A microwave cookbook adventure

Jennie & the Potatoe Pirates

Thirty 3-ingredient microwave potato recipes - every one on the table in 15 minutes or less.

Cover of Jennie and the Potatoe Pirates, showing Jennie and her potato pirate crew aboard their ship

48 full-color pages - 30 recipes - one very careful crew

3 ingredients15 minutes or lessMicrowave onlySafety Canon aboard

The first film

Watch the voyage.

Sail across the lake with Jennie and the crew as they head for the Kitchen, where the giant kettle sings. This is the first cut, published as made.

Watch on YouTube

The book and the promise

Dinner gets easier. Safety stays first.

Jennie's galley turns the humblest ingredient into fast comfort food: baked potatoes, crispy snacks, breakfasts, soups, global flavors, and more. Every recipe follows the same plain promise - a potato, no more than three counted ingredients, and a microwave.

The book begins with Frank's true story of eating a green, sprouted potato and experiencing solanine poisoning. That close call became the Safety Canon: five rules checked before the crew cooks a single recipe.

The first rule aboard

Never cook a green or sprouted potato. When in doubt, throw it out - a potato costs pennies; you are worth more.

Sample page showing Frank's author's note and Jennie with the crew around a green sprouted potato
The story behind the Safety Canon
Sample page listing the five rules in the Safety Canon
Five rules, every recipe
Sample recipe page for a classic microwave baked potato
A look inside the galley

The editions shelf

Coming for the holidays

The book is finished. Store links will appear here as each edition clears its own release gate. No preorders and no dead buttons.

Full-color PDF

The galley edition

The complete 48-page book, designed at 8.5 x 11 inches with every illustration and recipe intact.

$12 planned
Coming for the holidays
EPUB

The traveling edition

Fixed-layout editions for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, and Google Play, prepared for the book's page-led design.

$9.99 planned
Coming for the holidays
Full-color print

The gift edition

A matte-cover paperback that keeps the full-size recipes and the crew's illustrated world on the table.

$29.99 planned
Coming for the holidays

The merch shelf

Wear the crew colors.

Jennie aprons, chef hats, shirts, sweaters, jackets, and one unmistakable pirate hat are on the chart for Wave 2. Made on demand, with no inventory pile.

Wave 2 - coming soon
Jennie's apron
Chef's toque
Crew shirts
The pirate hat

The club

Jennie's Cooking School

The cookbook is the curriculum: thirty recipes become thirty episodes about cooking, sailing, and shopping. New episodes will dock here as they land on Channel Zero Books.

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30 recipes.
30 episodes.

The first class is preparing to sail.

Phase 2

Ask Jennie

A coming-soon guide grounded strictly in the book's thirty recipes and Safety Canon. Ask what to cook with what you have, how to adjust for your microwave, or which pirate-approved potato fits the moment.

Coming soon

Letters from the Galley

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Occasional news when editions arrive, recipes leave the galley, or a new Cooking School episode drops.

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