank you, Melinda! I appreciate your note.
Hi Kate – Congrats on the new website. Love it!
Thanks so much, Peggy!
Love All your recipes thanks and your cookbook
Thank you, Maryann!
I love your cookbook and recipes.
Thanks so much, Chris!
Oh W O W !
I am beyond excited to explore your new we website. You have thought of everything!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Kandy Sue
Thanks so much, Kandy!
Hello Kate;
I have been perusing your new website and it is wonderful. So easy to navigate and seems to have everything right at my fingertips. Sure do appreciate all of your hard work and thank you for sharing. Greatly appreciated.
Dana, thank you so much for taking the time to say so! I hope you’ve had a great day.
Sadly the new recipe search page does not work in Safari browser on my Mac laptop.
Hi Susan, I’m sorry to hear that! Your image didn’t come through—would you mind emailing it to hello@cookieandkate.com so we can figure that out? Thank you for your feedback—it’s really important to me that this website works well for everyone.
Love your easy and healthy recipes.
Thank you, Donna!
Some of your recipes are pinable and some are not, please make the all able to be pinned.
Hi Patty! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I want to be sure I understand the issue. Full-sized images on posts should always be pinable. If you’re trying to pin smaller images like on my home page, those aren’t designed to be pinned because they would just point back to the home page. Is that what you’re experiencing or is it something else?
I love your style and always look to your site to find new recipes. This update is great. Thank you!!
Thank you, Jennifer! I’m so glad to hear that you appreciate it.
The updated site is fantastic!
Thanks so much, Susie!
Love ❤️ the new format. Hugs, Deb
Thanks, Deb! Hope you’re having a great day.
Really well done! Such a nice revision. Really helpful for people like me who enjoy cooking your recipes on a regular basis. For me you are one of the best of all food bloggers :) Me and my family love your style of cooking. Maybe I’m a bit old-fashioned, but I like to print out your recipes and keep some in an old-fashioned wooden box :)
Unfortunately, the beautiful food photos no longer print, even when I click on the images check box. My browser is Safari 17.1 on Apple Mac Sonoma 14.1.1.
Greetings from Michaela (56) from Munich, Germany
Hi Michaela, thank you for your note! It’s lovely to hear from you. We took our daughter to Munich this summer! I didn’t notice that the photo went missing from the print previews until you and another reader let me know. I’m glad to know that’s an important feature to you. I’ll get it fixed!
Thank you! (A recipe is more fun with a picture ;)
How lovely to hear that you have been to Munich. I hope you and your family had a good time in Bavaria!
Wow! Congrats and thank you! The new platform clearly took a huge amount of time and effort and it paid off.
Also you mentioned your brother had a terrible accident. I hope he is recovered and ok.
Can’t wait to jump in to the site!
Thanks so much, Chana. I appreciate your note! He’s doing well with a prosthetic leg now. All my best to you and your family!
Hi Kathy. Good job! I will continue to be a faithful reader.
Thank you for your continued support, Paule!
congratulations on new web look
love your vibrant energy
from santa barbara calif !
one doberman pup
and one xolo hairless dog
Thanks so much, Spencer (and pups)!
Thank you for sharing highlights of the new site. I’m looking forward to the new and improved features!
I’m so sorry that your brother had such a terrible accident. I can’t imagine how difficult that was on him, you and your family. It is wonderful to see your progress on the site and hope your brother has had positive progress as well.
Continued success to you!!
Thank you, Melissa! It was a terrible shock for everyone. He’s doing great, despite some chronic pain. Thank you for your kind note.
Love your recipes and all the information you give with each recipe.
Awesome in every way thank you
Great website
Thank you, Denise! I’m glad to hear you appreciate my efforts. :) Have a lovely day!
OMG! Save recipes to my account!!?? Whoo hoo!!
Yes! Have fun! :)
Congratulations on your new website. I use a lot of your recipes. They’re so sensible and healthy and delicious. You’re a regular go to site for me! Thanks very much for all the work you do.
Thank you so much, Anna! Delighted to hear that you appreciate my work. Thank you for visiting again and again!
Brilliant new website! You continue to inspire us! Hope your brother is well and thriving again. Thanks for your wonderful, healthy & delicious recipes!
Thanks so much, Robynn! He’s doing great.
I have been following and making your recipes for the past few years. I so appreciate the depth you go to, while explaining your recipes. I have learned so much and enjoy all the tutorials. Best of life, cooking, & keep creating!
Thank you, Joani! I’ll keep the recipes coming. Thank you for being a regular visitor. :)
I’m pescatarian, so my diet includes vegetarian in addition to seafood and fish. In your drop-down menu to sort recipes, under Diet, you only have the option for vegan. Why not an option for vegetarians well as a separate one for pescatarian?? The vegan only option does not work for me. Please let me know if there is a workaround or some other logic.
Hi Carol! All of the recipes on this blog are vegetarian. I don’t have any pescetarian recipes. I hope that clears up the confusion!
How did I not notice that?! Great! I don’t normally go to your website for recipes but get your emails and I guess I just never noticed that ALL the recipes happen to be vegetarian! LOL
I don’t have a big “vegetarian” label anywhere, but they all are! You’re not the first to be surprised by that. :)
Love your recipes! Great redesigned website—so easy to navigate. Brava, Kathryne!
Thanks so much, Celine!
Your new website looks fantastic.
Your recipes are always delicious!
Thanks for all you do, Kathryne!
And I love how your name has an “e” at the end of it because of your grandma!
Thank you so much, Diane! I love having a family name. It’s just a little tricky to spell and Kate is easier. :)
Hello Kathryne from the Netherlands!
Your new website looks great, crisp and fresh, beautiful.
I have followed you for a few years now and you are my favorite recipe chef and I have told many others so.
I don’t know if this is possible – perhaps there is a plug-in for that (don’t want to give you extra work) but the one time-consumer for me to make your recipes is the US imperial system. If this could be easily solved with a plug-in (Convert to metric/imperial, click) I would very much appreciate that! Otherwise I will keep on doing that myself, I like your recipes too much for that.
Ivy, thanks so much for your note! I hope you’re having a great day—it’s lunchtime here but must be dinnertime where you are. Thank you for the suggestion. I’m still searching for a conversion system that really works well. I’ve been afraid to use a couple of others out of concern that the results would be inaccurate. The last thing I want to do is offer a feature that ruins the recipe!
Congratulations on your beautiful new website. Honestly I would use your site any way I found it but the new features make it much more fun and useable. Thank you for your hard work.
And, welcome to Texas. We retired years ago in the beautiful Texas hill country. I was a trained chef and we are vegetarian so I like to stay tuned to new trends and ideas. I miss the creativity in a professional kitchen. C & K is one of my favorite resources to fulfill that need. Keep up the good work!
We invite you to visit our organic garden 40 miles from Austin. Currently we are bringing in tomatoes, lots of winter greens and the freezer is full of our organic produce but May, June is the most prolific time of the year. Hope you come out for a visit in 2025 and we’ll send you home with fresh organic produce. Call it a trade :)
Hi Suzanne, thanks so much for your kind note! My husband and I have been wanting to visit Austin. Your farm sounds amazing! I’ve saved your note and you might just hear from me next year. :)
Hi Kate! I love the website redesign and your helpful navigation tips. Brilliant. I am so delighted to see your Best Lentil Soup on the #1 list of your Favorites, Soup, Meals, etc lists. It is my favorite C+K recipe of all time and I have made it for years.
Congrats on your accomplishments, many of us have been eagerly awaiting this big reveal. Looking forward to returning here weekly.
Thank you for your kind note, Anna! I’m happy to hear that you appreciate the new website. That lentil soup would be perfect on a cold day like today!
So excited to use the new website! I love the ‘save’ feature! Always my go-to website for clean recipe ideas!
Thank you so much, Kassidy! :)
I really appreciate how your website is so intuitive. From Canada with love.
Thank you so much, Frankie! I’m happy to hear that. :)
I love the new website (knew anything you did would be wonderful). Like the addition of filter the recipes. However I found your other website easy to use. Hoping you will print another book it changed my life and eating habits (so much healthier). I print your recipes (old fashion, older lady) and have created divisions of “books” of soups, rice pasts, veggies, appetizers/snacks, breakfast, drinks, breads, breakfast, desserts. other. I tend to cook your recipes so often just add meat for hubby and keep mine vegetarian more often than not. Have lost 20+ pounds and 3 clothing sizes using your cooking (and exercising daily, which I have the energy to do since changing my eating. So thankful for you and happy a friends Doctor recommended your cookbook to her and I was at the appointment with her. Forever grateful to him and you for all the work you do. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes to you and yours. Blessings.
Nancy, thank you so much for your note! Wow, I commend you for taking good care of yourself, and I’m honored to hear that my recipes are helping your efforts. Hooray! Happy holidays!!!
Kate, I’ve been a follower for a few years, enjoyed your last cookbook, and want to tell you how much that I appreciate your healthy, delicious, and beautiful dishes. I hosted a few parties and family meals over the holiday with your help. I find that you offer so many great tips and details that takes a lot of the stress out of the planning and prep work. The new website looks great; I have already passed it on to a few friends. Thank you for your work and contribution to healthy, plant-based eating!