Mary Heffernan - Five Marys Ranch Raised Cookbook: Homegrown Recipes from Our Family to Yours

PRAISE FOR FIVE MARYS RANCH RAISED COOKBOOK

Ranch Raised is so much more than a cookbookits a beautiful, candid, heartfelt window into the life, kitchen, and home of the wildly successful rancher and businesswoman Mary Heffernan. Marys honest sharing has inspired thousands of people to reconsider where their food comes from and how they, too, can courageously live a more authentic life.

ERIN BENZAKEIN , New York Times bestselling author of Floret Farms A Year in Flowers

Hallelujah for this cookbook from trailblazing rancher Mary HeffernanIm excited to cook delicious, quality meals from it!

EVA SHOCKEY , mama, wife, author, TV show host, and social media influencer

Mary Heffernan is such an inspiration. Her beautiful new cookbook shares intimate glimpses into their day-to-day ranch life and a multitude of wonderfully comforting home-cooked meals!

MICHELLE TAM , New York Times bestselling cookbook author and creator of Nom Nom Paleo

Marys remarkable energy is exceeded only by her kindness. This cookbook is filled with delicious recipes and captivating images of the fantastic life she and her husband have created.

ROBERT NOVOGRATZ , principal designer, The Novogratz

This cookbook is everything Marys brand emulates: work hard, play hard, and enjoy life with those you love. Here, the ranch-life photos tell the story and her approachable, homespun recipes bring the comfort.

HANNAH NEELEMAN , Ballerina Farm

These inspiring recipes bring a fresh and classic edge to down-home cooking. Mary is the best friend we all wish we had, and I imagine that if I were on her ranch today wed be sitting around her table, eating homemade English muffins and jam. Until then Ill be makin them myself with her easy-to-follow recipes!

JENNA RAMMELL , Jennas Kitchen

Copyright 2020 by Mary Heffernan

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form, or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Editor: Susan Roxborough | Production editor: Jill Saginario

Cover and food photographer: Charity Burggraaf ()

Lifestyle photographer: Kathryn Gamble ()

Food stylist: Nathan Carrabba | Designer: Anna Goldstein

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Heffernan, Mary, 1978- author. | Laidlaw, Kim, author.

Title: Five Marys ranch raised cookbook : homegrown recipes from our family to yours / by Mary Heffernan with Kim Laidlaw.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020003111 (print) | LCCN 2020003112 (ebook) | ISBN 9781632173072 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781632173089 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Cooking, American. | Ranch lifeCalifornia. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX715 .H3995 2020 (print) | LCC TX715 (ebook) | DDC 641.59794dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003111

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003112

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TO MY STRONG, LOYAL, HARDWORKING HUSBAND , who appreciates every hot meal I put on the table, and to my four little Marys, who inspire me to keep cooking Ranch Raised recipes daily.

The Five Marys Story

In 2013 our lives took an unexpected turn. My husband, Brian, and I had a comfortable lifestyle in Silicon Valley with our four healthy girls, great jobs, and a beautiful home. We worked hard to make a good living there for many years: Brian owned his own small law firm, and I had built a number of small brick-and-mortar businesses, including two restaurants. We had lots of great friends and many social commitments. We had everything we were supposed to wantwe were living the American dream. But we were inspired to change the direction of our lives. We bought a ranch and decided to move to a rural mountain town to raise livestock together as a family.

I grew up in Menlo Park, the heart of Silicon Valley, before it became a bustling hub of opportunity. I left California to attend college in Virginia, where I started on the path to medical school. After college, I returned to my hometown and started tutoring local kids. I saw a need for a place where the kids could do their homework with tutors on staff, so I started my first business, called Academic Trainers. It made me realize how much I loved owning a small business. And I had big ideas for more.

A few years later I was volunteering at a fundraiser and met a tall, handsome guy who drove a pickup truck but spent his days in a suit and tie. It was love at first sight. Brian was working his way up in a big firm, and I was managing my tutoring business and working on my next venture. We were married in 2006. After our first baby, Francie, came along, Brian decided to start his own law practice and leased office space upstairs from my business. We enjoyed working close to each other and decided we wanted more of that. Along with a few other family-centered businesses, we opened two farm-to-table restaurants serving quality food made from the best ingredients we could find. We worked with top local chefs to identify just what we wanted and what was important to us.

Sourcing consistent, high-quality meats year-round proved to be difficult. After a lot of research and a few years of searching, we knew exactly what we were looking for: well-marbled Black Angus beef from cattle with excellent genetics that were raised naturally on grasses and finished with barley. We wanted beef that was dry-aged for twenty-one to twenty-eight days for outstanding flavor and consistency every time.

When we couldnt find anything that met our criteria, we decided to do it ourselves. We found the historic Sharps Gulch Ranch in the mountains of Northern California outside of Siskiyou Countyor we like to say it found us. Our hope was that we could build an operation to produce our own consistently excellent, humanely raised meats, all while continuing life as we knew it.

With some help from my brother-in-law, a fifth-generation cattle rancher in Eastern Oregon, we set up operations and jumped into ranch life while trying to run our businesses in Silicon Valley. When we purchased the property, we thought wed just go up on the weekends, hiring a ranch manager to handle the day-to-day operations while we managed our businesses during the week. We quickly realized we couldnt do both things well.