About

The recipes in this book use ingredients that you probably already have in your cupboard or ingredients that you can find easily at any grocery store.

Most of the recipes are fairly easy, too.

Like I always say when it comes to cooking, “If it’s not easy – I don’t do it!”


I live in west central Wisconsin and I spend a LeAnn Ralphlot of my time as a newspaper reporter for 2 small local newspapers in the area: the Colfax Messenger and the Glenwood City Tribune.

I earned an undergraduate degree in English with a Writing Emphasis and a Master of Arts in Teaching English from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

I live in the house my folks built when they retired from farming along with my husband, Randy, assorted cats, a Shetland Sheepdog named Tessie and two horses, Isabelle and Saleena.


Here’s a photo taken from the end of our hay field looking back at the house, barn and the horse pastures.

Besides The Rural Route 2 Cookbook, my other Rural Route 2 books are:

Christmas in Dairyland - a Rural Route 2 Book

Christmas in
Dairyland

$13.95 Paperback

Rural Route 2

Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam - a Rural Route 2 Book

Give Me a Home Where
the Dairy Cows Roam

$13.95 Paperback

Rural Route 2

Cream of the Crop - a Rural Route 2 Book

Cream of
the Crop

$13.95 Paperback

Rural Route 2

Where the Green Grass Grows - a Rural Route 2 Book

Where the Green
Grass Grows

$13.95 Paperback

Rural Route 2

The Coldest Day of the Year - a Rural Route 2 Book

The Coldest Day
of the Year

$13.95 Paperback

Rural Route 2

Preserve Your Family History - a Rural Route 2 Book

Preserve Your
Family History

$11.95 Paperback

Rural Route 2