Colorado food blogger Tieghan Gerard grew up in a big family, with six siblings. At 13, she began helping her dad prepare dinner, and within a few months she had taken over the cooking duties full time. She soon started creating her own recipes, and at 19 she learned photography and started her food blog, Half Baked Harvest. A few years later, the blog became her career, and now her parents and one of her brothers work for her company.
Gerard says that over time her cooking philosophy gravitated toward simple dishes with limited ingredients. Her first cookbook, "Half Baked Harvest Super Simple," is a collection of those recipes, most of which can be on the table in 30 minutes.
She created this Greek-inspired one-skillet chicken dish on a rainy day when all she had in her pantry were jars of marinated artichokes and green olives.
"It was one of those dishes where I threw a bunch of stuff together, hoped it would turn out edible, and ended up with something delicious. It's now a family favorite," she writes in the introduction to the recipe.
