About Us

Welcome to Oh Sweet Basil! I’m Carrian Cheney, and together with my husband, Cade, we’ve been developing and sharing our favorite family recipes since 2009. Over the years, we have become a trusted recipe resource beloved by millions of fans across the world.

In 2017, we published our first cookbook – Our Sweet Basil Kitchen, which quickly became the go-to cookbook for homes and families that year. The book is a mashup of recipes from our blog along with new twists on the old favorites you’ve come to know and love.

In 2021 we published our second cookbook (this one is my favorite!!), Raised in the Kitchen. Before the book even launched it went number 1 on Amazon for multiple weeks in a row! This book is a collaboration with our children who provide their favorite recipes for everything from Breakfast to Dinner and Desserts to blow your mind!

I had the ideal childhood where every evening we sat down for family dinner, a tradition passed on through generations of fantastic cooks just like my own mom. And now, I’m here to share generations of recipes with all of you! Recipes that are everything from the traditional, fresh, healthy, family-friendly, tried-and-true and the new twists on old favorites. While we love to cook, we love to eat even more and we can promise that our recipes are obsessively tested and guaranteed to be easy and delicious.

These recipes are for the mom who is struggling to get dinner on the table, dealing with a whining toddler and a multitude of other tasks. We are here to remind her that it’s more about the hands that create the food than the food itself. Memories are being written into hearts through simple dishes and conversations. These are real recipes for real families.

We invite you to sit down, stay awhile and make memories and traditions with something delicious.

My journey is deeply rooted in family and faith. Through experiences facing an illness that kept me hospitalized for months and a wrestle with life itself we found a special connection through food and people. From a sweet moment with a father and his daughters making a batch of crepes and our story of faith in darkness we’ve discovered that sharing food with those you love is much more fulfilling for the soul than filling for the belly.

You’re writing your story too and we feel privileged to be a small part of it. We love hearing from our friends all over the world about their own experiences with our recipes. Food can be a fun, memory-making way of connecting, giving life and speaking love into families even when everything else is hard.

Everyone has a favorite recipe, a funny story or tender moment that goes with it, and we want that. We want the people, the faces, the hearts, and moments that come through sharing in a meal together. Life is too short, we’ve seen and endured too much to ever forget that it’s these moments together that create a real life. One lived and not just endured.

We have three children who are our everything. You may have followed our journey and know already that I have suffered from Hyperemesis Gravidarum and it has been a great sacrifice for the everyone to bring each child into our family.

Our three kiddos are completely involved in our recipe development. We believe families should be in the kitchen together and that it is essential to teach kids from the very beginning about food and let them help. Sometimes it can make things slower or messier but no matter what we know we are creating memories and teaching skills that they absolutely will need in life.

We try really hard to only wear the hat of parents when the kids are up and around as we don’t want to look back on their childhood with too many regrets about working instead of being a family. Once they are off to school or in bed we use our time wisely and get things done for this site. The weekend, though occasionally a time to experiment with recipes is generally only for the family. We turn off our devices and just hang out together.

We can’t wait to “meet” each of you. We love reading your comments and emails. Get in touch with us by commenting or writing through the contact tab. Use the hashtag #ohsweetbasil and tag us @ohsweetbasil so we can see what you made!

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Disclaimer: This blog only gives my own opinions and is not professional advice. We do the best we can to answer all emails and provide well researched information to our readers. All indulgence on this site is at the discretion of the reader, I am not liable if you eat too many Cookies!